I wondered about this policy as the year kicked off.  I follow the
Denver Broncos (ahem, currently undefeated at 5 - 0, sorry Cincy,
Cleveland, Oakland, Dallas, New England listservers) and get twitter
updates on my phone before, during, and after the game from them.  Seems
that the policy applies only to the personal account of team members and
staff.  They will often retweet information from other sources before
and after the game, but not during.

Brian Starck, CRM
RTD Document Control Manager
303.299.2177

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of David Gaynon
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:43 AM
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Subject: Corporate restrictions on the use of social media

Apparently restrictions on the use of social media is not just an issue
for highly regulated industries.  Recently the National Football
League(the USA one) announced that the use of social media will be
prohibited 90 minutes before a game starts and 90 minutes after the game
concludes.  Professional tennis has also imposed some restrictions on
use of social media. Apparently these organizations have their own legal
concerns in that their broadcast partners have exclusive rights to
broadcast games and their was concern that allowing players to broadcast
information during games might cause everyone a bit of difficulty.

In addition I suspect that there was concern that such uncontrolled
communication might not be consistent with their branding and marketing
strategy.

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