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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-19

Posted by Laura on Sunday, 19 December, 2010
  • Ouch. Bears are down. :( #
  • Been working for about three hours so far on revising/editing my dissertation. This is no fun. :( #
  • Google Maps public transport should show Amtrak and Greyhound for long distances between cities. That would be FTW. #
  • Today's activities: Bears watching, dissertation editing, ST:Voy fanfic reading, The Wire watching, McDs for lunch. #
  • Got Canberra Capitals ticket at AIS as was on way to civic. $20 for ticket. $4.95 booking fee. #
  • If you're interested in keeping up with Sport research at UCNNISS, fan them on facebook: on.fb.me/euLeAd #
  • I just ousted Tracey L. as the mayor of Caltex Gungahlin on @foursquare! 4sq.com/aVcWn6 #
  • It looks like @warne88 's affair with Liz Hurley is worth an additional 902 followers a day beyond the 805 he already gets. #cricket #
  • Between the 13 and 14, Warne picked up 3,724 new followers. #
  • Is it worth it to post an extremely negative critique of the @GWS_Giants social media/web strategy? :/ #
  • Foursquare data: It is yummy! bit.ly/gyai6W #aleague #
  • Why I've been hesitant to criticize @gws_giants : bit.ly/hBNqu0 (rewriting the second half w/ to make less harsh.) #afl #gwsgiants #
  • Had a nice a nice chat with jess from @gws_giants and now I feel less cranky/more optimistic regarding the club. :D #gogiants #
  • This afternoon's task is to get a bunch of Twitter API codes for my Follower run. :D Then maybe more accounts to make more accurate. #
  • I'm always amazed at the amount of random Australian sport data I have. #
  • bit.ly/fBE3Hn is an interesting graph re: #AFl / #NRL but really? One person in common? #
  • If Australian government lowering intrrnational student entry requirements, they should lower tuitition to reflect degree value! #
  • Since December 11, @warne888 13,892 new followers. Next biggest gainer? @espncricinfo with 2,296. biggest loser? @BENJI_MARSHALL6 with 8. #
  • One week Twitter change for Australia/New Zealand sport related accounts : bit.ly/h8lyeu #
  • Australian sport Foursquare checkins for December 15, 16, 17 : bit.ly/esbv26 #aleague #nbl #wnbl #abl #
  • I just ousted @mediaconsumer as the mayor of Australia Post on @foursquare! 4sq.com/b4EBbu #
  • Greater Western Sydney Giants and ACT4GWS : bit.ly/eFzC0g #afl #gogiants #
  • My Aus/NZ data collection insanity? I have information about over 400 clubs, leagues, federations, athletes (non-team). Meep? #
  • I just ousted J'Arne D. as the mayor of Big W (Gungahlin) on @foursquare! 4sq.com/cITwBo #
  • Why you don't need to be from Greater Western Sydney to know about the AFL community there: bit.ly/h79C82 re: @gws_giants #
  • I just unlocked the "Bookworm" badge on @foursquare! 4sq.com/g7JeYY #
  • I just became the mayor of AIS Arena on @foursquare! 4sq.com/d11x5A #
  • Weird to hear a national anthem sung before a sporting event and it isn't USA or Canada. #canberracapitals #wnbl #
  • Home team down by one at the end of one. Ref seems to call everything and nothing against Capitals. #canberracapitals #wnbl #
  • Canberra down by one against Townsville Fire at half. #canberracapitals #wnbl #
  • Feels like a lead change every time down the floor! #canberracapitals #wnbl #
  • 57-60 at the end of three. Team is down. Hoping for come back. #canberracapitals #wnbl #
  • Down 65-70 with 3:33 left… #canberracapitals #wnbl #
  • Dowm 71-77 with :19 to go. #canberracapitals #wnbl #
  • Finished with most recent edits to my introduction. On to edits to my lit review. (Fun times on a Sunday night.) #

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Canberra Capitals game on December 19, 2010

Posted by Laura on Sunday, 19 December, 2010

This isn’t really much of a post. I went to the game. It was a lot of good fun. Food options could have been a bit better and I would have liked a more affordable clothing option. (I’ll pay $30 for a t-shirt but the cheapest shirt was $50. That’s outside of my budget.) The team lost, which is sad. Still, I had a good time. Below are a few video clips I took during the game.

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Notes from Dissertation Writing: Sport communities on Australian social network

Posted by Laura on Sunday, 19 December, 2010

My dissertation needs a lot of editing. Luckily, I have two highly educated parents. These parents are also exceptionally nice. I’ve basically roped them into editing my dissertation. They’ve heard about my fandom analysis for about 12 years now. The topic isn’t completely foreign to them. Babbling.

