Tag Archives: NBA

Managing In-Game Fan Engagement through Social Media

Sports and social media have been a natural fit from the start, with teams, players, leagues, bloggers, media outlets and fans all diving in to engage with one another.

With the overwhelming amount of content available throughout a given season, the challenge for those managing social media for teams, media outlets and blogs is not a lack of content to populate those channels, but rather how to prioritize and manage the content in order to add value for the community.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be a priority for every organization, as there continues to be an abundance…

Twitter’s Impact on the NBA Lockout

This Sunday, NBA fans will rejoice as the League tips-off a full slate of holiday games to mark the start of a lockout-shortened 2011-12 season, marking the first time since the 1998-99 campaign the NBA is tipping-off late due to a work stoppage.

When comparing the differences between the 1998 NBA lockout and the recent 2011 shutdown, it’s common to see 204 versus 172, as in the number of days each lockout lasted. Or 50 versus 66, comparing the number of regular season games for the respective seasons after the lockouts ended.

But the one number that may truly define the…

Quick Hits: July 8

@EarlyBird to offer Twitter users “promoted deals”

Bargain hounds on Twitter are now able to follow the official @EarlyBird handle for relevant, timely offers and deals from Twitter’s advertisers. Twitter will partner with select advertisers to give followers of the account the inside scoop on limited-time or –quantity offers. It remains to be seen whether branded accounts that rely on offering last-minute deals (like JetBlue’s Cheeps, for instance) will be affected, since…