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Another busy week of learnings. Some highlights below. Learning From Rog: I’m not sure if there is anyone more joyful or entertaining when talking about his craft than Men in Blazers co-host Roger Bennett. For all things football, Bennett is able to weave in humor, logic and all sorts of joyous fandom, which is a …
As we head toward 2024 the issues and opportunities with regard to engagement in social continues to ebb and flow. While Twitter continues to be a quandry for many, TikTok and its continued frenzy pushes more engagement amongst a growing using audience than ever before, all based around a complicated algorithm of shares and engagement. …
Records are made to be broken in sport, and sometimes they literally are a lot of fun that come tumbling down. Case in point last week when the Edmonton Oil Kings set a new standard for a hockey phenomenon, the Teddy Bear Toss. From The Maritimes to California, a hockey holiday rite of charity has …
Last week was our second to last planned trip of the year, to Washington for SBJ Dealmakers. Great to listen and learn not just from those on the stage but those randomly roaming the hallways. Some things to think about on the first Monday in December. “Are You Willing to Cross The Street?” That question …
It keeps getting better. My Cause, My Cleats keeps finding new ways to make the pie bigger for cause marketing. For those who don’t know, it started as a simple way for players to tell their story a few seasons ago, one which drew the ire of the NFL as a uniform violation, but one …
A few weeks ago our class served as a good reminder for what communicative storytelling for a team was all about, and how it has evolved over the years. The team PR person serves many masters, all of whom want control of two key areas… Access and Information Balancing access with information so that the …
A Shootout Lost To History: The Great Alaska Shootout was once the premier preseason college basketball tournament. Alas it was lost to history, warm weather and lots of empty ballrooms with 50 people in them disguised as college basketball facilities. I was reminded of the beauty of the Shootout by my Fordham classmate Jim Johnson …
Earlier this month there was a great New York Times piece on how music artists were embracing and allowing content creators to livestream concerts to a global audience. The piece went in great detail to point out that because of limited touring dates, high demand for tickets in marketplaces and an unquenchable desire for shared …
November 8 was STEM Awareness Day, and it served as a great reminder to how closely linked all areas of science, especially analytics, gambling the Metaverse, are tied to all levels of sport. Years ago when I was with the Knicks, star forward Kurt Thomas came to the community relations team with an idea; he had …
“I’d rather be the observer not the observed.” There it was again, the value of knowing your role and doing it well. This time it was Sunday night on “60 Minutes” and the speaker was Little Steven Van Zandt, he of “The Sopranos” but more impactful even, of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. …
