This is the third in a series of interviews with local leaders in the social media and technology industry that will be featured on the Tourism Tech Corner. Today’s interview is with Scotty Wise of Scotty’s Brewhouse, an Indiana-based restaurant with 6 locations throughout the Hoosier State. ScottysBrewhouse.com @Brewhouse Scotty Wise – Scotty’s Brewhouse We [...]
Posts from the ‘Foursquare’ Category
A few days ago I wrote about how to get started on Foursquare, but today, I want to show you how to use Foursquare as an organization. There are many benefits for organizations to get involved in Foursquare and tourism entities of all types – restaurants, hotels, attractions, Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) and more – [...]
Jun 28 10
How To: Get Started on Foursquare
We’ve written about Foursquare, the most popular location-based social media game, a couple of times before, but we wanted to write about how to actually get started with Foursquare. How to create your account, how to connect your mobile phone and how to get started checking in. What is Foursquare? First of all, a brief [...]
Jun 24 10
HootSuite5 – More Advanced Features
If you’re read some of our previous posts, you’ll know that we really like HootSuite and use it for Indiana Tourism’s social media management. Not only does it aggregate Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, WordPress and MySpace, (yeah, I said MySpace. Who even uses MySpace anymore?) but with each new release, they add better and better [...]
Microsoft just announced that Bing Maps is undergoing a spate of upgrades this spring. Among the most exciting for those in the tourism industry is Bing’s optional Foursquare layer. It seems that much like FourWhere, which we talked about in our last post, the Foursquare layer of Bing Maps will provide the user with real-time [...]
