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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Rewarding badges and points systems on your intranet – social scorecards – could be the turning point for turning your enterprise 2.0 Foursquare becomes Social Work and all the better for it. Daniel proposed that we set up Foursquare style badges to encourage staff to contribute and use the internet.

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How Businesses like Sylvan Learning Center and Computer Explorers.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How Businesses like Sylvan Learning Center and Computer Explorers Can Use Foursquare Depending on where you live you may be seeing more and more businesses advertising that they participate in Foursquare.

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Is Twitter Crossing the Line Between Useful and Creepy

Convince & Convert

Maybe it’s a sign of the social media times, where we know people by their avatar more so than their street address of phone number. Interestingly, this would put Twitter squarely on the turf of Foursquare, as pointed out by Brent Carnduff on Business 2 Community. Or maybe I’m just a bad friend.

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R.I.P. Friendster

Ari Herzog

The site will go down in smoke and enter my consciousness as yet another social networking site that I was once a participant, along with SixDegrees.com , GeoCities , assorted LPMud s, and others. A vertical listing of my avatar, biographical data, friends’ comments, and links to their profiles encompassed Friendster’s simplicity.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Social Media Monetization Models on Flickr [link]. Social media Donations it works for Wikipedia. SMS other social networks are built on SMS revenues such as SMSFun. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. Different types of Social Networks (3). Customer Pays Twitter .

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The Social Media ProBook

Social Media Marketing

They were responsible for The Social Media Playbook , the Blog Tree , and a little cartoon about hashtags. And yes, it can now be revealed that the avatar I've been using on Facebook was in fact tied to this project. While the first ebook was focused on tools to help you master social media, this one is more personality-based.