When you combine technology and sports related business, you have my ear. Or in this case my eyes. In this case, uh, maybe my legs too. Yesterday, as I was writing and researching my first blog post for 2012, I came across a start up company called, Gympact. The concept is simple. Gym-Pact uses its site as a motivational tool to help get people who pay gym memberships to actually use it. The concept of GymPact came from a Harvard behavioral economics class, and their pilot in Boston had a 90% success at getting people to the gym when they committed. Via a free downloadable app, Gym-Pact lets you set the financial stakes…
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Adding Twitter Button to LinkedIn Profile
Last Weekend, while researching future Question and answer candidate profiles for this blog, I learned that you can now add a Twitter Button on your LinkedIn profile. I had not seen it before but I quickly learned how you can easily add this link to your profile to possibly connect with new folks as well as push current contacts to this Twitter stream. I took a picture of my LinkedIn profile so you can see where it appears today. If you can scan below, I have highlighted this in red. So the question is how do you do add this? I am here to show you that now. ** First…
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2011 MLB Team Salaries (INFOGRAPHIC)
I am not a designer. I admit it. However, I have been fascinated by all of the cool infographics that have been showing up online lately. I have mentioned them and posted a few here in the last two weeks. This includes the Facebook vs Twitter Infographic or the 2011 Obsessed with Facebook Infographic. This morning, I got up determined to create my first-ever sports infographic. I have not seen many online. The closest I have ever seen something like this in the sports world is the USA Today Snapshots from the printed paper. I stumbled across the salaries page on ESPN.comand thought that would be a good place to start. As a former PR…