REMINDER! September 29th Continuing Education session: Your complete guide to using mobile location-based apps

REMINDER! September 29th Continuing Education session: Your complete guide to using mobile location-based apps



 

With our corporate partners TRZ Sports/TEAMLINE, the Official CoSIDA Teleconference Call Provider, and ASAP Sports, CoSIDA's Official Instant Transcript Provider, participants can access this call/webcast in various ways. A CoverItLive blog also will accompany this presentation.

Like all CoSIDA continuing education sessions, this will be archived and available on-demand.

 


CoSIDA Conference Call:
Your Complete Guide to Using Mobile Locations-Based Apps

 

Thursday, Sept. 29

12:30 pm Eastern/11:30 am Central/10:30 am Mountain/
9:30 am Pacific


 

Presenters

Jeff Kirchick, SCVNGR Universities & Independent Schools Specialist
Twitter: @JeffreyKirchick,
@ScvngrU
Website: www.scvngr.com

Cassie Gage, Assistant Director, University of Oklahoma Athletic Communications

CoSIDA New Media/Technology Committee

Jay Stancil, Sports Information Director, Union College-KY
CoSIDA New Media/Technology Committee

Topics
• Basics of geo-location services- examples are Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, SCVNGR, brightkite, Loopt
• How CoSIDA members can use location-based apps in marketing/promotion of events and drive foot traffic to those events/promotions
• Case studies, benefits and "best practices" while using location-based apps in athletics - at all levels - and why you should care
• Variety of apps & price points for mobile location-based apps

• Geolocation apps and safety issues with student-athletes, coaches
• Never lose sight of NCAA/NAIA rules & compliance issues

 



INFORMATION ON GEOLOCATION SERVICES

Interview with SCVNGR's Jeff Kirchick: The Power of Crowd & Place (by Chris Syme, CoSIDA New Media/Technology Committee chair)

Geolocation marketing: Right now is the time to get started

Geolocation apps and athletics: Making the most of your brand (by Cassie Gage, Univ. of Oklahoma, Sept. 17, 2010)
 



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To access the call, use Webscripts
® and a CoverItLive Blog

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1. To listen online (via streaming audio), go to: http://www.teamline.cc/teampage?teamcode=1184

  ... go to the blue "Click here to listen link" to launch the audio.

   

2. To listen via phone, dial 216-502-3200 and enter code: 1184.

 

3. ASAP Sports is providing a REAL-TIME Webscripts: follow along at http://www.asapsports.com/webscripts/cosida

They will provide a Fastscripts® archive to be posted online after the call.

 

4. A Cover It Live blog will be provided for this webcast. You can ask real-time questions and provide commentary to the presenters through this blog. Link will be provided. 

   

5. Question for the presenters?

- Submit questions in advance to Barb Kowal, CoSIDA Director of External Affairs (barbkowal@cosida.com) and questions will be forwarded to the appropriate presenter. You also may post your questions on the CoverItLive blog during the discussion.   

 

Audio Archive/Playback - On-Demand Availability 

If you cannot listen live, the conference call will be archived by TRZ Communications and available for playback late afternoon on September 29. An ASAP Sports Fastscripts® transcript and the CoverItLive blog are archived immediately.