{"id":6090,"date":"2010-03-09T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2010-03-09T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:30:35","slug":"tue-update-2-google-fiber-foursquare-for-business-peabody-rooftop-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/tue-update-2-google-fiber-foursquare-for-business-peabody-rooftop-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Tue update 2: Google Fiber, Foursquare for business, Peabody rooftop parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor AC Wharton has posted a blog on how you can help Memphis’ application for Google Fiber<\/a>. If selected, we could end up with reasonably-priced fiber-optic Internet access that is 300 times faster than typical cable\/DSL connections. If selected, Google will take the connection to every home and every business partner of the community, regardless of commercial potential. Please take a couple of minutes to help. Mayor Wharton is right – this is a chance to truly transform the community.<\/p>\n

I mentioned FourSquare<\/a>, the location-based checkin app, in my last post. Well, this afternoon Brainwoo put up a post on how businesses can promote themselves using FourSquare<\/a>. \u00a0If you want to learn how location-based social media can benefit your business, be sure to read this post.<\/p>\n

For example, let’s take a hypothetical juice bar that has 70 different kinds of juice on tap, and another 125 kinds of juice in bottles, as well as “juice flights” and “juice mixers.” Now, let’s say they have a customer who really, really likes juice, and he checks in there 35, 36, 37 times a month, becoming the “mayor” of the juice bar. The bar could reward his loyalty with a free glass of juice every now and then.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s just one hypothetical example. Check out the post for others.<\/p>\n

In the last post, I talked about the Peabody’s rooftop season announcement. I’ve now learned one additional piece of info – this year, ladies will be admitted free before 7 PM (it was 8 PM last year). That gets you access to the rooftop, dancing, and the food buffet that the Peabody puts out for rooftop guests. Free food? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.<\/p>\n

On my way to the SMA meeting with MPD Director Godwin at Local<\/a>… will take my notebook with me. \u00a0Probably a summary post of the meeting will be up tonight or tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"