Anyway, they are editing my dissertation and an issue has come up: Where do I explain how specific sport social media communities function? And how do I do this? They’ve made the argument that a lot of this content feels irrelevant and offtopic. It would best be addressed as a separate chapter, after my lit review or my methodology. They think it would be a good idea to talk about world rank, Australian website rank and New Zealand website rank. They think I should talk in general about who uses them, why they use them, how people can interact and form community on these sites. If this is done, I don’t need to be as repetitive with this content inside my chapter. At the same time, I will also help people who are not familiar with various social networks and websites gain familiarity with them: Not everyone in the Australian sport marketing/history/sociology space has the same knowledge expertise that I have and this chapter would bridge that.

On one level, yeah, doing that makes sense. On another level? No. That sort of analysis is often at the heart of my research. This is the existing community and this is how it responds to controversy. Removing that information from inside chapters takes away a lot of the context. I’m also leery to do it because in the chapter, the fact that I’m doing qualitative, contextual analysis can kind of be hidden. I don’t need all the citations for it. If I pull it out, I would likely need to improve the citing of these observations and do a separate qualitative methodology. Again, I’m not sure how to go about doing that. I can kind of tell you how Australia’s sport Facebook community functions but it isn’t universal and it changes when Facebook changes settings. (Except the Wests Tigers don’t behave like the Canberra Raiders who don’t behave like Anna Meares fans who don’t behave like the GWS Giants.) E-Bay’s community of people listing merchandise I haven’t quite figured out yet as I don’t have the data for it. Wikipedia is probably the most consistent but how it functions and its demographics are part of the results. If LiveJournal has a major privacy controversy, it could lead to an exodus of users. This might impact the chapters 9, 10, 11 but the change predates chapters 4, 5, 6. Hence, it makes sense to me to put this information inside the chapter.

There are good arguments both ways. I can see where my parents are coming from. I just am not sure I agree with them. To me, given the different nature of the communities, the explanations need to take place inside chapters. It also feels like the summaries I’d be doing for these sites are part of the conclusions I am ultimately drawing.

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Greater Western Sydney Giants and ACT4GWS

Posted by Laura on Saturday, 18 December, 2010

I was originally going to rewrite my rather critical in a frustrated way piece to make it a bit less critical, more constructive. Then I got a chance to talk to some one at the GWS Giants and I better understood some of the thinking that went on. The decisions made aren’t ones that I would have made (switching domains, not deleting the old Facebook page right away and doing a major push to get new followers, the colors, not engaging the online community as much, launching with a website that wasn’t mobile friendly, waiting close to a month to delete the older Facebook page that had 2,000 more followers) but I better understand why these things happened. Given the issues with the colors and the AFL, their decisions made sense. I’d love to compare them to the Gold Coast Suns but the Suns had a name and colors after competing in the VFL for a season. The Suns also had the advantage of continuity with the name because they could be called the Gold Coast Football Club and the Gold Coast Suns; sharing those two names means they didn’t have to destroy their previous branding.

I have a lot of data regarding the GWS Giants. I’m not sure exactly how to construct them into a workable dissertation chapter as things are harder when you’re using a quantitative methodology. I can put context to some of my numbers, such as a bump in the number of new followers on Facebook and Twitter, and increased ranking on Alexa. That correlates to the announcement regarding the colo(u)rs and team name. There are some things I still can’t explain like those pesky Facebook demographics. (And they haven’t changed to be more aligned with other clubs’s demographic profiles on Facebook.)

Most of data involves a great deal of continuity. Names don’t change. Domains don’t change. Facebook fan pages don’t change. (Or they do but the old one was a profile page and the new one is a fan page. The profile page doesn’t get replaced so much as made redundant and it generally has fewer friends than the fan page.) When you’re doing quantitative analysis, continuity is very important. Audiences take a while to build up at a location. New groups/pages/domains are obviously going to start off smaller and then build. Those new pages basically are like hitting the reset button data gathering wise. You can still get useful data out of it but it requires a great deal more qualitative analysis and contextualizing to make it work. That sort of thing has never really been my goal. (And it is ultimately why I probably don’t want to work for a club or league.) I’m not necessarily as interested in how this textual treatment changes the numbers so much as I’m interested in community demographics and mass behaviors. Part of the goal of my dissertation is to prove that a quantitative approach is a valid one for studying fan communities. Change like the kind that took place means I’ve got to deviate methodology wise in order to write a chapter on the early development of the GWS Giants fandom.

Moving on…

… as some one living in Canberra, my perspective on the situation is probably a bit different than Sydney and Melbourne footy fans because of local media coverage. We didn’t get the Sydney perspective on colors and naming decisions here. Instead, our coverage was focused on the ACT4GWS movement. The goal was get 5,000 Canberrans to become members, to signal to the AFL that the ACT fanbase was committed to having a team here. There were big banners with the domain name at a couple of ovals, little post card things asking people to become members at many locations around the ACT, and television ads featuring the team’s famous coach. After a while, I tuned this messaging out.

The whole team reveal felt disappointing in the end. Canberra wasn’t even on the jersey. The colors didn’t connect with the ACT. (We love green here. Or blue and gold.)

