HOW TO: Get Businesses In Your Community Involved With Foursquare

This upcoming Foursquare Day meetup in Kalamazoo is going to be bigger and better than last year, especially with the growing number of businesses that have grown their participation with Foursquare and the growing number of users locally. Last year we went to several businesses to campaign to business owners that they should participate in Foursquare and why it is a benefit to their overall business. We ended up encouraging 25 businesses to sign up for...

4/4×4 is coming

April 16th is coming and the preparation for the biggest day of the year is starting. Yahoooo!!! But what can we do to organize an unforgettable day? This is a problem for everyone who try to manage a big or even a small event. Some ideas to celebrate the date: go to a restaurant or a place that can host some people, for example, a place with a Special! You can talk to the owner of the venue to exchange ideas about 4sqday in order to get a win-win...

Foursquare MeetUps Focusing On Social Connections In Kalamazoo

After spending a year and a half developing a social media centric community with key individuals, I found myself for the first time kicking back in a single seater leather couch with my legs elevated resting on a perfectly matched leather ottoman during our Foursquare Kalamazoo 1st Annual Rock the Chili Cook-Off. Most of the time I’m the one running around getting things coordinated or making sure the people who RSVP knew where they were going or...

Foursquare Bangalore: “Where had you been all this time?”

While we are gearing up for 4sqday 2.0, I found this great guest post from 4/16/2011. Better late than never…   Bangalore is no different from a dream city if you really exist online. Its common to see people peeping into their mobile apps while they’re waiting and boarding a bus, crossing streets when lights go green, sipping coffees, and who knows on toilet seats (I do all that too). Social media has its place on taste buds for people...

Foursquare Day Shanghai

At long last, another guest post about 4sqday 2011! This one is from China and was contributed by Alice Hu of Hilton Shanghai!   Foursquare and China’s relationship is complicated. Western social media has little chance of surviving in a land where Chinese doppelgangers run the show. Surprisingly, foursquare has managed to remain popular. Foursquare Day Shanghai organizers Ming Alterman, Mike Fung and Gao Ming were hoping to make this year’s...