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I was just told about a new fan blog being launched by the Utah Jazz, JazzBots. The blog hasn’t launched yet. At the moment they are just looking for contributors. Participation will be on a volunteer basis, but it seems volunteers will get lots of cool stuff for their efforts, which may be worth it for many fans.

JazzBots is looking for the following:

• one season ticket holder from the lower bowl,
• one season ticket holder from the upper bowl,
• a college student,
• a housewife,
• a young working professional,
• a Jazz family,
• an elementary school class
• a Jazz fan

For more information check out the detail for applying.

I think this is a great idea and is a good example of how large organizations can use blogging to engage their audience. I’ll be keeping an eye on the project to see how it turns out.

On a related note, I was very surprised to find out how much people here in the Philippines (where I am currently living) love basketball. I was a huge NBA and Jazz fan as a kid, but in the last several years I haven’t really followed basketball very much. However, when I got here I got frequent updates of the NBA Playoffs and specifically the Jazz from several Filipino friends. It was interesting that a these friends knew more about my home team than I did.

Today, in my internet marketing class at BYU, our teacher, Paul Allen, asked the class what search engine they used primarily. Amazingly 100% of the class in a class of about 50 raised their hands when Paul asked who used Google as their primary search engine. This is a biased sample, since most the students are business oriented and technically savvy, but it still amazed me that every person in the class uses Google as their primary search engine.