CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Big South Conference continues to grow its online presence in efforts to reach fans and followers in many different ways.  The Conference began with BigSouthSports.com several years ago, but while all things start at the main site, by no means do they end there.  The Big South recently added a Twitter feed and Facebook fan page to its stable of sites that had already included a YouTube channel and a blog page.

Of the family of sites, the blog, “Big South SHOUT,” was the first to join the official site in reaching out to fans.  SHOUT (BigSouthSHOUT.blogspot.com) came online in early 2008, and is now approaching its 100th post.  The blog offers some different perspectives and updates from what you may find at BigSouthSports.com, and readers can subscribe to the blog so that they don't miss any new posts.

The Big South’s 25th Anniversary celebration for 2008-09 led to another outlet for Conference content with a channel via YouTube (YouTube.com/BigSouthSports).  The BigSouthSports channel gave access to a whole new audience for the award-winning “Best of the Best” Big South Anniversary video vignettes.  It also provided another avenue for the “On The EDGE” video promos and additional video pieces produced by the Big South.  Fans can subscribe to the channel so that they are alerted whenever a new clip is added.

In recent weeks, the Big South began to “tweet” as well, with a series of updates on Twitter, the increasingly-popular crossover between social networking and blogging (Twitter.com/BigSouthSports).  Twitter allows interested fans (who are signed in) the ability to “follow” the Conference’s feed of updates, each reported in Twitter’s standard brevity of 140 characters or less.

The Big South web family would not be complete without its own Facebook fan page, which launched at the same time as the Twitter updates.  Facebook’s rapid growth as the dominant online social network gives the Big South an incredible opportunity to reach an audience of remarkable size as more users discover the page and “become fans,” adding the page to their own profiles and expanding its reach.

Other web tools and services that have helped the Big South keep up with the technological wave include The Big South EDGE (the online video source of the Big South Conference, presented by State Farm, which offers live and archived video streams of Big South competition for subscribers), and the Big South Vortex (a dynamic “pocket” version of the website information that can be posted on blogs or connected to social networking pages).

All of these online efforts are currently linked to the Conference home page at www.BigSouthSports.com.

Home Page: www.bigsouthsports.com
SHOUT Blog: www.bigsouthshout.blogspot.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/bigsouthsports
Twitter:  www.twitter.com/bigsouthsports
Facebook: www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Charlotte-NC/Big-South-Conference/74608476907?ref=ts
Vortex:  www.bigsouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4800&ATCLID=1566693
The EDGE: www.bigsouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4800&ATCLID=1157667