As some one who one follows social media and knows enough about what works, I was even more disappointed by ACT4GWS, the local social media campaign to promote AFL in the ACT. Social media takes work and sometimes money to do right. I’d almost rather they hadn’t created a Twitter account and Facebook account because they didn’t do it right. They didn’t reach out to any of the major bloggers. The campaign’s Twitter account didn’t interact with its followers. They couldn’t get Canberrans to follow them on Twitter. (As of November 21, the movement had 96 followers, 43 of whom were from the ACT. Amongst all AFL accounts on that date, 573 Canberrans had been identified.) ACT4GWS didn’t host any tweet ups. They didn’t use Foursquare to promote local events. The content they put out was really generic. At times, it felt aimed more at the local media than it was at the Canberran community. (Who was that for? Couldn’t they have just called the Times and provided Canberran AFL fans with more content social media fans desire?) I just wasn’t engaged in a way that made me feel like this was for me as an AFL fan living in Canberra looking for a “local” side to support.

Social media is supposed to be fun and interactive. This was not. Most importantly, social media is supposed to help attain institutional objectives and I can’t see how their implementation connected with getting more people to pay $50 to become members. Frustrating. Frustrating. The blame for this clearly lays with local AFL people, with Canberran organizers, and not with GWS people in Sydney. So these issues I had as a Canberran fan are not the fault of who I was kind of blaming. My bad.

I have the quantitative data to do an okay chapter on ACT4GWS. Here, there is continuity. Here, it makes much more sense to focus. If I’m going to do a chapter on about the Giants, that’s where it feels like the data would be best contextualized. I can bring the Giants into it in the context of the club’s Canberran fan base.

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Australian sport Foursquare checkins for December 15, 16, 17

Posted by Laura on Saturday, 18 December, 2010

I was going to hold off on these totals but at the moment, I’m very gah gah with ZOMG! PRETTY DATA! The Bon Jovi concert and a few other concerts will be on my list because they occur at Australian sporting venues. It looks like, at the moment, the South Australians are the most likely to check in with Canberrans and Tasmanians the least likely to check in. If the NYL is discarded because they played before the A-League and the concert is ignored, the A-League is averaging the highest checkin rate so far. I kind of expected the NBL to be higher because I see so much more social media stuff.

The samples probably need to be bigger but interesting start to data collection. If there are any events I should include that I might not (especially sport related tweet ups and open practice sessions), let me know!

Name Link City State Date checked Sport League Team 1 Team 2 Checkin count People count
Sydney Football Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/283386 Sydney New South Wales 17-Dec-10 Music BON JOVI – The Circle tour – 1st show 25 23
Hindmarsh Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/601360 Hindmarsh South Australia 17-Dec-10 Soccer A-League Adelaide United Melbourne Heart 16 8
Hindmarsh Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/601360 Hindmarsh South Australia 17-Dec-10 Soccer NYL Adelaide United Sydney FC 16 8
Distinctive Homes Dome http://foursquare.com/venue/939138 Findon South Australia 17-Dec-10 Basketball NBL Adelaide 36ers Sydney Kings 7 3
Gold Coast Convention Centre http://foursquare.com/venue/280665 Gold Coast Queensland 17-Dec-10 Basketball NBL Gold Coast Blaze Townsville Crocodiles 3 1
WA Basketball Centre http://foursquare.com/venue/7561674 Mt Claremont Western Australia 17-Dec-10 Basketball WNBL West Coast Waves Logan Thunder 2 1
energy australia stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/736079 Newcastle New South Wales 15-Dec-10 Soccer A-League Newcastle Jets Gold Coast United 2 0
Norwood Oval http://foursquare.com/venue/2950209 Adelaide South Australia 17-Dec-10 Baseball ABL Adelaide Bite Sydney Blue Sox 1 1
Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre http://foursquare.com/venue/355246 Sydney New South Wales 15-Dec-10 Gridiron football Gridiron NSW Sydney University Cubs (registration) 0 0
Perry Park http://foursquare.com/venue/9817236 Bowen Hills Queensland 15-Dec-10 Soccer NSL Brisbane Strikers – training 0 0
Perry Park http://foursquare.com/venue/9817236 Bowen Hills Queensland 16-Dec-10 Soccer NSL Brisbane Strikers – training 0 0
Morley Rollerdrome http://foursquare.com/venue/3134307 Perth Western Australia 16-Dec-10 Roller derby PRD Perth fresh meat intake 0 0
Narrabundah Ballpark http://foursquare.com/venue/8549626 Narrabundah Australian Capital Territory 17-Dec-10 Baseball ABL Canberra Calvary Perth Heat 0 0
Blacktown PCYC http://foursquare.com/venue/3641816 Blacktown New South Wales 17-Dec-10 Baseball Sydney Baseball Women’s League 0 0
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre http://foursquare.com/venue/11633149 Gold Coast Queensland 17-Dec-10 Basketball NBL Gold Coast Blaze Townsville Crocodiles 0 0
The Dome http://foursquare.com/venue/581603 Findon South Australia 17-Dec-10 Basketball NBL Adelaide 36ers Sydney Kings 0 0
WIN Entertainment Centre http://foursquare.com/venue/2203408 Wollongong New South Wales 17-Dec-10 Basketball NBL Wollongong Hawks New Zealand Breakers 0 0
WIN Entertainment Centre http://foursquare.com/venue/8117163 Wollongong New South Wales 17-Dec-10 Basketball NBL Wollongong Hawks New Zealand Breakers 0 0
Bellerive Oval http://foursquare.com/venue/600550 Bellerive Tasmania 17-Dec-10 Cricket Weet-Bix Sheffield Shield Tasmania Tigers Western Warriors 0 0
Vibert Reserve http://foursquare.com/venue/6124049 Shepparton Victoria 17-Dec-10 Showjumping Pacific League World Cup Qualifier 0 0
Shepparton Showgrounds http://foursquare.com/venue/8680232 Shepparton Victoria 17-Dec-10 Showjumping Pacific League World Cup Qualifier 0 0

