Whether it’s big players like Foursquare inking a new loyalty rewards program with Pepsi, or niche developers like Untappd , addressing the beer drinking vertical with a mobile application that let’s you spread the word about the particular brew you are sipping upon, check-ins are on fire. In the interest of full disclosure, I work for a company with a new application called MOJO that provides free web-based check-ins. And it’s a lot more than just giving out some badges. Badging for the sake of badging is wasteful and annoying. Loyalty. MORE >>

Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 )  present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list.  These men are indeed using Twitter to rewire and reorient the Web.  So, as promised in Tom Pick’s blog, “ 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Women ”, in honor of mothers, our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men now honors fathers.  Twitter, not unlike Mother Teresa’s virtues of love, is a delicate ecosystem of real people.  MORE >>

Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 ) present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list. These men are indeed using Twitter to rewire and reorient the Web. So, as promised in Tom Pick’s blog, “ 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Women ”, in honor of mothers, our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men now honors fathers. Twitter, not unlike Mother Teresa’s virtues of love, is a delicate ecosystem of real people. MORE >>

Twitip Getting more out of twitter Follow 102,289 followers Subscribe 20,083 subscribers starters guide getting followers tools tips business people news add a tip Jeff Ramone @TheUngayGuy TheUngayGuy lives in Chicago. Private Eyes Are Watching You: Twitter Oversharing and Its Bizarre Real-World Consequences 27 Something peculiar happened yesterday. It’s a GPS-enabled Web application that allows users to “check in&# wherever they have cell phone coverage. Before Twitter disabled their account, PRM would re-tweet Foursquare check-ins, seemingly at random. MORE >>

The Games organizers also used a remarkable array of platforms, strategies and applications to drive fan engagement around the games. million social media followers across Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Foursquare. London 2012 on Facebook, Twitter and Beyond. The 2012 Games had 48 different Twitter accounts, with a total of 1.9 million followers and 150 million tweets about the Games (according to Twitter). Most (38) were sports accounts, with two mascot accounts and six Twitter cameras “with personality.” The organization counted 4.7 MORE >>