Who Runs Rivalry Rage?

I know…once again, where’s the blog meat? Well, please be patient and humor me one more time. This short blog is designed to provide a brief background about the team members developing and running Rivalry Rage, Inc. (hereafter RR).

I’m the founder and designer of this site, but as with anything, it’s not a one man show. The concept was developed from a conversation several years ago with my nephew, Stephen. My lovely bride, Eve, is the one that keeps us out of trouble and ensures we think through things before moving out aimlessly, which I’ve been known to do.

I utilize my 25+ years of experience in leadership, management, operations, and engineering to lead the RR team. This experience was obtained while service on active duty in the U. S. Navy for 20 years and while serving in various roles in the commercial defense industry, including positions such as: systems engineer, operations/tactical data analyst, Director of Marketing and Business Development, and most recently as the President and founder/owner of Innovative Support Services And Consulting (ISSAC) Corp. ISSAC Corp is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO) systems engineering firm located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Eve Jones manages all aspects of Human Resources (HR) and Organizational Management requirements for RR. She has extensive experience in technical document writing/editing/quality assurance; process improvement implementation and assessment utilizing the Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®); and corporate HR management. Eve is the co-owner/founder and Director of HR for ISSAC Corp. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and a Masters of Art degree in Organizational Management. Eve is the foundation that keeps everything in my life balanced.

Stephen aka “Dr. Smack” Bethea, my nephew, was the inspiration behind the development of RR. His burning desire to be the ultimate sports fan and trash talker has led to the RR concept. Stephen has experience in architecture and mechanical infrastructure design. He will continue to be a source of ideas and motivation for the growth of RR. Stephen will be the team lead for RR content management. He writes and post articles (with oversight and quality control from Eve), and keeps the conversations going on RR, Facebook, and Twitter sites.

This is just a very short background on the three principals involved with RR, but provides a little insight about the RR team. Please feel free to post questions/comments about the team if you have any. Stand by for the next blog…creation of the RR concept. From this point on, I’ll provide detailed information about RR. Thanks for following our journey and we welcome your feedback.

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What is Rivalry Rage?

I know…where’s the blog meat? Well please be patient and humor me as I provide the background before getting into the play-by-play (had to use a sport analogy) list of what we’ve done to get this social network started. The first think I need to do is answer the question, “What is Rivalry Rage?” Ok…this will sound like an advertisement so don’t get turned off from the below.


Rivalry Rage is a social network designed to enhance existing sports rivals and to help passionate fans create new rivalries between sports teams. Our goal is to share our passion for sports with the ultimate sports fans around the world. This site enables hardcore sports fans to support their favorite teams and to talk trash about the rivals of their favorite teams. You can talk smack to your team’s rivals all year long and engage in trash talk weekly. Rivalry Rage allows you to establish one favorite for every sport you follow and create as many rivals as you like. This site will allow you to upload videos/photos, post on blogs, participate in chat rooms, establish your fan team/network, talk trash to your favorite team’s rivals, and earn points by being the ultimate fan. You can earn points by participating in or creating new blogs and chat topics, uploading your videos/photos, voting on photos/videos others have posted, and inviting others to join your Rivalry Rage network. This is a “FREE” site. Just sign up and explore what this site has to offer. Earn points to get your profile picture on the RIVALRY RAGE Home Page as the “Ultimate Fan” for all fans around the world to see. You earn points by participating in all this site offers and earn maximum points by bringing new members to join your network. You and your friends can talk trash to each other and to opposing fans via the chat feature while watching the live action. The available sports teams will continue to grow over time. We are fans of global sports and as Rivalry Rage continues to grow so will the focus on global sports expansion. We hope you enjoy this ultimate in sports smack talk entertainment. Keep your eyes open for our ongoing news reports and our weekly key matchup report. We do ask that you keep Rivalry Rage™ family friendly to ensure this remains fun entertainment for the entire family. We are excited to see just how big a sports fan you are. So you think you’re the ultimate sports fan…BRING IT! Rivalry Rage..."The Ultimate in Sports Smack Talk Entertainment.

Ok…the advertisement type description of Rivalry Rage is out of the way. We’ll move on to more engaging information on the process of creating the website. The next two blogs will cover Who We Are (a brief bio on the Rivalry Rage Team) and how the Rivalry Rage concept was created. Thanks for following and always feel free to ask questions and provide feedback on the blog. We are a social media sponge and learning daily on how to move this concept forward.

Tim Jones – Rivalry Rage, Inc

Why Create a Rivalry Rage blog? --- Blog Post #1

As stated in the blog page description…we are new to the social media game. We have taken a concept and turned it into a published site on the web. The main reasons I have created this blog are four fold: 1) The blog allows us to share our journey with social media and sports fans, and may help someone avoid pitfalls we discover as they travel on their own journey to take an online concept to reality, 2) The blog provides a forum where we can learn from the world by receiving feedback and comments on what we’ve done right and what we’ve done wrong (we definitely welcome guidance and ideas…we are novices in this arena), 3) The blog helps me create a historical timeline of how we’ve progressed, and 4) I would be lying if I didn’t admit my hope to create fans of our Rivalry Rage website. As I type this on a beautiful Sunday morning in Colorado Springs, Colorado, we have been working this trash talking website idea for a little over two years. The initial post will provide past information of our journey, but I’ll catch up to current day in a very short timeframe. Once I catch up, I’ll provide weekly status of current efforts and events as we learn more each day. As stated above, we are not web or social media experts and are a living, breathing experiment on how 100% amateurs go from ground zero to…well, wherever we end up. Our knowledge of social media at the beginning of this journey was very close to zero but we are learning more daily through trial and error, reading great articles and books, and with the help from experts in the field we’re interacting with. We invite you to take this journey with us. We would love to hear your feedback both on where we have gone astray and where we have made sound decisions. I can assure you this journey has just begun. As I like to say in my engineering and defense contracting world, “We are an inch deep in a mile deep problem.” We welcome your inputs, guidance and feedback on the site as we move forward. As our tag line says, “So you’re a trash talker…Bring it!”
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