The Mountain West Conference Online: A Powerful Blog Powers Everything

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Diving into the Mountain West’s home page, here, and turn your attention smack dab in the middle of the browser. You’ll see it: Inside the MWC.

“If you can’t make it out to your favorite MWC volleyball arena for a match or want to see how other teams are doing, you can be one of the many fans watching along at home on The Mtn., CBS College Sports or BYU-TV. Thursday, Oct. 7 at 6:30 p.m. (PT), Wyoming is at UNLV on The Mtn. … If you have DirecTV, that’s channel 616 or check with your local cable operator for the channel listing in your area … The MWC ranks second in the nation with 19 nationally-televised matches this season.

Three MWC student-athletes are among the 30 candidates for the inaugural Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. New Mexico’s Jade Michaelsen, TCU’s Christy Hudson and Wyoming’s JennaRae Jester are on the list for their excellence on and off the court, and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – classroom, character, community and competition. This list gets narrowed down to 10 in the next few weeks. Congratulations, Jade, Christy and JennaRae!”

Every article is closed with the ability to share to just about any place you might want to share it. Simple, but very impactful.

Finally, the blog is organized to easily allow you to filter down to the sport(s) you care about. Simply click on your choice from the menu, shown below.

How could this be better? Two things jump to my mind. 1) make it easy for me to subscribe. If it was as easy to subscribe as it is to share, I think we’d see a big increase in impact. 2) Get fan participation. When the style of this blog is so personal, it feels a natural to get connection with fans. Perhaps dedicate a day per week (to responding to fan questions/observations).