Do you guys utilize Facebook for your Team?

We use it more to communicate with parents and post information/ pictures. Scores, records, etc. We use Twitter to reach out more to kids directly.

This is the issue, none of the parents really check the page.  I've tried getting it to be a little more interactive to get them involved and give them a reason to come back more often.  

One idea I had recently was to post playoff style bracket with the 8 best sports movies of all time or the 8 best motivational speeches of all time and then have people vote on them by "liking" or commenting on their favorite.  Then continue to narrow it down until there's a champion.  Just little stuff like that but then again I don't want to go over the top with it either and piss off administration. 

Our AD/SID/Booster club uses facebook to communicate with the world; within the team we use Remind.

we utlize ours quite a bit instead of having a website

www.facebook.com/dundeevikingsfootball

We use Twitter. We post announcements about practice, workouts, and meetings. All scores from all 3 levels during the season. And in the off season anytime i'm at another event for our school we try to post something about it. That has gotten non football people involved with our twitter.

At my previous school we set up a facebook but Twitter has become a lot easier for what we want to do.

We use a facebook page. I do so because the old people (parents) use it and not twitter. We utilize twitter as well but it's more for the kids. We also keep a website, but it's mainly to host documents and links for recruiting purposes as opposed to a place for updates and announcements. If I add something new to the site, I put it on facebook to publicize. I'll agree with Coach Bennett, pictures are what people love. I'll post from our after school workouts, camps, etc and people like to see that. The occasional video is good as well. People eat that stuff up.

Facebook (for us) is more of a parent/fan thing, and a place for us to brag about our kids. We post pictures, updates, schedules etc on FB.

Our main form of communication used to be Twitter, but we have since moved to TeamApp. It's been ok- district policy limits 1v1 contact with kids, and they're tightening the screws on that to where it is a fireable offense (i.e. texting/messaging). So TeamApp has served that purpose- "chat" rooms where a conversation with a kid is not 1 on 1...my entire coaching staff can read it for liability purposes.

I set up Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for our team this year; had just a FB page 3-4 years ago when I was on staff, but I was out of coaching the last 2 years, but when I was able to return this offseason, I set up our Twitter and IG.

Honestly, IG is huge, and I like to use that for posts because you have to post a photo every time, and people are much more visual, and will view the post, if there's an image, like someone above said. Plus, you can easily post to FB & Twitter when posting on IG by linking the accounts and just clicking those buttons prior to posting. It's also super easy to use on an iPhone.

As someone else mentioned, you can have your FB posts also post to Twitter by authorizing the app, but Twitter got shady and won't let those posts post images; it'll post a hyperlink. There's a script product out there if you are techy that will override this.

I have been stressed out about our communications with parents & players specifically as there wasn't much in the past, and I did not want our kids texting us, so I'm really happy that Hudl finally released their in-app messaging feature this week. You can message any player or coach directly in the app, or message a group, and communicate back and forth, and this is not a personal text. I don't know how texting is not okay, yet picking up the phone and calling a coach is, but hey, it's 2016, and people are crazy. The Hudl Messages feature should be great - most of the kids have the Hudl app on their phones or iPads or log-in often during the summer and fall, so it'll be at least a big improvement for us as soon as we make sure they all have the app downloaded and are in the habit of checking it daily.

Haven't been active lately on Social Media, but will pick up the pace here soon with Spring Sports ending and our Lift-A-Thons, Combines, and offseason sessions starting soon.

www.facebook.com/nccoltsfootball
www.twitter.com/nccoltsfootball
www.instagram.com/nccoltsfootball

Additionally, regarding comms & scheduling, I've loaded our calendar items onto MaxPreps, in case parents look there, but if Hudl adding something like this - just the ability to add events & schedules - that'd be great. Flirted with using TeamSnap but ultimately didn't because I knew Hudl Messaging was coming. We don't have a plan that allows us to upload documents - I need to get the AD to upgrade us, but he's got a tight budget, and the Boosters already pays for part of it.