How will your nonprofit use Facebook Places?

If you haven’t heard already, Facebook has launched a location-based “check in” app similar to FourSquare.

It’s called “Places” and as you’ll see in the video below, Facebook seeks to encourage serendipitous meetings between Facebook friends at the places they hang out.

How can my nonprofit use Places?

Places is a location-based check-in app for mobile devices. Think FourSquare but with deeper and more developed friendship networks. With that, you should start your Facebook Places marketing strategy by reading four posts by Joe Waters:

Also, see this slick demo on how Facebook Places works on the iPhone.

How will your nonprofit use Facebook Places?

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Carmen

Are the Joe Waters links all broken?
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http://twitter.com/dajhughes Amanda Ree Hughes

Facebook pages created a page for one of my locations. If I “claim” it I get a message saying it will create the place into Fan Page. I already have a fan page. How do I combine them?

http://johnhaydon.com John Haydon

When you claim it, it will allow you to choose your Page.

http://twitter.com/CaFarmersMkts David Gerhard

Places is such an obvious tie in for my nonprofit (California Farmers' Markets Association) that Facebook featured a farmers' market in the above video. Now as to how to create incentive for checking in, I need to brainstorm for high interest low cost solutions. Any ideas?

http://johnhaydon.com John Haydon

David – Create an amazing event that people will want to attend. Give away stuff for people that show up and tag friends on places.

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Facebook fan page will be very beneficial to make the necessary changes as there are many other was of working to make your product knowned as brand..these are many other area of ways were you are going to bet the best out of it.