Reading FC Social Media

[Big Foot]

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/NewsDet ... 97,00.html

The club have launched pages on Twitter and Facebook & an iPhone app - yet can't afford to sign any decent players

Seriously, why do we bother with our Season Tickets?

[Sarah Star]

It doesn't actually cost them anything to set up any of those though.

[Silver Fox]

Seriously, why do we bother with our Season Tickets?

It's cheaper and more convenient than buying them individually?

[Big Foot]

Seriously, why do we bother with our Season Tickets?

It's cheaper and more convenient than buying them individually?

But they spend it willy nilly on social media ? Pffft

[Big Foot]

It doesn't actually cost them anything to set up any of those though.

So it's fully automated then, is it? Or do they have volunteers administering it all?

[Silver Fox]

TBH my biggest concern about that story is that the middle Kardashian looks like a bloke

[Sarah Star]

It doesn't actually cost them anything to set up any of those though.

So it's fully automated then, is it? Or do they have volunteers administering it all?

Blimey, they only have to copy and paste from the other info they put out. Hardly going to take hours plus they get to advertise to a wider audience instantly. Makes good business sense, I'd have thought.

This is a joke isn't it?

[Big Foot]

It doesn't actually cost them anything to set up any of those though.

So it's fully automated then, is it? Or do they have volunteers administering it all?

Blimey, they only have to copy and paste from the other info they put out. Hardly going to take hours plus they get to advertise to a wider audience instantly. Makes good business sense, I'd have thought.

This is a joke isn't it?

No, I'm being serious

The club sell Gylfi for £7M profit, plead that they can afford bugger all and then are being frivilous with their cash

If Madejski comes on the pitch tomorrow I'm going to boo him and every programme I see with his face on I will burn like Pastor Terry Jones

[Sarah Star]

Now I know this is a joke.

[Scrappy]

All Reading FC's communication media, by this I mean the website, is managed by an external company which they pay anyway to manage the website. This is the case with many other Football League clubs. This means that it probably does not cost the club much to develop such an application as it's built by the external company, and then the club just apply their front end to it. I wouldn't say it's worth moaning about the cost of our season ticket about.

It's the same company who deal with Reading World. The external company manages the interface, all Reading do is provide the content.

[Big Foot]

All Reading FC's communication media, by this I mean the website, is managed by an external company which they pay anyway to manage the website. This is the case with many other Football League clubs. This means that it probably does not cost the club much to develop such an application as it's built by the external company, and then the club just apply their front end to it. I wouldn't say it's worth moaning about the cost of our season ticket about.

It's the same company who deal with Reading World. The external company manages the interface, all Reading do is provide the content.

So we've money for an external social media agency but not for players? I hope they play in a corporate 6 a side league or similar as we may need to bundle in some game time from them at the rate Mad£j$ki is cutting the cloth

[roadrunner]

Are you educated at all? You really are coming across as a bit simple if you don't mind my saying.

[Big Foot]

Are you educated at all? You really are coming across as a bit simple if you don't mind my saying.

Hark at Einstein

[Scrappy]

I've just used said application and it's superb. It's also very easy to implement by the club as all the programme does is access the Reading database of news stories and displays the most recent stories from the database with a suitable front end. It's also been developed by the Football League who are clearly keen to make Football League football more accessible to the masses which suits it's business remit. Again, as it's clearly been developed for the football league on behalf of its members by an external organisation, the costing will be very limited. These apps arent designed to be complicated as they want to be as efficient as possible. Only 2.7mb and most of that data will be the images (this does have influnce as it demonstrates very little coding has been involved).

[Magnus]

Only 2.7mb and most of that data will be the images (this does have influnce as it demonstrates very little coding has been involved).

If it was 10mb then the vast majority would still be images so not quite sure how you've worked that one out.