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Word of Mouth 02.02.2013

Rebecca Lavoie — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:34:29 +0000

The best of the best of Word of Mouth's content, rolled up into one awesome program. This week, why your company's rules about social media could be impinging on your rights, how the NFL is dealing with their foray into social media, and our Facebook find: the greatest used car ad we've ever read.

Plus, printmaker Amos Kennedy, the oldest snowshoe race in New Hampshire, and the films that won't get Oscars, yet still deserve a second look.

Social Media On And Off The Gridiron

Virginia Prescott — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:10:04 +0000

Increasingly, fans are taking in a second screen NFL experience on social media. The drama of this year’s football season has been echoed, and sometimes fed by the tweets of fans, players, and even players’ wives…leading to more than a few PR scrambles by the league. This is all new territory for the NFL, which only last year began dipping its heavily guarded brand into the fray of social media. Doug Tribou is a producer and reporter for NPR’s Only A Game, and he joins us from WBUR in Boston to talk about football and this season’s biggest social media trends.

NFL Trends, Tweets, and Tributes

Brady Carlson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:34:14 +0000

Only a Game's Doug Tribou runs through the NFL's uneasy embrace of Twitter, the glam-ification of player images, and, well, some kind of awkward fan tributes to players.