Who are the influencers in Netball?

The purpose of lists

People love lists, we are obsessed by them. From the Forbes rich list to the Worst 10 movies and everything in-between we can’t get enough of them. Someof them are momentary glances that are nothing more than tomorrow’s take away paper but there are many that, like Forbes, are the cornerstone for conversation and dialogue amongst people that are interested in that world.

The magazine was set up to promote women’s sport and those that participated in it at every level and so being involved with Lissted in this ground breaking sphere is the next stage for us in promoting women’s sport. Children have always wanted role models but for the first time we are living in an era where female athletes the world over are becoming role models on a global scale and social media is having a big part to play in this. People want to know what successful athletes are doing 24/7 now and so by creating a list of global influence based on social media data we are not only acknowledging those that are having impact and looking to encourage conversation about the list and its content, but also to raise awareness of those on the list for fans.

Social media and influencers

Social media has radically changed the world as we know it and provides a new and exciting way to compile a list of people of influence in women’s sport. It’s very easy to compile a list of who has the most followers on social media platforms and say they are “influential”. However, to understand who> is most likely to wield real influence you need to understand a lot more about who those followers are and how they engage with them.

Adam Parker, Founder of Lissted points out “Simply generating noise on social media doesn’t necessarily indicate influence”. This is what I like about working with Lissted, how their approach seeks to build lists that give true insight into a community, in this case helping to understand the dynamics of women’s sport rather than just produce a list of who has the most followers for example.

Real world considerations

It’s important to note that the analysis is unable to incorporate those who aren’t on social media or do not engage on it. As Adam explains “Ultimatelyanalysis of this type is limited to those individuals who participate online. This will obviously lead to the omission of some people and organisations. However as social media has grown in significance this gap is reducing as online communities increasingly include the majority of those who are influential in the real world.”

The netball analysis we’ve looked at first has a good example of this issue. Molly Rhone has featured in the magazine on a couple of occasions and is one of the most passionate and wonderful people to talk to about sport and Netball. She doesn’t have a Twitter account, at least not that we know of, so she is not considered for inclusion. However, as president of the International Netball Federation her meetings with governments, as well as her input into the policies and grassroots work in countries around the world, would put her firmly at number one on my own personal list.

So like many others in the field in a similar position we will look to make special mention of people that fall into this category and we will be keen to hear from you of people like Molly that should be added to the next edition.

Netball Global Influencer Analysis

Lissted kindly ran two separate analyses. One focussed on who their application ranks as influential based solely on looking at the Twitter relationships and interactions of Northern Hemisphere netball related accounts. The other produced its results based solely on Southern Hemisphere accounts.

Adam explains “Influence is all about relevance and community. We suspected that we’d get very different results if we split the data in this way and so it proved. Having both lists enables you to better understand the nature and reach of someone’s influence. For example Aussie Diamonds Coach, Lisa Alexander ranks very highly at #7 on the Southern Hemisphere list, but doesn’t appear in the Northern Top 100. Equally Netball Superleague 2015 and 2016 Champions Surrey Storm appear at #7 in the Northern Top 100, but don’t appear in the Southern Top 100. Meanwhile the International Netball Federation, despite not appearing in the top 10 of either list is one of only 18 accounts that appear in both, demonstrating its global influence within the game.”

The 18 accounts that appear on both lists are shown in at the end of this article.

Lists are never perfect. For instance where someone is ranked is only based on a snapshot at that moment in time. The more valuable insight is not an individual’s exact position, fun though that is, but the members of the list as a whole. Our desire is to create visibility of those doing a great job of promoting their sport around the world, as well as to promote dialogue on the list to those inside and outside of that given sport.

In what we believe to be a first for women’s sport magazine, it’s a privilege to be involved with Lissted in publishing this list of global influencers of Netball.

A huge thanks to Lissted who help you discover the true influencers in communities. The people and organisations whose influence reaches into the real world, not simply the ones who create noise online about a topic. Identifying the right people is crucial if you want to ensure your content marketing, SEO and reputation management activities are effective. https://lissted.com

