Live From Lindsey's Kitchen: A Podcast

If you like sports, fashion or food, then this post is for you! This post is a little bit different than my previous ones, and also my first time doing something like this. But, you will get to meet some of my friends (Carly and Lindsey) in my very first podcast!



Carly writes a fashion blog called Fashionably Later and Lindsey writes a food blog called Live From The Kitchen. If either of these interest you, you should definitely check them out!

Myself, Lindsey and Carly in Philadelphia for PRSSA National Conference.

Can An NFL Schedule Be Beautiful? Yes It Can!

It's not a surprise infographics have become so popular. In the world of social media, graphically inclined posts are more successful. Having information in picture form is much easier to read, plus it's more fun.

Later in the regular season the Pittsburgh Penguins started producing an infographic before every single game with 'need to know' information. Personally, I think the ones they make are hard to read. Most info graphics read top to bottom, but these have no sense of direction. Some parts read up to down, but others read right to left. I think they need to rework their format a little. An infographic should want to make you read it, not close out of it (like I do every time wondering why I continue to open them). Here is an example:

Photo courtesy of @PensPRLady

BUT don't worry, I have a beautiful infographic to show you. The 2014-2015 NFL schedule was released just a few days ago and the Green Bay Packers released their schedule in infographic form. I have to be honest, I spent more than a few minutes looking and admiring it. It flows perfectly and makes you want to keep scrolling. I have two favorite parts: (1) Starring last season's playoffs teams (2) The travel routes graphic, round trip mileage included. Click the link above and enjoy reading all the interesting Packer stats! 

Photo courtesy of @Packers

If Tweets Were Goals in the Stanley Cup Playoffs

Fans of the Pittsburgh Penguins seem to be the loudest of the 16 teams in the NHL Playoffs on Twitter. Thanks to Twitter's blog for this awesome information!

The NHL Wants To See YOUR Playoff Story

April 16 starts the 2014 NHL Playoffs. And this year the NHL wants you to share your playoff experience no matter where you are. Are you at home? At the bar? In the building watching the game? No matter where you experience the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, the NHL wants to see it with #MyPlayoffsStory. Go ahead and share if you're watching!


Unfortunately for me, the 2014 NHL Playoffs mark the fifth year in a row that the Carolina Hurricanes have missed the after show. I have no dog in the hunt, so I just get to sit back and relax during games even though I would prefer spending my afternoons stressing about the Staal brothers and our starting goaltender. Hopefully next season will be our year (one can only hope).

The Most Famous Fútbol in the World

Meet Brazuca: An Adidas soccer ball with six cameras that is starting it's journey in Brazil and traveling the world in anticipation of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The ball that took 2.5 years to develop will be the official game ball for this year's tournament.

Want to see where Brazuca is on a daily basis? No problem, because the soccer ball has it's own Twitter account, with 120,000 loyal followers already (myself included). And when you follow it, you may even get a laugh from the tweets it produces.

 

Brazuca also just made it's first stop on the world tour... in Spain! It practiced with the Spanish National Team in preparation for the big games this summer as well as a School of Fútbol where children learn to play the game.

Photo courtesy of Around The World: Spain

It's next stop is Germany, so follow Brazuca on Twitter to see the adventures from all over the globe!

Photo courtesy of @brazuca

Look How Far We've Come

Over the past few weeks, a site letting you see user's first tweets has become very popular, and fun for that matter. I thought it could be fun to see what the four major sports leagues sent out as their first tweet. I don't think one is worse than the other, but I do not think any of them are great.

The MLB was the first to jump on board:

I guess they forgot the standard rule of capitalization? I also enjoy the fact that they explain how to shorten links. Why would the public need this from the MLB? This seems like an email from the supervisor of the person running the account...

Next was the NBA:

What does this even mean? Can anyone tell me? My best guess is something to do with the NBA All-Star game that took place on February 15, 2009. But your guess is as good as mine.

Third was the NFL:

Hey, thanks for the welcome... Oh wait. I wonder how many questions they received from posting their first tweet ever asking for submissions less than 90 minutes away from a chat. Couldn't they have planned a little bit better?

And last, but not least, the NHL:

I can only imagine what they tweeted next. The Stanley Cup had been won 10 days earlier by the Pittsburgh Penguins, so maybe it was about the Cup trip? Or about the draft? I think I'm giving the NHL too much credit; it was probably just a link to NHL.com... 

Thankfully, we have come a long way in the world of Twitter!

Reds Score Big on Social Media on #OpeningDay

On one of Baseball's biggest days of the year, the Cincinnati Reds unveiled a new area to their concourse, a social media zone. When you step into the Reds Connect Zone you are placed in front of 25 screens featuring online reactions to the game, pictures of people watching from home or in the stands, and in game promotional polls and contest.

Photo courtesy of @FOXSportsLive on Twitter

Throughout a game, the screens will feature Tweets, Instagrams, and Vines from Reds fans along with other majors players, like the MLB or ESPN. Free wifi is offered in the zone as well as phone charging stations (a major plus for someone like me who drains their battery at sporting events).

If I were working with a team in any of the major leagues, I would start working on getting a social media zone ASAP.