The most clicked stories from this week’s #Sports e-newsletter includes: teams using Pinterest to connect with female fans, how the New Jersey Devils monetized social media, and the Phoenix Suns issue Android tablets to players. For these stories and more, read below and subscribe to #Sports.
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1. How Pinterest is Connecting Sports Teams With Their Female Fans
Last week during the #smsportschat (which is highly recommended by the way), Instagram and Pinterest were brought up as a topic of discussion and many great points were made, including how Pinterest has a very active female user base and that a few sports teams were starting to create accounts…
2. How the New Jersey Devils Monetized Social Media
…with one long stride in social media marketing, the New Jersey Devils are changing the way the marketing game is played within sports teams. And it all has to do with one simple idea — relentless customer engagement…
3. Phoenix Suns Issue Players Android Powered Playbooks, Marks the Beginning of a New Era in the NBA
…the Phoenix Suns, along with Verizon Wireless and Samsung Mobile, just announced that they integrate the LTE Galaxy Tab 10.1 across all company operations…
4. Dog Days of Winter for NJ Devils Social Media Program
…Mission Control – a hub stocked with flat-screen computers, TVs, and red and black-skinned Apple iPads located in the team’s administrative offices in Newark, NJ – has become the team’s leading money maker for its sponsorship department…
5. Twitter: In the Final 3 Minutes of the Super Bowl, There Were 10,000 Tweets Per Second
…Clearly, we are getting a glimpse of the increasing relevance and popularity of Twitter during important events, as Twitter’s official Twitter account (head explosion) announced tonight that, in the final three minutes of Super Bowl 2012, there was an average of 10,000 tweets per second…
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- At Super bowl Stadium, More Mobile Uploads than Downloads
- Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivarly Takes to Twitter
- Super Bowl Spots Keep Piling on Web Views
- Division I Athletics Departments’ Social Media Policies
- MLS owners take to Twitter to spread the word about their teams
- Flurry: When the Super Bowl Bored Us, We Opened Apps
- Athletic department ramps up social media outreach
- Twitter-savvy Brad Keselowski among NASCAR’s social stars
- London Olympics could crash the internet, Cabinet Office warns
- Most Super Bowl Tweets Were Not About the Game
- Do iPads Belong At Sporting Events?
- Bearcats Announce New Social Seats Promotion
- Shazam, Yahoo, Viggle: Super Bowl Ads’ Sizzle Is On Second Screen
- Should Athletes Have Social Media Privacy? One Bill Says Yes
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