Dave Fleet

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Smart Location-Based Marketing By Home Depot

Dave Fleet

Just saw this photo on my friend Ben Lucier’s Posterous site – hardware retailer Home Depot reserved a parking spot for him at his local store in the “Pro&# parking section. Because he was the mayor.

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Monday Morning Reads: Mobile Apps; LoTR Revisited; Funky SEO

Dave Fleet

Mashable: Text a Nearby Group of Friends With GroupMeā€™s New Foursquare Feature. Another Mashable story – this one on an interesting use case for Foursquare – GroupMe, which lets you text groups of nearby friends. It is what it says on the tin: 10 interesting nuggets about everyone’s favourite video site.

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SXSW 2011: Strong on Networking; Less on Content

Dave Fleet

Foursquare arguably did so a couple of years later. Tips: Don’t just hang out with people you already know. If you spend the whole time with people you could meet any day of the week normally, you’re missing out. As I mentioned above, take advantage of the opportunity to get out, meet new people and make new connections.

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50 Great Apps for Your iPad

Dave Fleet

Foursquare – iPhone app for the popular location-based social network. Kayak – Pulls in prices from numerous travel sites, including Travelocity (#client). Plancast – Let your friends know where you plan to be. Gowalla – iPad app for the location-based social network.

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Lessons along the road: 5 career pointers for new graduates

Dave Fleet

I got to the point where I had thousands of readers of my site, where I was on a first-name basis with the thought leaders of this space, and was going toe-to-toe with them online, and where I was flying around North America talking about this stuff. Foursquare didnā€™t exist yet. I talked about social media earlier. Twitter was new.

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Lessons along the road: 5 career pointers for new graduates

Dave Fleet

I got to the point where I had thousands of readers of my site, where I was on a first-name basis with the thought leaders of this space, and was going toe-to-toe with them online, and where I was flying around North America talking about this stuff. Foursquare didnā€™t exist yet. I talked about social media earlier. Twitter was new.

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