Posts by Caley Wilson
How Do the World’s Best Teams Tackle Innovation?
In July, the U.S. Women’s Soccer team confirmed their status as the best female football team on the planet. Their win in the FIFA World Cup saw them show great fighting qualities not only for the ball, but for equal pay, gender equality and LGBT rights. That prompted Billie Jean King to say that “these…
Read MoreTVNZ’s Sunday Innovate: Blind calling
It was a pleasure to sit down with Miriama Kamo from TVNZ’s Sunday show and chat through why we started Blinder and how it’s helping the media and fans connect with athletes from the NRL to the NCAA.
Read MoreBlinder and US college sport
There’s extra responsibility to respect both the time and privacy of student-athletes. As the name suggests, they’re juggling two very significant roles – and those competing elements can put them under plenty of pressure. The same applies to the communications staff that represent them.
Read MoreUSA Sports Tech startup winners
The Blinder team took great pride in winning the Game Changers startup pitch competition at the USA Sports Analytics & Technology Conference in Dallas, Texas, yesterday.
Read MoreBlinder joins Stadia Ventures accelerator
After receiving applications from across the U.S. and more than 20 countries, Stadia Ventures is excited to announce its Fall 2018 cohort for its sports and esports business accelerator.
Read MoreWhat do athletes think of Blinder?
While Blinder’s technology is driven by communications managers, the thoughts of athletes have heavily-shaped what we’ve created.
Here David Pocock, Will Genia, Reece Hodge and Michael Hooper – from the Australian national rugby team – share their thoughts on what Blinder does for them and the Qantas Wallabies.
Read MoreAndy Seeley: The unbeaten UCF Knights, Shaquem Griffin and CoSIDA
The last 12 months have kept Andy Seeley on his toes. He’s run athletics communications for the University of Central Florida (UCF), as they’ve experienced unprecedented interest in their unbeaten Knights football team. The Division 1 college went on to proclaim themselves as ‘National Champions’, which did little to settle things down.
Read MoreFinalist in ANZ Sports Tech awards
We’re proud to announce that Blinder is a finalist in the inaugural Australia and New Zealand Sports Technology Awards (ANZSTA).
Read MoreMatthew Syed and ‘You Are Awesome’
When he was eight, Matthew Syed’s parents bought him and his big brother a full-size table tennis table. Fortunately, the family had a garage which was big enough to fit both the Super Deluxe 1000 and the increasingly competitive boys. Having a table and a big brother were just a couple of the advantages that Matthew enjoyed on his path to becoming a British table tennis champion.
Read More21 reasons sports teams choose Blinder
PR managers in pro sport have faced a tough choice until recently.
When arranging media phone interviews, they’ve either had to share the personal numbers of their athletes and coaches – without being too sure where those numbers are ending up – or they’ve had to put a whole lot of extra resource into providing access without distributing numbers.
They now have a third option – and it’s changed the game. Let’s take a look at how: