Has the NBC #LondonOlympics been an #NBCFAIL?

The talk all over social media and the news has been that #NBC has not even medalled in the 30 Olympic games in London. The HASHTAG going around is #NBCFAIL!

NBC has been receiving a ton of flack for their coverage of the 2012 Olympics. Some of it has been justified, some blown out of proportion, Maybe. Lets take a look so far at all the particulars!

1. NBC’s decision not to air the opening ceremonies live/cutting the London terror attack memorial from segment: 
Every other country aired it LIVE. Also NBC blocked all live streams on the Internet, and only showing the opening hours later. It would have aired at 4pm edt, now I know that would have been 1pm pdt, but sometimes you have do whats right. Let's face it, though, NBC payed $1.1 billion fee they paid to license the Games, plus another $200 million for production costs. Brian Roberts, chief of NBC parent Comcast, said that NBC had sold just over $1 billion of ad time as of Monday July 30, 2012.
But NOT showing the solemn dance honoring the victims of London’s 7/7 attacks. As an additional slap in the face, NBC explained that the memorial was cut not because it reminded viewers of the horrors of global attacks, but because the whole issue wouldn’t be of interest to American viewers.#NBCFAIL

2. Today show producers fails to recognize Evander Holyfield:
The show did a "Person on the Street"  talking about the Queen’s performance at the opening ceremonies. Along comes the former Heavyweight Champ and NOBODY in studio or the interviewer recognized him! Doesn't look good for a network covering the PREMIER sporting event, the #OLYMPICS, not to know who he was! #NBCFAIL

3. Spoiler Social Media:

Now NBC has made deals with Social Media and Twitter calling it "Olympics Hub", a page on the site that will aggregate tweets from Olympic athletes, their families, fans and NBC personalities, as part of a partnership with the network to hype the Games. 
The Twitter feed will be promoted on TV with on-air ads directing viewers to the site. Likewise, messages that appear on Twitter will direct users to NBC's TV coverage.
Now both the IOC and NBC have complained that people are "SPOILING" results and in fact blocking events like the Cycling road race with so much #SM sharing. CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS! #NBCFAIL

4. Spoiler promo ruins the surprise of Missy Franklin’s gold medal win:

This was the MOST comical one of all. After #NBC cries that people are "SPOILING" there "TAPE DELAYED" prime-time broadcast I could not believe when I tuned in to watch  Missy Franklin, the 17 year old Team #USA Swimmer who I already knew, unless you stayed away from life all day, won the Gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke. We watched her compete and qualify in another swimming heat and the was told she had 10 minutes to get ready for her final.
NBC breaks for commercial but shows a "Today" teaser that included this photograph of the teen sensation standing on the medal stand with the gold draped around her neck. The short clip then cut to a video of Franklin hugging her parents outside London's Aquatics Centre, presumably after the race that she had won seven hours before NBC showed it on the East Coast.#NBCFAIL
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5. Trying to ban critical journalist from Twitter:
This will come down to how you feel about privacy issues: NBC convinced Twitter, the same company they made a deal with, to ban The Independent‘s Guy Adams from the site  after he made disparaging remarks about the way they were showing the games. He also tweeted out the personal email of NBC’s Olympics President Gary Zenkel, which does actually violate Twitter’s privacy policy. The ban has since been lifted. #NBCFAIL

6. The NBC Apps:
NBC has two Apps they developed for the #LondonOlympics. One is a News / RESULTS, yes I said LIVE updated results, TV schedule, Video's Photos and Much more. When the games began, this App was NOT working. I first thought it was me, but on #SM everyone was having issues. It since, after several update, has been working GREAT and gives you everything it promised!

The second App is LIVE EXTRA! This is supoosed to give you access to NBC live stream of numerous events which you can watch "LIVE" on your smart phone or tablet. After, again, a VERY shackey start of NOT working it has lived up to it's billing as I have been able to watch Boxing, Soccer even the Finals of the Team womens Gymnastics final, although it is delayed by about a minute or so.

Again for a network worried about there "PRIME TIME TAPE DELAYED broadcast they have made it easy to watch events LIVE elsewhere.

Now so far NBC telecast of the London Olympics is toppling ratings records.Over the weekend, Olympic programming averaged 35.8 million total viewers in prime time, according to Nielsen — the best first weekend for any Olympics in history. Theopening ceremony alone drew more than 40 million viewers, even outpacing the start of the Atlanta Games in 1996. These are the kinds of numbers broadcast networks almost never see in an era of media fragmentation.

I think this whole #NBCFAIL - Social Media #SM controversy is helping the Peacock network. But, in my opinion, should have better embraced it, SHOW more LIVE events on regular TV and NOT hold ALL the big ones for prime-time Tape-Delayed.


