Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2012 22:37:37 GMT 10
While I have spoken to individuals regarding the recently completed summer season, I would like to publicly extend my thanks to all of those who helped Baseball Victoria to provide a regular and reasonably comprehensive website reporting service during 2011/12.
I refer particularly to the coaches and players who were prepared to have a good-natured chat (sometimes in the flush of success, sometimes in awkward moments) and to the club officials who saw fit to pass on news and information or to offer story ideas.
I have very much appreciated the invaluable input of scorers, administrators and club supporters who diligently (or even occasionally) supplied me with match details, statistics, photographs and other material that substantially helped in the preparation of reports for Baseball Victoria and mainstream media over the past four seasons.
To the clubs who update their websites on a regular basis and to the increasing number who are actively engaged on Facebook and Twitter, well done.
My role with BV has been principally in the area of stringing sentences together. Although the written word will always be a powerful force, there are other forms of expression that have come to be dominant factors in people's lives.
My hope is that governing bodies, clubs and individuals entrusted with the future of Australian baseball work co-operatively on strengthening communications and meeting membership and supporter needs by utilising technology in the most sharing, effective and efficient manner possible.
It should be a priority. As Victorians, let us not be left behind in this regard.
With rapid advances in technology we can expect that the ABL organisation and ABF-sanctioned baseball will be progesssively ramping up involvement with mainstream media, with U-Stream (or equivalent), with Play by Play game reporting, Twitter, Facebook and the range of social media and other online services both in place and yet to be delivered.
These are exciting and challenging times for baseball coverage, in both reporting and comment. Times that require dynamic responses by committed persons across a range of "traditional" and emerging media (as texasleaguer has alluded to in another thread).
Such responses will require engagement by qualified and capable personnel who can deliver timely, professional multi-media coverage of the sport. We should not accept - nor should we expect - work that is half-assed, amateurish, under-resourced and/or undervalued (or a combination of all of those).
I refer particularly to the coaches and players who were prepared to have a good-natured chat (sometimes in the flush of success, sometimes in awkward moments) and to the club officials who saw fit to pass on news and information or to offer story ideas.
I have very much appreciated the invaluable input of scorers, administrators and club supporters who diligently (or even occasionally) supplied me with match details, statistics, photographs and other material that substantially helped in the preparation of reports for Baseball Victoria and mainstream media over the past four seasons.
To the clubs who update their websites on a regular basis and to the increasing number who are actively engaged on Facebook and Twitter, well done.
My role with BV has been principally in the area of stringing sentences together. Although the written word will always be a powerful force, there are other forms of expression that have come to be dominant factors in people's lives.
My hope is that governing bodies, clubs and individuals entrusted with the future of Australian baseball work co-operatively on strengthening communications and meeting membership and supporter needs by utilising technology in the most sharing, effective and efficient manner possible.
It should be a priority. As Victorians, let us not be left behind in this regard.
With rapid advances in technology we can expect that the ABL organisation and ABF-sanctioned baseball will be progesssively ramping up involvement with mainstream media, with U-Stream (or equivalent), with Play by Play game reporting, Twitter, Facebook and the range of social media and other online services both in place and yet to be delivered.
These are exciting and challenging times for baseball coverage, in both reporting and comment. Times that require dynamic responses by committed persons across a range of "traditional" and emerging media (as texasleaguer has alluded to in another thread).
Such responses will require engagement by qualified and capable personnel who can deliver timely, professional multi-media coverage of the sport. We should not accept - nor should we expect - work that is half-assed, amateurish, under-resourced and/or undervalued (or a combination of all of those).