College & University Athletic Departments Manage the Reputations of their Athletes

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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Prying Game

The current cliamate of dred among college coaches and administrators -- will an athlete's slightest slipups 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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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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Third Parties Take on Monitoring Burden

Many schools have turned to UDiligence to comb through student-athlete's social pages for embarassing or damaging content.
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College students don't understand the damage seemingly innocent pictures posted on their social networking pages can have. We tried to manually monitor the pages ourselves, but the task was too time-consuming. When we heard about UDiligence, it was the perfect solution to help protect everyone's reputations. We view it as a reputation insurance policy.

Leonard Kaplan - Director of Athletics, NJIT

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News Featuring UDiligence

New Service Tries to Save Schools from Social Media Catastrophes

Colleges do UDiligence to Prevent Social Networking Embarassment

A Screen Play for Athletic Departments

Davie Plugged in to Players

Services monitor athletes on Facebook, other sites

Commits Social Media Savvy

Athletes & Social Media Mistakes

NFL's Social Media Concern Grows

Cleaning up Athletes Online Reputations

College Athletes: UDiligence May Be Watching

Coaches Monitor Athletes Online in the Age of Twitter

Student-Athletes social networking activity monitored via UDiligence

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

College Coaches Finding Ways to Monitor Athletes Social Networking Activities

Software Protects College Athletes from Online No-No's

Colleges Keep Tabs on Content Tied To Athletes

Schick & Nick Talk about College Athletes & Social Networking Blunders

Software Helps Schools Monitor Athlete's Postings

Missouri Football Team Tracks Racy Words on Social Networks

The Captian Discusses UDiligence

An Automatic Teller

How to Protect Athletes Using Social Media

The Prying Game

Coaches Monitor Player's Web Activity

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

Social Media a Double-Edged Sword for Colleges

Social Media and Sports a Growing Dilemma

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

Universities Keep a Closer Eye on Athletes Social Networking Sites

Third Parties Take on Monitoring Burden