But I'm watching on and off-line! HOW ABOUT YOU!

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I participate in MANY different #Twitter Chats. On Wednesday nights at 10pm edt is #Toolschat with  moderator's  @Twylah & @mqtodd

What is #Toolschat? 

 It is called #ToolsChat and we will discuss how you can make the most of Twitter with various Twitter Tools and also other tools for blogs etc.
We will review a different set of tools each week.

This week was a new web site /  start-up called list.ly

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What is List.ly? It  is a way to create and share lists, as well as integrate collaborative lists into your own blog posts, or as I'm doing creating a blog post about a list I created!  

List.ly was once known as twtpickin, and the developer Shyam Subramanyan & Nick Kellet decided to take the app to a whole new level…with the understanding that lists make up a huge amount of the blogging content on the web today.

What List.ly does is allow content creators to create lists and then crowdsource them, giving them scalability and allowing them to have lives beyond their original blog post. List.ly allows lists to evolve, just as the service has.

By signing up, List.ly allows you to create lists that can be shared and built upon by others. Users can embed their lists into their WordPress blogs, as well as share them via social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. You log in using either your Twitter, as I did or your Facebook account, making the signup process simple which it was.

Now I'm still exploring and learning but in a matter of an hour I joined, decided the subject of my first list, researched it and added to it, wrote a blog about it, embedded the list and it was ALL VERY simple!

I think I like this new #SM TOOL! #toolschat

Join and ADD to my List!

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How do you define Computer?

This blog post was done completely on my #iphone! Not on a PC or Mac or #ipad but totally on my #iphone 4S I've had since December 2011. In fact I just dictated this entire sentence using the microphone feature on the iPhone! So what! No big deal! Who cares? I used to be constantly sitting in front of my Dell PC surfing the web or getting e-mails, using #Pinterest or #Google+ or #Facebook or whatever! Now I can just lay around and use the #iphone for all that and more! It's true what the late Steve Jobs said, "People will have #iphones and #ipads instead of computers!" While nothing, in my opinion, will or can ever replace the traditional computer, there getting pretty darn close! So how about it! Will the tradition computer be a thing of the past? Or will you always have a PC/Mac in every household?

The Day after June 6

June 6, 1944 D-Day

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Public Domain Photographs

160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.
  

General Dwight D. Eisenhower's D-Day Speech 

To the Allied Forces 

 

BUT June 7, 2002 is a day I will never forget. On that that day I lost my mother! Having lost my father in 1983, to our family Claire was the rock. The unyielding force that held us all together. Like Mom's are, she was always there, ready to help. NOTHING phased her! She feared NOTHING!

SHE WAS A MOM!

In the last years of her life she battled intestinal bleeding that no one could ever explain, cancer which they remove 1/3 of her stomach. "Well at least I'm skinny again!' she would say! But STILL she was there, helping, nurturing, comforting all of us!

Her pride and joy, Hannah, my niece and God Daughter, gave her great pleasure! Not quite four when she passed, I'll never forget Hannah standing straight up on the limo's floor waiting for her to be carried and put into the hearse.

In the church she told my sister, "Mom don't cry. I see the Angels taking Granny to heaven!"

This post is for HER!

We all have lost loved ones.

It never get over it - we just get used to it!

I LOVE you MOM!

Alyssa Milano LIVE Tweeting from LA Kings Game

@Alyssa_milano QUEEN of #Twitter is taking over the @NHL Twitter account tonight Thursday May 17, 2012 from her season ticket seats for Thursday night’s playoff matchup between the Los Angeles Kings and Phoenix Coyotes. The game starts at 9 p.m. EST.

 It’s the first time the hockey league has relinquished control of its @NHL handle to a celebrity.

 Fans are encouraged to use the #AskAlyssa hashtag and the #PhxLAK.

Alyssa is well known in the world of Social Media, especially Twitter. She has over 2 Million followers and often interacts with them on a regular bases, including myself, @UBtalkin  , many times. 


“You may see a celebrity on the jumbotron, but fans don’t usually get an opportunity to interact with them around hockey,” Devi Mahadevia, the league’s director of digital business development said to Mashable. “This Twitter takeover gives fans the opportunity to ask questions and talk hockey with a well known celebrity.”

We have watched Alyssa grow up in the public eye, first on the hit ABC comedy "Who's the Boss!"(1984–1992) Then in the hit TV series "Charmed" (1998-2006) and now her newly announced series to begin on ABC in 2013 "Mistresses" amongst other movie's and TV appearances.

She is married to David Bugliari @dbugliari and has a handsome son Milo.

Follow along LIVE BLOG tonight here.......