{"id":39,"date":"2011-01-05T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-01-05T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:03:00","slug":"managing-your-library-on-foursquare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2011\/01\/05\/managing-your-library-on-foursquare\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Your Library on Foursquare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got myself set up as the manager of <a href=\"http:\/\/foursquare.com\/venue\/264117\">the listing for my library on Foursquare<\/a> (I had to go through the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.foursquare.com\/entries\/191119-how-do-i-claim-my-venue\">process of claiming the venue<\/a>). One of the first things I did as manager was to recategorize the listing so it no longer identified us as a bookstore. It now shows us a library. I can see from the manager&#8217;s interface that there are detailed stats I can access. I can also create &#8220;specials&#8221; as a way to rewarding those <a href=\"http:\/\/support.foursquare.com\/entries\/188303-what-is-a-foursquare-mayor\">people who become mayors<\/a> of our library.<\/p>\n<p \/> Since I am just exploring this management aspect of our Foursquare on behalf of the library, I&#8217;m not going to do any tinkering yet until my colleagues and I have had a chance to discuss what it is we&#8217;d like to do with Foursquare. I can see, though, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=foursquare+libraries\">lots of other libraries have been experimenting with it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got myself set up as the manager of the listing for my library on Foursquare (I had to go through the process of claiming the venue). One of the first things I did as manager was to recategorize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2011\/01\/05\/managing-your-library-on-foursquare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foursquare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}