Comments on: Foursquare for Advocacy

By: sourine vankham

sourine vankham — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:40:51 +0000

i can’t wait to try it!

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Foursquare for local campaigns | Local PoliTechs — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:51:23 +0000

[...] week, one such blogger by the name of Amanda Phraner wrote an interesting blog post about how Foursquare can be used in the world of advocacy. In her post, she suggests that advocacy [...]

By: Amanda Phraner

Amanda Phraner — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:49:58 +0000

It’s great to see the ball rolling on this conversation. Foursquare definitely has a lot of potential for campaigns, causes and grassroots advocacy. Alan’s comments (and blog post) on using hashtags along with some of the mashups, like FourWhere (http://fourwhere.com/), expand the possiblities of using Foursquare for effective adovacy.

By: Ben Tannenbaum

Ben Tannenbaum — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:31:34 +0000

Great points, Amanda. It may also be worth checking out http://hotpotato.com/ Though it doesn’t yet have the user-base of Foursquare, I think it will eventually become an even better vehicle for to encourage, track and share activists. While it also syncs with Twitter and Facebook, the major difference between Hot Potato and platforms such as Foursquare is that instead of being location-based, the focus is on events (which can be created/organized by anyone). Definitely worth taking a look at.

By: Marc Ross

Marc Ross — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:18:21 +0000

foursquare is a great mobile application and should prove to be a ingenious way to engage and amplify support for campaigns and causes. Here is a recent post I made on the subject: How campaigns + causes can use foursquare
http://www.advocacytwopointzero.com/2010/02/how-campaigns-causes-can-use-foursquare.html

By: Alan Rosenblatt

Alan Rosenblatt — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:21:37 +0000

This has great potential, and it doesn’t matter that there are only 1 million Foursquare users. Not only is Foursquare mobile, but it can post the address and custom message text of a check-in out to Twitter and Facebook. If you include the appropriate hashtag, your Foursquare check-in could be seen by millions.

By: Tom Sadler

Tom Sadler — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:33:19 +0000

Amanda,
I think you are on to something. 4square has a lot of potential in this area and you have done a nice job of getting the ball rolling.

By: Holly Pitt Young

Holly Pitt Young — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:52:12 +0000

Good article, thank you. I just started using Foursquare so that I could give clients honest advice on how to use it effectively. Your article hit all the right points!