Wouldn’t be nice to send messages to our Olympic team?

Another Olympics, another doped horse. But for the Irish, our bright sparks are in the boxing ring. Boxing remains one of the few sports that we seem to do well in. Kenny Egan is fighting for the light heavyweight gold on Sunday in Beijing. Why not drop by his Facebook Fan Page and wish him good luck? Stephen has set up the page. Nice one.

Wouldn’t be nice if the Irish Olympic Committee (or more properly, the Olympic Council of Ireland) set up a dedicated web presence so we could send wishes and messages to the team? Facebook pages, perhaps a blog, something. Perhaps some rich content would be cool too. Maybe ask some of the athletes if they’d like to blog (once it didn’t conflict with competition prep or focus). How about a video diary? Something personal. Real interaction would be nice. Not the “tick our web presence” boxes that a lot of corporate events do.

The mind boggles, especially when this is in place for Munster rugby fans to send wishes to their team. Would the suits ever let this happen? I can’t see this working in Beijing especially with the tight media controls in place. Perhaps London 2012?

August 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm • Filed in Geekery



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2 Comments to “Wouldn’t be nice to send messages to our Olympic team?”

  1. Catherine Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    The OCI do seem to have missed the boat, this Olympics. The Irish Times managed to get Gearoid Towey blogging from the athletes’ village (http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/villagevoice) - not too many entries but a step in the right direction, for sure.

    And if these promises are anything to go by, London 2012 will be a wonder of the techie world. To be seen to be believed, though!



  2. Suzy Byrne Says:
    August 25th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    The Paralympics go one better - so it’s not very 2.0 but it’s better than anything the OCI are doing!!

    Email your support to supporttheteam@pcireland.ie

    12 Days to go to the beginning of the games!



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