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One week Twitter change for Australia/New Zealand sport related accounts

Posted by Laura on Saturday, 18 December, 2010

I’ve added approximately 20 accounts to my list in the past week. Those accounts aren’t listed here as they do not have a benchmark for December 11. I thought this was an interesting perspective as it really highlights the current Australian sporting interests.

Account League Team Description 11-Dec-10 18-Dec-10 1 week difference
warne888 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers player 249699 263591 13892
espncricinfo Cricket Australia Cricket Australia fansite (male) 30396 32692 2296
MClarke23 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 68178 69905 1727
AndrewMBogut Basketball Australia Australian Boomers Andrew Bogut 31110 31918 808
stevesmith49 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player (male) 3759 4463 704
CricketAus Cricket Australia Cricket Australia official 14710 15369 659
dmartyn30 Cricket Australia Western Warriors former player 22340 22879 539
NBRACKEN142 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player (Nathan Bracken) (male) 8448 8815 367
Mick_Fanning Association of Surfing Professionals Mick Fanning surfer 26435 26784 349
rugbyworldcup Rugby World Cup Rugby World Cup official (male) 11252 11590 338
davidwarner31 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player (male) 3420 3754 334
giteau_rugby Super League ACT Brumbies player (male) 10252 10574 322
PH408 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 15042 15351 309
GaryAblettJnr AFL Geelong Cats player 7746 8034 288
AndrewMcDonald4 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers Andrew McDonald 2415 2694 279
VictorMatfield Super League Pretoria Bulls (Northern Bulls) player 21097 21374 277
hyphen18 Australian Baseball Australian Baseball 8015 8290 275
QuadeCooper Super League Queensland Reds player 14045 14294 249
nielsen514 Cricket Australia Cricket Australia head coach (male) 2485 2719 234
Planet_Rugby Rugby World Cup Rugby World Cup fansite (male) 9581 9813 232
JamesOConnor832 Super League Western Force player 9518 9749 231
RealBigDell NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons unofficial 12447 12672 225
JohnSmit123 Super League Natal Sharks player 22582 22805 223
swandane AFL Collingwood Magpies player (male) 6588 6800 212
australianopen Tennis Australia Tennis Australia event 13237 13447 210
Olympics International Olympic Committee International Olympic Committee official 17334 17539 205
Richmond_FC AFL Richmond Tigers official 5162 5364 202
AFL AFL AFL official 17359 17559 200
SP_10 AFL Collingwood Magpies player 6366 6565 199
GeorgeGregan Rugby World Cup Wallabies player (male) 4944 5137 193
AllBlacks Rugby World Cup All Blacks fansite (male) 13660 13852 192
jimstynes AFL Melbourne Demons player 10165 10357 192
ItsStephRice Swimming Australia Stephanie Rice athlete (female) 13640 13830 190
SamBurgess8 NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs player 11320 11507 187
BrendanFevola05 AFL Brisbane Lions player 5951 6137 186
DT_13 AFL Collingwood Magpies Dale Thomas 6882 7056 174
FitzySA AFL Sydney Swans player (male) 2967 3134 167
mickmalthouse AFL Collingwood Magpies Mick Malthouse 7160 7324 164
The_Man_Mundine NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons former player 5187 5348 161
Joeingles7 NBL South Dragons unofficial 2185 2345 160
drew_mitchell Super League New South Wales Waratahs player 6595 6754 159
DanJackson23 AFL AFL delegate for AFLPA (male) 559 715 156
stevebernard37 Cricket Australia Cricket Australia Steve Bernard (male) 713 868 155
LoteTuqiri NRL Wests Tigers player 15570 15723 153
harry_o AFL Collingwood Magpies player 11253 11403 150
Eamon_Sullivan Swimming Australia Eamon Sullivan athlete 8300 8440 140
EricGrotheJnr NRL Parramatta Eels player 1607 1746 139
clintmckay27 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers Clint Mckay 1765 1903 138
Walkytalky1 AFL Carlton Blues player (male) (andrew walker) 867 1004 137
AdamCoopy Super League ACT Brumbies player (male) 6155 6288 133
Sally_Fitz Association of Surfing Professionals Sally Fitzgibbons surfer (female) 4501 4633 132
mikehussey75 Cricket Australia Western Warriors player (male) 824 955 131
craighutchy AFL AFL journalist (male)(Nine Network) 4675 4805 130
