It is important to have excellent interpersonal skills, writing skills, problem solving skills, speaking, and interviewing skills as an SID. Sports Information Directors need to be able to write various types of pieces such as feature stories, news releases, news stories, games notes, media guide text, speeches, and other types of writing.
Here is a scenario: You have been tasked to write a blog for a top NCAA women’s basketball team. It is a team that is starting to do well in the standings but needs more publicity. First, define blogging. Then discuss what kind of blog you would write for this organization and why? How often would you update the blog? How will your blog add value to your organization and make readers gravitate toward reading your blog? Also, cite three other examples of blogging and how the blog adds value to the organization that it is being written for and how it appeals to the reader.