Emerging Trends in Sports Communications

In advance, here's a few things.

A) Can I get the powerpoint? Yes, Ronnie Ramos will make it available. But, you might be a little disappointed -- only in that we've structured this as a conversation, and the slides aren't a bunch of bullet-point lists that we are going to read to the crowd. We'd be a little hypocritical if it wasn't interactive and more illustration than outline.

B) So what if I am not in San Antonio? Fear not, snow-bound NCAA members -- this is one of three streamed events from the convention. Plus, there will be a CoverItLive that you can ask questions.

C) But I'm in San Antonio and I still need the slides for notes. Again, Ronnie will post, and I'll make this additional promise. If you're here, you know the blog and the twitter feed -- ask any questions, and I'll be happy to give you more in-depth answers.

Our pre-conference dinner with all the presenters brought up a ton of new points, and we know we are going to be jamming a lot of overview into tomorrow's hour and a half. So you really do need to know that the GoPro shoots a very unusual format, but I'm not going to stop and explain tomorrow -- just show you how it can be a very inexpensive means of bringing the athlete's point of view to the fans.

Andy Pawlowski is going to roll through a lot of slides -- probably 50-60 images -- of recruiting angles in new media presentations. Again, you can hit his twitter feed with questions about the details. Same for Dan McKane from the Division II conference office perspective, and his powerpoint on emerging media is available via CoSIDA here for more details on his parts tomorrow. And Ronnie Ramos leads off with his new social media video with a new sports twist and updated stats -- if NCAA administrators see nothing else tomorrow, you need to soak in that part (for example, NCAA's Facebook at 450K would be where in the daily circulation list nationally? Come to the meeting to find out).