jarrydhayne_1 NRL Parramatta Eels player 10404 10534 130
NRL NRL NRL 10447 10573 126
RTTF_AU AFL Sydney Swans fansite 896 1022 126
adam_gilly Cricket Australia Western Warriors former player 7366 7490 124
JackRiewoldt08 AFL Richmond Tigers player (male) 1166 1289 123
mat_rogers6 NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 8055 8178 123
mornesteyn Super League Canterbury Crusaders unofficial 9385 9506 121
brett_kirk AFL Sydney Swans player (Brett Kirk) (male) 2292 2411 119
karmichaelhunt AFL Gold Coast Suns Karmichael Hunt (player) 9480 9599 119
kurtley_beale Super League New South Wales Waratahs player 5317 5434 117
cadelofficial Cycling Australia Cadel Evans Cadel Evans (male) 54070 54186 116
CoryJane1080 Super League Wellington Hurricanes Cory Jane (male) 7126 7241 115
Danny_Weidler General Australian sport General Australian sport sport commentator 3767 3882 115
marcmurphy3 AFL Carlton Blues player 2985 3096 111
gypsy_gilmore Association of Surfing Professionals Stephanie Gilmore surfer (female) 3673 3783 110
WelshRugbyUnion Rugby World Cup Welsh Rugby Union official (male) 6829 6939 110
Blueseum AFL Carlton Blues fansite 517 625 108
unionargentina Rugby World Cup Union Argentina Rugby team (male) 2647 2755 108
Swatta02 AFL Sydney Swans player (male) 762 869 107
Collingwood_FC AFL Collingwood Magpies official 9968 10074 106
heathshaw39 AFL Collingwood Magpies player (male) 4500 4605 105
RustyRussell02 AFL Carlton Blues player (male) 1012 1117 105
BryceMcGain18 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers player (male) 1058 1154 96
Mozzie21 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player (male) 1210 1306 96
TennisAustralia Tennis Australia Tennis Australia official 2636 2731 95
scottprince7 NRL Gold Coast Titans player 5123 5216 93
bokrugby Rugby World Cup Springboks official team 7182 7274 92
lehmo23 AFL Hawthorn Hawks player 5877 5968 91
SharrodW_21 AFL Collingwood Magpies player 4419 4508 89
bNason47 AFL Richmond Tigers player (male) 424 507 83
joshgibson06 AFL Hawthorn Hawks athlete (male) 289 368 79
MitchMorton AFL Richmond Tigers player (male) 826 904 78
craiglowndes888 V8 Supercars TeamVodafone driver 3093 3169 76
chooka_86 AFL Carlton Blues player 2396 2471 75
QantasWallabies Rugby World Cup Wallabies 5563 5638 75
markMGgeyer NRL Penrith Panthers former player 4731 4805 74
tjrharley AFL Geelong Cats former player (male) 5341 5415 74
robbiefarah NRL Wests Tigers player 5630 5702 72
MCG_News General Australian sport General Australian sport multi-use stadium (facility) 2987 3058 71
theagesport General Australian sport General Australian sport newspaper (The Age Sport section) 3940 4011 71
sydneyswans AFL Sydney Swans official 6419 6489 70
libby_trickett Swimming Australia Libby Trickett athlete (female) 5128 5196 68
kadesimpson6 AFL Carlton Blues player 1728 1795 67
NathanHiney NRL Parramatta Eels player 5123 5190 67
KurtTippett4 AFL Adelaide Crows player (male) 780 846 66
NeemiaTialata Super League Wellington Hurricanes Neemia Tialata 6798 6864 66
TheParraEels NRL Parramatta Eels fansite (male) 1917 1981 64
sgrigg88 AFL Carlton Blues player 1631 1693 62
JK404 Cricket Australia Tassie Tigers player ( Jason Krejza ) (male) 371 432 61
bigjstevens NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks former player 3185 3244 59
Carlton_FC AFL Carlton Blues official 5423 5482 59
CyclingAus Cycling Australia Cycling Australia official 3050 3109 59
BrettHodgson NRL Sydney Roosters player (male) 3950 4008 58
lauraenever Association of Surfing Professionals Laura Enever surfer (female) 866 924 58
northkangaroos AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos official 4543 4601 58
JamieDwyer01 Hockey Australia Kookaburras Jamie Dwyer (male) 258 315 57
mitchF15 AFL Port Adelaide Power player (male) 466 523 57
LionsRugbyTeam Rugby World Cup English Lions 10986 11042 56
JobeWatson AFL Essendon Bombers player 6626 6681 55
samjacobs32 AFL Carlton Blues player 1150 1205 55
Bushrangers Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers official 2548 2602 54
GoldCoastFC AFL Gold Coast Suns official 3007 3061 54
majakdaw AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos player (male) 559 611 52
chipa__8 AFL Melbourne Demons player (male) 732 783 51
richards_report AFL Sydney Swans player (male) 558 609 51
