Catholic Tech Talk

After spending a week in New Orleans, I’m very happy to be back in the land of 10,000 Caribou Coffee Shops. Down in NOLA, you can only go to Cafe Du Monde so many times, and so you’re stuck going to that large national chain of coffee shops with the funky logo. This morning I [...]

This blog post, ’6 ways to optimize your business on Foursquare’, has some useful ideas and bolsters the argument that businesses SHOULD use Foursquare (or any of the other location-based social networks). I especially recommend #1 and #2… #1 – Get Listed. This is a no-brainer. Any business owner, regardless of what they think about [...]

With the proliferation of social networking and smartphones (many with GPS), ‘location-based social networking’ has become a hot topic. For the uninitiated, location-based social networking is the use of smartphone apps to ‘check-in’ at the locations you visit. You then share this information with other social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook, or with [...]

With the proliferation of social networking and smartphones (many with GPS), ‘location networking’ has become a hot topic. For the uninitiated, location networking is the use of smartphone apps to ‘check-in’ at the locations you visit. You then share this information with other social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook, or with ‘friends’ in [...]