I’ve written about the locative media service called  Foursquare and used it for awhile. Today Jeff Turner, a renowned non-Foursquarer ignited a fascinating discussion by people way smarter than me about how Foursquare is or is not useful. Here are my current thoughts on the topic.
Author Archives: Gahlord Dewald
An interview about Bahrain and Burlington
In the continuing adventures of the #BTV Twitter hashtag I was interviewed recently by Matt Austin of Fox 44 News here in Vermont. I pretty surprised by the difference between the conversation he and I had at Thoughtfaucet HQ and the story he ran that evening on the news. I was going to let it […]
Ten Minute Market: Thoughtfaucet participates in Vermont Travel Industry Conference mixer
Markets are conversations. Some conversations are quick. Like the Vermont Travel Industry Conference‘s pre-conference networking event which puts VT travel industry businesses in one-to-one contact with marketing experts for ten minutes at a time. Thoughtfaucet‘s Gahlord Dewald will be among the marketing experts available April 11th event at Burlington’s Hilton Hotel from 5pm to 7pm. […]
A template for building community on Twitter
One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is the question “Where do you listen to?” That isn’t a typo. The place you listen to informs the questions you hear. I think the questions I hear make a big difference in what I think about and the problems I learn to solve. […]
Web Analytics Wednesday: Burlington Vermont April 13th 2011
Thoughtfaucet is excited to announce the return of Web Analytics Wednesday to Burlington Vermont on April 13th 2011 6pm-8pm at 156 Bistro. Basic schedule of the evening is like so: 6:00 pm: Hang out, check in, network 6:30 pm: Brief presentation: “Measuring the success of a Webinar” by […]
Social Customer Service: a mindmap of Bill Gerth (Comcast) & Morgan Johnston (JetBlue) presentations to the Burlington VT Social Media Breakfast (#BTVSMB)
[Please welcome a new voice to the Thoughtfaucet blog: Apprentice Entrepreneur Brett Chalupa. He is a freshman college student with exceptional initiative. I hope you value his thoughts and observations as much as I do. –Gahlord] Social customer service was the topic of the March #BTVSMB (Burlington, VT Social Media Breakfast) this past Monday. Social […]
Listen locally
One of the things I guess I’m known for is talking about listening. [blackbirdpie id=”35819072495026176″] I’ve written a little bit about listening and strategy before, too. In this post, I want to cover some things on listening and location. So instead of saying “Who do you listen to?” or “What do you listen for?” there […]
Step by Step: How to Configure a Hootsuite Stream for Location-based Twitter Search
Need to make a location-specific search stream in Hootsuite? Here’s the tutorial.
Geocoded Twitter Searches, a reference of location-specific search strings for Twitter clients.
Looking for examples of location-based Twitter searches that work in Tweetdeck, Hootsuite and other Twitter clients? Here they are!
Step by Step: How to Configure Tweetdeck to Search Near a Location
How do you get Tweetdeck to display just Tweets from a specific area?