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Realtime Olympics: 60% of London 2012 Visits Came Via Mobile; Facebook Was 2nd Highest Traffic Source

The Realtime Report

million social media followers across Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Foursquare. The 2012 Olympics also saw solid engagement on location-based services, with 60,000 fans on Foursquare and check-ins from 120 countries to Olympic and Torch Relay badges on the geo-location platform. The organization counted 4.7

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How to Use Social Proof to Boost Conversions

Sprout Social

For local businesses that might mean Yelp, Google and FourSquare. The variation replaced that with a WOW badge, which was an award received from a well known business woman. The variation beat out the control version with over 90% statistical confidence in all three goals they tested.

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Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril - An Analysis of Potential.

Convince & Convert

Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. Because Foursquare makes very little sense unless you’re in a physical location like a store, restaurant, etc. At least it is for me.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. 6 Tips for Getting the Most out of Foursquare (Mashable): Foursquare is new for many, so learn it and soak it in while it’s still hot.

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Gamification: Why Play?

Mindjumpers

The post contained an infographic that predicted the most popular online activity and trend of the future to be location-based services such as Foursquare and Facebook Places. Take Foursquare as an example. The Facebook statistics show us how many people want to play games but also how many apps they actually have to choose between.

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

Kikolani

Her blog, Search Slingshot , covers SEO, link building, local marketing, and statistics. Her latest posts include Covering Your Geo-Location Bases: Using Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yahoo & Facebook to Help Customers Find You , Think Like a Rockstar , and Social Media Introduction. Follow her @vanetcetera on Twitter.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. foursquare has a very interesting new dashboard that shows business owners data about how and when people have checked-in. At SXSW, each attendee had their unique QR code printed on their name badge.