Click here for data from ComScore. Great insights about the market place.Email and instant messaging are in rapid decline because of texting and Facebook messaging and news feeds.
Some new entrants ala Pininterest are booming!
I am pleased to say that SnagFilms is positioned at the intersection of video and sharing; watch a film; snag it – share it and embed it and stream it to your friends today. Thank you.
This is getting way out of hand.
I encourage our players to be interactive and to be transparent. I want them to be on Facebook or to Tweet away. To respond to emails; to be out and about; to sign all autographs; and to be approachable.
Thirteen years ago, I gave all of our players’ laptops and email addresses to jump start the effort. It was the first time in professional sports that happened.
Just so you know, I blog every day and I am on Facebook and Twitter. All of our players are as well. It is generational.What I did say in an interview was that while most people like interactivity, some fans have told me they don’t like seeing some players’ Tweets or posting personal photos and that seeing behind the curtain sometimes makes a fan lose some respect for the player.
Interactivity can cut both ways.
I hope this provides some perspective and context here as this is the third article I have read that makes it sound like I don’t encourage our players to be online and in social networks. Thank you.
Ok. I am now cleared out of my email in my personal email folder.
And, I have read and responded to more than 700 emails from Caps and Mystics fans. All tolls — in three days — more than 1,000 emails read and processed. To be frank, most of your emails were very sincere and very nice. Thank you!
Now to my Wizards email. I have received close to 1500 emails to date. I am making my way through them all. Thank you.
I held a conference call with 2,000 Wizards fans on Friday. A great Q&A was held as well.
I am meeting with 500 or so season ticket holders and prospects on Monday night. I am doing what I promised.
You can help. Buy some season tickets or a plan today. Help us to pay it forward!
Thanks for the interest! Talk to you all soon. Go Caps - Go Mystics - Go Wizards!
I took my family to dinner last night. Across from our table was a big family gathering - 12 people - to celebrate a birthday. At the end of the table was a man in his 50s. He sat down and pulled out his Blackberry and proceeded to keep his head down the entire evening. He looked up to order his food. When the food came, he put his Blackberry down and ate. When the Blackberry rang, he immediately dropped what he was eating and answered the email.
He was at the table but he really wasn’t there. His wife who sat across from him ignored him all night as he furiously typed away and kept his head down.
After we left the dinner my wife mentioned to me, “Thank you for not doing email ever at a family event. That was offensive.”
I will say it again, as Karl Marx said, “The more sophisticated the machinery the more barbaric the worker.” I do a lot of email but without balance, you border on addiction.