News Featuring UDiligence

  • Student Athletes and Social Media

    WSBT's Diane Daniels interviews UDiligence CEO about social media monitoring in college athletic departments.

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  • UDiligence CEO Discusses Social Media Privacy w/KAMU's Dr. Alan Xenakis

    Doc X and Kevin Long spend an hour discussing social media privacy issues and how student-athletes can prepare themselves for life after sports from an online digital legacy perspective. 

    The conversation starts at about the 13 minute mark.

     

  • Twitter Provides a Voice -- and a Risk -- for Modern Athletes

    If the offending post can be taken down before the rest of the world sees it, it's money well spent. UDiligence has made several such saves since it launched five years ago.

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  • School's Attempting to Control Athlete's Use of Social Media

    "Now, the coach's weekly press conference on Tuesday is not focusing on the next football game; it's focusing on what three of his players posted on Twitter," says Kevin Long, founder of UDiligence, a company that monitors student-athletes' use of social media.

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  • Adam Ritz talks sports & social media with UDiligence CEO Kevin Long

     

  • Policing the Social Media Craze

    Kevin Long, CEO of UDiligence, said universities reach out to his firm because they want to protect their brands and help athletes avoid the mistakes that can haunt them even after they leave school.

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  • Jock Police

    The idea is that having a monitoring program in place encourages closer self-monitoring: the student learns to flag a regrettable comment before hitting Tweet. Thus the schools are providing an educational service as well as protecting the athlete's job prospects. "When this was first introduced, I thought, Oh, do they want to be in my business?" says Brittany Broome, a senior softball player at Ole Miss and head of its Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. But Broome says she came to appreciate it: "Having that app, that kind of following, is always in the back of your head." She says no Ole Miss athlete has complained to her about UDiligence.

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  • New Service Tries to Save Schools from Social Media Catastrophes

    I was shown the list of words UDiligence searches.  If you grab any five -- you've got a heck of a night out.

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  • Colleges do UDiligence to Prevent Social Networking Embarassment

    Athletic departments are learning that every student-athlete with a social networking account is a potential public relations disaster.

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  • A Screen Play for Athletic Departments

    It's an early-warning radar and insurance policy for the athletic department.

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  • Davie Plugged in to Players

    Brian DeSpain, UNM's new director of football operations under Davie, was familiar with UDiligence from having worked at Texas A&M.

    DeSpain says UDiligence will allow him to assume the major responsibility for the monitoring process, permitting Davie and his staff to do what they were hired to do: coach.

    "Any kind of profanity or sexual innuendo or racist slur," DeSpain says, "or any mention of drug use or violence, anything like that, would automatically send me a message.

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  • WSU coach Leach bans players from Twitter

    "When one of those keywords hits, email alerts are sent to the athlete and their coach/athletic department staff, allowing the athlete the chance to reconsider their post before it might become a negative news story and part of their digital legacy, impacting their search engine presence and online reputation," said Kevin Long, CEO of UDiligence.

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  • Services monitor athletes on Facebook, other sites

    Sophomoric pranks, trash talking, goofy pictures taken in a stupor at an all-night party: the cornerstones of the college experience.  Thanks to the Internet, though, they've also become part of a student's legacy. An embarrassing photo or caption on a Facebook page, an attempt at humor misinterpreted as a racial slur on Twitter, can haunt him or her during a job hunt and for years.

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  • Commits Social Media Savvy

    "I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE FOR MY TWEETS AND FROM THIS DAY FORWARD I WILL SHOW RESPECT AND HONOR FOR THE LONGHORN NAME…..HOOK'EM \m/"

    And, more importantly:

    "please dont tell mack brown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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  • Athletes & Social Media Mistakes

    Chicago's favorite afternoon drive sports-talk tandum of Boers & Bernstein speak to UDiligence CEO Kevin Long about athletes and social media blunders.

     

  • NFL's Social Media Concern Grows

    "If Rashard Mendenhall had some way of due diligence for what he was saying, perhaps he could have mitigated it in some way," UDiligence CEO Kevin Long said. "Let's face it, people make bad judgments ... and we help protect them from themselves sometimes."

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  • Cleaning up Athletes Online Reputations

    This is Brilliant!

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  • College Athletes: UDiligence May Be Watching

    The issue of brand protection for college athletics has never been more important.

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  • Football Coaches Must Stay on Guard for Players' Risky Tweets, Posts

    When UDiligence CEO Kevin Long started the company in 2008, MySpace represented 80 percent of the accounts monitored. Facebook represented the majority from 2009 to 2011, but Twitter has quickly become the leader, currently representing 75 percent of the posts flagged by UDiligence.

