I’m sure you that you have lots of basketball highlight videos on your hard drive or maybe on DVD. I know recently after purchasing my Macbook pro I decided to make use of cloud services such as Dropbox.com to upload and back up my media files. I don’t serve any important documents on cloud websites but video and images for sure. Even though most computers come with sufficient amounts of hard drive space, but overtime it gets clogged..

I suggested to my family the same. I use Dropbox specifically because with their service you get 2GB free and it can be syncronized with my computer and iPhone. For me on the go its great so I recommend that you guys check out Dropbox!

When it comes to pursuing a remarkable coaching career there are many things that can be helpful in a coaching career.  Many coaches have participated in many activities in communities around the country and have gained exposure for the community service they provided.  Not only can potential professional basketball coaches participate in community service activities such as blood drives but many offer one day coaching clinics for underprivileged youth that are interested in sports and sponsoring camps across the country.

By participating in these activities and volunteering in communities it gains exposure for those interested in pursuing a coaching career.  By gaining exposure a coach can land his dream job that he/she enjoys.  There have been many success stories in the past on coaches that were active in communities across the nation and are among the top basketball coaches in sports history.  When a coach has his/her community involved they are not only helping the community but, also their career.  Also when participating in community activities coaches have the opportunity to network with other coaches that may be involved with a similar community service activity.  By building a network with other coaches or individuals that are in the sports field, this gives a coach the chance to exchange contact information and can be the beginning of a healthy relationship.  Many coaches have landed key jobs by building a network with individuals involved in the sports world.  The same thing applies to coaches participating at local camps.  At camps there are many coaches that are also participating and athletes from around the world that may be a recruit for you in the future.  Although majority of the coaches that volunteer for these camps and community service activities aren’t getting paid they get privilege of helping a community and building a network that can help in the future.

I’ve been working hard on getting the newest season Pro Team Contacts 2009/10. Basketball teams overseas address, logo, telephone, address, fax and website information available.

It should be complete by the end of the week.

Current Country Contacts Updated:

• Brazil Men
• Austria Men & Women
• Italy Men & Women
• Germany Men & Women
• Ireland Men & Women
• England
• France Pro A
• Spain Women
• England Men & Women
• Switzerland Men & Women
• Germany Men & Women
• Finland Men & Women
• Netherlands Men
• Sweden Men & Women
• Ukraine Men & Women
• Portugal Men
• Norway Women & (Men soon)
• Greece Men
• Poland Men & Women
• Serbia Men & Women
• Turkey Women

Basketball overseas contacts to be completed: Norway Men, Portugal Women, Spain Men, ACB Spain, Slovania Men, Russia Men & Women, Latvia Men & Women, Scotland, Czech Republic, NBA, WNBA, Australian Leagues and more!!!

This is guest blogged by Tyler Smith, a good buddy of mine who offers a great service for basketball players to promote themselves through video. He offers professional basketball player videos at ProPlayerVideo.com.

The off-season is around the corner and it will soon be time to market your players as hard as possible. Copying, editing, and mailing out DVDs around the world can be very TIME CONSUMING and EXPENSIVE.

One great way to SAVE TIME and MONEY is to post players’ game videos ONLINE. Then, they can be viewed INSTANTLY by pro teams, coaches, and GMs. You can send GAME VIDEOS to UNLIMITED teams around the world!

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These prices are per player (normally $90 and $60). It is then FREE for
anyone to WATCH VIDEOS. Plus, if you need the videos online for an extra
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Please let us know if we can help you with your game videos!

Thank you and I wish you the very best during the off-season!

For those who are overseas already or getting ready to go overseas you might want to know one of my favorite services to call to your family and friends through you mobile phone or house phone free. AND IT”S NOT SKYPE. I’m not knocking Skype at all but there are other services that you can call overseas without the use of a computer.

The name of this service is Rebtel and how it works is you connect to another phone without the use of a computer. First you must sign up free with Rebtel and then after you must register with your primary phone number. This can be your home phone number or cell phone. If you have a cell-phone plan with unlimited minutes I would use that number. If you don’t go ahead and use the house number for your primary. You will be designated a Rebtel phone number and depending where your friends are they will receive a local phone number which they can call you and which you can call them.

I had several problems understanding how it worked when I first got started but it is a breeze now. It is as simple as this:

1. You sign up and you place all of your phone numbers which you can be reached.

2. Your friend signs up with their phone number and they will receive a Rebtel number

3. You put your friends normal phone number in your contact list and your friend does the same for you.

4. You both will be given a rebtel phone number which is a local number for you to connect without charges (depending your phone plans).

5. Now that you have your friends number you can call them and they will have to call you back on the number that is assigned to you. It will be local for them if they for example live in another country.

Are you tired of going to several websites to view news about current women’s basketball news, players, gossip or anything interesting? Finally, I must admit there is a new solution. The new Women’s Basketball Buzz (WBBuzz) website has it all. You can track your favorite player, see who just signed where and when, photos and player fan websites.

Not only that you can get news in your language if its not English that you speak or read.

Basketball Connect is down today for all users. The servers are being changed at the moment and it should take about a day or two for things to restore back.