Comments on: ESPN's guidelines for social networking

By: dave

dave — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:36:07 +0000

So, let me get this straight, ESPN is evil and they are suppressing freedom of speech because they want their own employees to “Exercise discretion, thoughtfulness and respect for your colleagues, business associates and our fans” when they post content on public forums, blogs, etc.
No-one has a problem with PFT/NBC and their policy of waiting to approve each and every post on their blog :
“Your comment has been received and held for approval by the blog owner”
Not that I’m outraged at that or anything, just a little perspective.

By: dave

dave — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:29:34 +0000

What’s the big deal? This sounds like a reasonable company policy to me. In fact, its not really a new policy so much as just saying “social networking technology exists, and people pay some attention to it; use common sense”
Does the company any of you work for want you to create a blog without their knowledge or permission to publicly disparage your co-workers, or describe company operations in detail?

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:04:18 +0000

This is a great opening for all non ESPN media memebers.
This might be a really good thing – Im of the opinion that mort-report was already holding back any thing of value.
Can you name any story that was on ESPN regarding the NFL that you couldnt have gotten on this site first?

By: TimTheEnchanter

TimTheEnchanter — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:03:24 +0000

Sounds like newspapers’ approach to the innerwebz when it started gaining popularity.
We all know that worked out pretty well.

By: Delhommey

Delhommey — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:08:52 +0000

Employees found using the new electric light to facilitate the writing of their column after sundown may be terminated.

By: AdamEagle5

AdamEagle5 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:35:26 +0000

Does this mean that Adande can’t watch a bball game and tweet that it’s a good one?
Seriously… who is going to follow an ESPN employee who can’t tweet about sports? LOL. I can’t believe how short-sighted the “WWL” is being about this. How many people follow someone like Adande on twitter and then DONT tune in ATH?
Poor business decision.

By: AdamEagle5

AdamEagle5 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:31:36 +0000

ESPN is such a joke of a sports network. It’s like the Disney version of what a real sports network would be…

By: AutumnWind999

AutumnWind999 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:56:15 +0000

Geez, this sounds an awful lot like my company.
Let’s face it: corporations suck. Big Time.

By: SaintsBucsPanthersSUKK

SaintsBucsPanthersSUKK — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:27:07 +0000

The Atlanta Falcons today signed free agent wide receiver Dicky Lyons, from the University of Kentucky.

By: snelson66

snelson66 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:11:39 +0000

Goosestep when you tweet…

By: dgreene78

dgreene78 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:01:42 +0000

This is Mao Zedong reporting for ESPN…

By: igor79

igor79 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:58:03 +0000

ESPN is only hurting themselves by this. I will just continue following local beat writers who post all sorts of great content…
The only time I even read ESPN is when a blog with “sports related content” posts a link or when someone posts something on Twitter.
Why follow an ESPN personality if they cant offer any content? ESPN needs to check out some websites on how to build traffic through social networking.
If you have content to offer on your Twitter, people will follow you, then when you post ESPN links, ESPN gets traffic and makes money.
I can understand them not wanting their people to get in wars with their Twitter followers, not wanting them to link to big ESPN competitors or posting libelous or unsubstantiated content, but this goes WAY too far.

By: thattomdude

thattomdude — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:39:21 +0000

…and they call Obama a Socialist.