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  • OSU athletes' social media could face additional scrutiny

    "We're not a 'gotcha' tool. We're a mentoring and educational tool," Long said. "We feel it's really a partnership with the athlete and the athletic department."

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  • Coaches Monitor Athletes Online in the Age of Twitter

    "Just like we like to monitor their whereabouts, monitor their academics, we need to monitor their Twitter accounts as well," Amaker said to The Crimson in December.

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  • Student-Athletes social networking activity monitored via UDiligence

    Striving to build and maintain a respectable reputation for its athletes, the University of Louisville utilizes UDiligence, a computer program that monitors the content of athletes' social networking sites.

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  • Online and Out of Bounds -- Social Media and Athletes a Dangerous Combination

    Monitoring services are protecting the student-athletes themselves, not just the schools for which they play. When their playing days are over questionable material athletes posted online can come back to haunt them.  Kevin Long, CEO of UDiligence, says detecting those questionable posts and removing them quickly has protected the reputations of some of the athletes his company monitors. "It definitely saved that athlete a lifetime of someone Googling their name and having this be the first thing that came up."

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  • College Coaches Finding Ways to Monitor Athletes Social Networking Activities

    Expecting a human being to catch all the red flags on every athlete's page is, well, naive.

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  • Software Protects College Athletes from Online No-No's

    For a young athlete, a mistake made on the Internet can last a lifetime.

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  • Colleges Keep Tabs on Content Tied To Athletes

    What may seem like fun on Facebook now isn't going to be fun when you're sitting across the table from the personnel director at a job you're tying to get.

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  • The Perils of College Athletes and Social Networking Mistakes

    Schick & Nick talk with Kevin Long about helping college athletes protect their reputations on social network sites.

     

  • Software Helps Schools Monitor Athlete's Postings

    I think our compliance office does a good job.  But we could probably have people working every single hour of every day and still not catch all of it.

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  • Missouri Football Team Tracks Racy Words on Social Networks

    In addition to explosion, for example, the list includes xploshun and exploshun.  So maybe you can't spell.  Or maybe you're smart enough to misspell a word on purpose.  Either way, you're screwed, which is also on the list.

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  • The Captian Discusses UDiligence

    The Captain has UDiligence CEO Kevin Long on as a guest to discuss social networking problems that athletes expereince and how UDiligence can help them protect their reputations.

     

  • An Automatic Teller

    Everyone is scared to death they're going to be the next Northwestern women's soccer team.

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  • How to Protect Athletes Using Social Media

    WBAA's Sam Klement asks UDiligence CEO Kevin Long about the damage that student-athletes do to their reptutations when they post inappropriate material on Facebook & other social networks.

     

  • The Prying Game

    The current climate of dread among college coaches and administrators -- will an athlete's slightest slip-ups go viral online? -- makes bed checks seem so Bear Bryant.

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  • Coaches Monitor Player's Web Activity

    Happening Now host Jon Scott interviews UDiligence CEO, Kevin Long.

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  • Universities Turn to Third Parties to Monitor Athlete's Online Blunders

    "We protect athletes from potentially harmful statements they make that could affect them for life after college," said Kevin Long, CEO of UDiligence.

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  • Schick & Nick Talk about College Athletes & Social Networking Blunders

    Omaha's favorite ESPN Radio hosts Schick & Nick interview UDiligence CEO Kevin Long about how UDiligence alerts college athletic departments to mistakes athletes make on social networking sites.

     

  • Social Media a Double-Edged Sword for Colleges

    To stem the tide, compliance departments are going viral, using UDiligence, a software that acts as an online watchdog for its student-athletes and coaching staffs.

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  • Social Media and Sports a Growing Dilemma

    "When I go and speak to athletes I like to call it preventing a Google-able moment," UDiligence CEO Kevin Long said. "Having a Google-able moment is not something you want to have. When people Google Rashard Mendenhall now, the first thing that is going to come up is the Twitter controversy. We reduce that risk for student athletes. We have the best defense for making athletes Google-able for all the right reasons."

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  • Nebraska Athletic Department Keeping Close Eye on Student-Athlete Social Networking

    Schools around the country have at times had to scramble to reprimand student-athletes for inappropriate and questionable postings.

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  • Universities Keep a Closer Eye on Athletes Social Networking Sites

    One company has begun to market itself as an insurance policy to limit the chances for negative publicity because of an athlete's posts on social networks.

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