Activ8Social invites you to network with us and other sports professionals that work or live in the Washington, DC area at our first event of the year. This will be a great opportunity to meet new people, exchange ideas and talk sports.

It is FREE to attend and all are welcome, whether industry veteran or just starting out.

Where: Greene Turtle (Verizon Center), 601 F Street NW, Washington, DC (map)

When: Thursday, February 25, 2010 (6:00 pm – 9:00 pm)

In the first installment of our “Facebook Fan Page Tips” series, we showed you how to create a new Page. Now I will walk you through steps to help set up your Page before publishing it to the world.

In this post, I will be focusing on the basic settings, but keep in mind that these seemingly simple instructions are absolutely critical to the success of your Page. Remember you have to crawl before you can walk, and we’ll have you sprinting like Usain Bolt in no time. Click for more to read a step-by-step breakdown of the process.

A few weeks ago, I contributed to an e-book put together by fellow sports and social media enthusiast Jason Peck. The focus of my post was industry predictions for 2010 and given the nature of our work at Activ8Social, I decide to focus on individual athletes. I came up with three primary growth areas to keep an eye on: Promotions, Live Video, and Mobile.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a few examples and decided to point them out to better demonstrate my predictions. Here’s my original post, coupled with a recent example of each primary growth area. Drop me a line and let me know how you see sports and social media growing in 2010 (hopefully by leaps and bounds).