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The ‘I Love Regina’ Badge

September 23, 2010 7 comments

The City of Regina should get a badge made on Foursquare that once you check in 3 times you get something.  Actually I think all tourism destination should begin to offer something to people who check-in from abroad (hint, hint: It’s really simple to add features and specials to venues on Foursquare).

Yes Foursquare is not big here but the people visiting from all over North America have a much better chance of checking in to your location.  Think about it from a tourism perspective.

Anyone checking into three different places on Foursquare in Regina receives the ‘I Love Regina’ badge.  With it you get discounts on meals, half price at the RSO and $20 in free chips at the Casino (as an example).

Would you use Foursquare if you could get deals on products?

Photo Credit: Dennis Crowley


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56 uses of social media in Saskatchewan

June 14, 2010 2 comments
  1. Instead of “news” build your own RSS reader
  2. Begin following local bloggers in your RSS reader and keep searching for new ones
  3. Challenge a local blogger, disagree, leave a comment
  4. Offer to write a guest post for a local blogger
  5. Offer to write a guest post for an industry specific blog
  6. Hold a local specific contest (Treasure hunt via Facebook?)
  7. Start a local restaurant review site, make it fun
  8. Ask for feedback of your product/service via Twitter
  9. Offer to take pictures at an event and start a Flickr account for them
  10. Host a picture contest
  11. Host a picture caption contest for other businesses
  12. Encourage patrons to take a picture of their meal and share it online for 25% off the meal
  13. Tell stories about your product on a blog
  14. Host a community blog with many different contributers
  15. Start selling your product on Facebook
  16. Encourage employees to offer reviews of the company via LinkedIn
  17. Start a local trivia blog (written, video, picture)
  18. Offer free products/services to people with lots of friends on Facebook
  19. Put your website on all printed material
  20. Put your Twitter name in places where no one would expect to see it (get creative with this one)
  21. Put your blog


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Mosaic + Foursquare=Match Made in Heaven

June 04, 2010 0 comments

The business applications for Foursquare seem to be increasing.  As more people join, the more attention the platform is getting from businesses.  Albeit Saskatchewan is a little behind the “checkin” train but that doesn’t mean some businesses are trying Foursquare on for size.  Just today I found this on Twitter.  

Coda Clothing may not explode with business but I went and bought a shirt to get in the draw, will you?

I believe those who could benefit the most from Foursquare are events like Mosaic.  In a three day span, thousands of people will be traveling to and from nineteen different pavilions.  Like the Haggis at the Scottish pavilion?  Leave a tip for everyone else who checks in there.  Want to know which pavilion your friends are at?  Or better yet, which pavilion is the most popular?  Check Foursquare.

For the Mosaic organizers, create special badges for those who checkin to ten, fifteen and all nineteen different pavilions.  Offer a prize to people who checkin at all nineteen pavilions.  The pavilions themselves could have a swarm badge where if over fifty people checkin, all food is 50% off for an hour, just as an example but you get my
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Do I Foursquare or Gowalla?

May 10, 2010 4 comments

Location based social networking is on the rise.  Though you may not have heard of Foursquare or Gowalla their growth has exploded across the US and some of Canada.  Combining gaming elements and using the location provided by the GPS in your smart phones, these applications allow you to “checkin” to places to earn points.  Just this past weekend Foursquare exceeded 40 million checkins.

Why should you care?

When visiting a new city or wanting to eat at a different restaurant, you can see where people have been checking in to and what they have recommended to eat.  Venues have a feature where you can add a tip for others to see when they checkin. Example: On Foursquare, if you checkin at Wasabi in the Normanview Crossing (in Regina), you will see my “tips” which notify you that the Bonnie and Rose roll is my favorite roll and the Roll-Bento is my favorite Bento box.

Now anywhere I go that I experience something amazing (like the Bonnie and Rose Roll at Wasabi) I can leave a note for the next person who checks in.

For business:

It doesn’t take a business strategy jedi to see how a business could benefit
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