Lancashire County Cricket club handed over control of its official Snapchat account to two players during their recent pre-season tour to Dubai.
James Gordon
Social media – Rhinos show how to win when you lose
Running a sport club’s social media channels is easy after a win. It’s what you do after a loss that matters most.
Frustration with Getty Images’ positive move to solve photo dilemmas
After realising they were fighting a losing battle over bloggers and smaller publishers robbing their images, Getty Images made a bold move to make a library of images available as free to use.
With seemingly infinite pages of content across the web, almost all furnished by an image, it was becoming an increasingly fruitless chase for Getty to protect their images from misuse, and of course the legal costs and challenges that it was presenting.
Harlequins RFC to host Leading Sports Performance, Injury & Coaching Summit
The Rugby Innovation Summit 2016 in partnership with Harlequins Rugby and Rugby World Magazine takes place at Twickenham Stoop Stadium, London, on 24th and 25th May 2016 and is truly the first event of its kind.
Super League’s player drain
The player drain from Super Leaguecontinues – but what exactly can we do? Wigan and England duo Josh Charnley and Dan Sarginson are off to pastures new, the former switching codes to join Sale Sharks and Sarginson heading Down Under to the NRL.
Breaking new ground for the Four Nations
The rumoured venues for this year’s Four Nations are encouragingly varied as rugby league continues to break new ground.
Building trust in the media – when you’re kept in the dark
Over the course of the Easter weekend, we learnt of a big story in the Elite League.
Milton Keynes Lightning and another club, who I won’t name here, were to join the top level of British Ice Hockey for the 2017/18 season.
We drafted several versions of the story while the sources were verified (which they were), and myself and our digital content editor Michael Black debated the best course of action.
Helping Football Manager set a world record – #FM100 challenge
JDG answered an SOS from the National Football Museum to take part in their #FM100 challenge – a Guinness World Record attempt involving the Football Manager Touch 2016 game.
Featured in the museum’s ‘Pitch to Pixel: The World of Football Gaming’ exhibition, the challenge involves 100 different managers playing the game on the same save, for at least an hour each, over 100 days.