Northern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere

Rank	Name	Username
1	ANZ Championship	ANZChamps
2	Netball Australia	NetballAust
3	Australian Diamonds	AussieDiamonds
4	Liz Ellis	LizzyLegsEllis
5	NSW Swifts	NSWSwifts
6	Nat Medhurst	natmedhurst
7	Lisa Alexander	CoachLisaA
8	Melbourne Vixens	MelbourneVixens
9	AdelaideThunderbirds	AdelaideTBirds
10	Queensland Firebirds	FirebirdsQld
11	Sharni Layton	Sharni_Layton
12	Laura Geitz	LauraFirebirds
13	Netball Nation	NetballNation
14	West Coast Fever	WestCoastFever
15	Caitlin Bassett	CBassNetball
16	MADI ROBINSON	madirobinson_
17	Sharelle McMahon	SharelleMcMahon
18	Netball New Zealand	NetballNZ
19	Kimberlee Green	Kimmygee8
20	Bianca Chatfield	biancachatfield
21	SKYCITY Mystics	northernmystics
22	Ashleigh Brazill	ash_braz
23	Netball Scoop	NetballScoop
24	Catherine Cox	CathCoxy
25	Caitlin Thwaites	CaitlinThwaites
26	GevaMentor	GevaMentor
27	Renae Ingles	RenaeIngles
28	Shae Brown	shaejbolton
29	Kimberley Ravaillion	kimberley138
30	Erin Bell	erin_bell77
31	Susan Pettitt	SusanSwifts
32	Sue Gaudion	SueGaudion
33	Julie Corletto	JulieCorletto
34	Mo'onia - Monâ	Mon_Star9
35	Silver Ferns	SilverFernsNZ
36	Kate Palmer	KatePalmer_CEO
37	Southern Steel	SteelNetball
38	Maria Tutaia	MariaTutaia
39	Official Netball NSW	NetballNSW
40	Dan Ryan	DanRyan84
41	Netball Victoria	netballvic
42	Chelsea Locke	ChelseaPitman
43	England Netball	England_Netball
44	Netball WA	NetballWA
45	INF	IntNetball
46	Casey Kopua	caseymay04
47	Jane W-Thompson	janewthompson
48	Catherine Tuivaiti	Kat_Latu
49	Sarah Wall	SarahLWall
50	Demelza Fellowes	DemMcCloud
51	Netball America	NetballAmerica
52	Fast5 World Series	Fast5Netball
53	Nat von Bertouch	NatvonBertouch
54	April Brandley	aprilletton
55	Gilbert Netball HQ	GilbertNetball
56	Gretel Tippett	gretskies11
57	Sarah Allen	sarahpallen_
58	Official Tactix Page	TactixNetball
59	Sky Sports Netball	SkyNetball
60	Paige Hadley	PaigeHadley2
61	Sport For Women	SportForWomen
62	Australian Sport	Ausport
63	Katrina Grant	Katrinagrant7
64	Netball SA	NetballSA
65	Jo Harten	Jarten
66	FOX SPORTS Australia	FOXSportsAUS
67	ABC Grandstand	abcgrandstand
68	SKY Sport NZ	skysportnz
69	Gabi Simpson	gabs_simo
70	TEN Sport	tensporttv
71	KateBeveridge	KateBevNetball
72	Tegan Philip	teganphilip
73	Gilbert Netball	GILBERT_NETBALL
74	Verity Simmons	VeritySimmons
75	ASICS Australia	ASICSaustralia
76	Netball South Africa	Netball_SA
77	Karyn Bailey	KarynLBailey
78	Magic	WBOPMagic
79	Rebecca Williams	BecHeraldSun
80	Kayla Cullen	KaylaCullen12
81	Netball Tasmania	NetballTasmania
82	Courtney Tairi	CourtneyTairi
83	Pulse Netball	PulseNetball
84	Abbey McCulloch	Abbey_McCulloch
85	FOX SPORTS News	FOXSportsNews
86	Netball Singapore	Netball_SG
87	Nadine Cohen	NadineCohen1
88	Wendy Frew	wenzfrew
89	AWRA	auswomensport
90	Julie Fitzgerald	julie__fitz
91	Annie Sargeant	AnnieSargeant
92	Jo Weston	joweston142
93	Netball ACT	NetballACT
94	Karen Stocks	KazStocks
95	Damien Stannard	dstanno
96	Qantas Wallabies	qantaswallabies
97	Tamsin Greenway	tamsingreenway
98	Jodi Brown	browniejodi
99	Netball Foundation	NetballFndation
100	#VISRoadtoRio	VicInstSport

Both Northern and Southern Hemisphere

Northern Rank	Southern Rank	Name	Username
28	1	ANZ Championship	ANZChamps
33	2	Netball Australia	NetballAust
36	3	Australian Diamonds	AussieDiamonds
1	43	England Netball	England_Netball
43	18	Netball New Zealand	NetballNZ
2	59	Sky Sports Netball	SkyNetball
9	55	Gilbert Netball HQ	GilbertNetball
40	26	GevaMentor	GevaMentor
32	45	INF	IntNetball
54	23	Netball Scoop	NetballScoop
44	40	Dan Ryan	DanRyan84
22	65	Jo Harten	Jarten
65	35	Silver Ferns	SilverFernsNZ
50	51	Netball America	NetballAmerica
8	97	Tamsin Greenway	tamsingreenway
46	76	Netball South Africa	Netball_SA
94	33	Julie Corletto	JulieCorletto
95	52	Fast5 World Series	Fast5Netball