brisbanebroncos NRL Brisbane Broncos official team (male) 4357 4407 50
matt_jaensch AFL Adelaide Crows player (male) 222 272 50
Andrew_Mulligan General New Zealand sport General New Zealand sport journalist (male) 2662 2711 49
Follow24Hodge NBL Melbourne Tigers player 2520 2569 49
snorkymortlock Super League ACT Brumbies player 1878 1927 49
WCEofficial AFL West Coast Eagles 2722 2771 49
Adam0017 AFL Western Bulldogs player 2162 2210 48
eddiecowan Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 829 877 48
gomvfc A-League Melbourne Victory 3044 3092 48
stevenbaker10 AFL St. Kilda Saints player 2748 2796 48
CricketNSWBlues Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues fansite (male) 687 734 47
Jarka_Groth Tennis Australia Jarka Groth athlete (female) 1642 1689 47
MarioFenech NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs former player (male) 2517 2564 47
andrewswallow AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos unofficial 2201 2247 46
MelbStormRLC NRL Melbourne Storm official 2763 2809 46
okeeferyan AFL Sydney Swans player (male) 786 832 46
abcnewsSport General Australian sport General Australian sport ABC 2051 2096 45
socceroos World Cup Soccer Socceroos official 5372 5417 45
HawthornFC AFL Hawthorn Hawks official 3890 3934 44
mstarc56 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player (male) 653 697 44
NBLhoops NBL NBL 1372 1416 44
RL1908 NRL NRL Rugby league historian/writer 155 199 44
ClarkeVC Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 1528 1571 43
iam_chriswalker NRL Gold Coast Titans former player (male) 1864 1907 43
triplemfooty AFL AFL Triple M Footy 2207 2250 43
westernbulldogs AFL Western Bulldogs official 2141 2184 43
ABLeague Australian Baseball League Australian Baseball League official 583 625 42
NicLiv Swimming Australia Nicole Livingstone retired athlete, former Olympian (female) 1047 1089 42
PAFC AFL Port Adelaide Power official 2664 2706 42
SENfooty General Australian sport General Australian sport radio station (SEN) 2583 2625 42
Adelaide_FC AFL Adelaide Crows official 6868 6909 41
BradMilzy AFL Melbourne Demons player 2118 2159 41
SSFCRABBITOHS NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs 2571 2612 41
arodionova Tennis Australia Anastasia Rodionova player (female athlete) 1529 1569 40
caseydellacqua Tennis Australia Casey Dellacqua player (female athlete) 1775 1815 40
GrahamManou Cricket Australia Southern Redbacks player (male) 695 735 40
lukeodwyer NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 1097 1137 40
RochelleGilmore Cycling Australia Rochelle Gilmore biker (female athlete) 1507 1547 40
wolfmanwilliams NRL Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles player 1165 1205 40
PeterDaicos AFL Collingwood Magpies unofficial 1491 1530 39
WestEndRedbacks Cricket Australia Southern Redbacks fansite (male) 634 673 39
bigdyman AFL Collingwood Magpies player 1835 1873 38
FaingaaTwins Rugby World Cup Wallabies 3434 3472 38
RacingGoodOil Horse racing Horse racing 1902 1940 38
katehollywood10 Hockey Australia Hockeyroos player (female) 1623 1660 37
SpidaEveritt AFL AFL former player 3364 3401 37
DemonsHQ AFL Melbourne Demons official 3094 3130 36
Essendon_Fc AFL Essendon Bombers official team (male) 7652 7688 36
netballmag Netball New Zealand Netball New Zealand magazine (female) 185 221 36
nzheraldrugby Rugby World Cup All Blacks newspaper (NZ Herald) 1723 1759 36
SophieSmith86 General Australian sport General Australian sport sport journalist for Geelong Advertisers (female) 754 790 36
stkildafc AFL St. Kilda Saints official 5647 5683 36
NRLNEWS NRL NRL unofficial 1822 1857 35
paigehareb Surfing New Zealand Paige Hareb surfer (female) 1775 1810 35
rupertguinness General Australian sport General Australian sport Rupert Guinness (columnist) (Sydney Morning Herald) 3037 3072 35
clairebevo Association of Surfing Professionals Claire Bevilacqua surfer (female) 1877 1911 34
CyclingCentral Cycling Australia Cycling Australia SBS (news) 4068 4102 34
LayneCBeachley Association of Surfing Professionals Layne Beachley surfer (female) 2747 2781 34
MarkBosnich NSW Premier League Sydney Olympic unofficial 1147 1181 34
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bigleaguemag NRL NRL 630 663 33
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Why I’ve been hesitant to criticize Greater Western Sydney

