Jennifer Wong has a helpful post on using Foursquare for marketing on the Social Media Today blog at: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8yAWbv/socialmediatoday.com/SMC/205081

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How to Market Your Business with Foursquare
by Jennifer Wong on 06/09/2010 00:15

Foursquare is a very hot social networking tool that posts updates to users friends about where they are. It also incorporates a game where users can earn badges for certain things. Users can also become the mayor of a location, which is earned by someone who frequents a location more than anyone else.

Edelman Digital's Michael Brito has a helpful post about tools to measure your Twitter influence on the Edelman Digital blog at: http://edelmandigital.com/2010/06/08/tools-to-measure-your-twitter-influ...

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Tools To Measure Your Twitter Influence
June 8th, 2010

The estimable David Berkowitz has an excellent piece on his blog (and on MediaPost) at:
http://www.marketersstudio.com/2010/06/20-confessions-of-a-super-mayor.h...

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20 Confessions of a Super Mayor
Originally published in MediaPost
By David Berkowitz

Over Memorial Day weekend, I reached one of those coming-of-age milestones that only a Social Media Insider reader could appreciate: I became a Super Mayor.
I'll wager you're in one of three camps right now:

The Paid Content.org blog examines the (short) history of Twitter's plans to make money at:
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-the-short-history-of-twitters-plans-t...

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The (Short) History Of Twitter’s Plans To Make Money

The Digital Communications team at Weber Shandwick posted extensive daily coverage of SXSWi. The compiled coverage is at:

Day 1 & 2: http://www.socialstudiesblog.com/2010_03_07_archive.html
Day 3: http://www.socialstudiesblog.com/2010_03_14_archive.html
Day 4: http://www.socialstudiesblog.com/2010_03_21_archive.html
Day 5: http://www.socialstudiesblog.com/2010_03_28_archive.html

The prolific Brian Solis writes about social media being both a boon and a distraction on his blog at:
http://www.briansolis.com/2010/03/twitter-and-facebook-the-new-tools-of-...

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Twitter and Facebook: The New Tools of Productivity or Distraction
March 26, 2010

The argument is strong on either side of the case: do social networks increase or decrease productivity on the job?

The Come For The Ride blog evaluates FourSquare vs Gowalla and picks a winner at:
http://comefortheride.com/foursquare-vs-gowalla-sxswi-2010-we-have-a-win...

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FourSquare vs. Gowalla at SXSWi 2010: We Have a Winner!
3.18.2010

I’ve been using the iPhone version of both FourSquare and Gowalla for months now and have thoroughly enjoyed both apps. As similar as they are, FourSquare does a better job as my social compass while Gowalla serves as my digital passport.

The Fresh Networks blog covers the best panelsat SXSWi (including Social Gaming, Crowd Sourcing and more)at:
http://www.freshnetworks.com/blog/category/conferences/category/conferen...

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Social Gaming – SXSW panel
15th March 2010, 12:43 am
image from shutterstock
Social gaming is a hot topic here at SXSW. The industry has been growing at an incredible rate and traditional gaming companies have been caught unaware by a flurry of new market entrants.

The CNN SciTech blog reveals how to be cool on FourSquare at:
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/17/how-to-be-cool-and-not-uncool-on...

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March 17, 2010
How to be cool (and not uncool) on Foursquare
Posted: 10:15 AM ET

Many of you are active users on Foursquare. More of you have at least heard of Foursquare. And the rest of you are probably just annoyed by your friends posting updates from Foursquare.

The CNN Tech blog reports on SXSZ Interactive at:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/17/sxsw.wrapup/index.html?hpt=Sbin

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5 things we learned at South by SouthwestBy Doug Gross, CNNMarch 17, 2010 11:04 a.m. EDT
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- For techies, the South by Southwest Interactive festival produces a firehose of information.

With keynote speeches, hundreds of panel discussions, a trade floor full of new gadgets and nonstop networking opportunities with 15,000 or so like-minded folks, it's impossible to take it all in.