Football Clubs and Blogger Outreach. Where is it?
Football Social Media has come a long way in the past 18 months in terms of fan engagement, player policy and stadium social media. However, one area of social media forgotten about by football...
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Birmingham City reveal their unique way to educate players in Social Media
Social Media training as part of the youth setup, mock press conferences and finding out potentially embarrassing information from youth players Social Media pages are all tactics for Birmingham City’s education policy. This week Digital-Football.com interviewed...
FC Bayern Munich launches its own Facebook with myFCB
What do Lady Gaga and the FC Bayern Munich have in common? Besides being big hits on Facebook (Lady Gaga with 49.5m fans, Bayern Munich with 3.3m fans), both now have their own community....
Interview with the man behind Manchester City’s Social Media
Any reader of this blog will know that we whole heartedly believe Manchester City to be the finest example of Social Media Engagement in the English Premier League. Again and again, City produce creative...
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Stadiums need to be optimised for matchday social media
Football stadiums already provide the traditional media with press boxes and pitch side photographer dugouts. They are offered facilities to see the best of the action and get a story written within minutes of...
Football club use fans to crowd-source Facebook Timeline cover image
Facebook Timeline has been rolled out this month to replace existing brand Pages. One of the biggest changes to the layout comes in the form of the 851px x 315px cover image that dominates...
FC Barcelona see the real value in Social Media
This month Digital-Football.com is very fortunate to have a chat about football social media with the UEFA Champions League winners and arguably, one of the greatest sporting institutions to grace the planet, FC Barcelona. The social...
Mexican club add Twitter accounts to back of players shirts
A few weeks ago we advised that clubs should take advantage of any opportunities available to promote their social media channels. This week we were notified (by @TomFaller – thanks Tom) about this story from Mexico: Mexican...
5 Trends for Sports Social Media that can be used in Football
In the past 18 months Sports Social Media has come a long way, especially in Football! In the English Premier League for example, it’s no wonder that the combined number of club Twitter followers...
Celtic FC explain Twitter should complement, not replace, existing fan communities
This afternoon Glasgow side Celtic FC launched their first official Twitter presence in the cyberspace. The 1967 European Champions announced that they would be launching 4 accounts in order to accommodate with different audiences and needs – @CelticFC, @CelticFCTickets, @CFCCommercial and@CelticFCShop....
