Three Best Ways to Use Location-Based Social Media. How Non-Profits Can Maximize a Foursquare Account. Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Foursquare isn't just a good place to find cheap Mocha-Frappuccino's. The social media tool is quickly allowing for new ways to benefit a range of fields, including non-profit organizations. There have been several articles on how non-profits are using Foursquare, but I wanted to find out how his location-based social network can help non-profits, so I chatted with experts about how non-profits can maximize their Foursquare accounts.
"Non-profits are about awareness, they want to get as many people to understand what they are doing," Foursquare Co-Founder Naveen Selvaduari said. "Foursquare is a great platform for that, and bringing people together, and make it easier together for them to understand. " The Standard Stuff Having a location-based non-profit will obviously help you get the most out of a Foursquare account. Leverage the API Do We Need Badges? 10 foursquare secrets worth making 'public' Foursquare.org - Quantcast Audience Profile. Sazcast Episode 9 – Social Media Demographics & Foursquare | Saz.
Five Simple (and Fun) Ways to Promote Nonprofits on FourSquare « FourSquare is definitely starting to catch on with enterprising techie folks that love to be early adopters. That’s a good a sign. Most check-ins revolve around restaurants and cafes, but below are five simple ways you (and the nonprofit techies) can also use FourSquare to promote the nonprofits and causes your care about: 1) Add Nonprofit Venues Adding a Nonprofit Venue on FourSquare just takes a few minutes, but it’s crucial that you do it right the first time. Make sure you spell out the name of the nonprofit. Don’t use acronyms. Add their address, phone and Twitter ID (search their website and Google to see what their Twitter ID is). 2) Add Nonprofit Tips Much of the FourSquare community is built around the idea of adding “Tips” to venues. 3) Add Nonprofit To Do’s FourSquare allows to you create a To Do list that is featured on your profile. 4) Check-in at Nonprofit Events 5) “Shout Out” about nonprofits and socially responsible businesses that support nonprofits.
Foursquare Is Awesome For My Small Business. Foursquare Beats Twitter to Local Advertising Goldmine. Foursquare is the mobile social game that you play by checking in at various locales while out and about. The location-based application has managed to strip the fat out of other location-aware mobile ideas, find just the right formula for encouraging check-ins, and hit at the right time. Now, they're sitting pretty with funding and a trajectory that resembles Twitter's rise to glory.
Foursquare, however, isn't wasting any time on monetizing and has just beat Twitter to the business services market. Today marks the launch of their beta advertising platform — Foursquare for Businesses — designed to provide retailers with an opportunity to highlight specials to Foursquare users who check-in nearby and get data based on the location-based campaigns. Foursquare for Businesses is a natural extension of the product that we knew was coming. It's absolutely genius and here's why.
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