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Megan Hueter (mhueter)
http://www.becauseiplayedsports.com
@mhueter
Washington, DC

About mhueter:
I'm one of the co-founders of WomenTalkSports.com. I'm also a full-time digital public relations professional at Catalyst Public Relations in New York. I played basketball my entire life, and am a proud graduate of The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.


mhueter's Posts:

Study finds Williams' outburst reinforces stereotypes
posted on October 29, 2009 at 11:47am

Below, please find a release from Marie Hardin, Associate Director for Research, John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. Using content analysis, Hardin and her team studied media coverage of Serena Williams' outburst (watch the YouTube video below to se...more

Women's sports writers, bloggers: We need your help!
posted on October 26, 2009 at 8:37pm

WomenTalkSports participates in female sports blog research at Penn State...more

Live Blogging from the Women's Sports Foundations's Annual Salute to Women in Sports!
posted on October 13, 2009 at 12:08pm

  Tonight, I'm going to be live blogging from the Women's Sports Foundation's Annual Salute to Women in Sports event at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. Stay tuned below around 6pm ET for some live coverage from the Red Carpet! Tonight's evening ho...more

Serena Williams advances to Wimbledon finals and makes Twitter trends!
posted on July 2, 2009 at 9:05am

Serena Williams advances to teh Wimbledon finals and hits the Twitter top 10 search trends...more

Quote of the Day 4/20/09
posted on April 20, 2009 at 6:12am

"Other cities have marathons; we have marathon weekend."- Boston Mayor Tom Menino ...more

Attention New York Liberty Fans: Get free popcorn with your tickets
posted on April 13, 2009 at 10:04am

Attention New York Liberty fans - you can get free popcorn at games at Madison Square Garden. If you're anything like me, your ears just perked. If only I lived near New York... Some background - The WNBA's New York Liberty tickets went on sale last wee...more

Quote of the Day 4/6/09
posted on April 6, 2009 at 8:26am

"It was so much fun" - Brittany Lincicome...more

Quote of the Day 3/27/09
posted on March 27, 2009 at 1:31pm

"If I am going to speak, it will come from me" - Shaquille O'Neal...more

Quote of the Day: 3/26/09
posted on March 26, 2009 at 2:14pm

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt...more

Women's Tournament Challenge Leader: C&R Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted on March 23, 2009 at 10:17am

Of the participating WTS members, we're excited to announce that Cynthia from the C & R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog is leading the Women Talk Sports group in the ESPN Women's Tournament Challenge. Jupal 1 (created by M. Elliot) is also tied wi...more
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...Because I Played Sports

The goal of …Because I Played Sports is to bring a voice to women’s sports online. As former athletes, we promise to do what we can to bring as much as we can to achieve gender equality in editorial coverage of contemporary female athletics. We’re here to vocalize what many sports editors are ignorantly missing… females.

2010 Olympics: The influence of advertising on quality broadcast journalism
Imagine yourself as Linsey Vonn yesterday – a native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, who has been working her whole life, since she was two years old, to bring home an Olympic gold in women’s downhill skiing. She finally does it, gives hugs to her family i...[Read on]
NCAA and social media: Friends?
NCAA is jumping on the social media bandwagon. Photo credit: biojobblog.com I’d like to extend a huge “welcome!” to NCAA collegiate athletic departments – it seems that this year, you may have finally realized the power of technology in bringin...[Read on]
Womens professional soccer engages over 200,000 Twitter followers
Photo credit: Womensprosoccer.com / Twitter.com While most of us in digital marketing know that corporate use of social media is not, by any means, a popularity contest and the number of “followers” you have is by no means a measure of success, the...[Read on]
NBC names Lindsey Vonn athlete of the decade
Lindsey Vonn, Olympic Skiier. Photo credit: Wikipedia.org That’s right, this week, along with a new year, we’re celebrating a new decade. It’s 2010, and 10 years have officially gone by since the start of this new millennium. Today, according to...[Read on]
Best of ‘09: Forming a community, WomenTalkSports.com
This post is the start of a series this week in the WomenTalkSports.com network titled “Best of ‘09.” Throughout this week, our community will be posting about their favorite moments in women’s sports in 2009. There’s no doubt, 2009 was an exci...[Read on]
There’s a girl being born in America
Nike campaign. Photo credit: Adweek.com There’s a girl being born in America And somebody will tell her she is beautiful And somebody will tell her she is strong Somebody will tell her she is precious And somebody will tell her she is tough. There...[Read on]
WNBA uses crowdsourcing to pick new name for Tulsa
I was impressed when I visited the WNBA Facebook Fan page today. They’re using crowdsourcing techniques to have the audience pick the next name for the new team in Tulsa, Arizona. This is what I saw: WNBA uses crowdsourcing to pick next team name for...[Read on]
The Girl Effect
One of the best viral videos I’ve seen coming from a sports brand is associated with a powerful advocacy campaign created by the Nike Foundation called the Girl Effect. Although the campaign’s mission is not overtly obvious, the interactive video (se...[Read on]
What can Twitter’s geotagging do for sports?
Shaq Tweets at fan using Twitter's new Geotagging. Photo credit: http://myloc.me/show.php?id=1kwf0 This week, Twitter launched their Geolocation API, giving users the option to have their messages contain their exact locations. Now, I have to admit, I...[Read on]
The basics: Online advertising (in sports)
Photo credit: dotperformance.com This blog post is part of my ongoing weekly series discussing the role of social media and female athletics. It’s also a class requirement for a course I’m taking at John’s Hopkins University. This week, we r...[Read on]
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