On Thursday, November 5, I was a panelist at Football Partnership's Tweet Blowing the Whistle on Social Media, a discussion about soccer and social media. The panelists also included Greg Lalas (Goal.com), Chris Schlosser (MLSnet.com) and Chris Toy (Studs-Up.com). For more about the panelists, check out the blog I posted the day after the event.

Tiffeny Milbrett will be giving a field demonstration at the NSCAA Convention in January in Philly. On Tuesday, November 9, 2009, I met up with the FC Gold Pride forward in San Carlos, California, to help her plan for the event.

We talked about how the Convention is set up, and what to expect when delivering a session in front of a room full of information-hungry coaches.

Last night I attended Alex Kotler's Football Partnerships panel, "Tweet: Blowing the Whistle on Social Media." Greg Lalas, Chris Schlosser, Chris Toy and myself were the panelists, and there were some seriously smart people in the room, all with incredible perspectives. It was humbling and insightful to be included among this group to discuss and share information on how we are each using social media to achieve our business objectives.

This blog post takes a brief look at how Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) and its teams have used Twitter. We'll look at the early days of Twitter integration and how it's evolved as a sports marketing tool. Then, we'll discuss a couple ideas for utilizing Twitter's new List feature. Keep in mind this is a very short post on a topic I could describe for days.

This blog post takes a brief look at how Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) and its teams have used Twitter. We'll look at the early days of Twitter integration and how it's evolved as a sports marketing tool. Then, we'll discuss a couple ideas for utilizing Twitter's new List feature.

Check out this video by U.S. Soccer in advance of the USWNT vs. Germany match tomorrow!!! They do such good work with their video diaries, props guys. My favorite part of this video, though, is at the end when Pia Sundhage talks about playing against German National Team Coach, Silvia Neid, in 1995, and what that means for players' potential career ambitions of coaching at the highest levels today.

This great tribute video was emailed over to me this morning by Gloria Averbuch. It's a nice touch to remind us all that the impact of women's soccer is far greater than Wins and Losses. Check it out: http://all-access.

Source: Florida State University Press Release

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – When Florida State and North Carolina square-off at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 22 at the Seminole Soccer Complex, the two teams will be playing for much more than a berth in the upcoming ACC Tournament.

Tonight, October 19th, at 5pm PST / 8pm EST, a lecture: "Facing Off Over Facebook: The Impact of Social Media on Women Sports" is going to be broadcast LIVE online from the Tucker Center at the University of Minnesota. http://www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercenter/lecture/default.

Red Stars Head Coach Emma Hayes is in San Francisco this week watching Stanford, UCLA, USC, USF, and Santa Clara women's soccer teams play. I thought it would be fun to ask her the WPS series of "Off the Field" questions we collect from the players. Hey, coaches have favorite TV shows and i-pod apps, too!

The structure of your site's URLs has a serious impact on crawlability, SEO, and user-friendliness. A solid SEO will know how to craft effective URLs, but other people who have a direct impact on building your site developers, IT staff, and management may not necessarily be in a position to think about how they structure your URLs.

In November, Alex Kotler of Football Partnerships is putting on a rockin' panel to discuss how social media is affecting the sport of football, and yours truly has been invited as a panelist. (I'm super honored/excited to be a part of this! Details below.)

So I'm calling on all my Social Media gurus out there to help me prep!

Book your trip today! Want more information or to get some first-hand feedback? Read letters sent to the NSCAA by previous participants.

Today I had the great pleasure of speaking with April Heinrichs, who you'll of course know as one of the first players on the United States women's national soccer team and later became the Head Coach.

Before I get started, yes that really is a living albino alligator. Lisa Cole of the Boston Breakers is in San Francisco this weekend watching games, so last night we took a jaunt to the California Academy of Sciences to take in a little NiteLife. This place is AWESOME. Basically, the Academy is a museum/planetarium/aquarium in Golden Gate Park.

Other WPS All-Star blog posts on Soccer Science:
WPS All-Star Weekend Begins
WPS All-Star Weekend II: WPS Awards Ceremony through Kick-Off

We've just finished editing the videos from the WPS Awards Celebration and thought it would be nice to post links to all of them here so you can see the acceptance speeches.