Timu is a social networking platform specifically built to solve the communications problems encountered by athletes, sports teams and their fans. Online social networking is a natural way to solve many of these problems. Yet, existing social networks like Facebook provide disjointed solutions that do not handle sports specific features, such as player rosters, game results and statistics. At the same time existing sports offerings provide almost none of the interactivity and engagement expected in today’s social networking environment.
No matter what sport or at whatever competition level you play you can set up a profile or team center on Timu in minutes. Best of all the existing functionality is free, we will be launching a set of additional paid services at a future date.
Individual Profiles
Individual athletes can setup an profile on Timu in minutes to setup their online sports identity. Profiles can be customized with information about the sports they participate in, teams they play on, and their competitive highlights. Photos, videos can be uploaded, and various “widgets” can be added or modified. Individual profiles also serve as a center of interaction with other Timu members through their Wall feature.
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Team Centers
Whether you are a coach, player, parent or fan, you can create a team center for your team on Timu. Team centers provide many features like team news, schedules, player rosters and photos. They also include a powerful game results and statistics package allowing you to provide dynamic, professional looking statistics with very little work . All the people associated with the team can be invited to become members of the team center, which can then function as a hub for team communications.
A few examples of team centers: http://bellevueblaze.timu.com http://dreadsox.timu.com http://baseball.timu.com
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Sports Hubs
Currently Timu supports about 30 different sports ranging from baseball and soccer to unicycling. Each of these sports has it’s own section or hub on Timu including photos, videos, game results and discussions. Timu members can participate in the conversation at these hubs about their sport. As Timu grows we will be providing the ability to view these hubs by region, subsection of a sport, or even by sporting venue.
