Foursquare for Charities: Live Discussion

Jun 22

Thanks to everyone who turned out for the live discussion today at Philanthropy.com on Foursquare for Charities. I hope you learned something! Today's transcript

To help digest some of the things we talked about, here are the posts I've written on Foursquare for your education and enjoyment.

I wrote a two-part series on Boston-based Boloco and their Foursquare program and how nonprofits might learn from it.

Part 1

Part 2

Here's a guest post I wrote on Foursquare for Philanthropy.com

How Nonprofit Groups Can Benefit From Foursquare

Here are two posts on the big Foursquare launch at SXSW this spring by my friends at StudioGood.

Part 1

Part 2

A groundbreaking program here in Boston that sparked my initial interest in Foursquare was Harvard University's use of the geo-location service. Here's their story and what nonprofits can learn from it.

Harvard Schools Cause Marketers on Foursquare

Are you convinced that CauseWorld is the next Foursquare? I'm not. Here's why.

CauseWorld: Location-Based Cause Marketing

I hope you enjoyed today's live discussion. If you have any questions just leave a comment.

Additional Reading & Listening

Podcast: Making the Most of Location Based Networks by Allison Fine

A Social Media Experiment Raises Big Money for Small Charity (Story on my wonderful co-presenter today Estrella Rosenberg).