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There are some professional sports leagues that get it and some that don’t.  Put the NFL solidly in the “don’t get it” category.  Earlier this summer the league told players that they could not tweet during team functions.  Now the policy has been updated to ban all Facebook and Twitter use on game days.  But [...]

There’s a great post today at the Sports PR Blog about NASCAR’s recent embrace of citizen journalism for race coverage.  The program has a fantastic-sounding title - Citizen Journalists Media Corp - but the term is may be a bit of a misnomer though as several of the “citizens” are former NASCAR beat writers who’s [...]

Chad Johnson - I refuse to use his absurd new moniker - is getting a lot of press this week for claiming that he’ll be the first NFL player to tweet after scoring a touchdown.  The NFL has been quick to refute that notion by standing by their ban on in-game use of mobile phones [...]

Thanks to the Stanley Cup playoffs, we are once again seeing tremendous growth and increased engagement during the post season.   Since the playoffs began in mid-April, the Red Wings and the Penguins communities have grown by a combined 200k+ users.   We have also seen many existing users return to the communities to support their team [...]

The  Lakers and Nuggets series is heating up, and so are their communities.  The two communities are growing at a rapid rate. The Lakers community has grown by about 4% since the series began last week.  This is impressive, but it pales in comparison to the more than 13% growth that the Nuggets community has [...]