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 16 December, 2010

For the past month or two, one of the Australian sport clubs I’ve talked most about via instant messenger services and e-mail, on the phone with a few acquaintances and in person with anyone who will listen to me is Greater Western Sydney. I’ve talked about their web strategy, their Twitter strategy, their off line engagement strategy, how they’ve reached out to Canberra, their team colours (or color if you’re American like me) and team name, their Facebook strategy.

I just haven’t blogged much about it beyond GWS Giants web traffic performance and Fundamental problems in the GWS Giants fanbase?. I’ve been intending to write a chapter on them for my dissertation. (I just haven’t been able to find the motivation to do that.) I’ve had a few conversations about why I’m not doing the blogging thing given all my obvious issues. The reasons are many: I might like the AFL to hire me when I graduate and I’d really rather not piss them off by being highly critical of their engagement strategies. (This was countered with: But what about academic honesty? Isn’t that inherently dishonest not to publish results because they are unfavorable? I’m not even sure how to answer that. True but not right?) I’ve argued that I would rather be some what clinical and have as much data as possible to support my conclusions. (I honestly haven’t done much research about the market implications of jersey color selection and the sale of merchandise/size of a fandom. ) I’ve argued that I can really only tell things three ways: Glowing praise, neutral/dispassionately with data to support my possibly unfavorable conclusions, tactless and attacking. Given my issues, I was stuck on the third one as I just don’t feel constitutionally able to set aside what I see as some major fail. I’ve also argued that I’ve been trying to get a hold of Greater Western Sydney to provide context for their actions so I can be more fair. (I’ve called several times. I’ve e-mailed a number of times. I’ve even used their feedback form. I’ve never heard back.) I’ve also argued that the one time that I did get to meet with GWS people, my advice seemed to be summarily ignored and a promised follow up never happened. I was later told by third parties that the GWS people I met with were not interested in numbers, didn’t have enough of a grasp of social media to understand what I was talking about… oh and yeah, one of the people I met wanted to do a PhD in a similar area as me. Thus, providing GWS with additional data and analysis that would fall on deaf ears? Not interested in it. I’d rather have my private discussions. I’ve also been avoiding blogging about the GWS Giants because my department has a relationship with them. I don’t want to be critical of their social media performance because I don’t want to spoil any potentially good work that my department may do with them. That would not only hurt my relationship with the GWS Giants and the AFL, but with my department.

I’ve also hesitated because I feel like I’m at a disadvantage. I’m an American who has been in Australia all of 9 months. I only started researching the AFL about a year ago. I’m a female operating in what I see as a traditionally male dominated space. Whine whine whine. In talking to some people who haven’t read my blog and seen the research I do and who don’t understand social media, I feel like this puts me at a disadvantage because who is this pushy American female who comes in and tries to tell Australians about their national game?

To a degree, I sometimes feel goaded into speaking my mind (even if I don’t actually post). Several people have told me to ignore my issues and insecurities and go for it. I’ve done that in the past. I’ve lived to regret it. There are certain people you don’t criticize in public because the consequences are that bad. There are certain people you avoid criticizing in private as you don’t want it to get back to them. I always fear when I am goaded into things, that I won’t have any support or that having promised support will cost people and I hate seeing people punished because of me. It makes me hesitant to do so.

The reasons why I don’t criticize Greater Western Sydney are similar to why I don’t criticize other sport teams and athletes. These reasons are why I tend to post tables full of data and dissertation chapter type material, and material where there largely appears to be a positive takeaway (or possibly funny, if I can write that post on Shane Warne and Elizabeth Hurley.). Is this hesitancy good for my research? I don’t know. By not criticizing, I could gain access to people and insight I might not otherwise. If I do, the research could be better.

There are no easy answers and I’ve yet to get over myself.

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Foursquare data: It is yummy!

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 16 December, 2010

For the past couple of days, I’ve been busy building a list of Foursquare locations and sporting events by date that take place around Australia (and New Zealand).  I haven’t played with Foursquare much in the past couple of months.  This new tool I have makes it a lot easier for me to gather this data.  The list of events that I’m tracking can be found here. If there is a league or events that you want added, let me know and I will. After today, I will probably try to post the summary for the past week on Monday.

