NCAA vs. The Facebook Community

Posted on April 15, 2009 by David Onoue

A good friend of mine, Yoda808, sent me a bunch of links about a situation that has taken place between the NCAA, N.C. State, the community, and Facebook.
A freshman at N.C. State started a Facebook group in hopes of attracting a top-ranked high school basketball player from Raleigh.  According to the article, “After 700 people [...]

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Twitter as a Promotional Tool

Posted on April 8, 2009 by David Onoue

I opened TweetDeck today to find a nice surprise from the UH Athletics Department.
For the longest time they’ve been using Twitter like an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, pulling information off their website and placing it on Twitter.  They even had some of their Assistant Media Relation Directors tweeting live updates at various events.
Anyways, when [...]

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Pete Carroll Using Twitter & Online Video

Posted on April 4, 2009 by David Onoue

Special thanks to Brent Kawakami for the video link.

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