foursquare in Latvia; community and small businesses

One of the best things about Foursquare – communities are growing worldwide and local groups are creating amazing initiatives. Today, I’ll try to describe Latvia in foursquare briefly. If someone would ask me to describe Latvia as an material, I would say – amber; if as a taste – a slightly bitter taste of a homemade beer. If color – all the autumn colors; but if the description would involve places worth to visit I would undoubtly reach to my...

Pacific Catch Raises Funds for Japan on Foursquare Day

One of the great things about this being the 2nd annual Foursquare Day is that we get to work with some of the same people who made the 2010 event so special. Last year Pacific Catch was one of the first venues to join us and we had a great time working together. We even had a swarm-to-swarm video call as part of the “Global Swarm” series. This year Pacific Catch is going above and beyond. They have an extremely cute kickoff video. And...

Foursquare Day in Prague

During and immediate following Foursquare Day, there were a lot of fascinating blog posts about the various swarms and festivities. In fact, there now is a steady 160,000 Google hits for “Foursquare Day” so you know we cannot possible have read them all. But now that we have had some time to catch up, we’ll be post snippets of some of the more interesting Foursquare Day posts. The first one, comes from us from Prague, of the Czech...

UTREAM’ing the Swarms!

OK swarming people! We want to see you party! Send in your links and we’ll post them! OFFICIAL TAMPA SWARM HQ Stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/4sqday Cabaret West Glen in West Des Moines, Iowa: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cabaret-west-glen-foursquare-day-swarm-party PS: Want to embed our stream? Use this: <object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ width=”400″ height=”320″...

How to Have an Awesome Foursquare Day Swarm

OK, so you’ve read all about Foursquare Day and you are excited to take part in the first global social media holiday. Now what? The Community Guide includes some great suggestions on spending your Foursquare Day in your neighborhood. But perhaps something is missing. Maybe you want to go all the way. Maybe you should take the next step and host a Foursquare Day swarm! Take this simple quiz to find out if organizing a swarm is right for you: Do...