Name Link City State Date checked Sport League Team 1 Team 2 6:00 Check ins 6:00 People 23:50 Check ins 23:50 People Checkin count People count
Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre http://foursquare.com/venue/355246 Sydney New South Wales 15-Dec-10 Gridiron football Gridiron NSW Sydney University Cubs (registration) 472 127 472 127 0 0
Perry Park http://foursquare.com/venue/9817236 Bowen Hills Queensland 15-Dec-10 Soccer NSL Brisbane Strikers – training 12 4 12 4 0 0
energy australia stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/736079 Newcastle New South Wales 15-Dec-10 Soccer A-League Newcastle Jets Gold Coast United 113 62 115 62 2 0

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Important social networks for academics

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 15 December, 2010

I was having a conversation yesterday about training academics in the use of social media.  One of the points that came up was what were the important social networks for academics to use and be trained in.  I believe the person I was talking to thought blogger and wikis were two of the three important sites academics can be using.  Those wouldn’t be my first choice; mine would be Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

A lot of the reasons why people doing training and advising as to what people use probably has to do with what they get out of sites. Personally, I don’t get much out of blogger.  (I use WordPress on its own domain.  I use LiveJournal. I’d chose both over blogger but then again, I haven’t really used blogger.)  I think wikis are awesome.  (Attend RecentChangesCamp!) I just don’t know that academics would get recognition that they might seek.  Rather, they would probably be producing shared content or learning about a tool that might help them with their in classroom teaching.  I know the person I talked to gets a lot of out of them and I think both could give a lot.  They just aren’t ones that come to mind for me.

I’d recommend Twitter as a way of keeping up with colleagues and making new contacts.  (A public version of Yammer.)  The problem with Twitter is that in selling Twitter to academics, you’ve also got to sell certain types of behavior: As some one worth following, you’ve got to provide value to the people you’re following.  This means you’ve got to teach that and get into some of the meta aspects of using social networks that you don’t necessarily need to do with blogger.

I’d recommend Facebook as a way of being aware of what students are up to and how they think.  I’d also recommend it as a way of turfing out the space.  In recommending how to use Facebook, I’d tell academics the same things I’d tell sport clubs and athletes: Set up a personal profile with people you know and trust.  (Do not add students as friends.)  After that, set up a fan page.  Use the fan page to post things you want public like links to research you’re doing, office hours, announcements, links to interesting content, etc.  This type of space is different than Twitter and LinkedIn as there is a different audience and different purpose for using it.

LinkedIn is about networking with professionals.  It is about developing a resume of sorts.  It works as a medium to contact people by setting an expectation that your goals are professionally oriented.  I know of a couple of places that aren’t interested in resumes and CVs.  Rather, they want LinkedIn.  This is why I’d recommend it.  The social aspects of this aren’t necessarily reasons why I’d recommend it.  I don’t think academics would need to update often.  There is some value in LinkedIn groups, if you can find one small enough and you’re interested in having conversations and promoting your work.   I’ve found it useful for those, but I can’t see most people doing that.

There are a lot of networks out there that could be valuable for academics.  It really depends on who is teaching about them, and the teacher’s perspective and experiences.

What networks are on your list for ones you’d recommend for others?

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12

Posted by Laura on Sunday, 12 December, 2010
  • In order to avoid dissertation editing and writing, going to do another info packet. Thinking #NRL this time. #
  • APA style question: Can I put tables into my end notes or should they be separate appendixes? #
  • My sport bookshelves. twitpic.com/3dwpz7 #
  • Updated dissertation draft: bit.ly/dETKqH Added a ToC. Changed some of the wording in the introduction. +chapter about Anna Meares. #
  • Spent time working on a PowerPoint file and now it doesn't want to save my work. :( Meep. :( #
  • Editing my dissertation and watching The Wire. :D Life is good. #
  • Autocomplete Australia Map : bit.ly/i3NQ6c #
  • My #NRL packet? Done with 43Things, Alexa, bebo, BlackPlanet, blogger. Today's goal: Care2 and Compete. #
  • So when will @warne888 pass the 250,000 followers on Twitter mark? ZOMG. #
  • Most popular Australian (and New Zealand) sport related Twitter accounts (December 11): bit.ly/ei1FP5 #
  • Most popular female Australian (and New Zealand) sport related Twitter accounts (December 11) : bit.ly/hi7615 #
  • An NRL social media / web data pack : bit.ly/hhJAUg #
  • Roller derby! FTW! (@ AIS Arena) 4sq.com/d11x5A #
  • Roller derby may replace ice hockey as my fave attend live sport! Woot woot! Love! #
  • #crdl half time crowd. twitpic.com/3evqiu #
  • #crdl please bring on the derby or get a better sound system. Woot woot! Roller derby! #
  • Derby girls at half time! #crdl twitpic.com/3evvjy #
  • Waiting for a new jam… #crdl twitpic.com/3ew3ei #
  • Players take knees. Refs conferring. #crdl twitpic.com/3ew44k #
  • Today's off task activity: Trying to get a list of sporting events by date and venue to track foursquare checkins. #
  • Woot! Bears on television on free to air. Game starts around 8:15am local. So excited! #
  • Woot! Bears on television on free to air. Game starts around 8:15am local. So excited! #

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