Gijsbregt: the Sports 2.0 Man!

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Hi Gijsbregt, Many thanks for joing the group Sports Social Networks. I look forward to your ideas and concerns.
Stewart

Hi Gijsbregt,
I liked your Sport and Internet slide presentation. My belief is that you can have a succesful niche sports social network as long as you can provide some value to the member. There are many fan based sites that compete with each other and few have any real differentiator from the other. At my company, we have developed a beta website, Soccerinteractive.com that is focused on coach and parent education via the web. Now we will begin to use the power of the community to enhance the learning experience. While members can share ideas and ask questions on coaching they can also share their passion for the "Beautiful game". However most sports communities are just that, communities but we try to add value because we can help you to become a better coach or soccer parent.

Once we have built up the community of influencers (coaches and parents), we will then be ready to go after the largest group of soccer participants, the players. Again offering the opportunity to share in your passion but offering tools to also make you a better soccer player. This process only works though if you have focused on providing the educational tools that really can help to educate and empower both the grass roots coach and the experienced "professional" youth and college coach. We have developed tools such as our Exercise Planner and Interactive Chalkboard that empower a coach and provide a real time interactive capability into the learning process. Once we add our library tool, the coach will truely be empowered to search and create their own custom practices sessions all from within the library.

If done correctly, the community will enhance the learning process and the educational content will enhance the community.

I would be interested in your thoughts on this.
Cheers
Tim

Thank you for your good feedback and further validation that our strategy and improvements underway are spot on. We already working on a redesign to improve the useability so we are definitely aware of that. We are also working to align ourselves with some institutions and have had positive discussions with US Soccer, MLS and CONCACAF already. Currently we are working on a joint program with the English FA regarding a Distance learning Coaching C license for the Cayman Islands. If this works well then CONCACAF has interest expanding it. I like the Sport 3D concept. Do you know anyone there, I would be curious what the cost is to license it for my website but that might not fit their business model.

I hope to continue the discussion about Sport 2.0.
Cheers
Tim

Good to meet you last week. I will join up to Twitter soon and let you know when I do. Let's continue the discussion and sharing of ideas.

Cheers
Tim

We are looking for a limited number of knowledgeable, high use fantasy players to beta test a new fantasy tool.

It is a site, tool and app to organize your teams and have one portal to view all live scoring pages. There will be 2 additional gaming elements to follow during the coming months.  It will cover the four major sports in addition to nascar and golf.  The soft launch for the site is August and the app will be available in September.

It might take an hour of your time to grasp the functionality and any feedback would be appreciated.  You will also receive an entry into our inaugural $50,000 suicide pool.

Regards,

Curtis
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