If you want to build your brand or generate revenue for your business, make sure you check out Mediabistro’s Social Media Marketing Boot Camp online conference and workshop, starting tomorrow, Thursday, June 7. You’ll learn how to launch a social media marketing campaign and measure its results.

Over eight weeks, you’ll hear from leading social media innovators and put a complete social media marketing strategy into place across Facebook, Twitter, and other popular social media platforms. Your social media strategy will include content management, brand building, and data analysis. Read more

MSNBC had a dilemma: With prison documentary series Lockup set to debut another season July 2, the network had two seasons ready to air, on Boston and Tampa, Fla. So it turned to its 102,944 (at post time) Facebook fans to help it decide.

The network posted a poll on the Lockup Facebook page Friday, asking fans to choose whether the season starting July 2 should feature Boston or Tampa.

At the time of this post, Boston was running away with the voting, holding a 996-441 lead, but voting runs through June 26, so Tampa prison aficionados still have time to lock up Lockup.

CNN released some early statistics for its coverage of the death of Osama Bin Laden on CNN.com, CNN iReport, CNN Mobile, Facebook, and Twitter (@CNN and @cnnbrk).

CNN.com totaled 88 million global page views from the time news of Bin Laden’s death broke Sunday night through 1 p.m. ET Monday, 217 percent higher than the average for the same time period over the previous four weeks. The site also announced 13.8 million total global video starts (live and video-on-demand), up 725 percent versus the prior four-week average, and 2.6 million live video views, more than 100 times normal levels.

Citizen journalism initiative iReport received 407 submissions related to Bin Laden’s death, with 71 vetted for use on CNN’s platforms. The total was 35 percent higher than the first day of coverage of the earthquake in Japan.

CNN Mobile tallied 7.7 million global page views Sunday, 153 percent above the same-day average from the previous four weeks. Through 10 a.m. Monday, its global page view total was 5.1 million, up 146 percent versus the prior four Mondays. CNN Mobile’s 26,700 domestic video starts Sunday were 23 percent higher than the Sunday average for the past four weeks, and its 56,400 Monday through 10 a.m. were up 146 percent from the prior four Mondays.

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NBC News vice president of specials and digital media Mark Lukasiewicz touted the network’s The Royal Wedding by NBC News app, as well as Twitter account @RoyalWedding, in an internal email.

The app is available for the iPad, iPhone, and Android.

Lukasiewicz also mentioned a tie-in with entertainment-based social network GetGlue, as well as a special Facebook event. From his email:

In addition to the comprehensive coverage on NBC News, MSNBC, and our sister networks like E! Entertainment Television and Telemundo, we are expanding the Royal Wedding experience through our app, which we built to be the ideal companion to watching the event on TV. Combining all of our editorial research and news reports (both archive and new) with photos and social media, this app is the perfect tool for all things Royal Wedding. The app even lets you plan a viewing party with your friends and features daily updates. So far, the app has seen more than 110,000 downloads on iPad, iPhone, and Android, and we invite you to check it out!

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Diane Sawyer’s beverages of choice are green tea and sugar-free Red Bull. Her assistant’s name is Jill, and executive producer Jon Banner’s assistant is Tess.

More behind-the-scenes nuggets like these can be found on Sawyer’s Facebook page, where she announced the initiative by writing:

Hi Facebook world. Ready for something fun? Check out our new social experiment this week– #WorldNewsFeed. Meet my tag team — we’ll be taking you behind the scenes and we want to hear everything you’re curious about.

As Bill Simmons says, vigorous co-sign.

Go read the story, if for no other reason than the quote from John Wooden‘s grandson is perfectly fitting (and its inclusion is a good example of what makes Richard Deitsch so special).

Here’s a programming announcement that CNBC really wants you to know about. The network is producing a documentary on Facebook, but it won’t hit the air for another three months. It could be that CNBC is taking advantage of last week’s release of “The Social Network,” (#1 at the box office) or the fact that biz channel Bloomberg also announced this week it is debuting a new series of docs, with the premiere episode about Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. NBC News anchor Lester Holt is reporting the CNBC doc.

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Friday Night Lights might have trouble staying on the air, but we’re about to be inundated with a whole lot more real high school football. ESPN launches its expanded RISE High School Football Kickoff on Friday night with a match between Manatee High and Tampa Plant. (Amazingly, this is a preseason matchup.)

The game is the first of between 28 and 30 the Worldwide Leader will broadcast during the coming season. ESPN2 will show a tilt between Sacramento schools Grant and Folsom.

Don’t look for the attention to high school football – and sports in general – to fall off anytime soon.

“We are networks driven by ratings,” ESPN director of high school programming Dan Margulis told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “At the end of the day, an elite high school game with an elite player has better chance to draw more than a smaller college game.”

Other venues are getting into the act as well. Read more