Post and you shall receive. I asked you guys about social media use and the Olympics because I really think NBC is doing a horrible job at using any sort of medium to promote the athletes. Two came to my attention quickly:
- zAthlete: a former client, zAthlete is a social network for…you guessed it, athletes. Justin Benson left a thoughtful comment yesterday to my post. Looks like they have some athletes over there who are using the network to post their thoughts prior to the games. It will be interesting to see if NBC clamps down even more as we get closer to 8/8/08.
- “Voices of the Olympic Games“: I found this site through Kevin Dugan’s blog post. The site is being run by Lenovo, but it is quite firmly stated that none of the athletes need to say anything positive about Lenovo, instead they are just helping provide the tech.
I really like what Lenovo is doing and it looks from what I read like the athletes are really responding. The great thing is that the Lenovo site is aggregating different blogs, video, pics, etc and just giving you a place to find them all. And now I know I’ll be rooting for Nancilea Foster when she is swimming in Beijing.
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Thanks for this interesting forum. We have a social site set for Olympic visitors. We think this should be quite interesting to gauge from the reception so far.
check it out
http://www.olympiconenessdream.com
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