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Social Media Jocks: Don’t watch this is you can’t laugh at yourself. Otherwise, enjoy!

It appears that not all sports hate social media. According to this story, the NHL is getting ready for another big Twitter push for the start of its season. Why? Hard to say, but I’d be willing to bet that it’s got something to do with the fact that they have to work a little harder to reach potential/current fans. Unlike the NFL (No Fun League) and to a large extent MLB, the NHL can’t just take its fans for granted and ban them from Twittering (or commenting on FB or whatever other social media they like to use) about their teams during games.

OK, so this is from Fox and it only contains the impressions of a handful of people, but Amazon can’t be happy with Princeton student’s assessment of the Kindle. Is that Steve Jobs I hear laughing?

Now I know why I have so much e-mail in my in box!

Looks like the NBA may be taking a softer line on social networking than the NFL has done so far. Maybe they can avoid some of the negative publicity that college and pro football has earned in this regard lately.

It’s amazing how much data can be pulled when creating these profiles. I’ve heard about MySpace being the hangout of choice for “less affluent” Americans (as well as being more popular in the South), but this seems to reinforce that distinction.

I’ve posted before about how sport franchises are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to hamper/bar/otherwise interfere with fans and players using social media. As you’ve no doubt heard before, there are two sides to every story as this blog post shows.

What the important takeaway? Using social media like Twitter can enhance a player/team’s image, but it can also destroy it just as fast. Robert Henson won’t be cut for his dumb Tweets, but it’s certainly not going to enhance his reputation with the fans either.

“Online social networks are most useful when they address real failures in the operation of offline networks,” or at least that’s the opinion of Dr. Mikolaj Jan Piskorski. In this HBS Working KNowledge post, Piskorski talks about his work studying social network users and their habits. One of his findings is that photos are huge. “Seventy percent of all actions are related to viewing pictures,” according to his research. He also gives a little insight into Twitter and strategic ways to use the information he’s uncovered.

A fellow Librarian pointed me in the direction of this post from Jill Bateman’s blog on shooting video. I’m not that good at it right now so I really appreciate the help from an expert.