I’m late to the reblog party, I know, but this is exciting! Congrats team foursquare!My only wish is that I could see it on the mobile site or regular site :( foursquare: As you may know, every checkin on foursquare generates points and we display the top users on the leaderboard. Users from city to city compete using this “high score board for exploring your city” as a baseline. About a month ago, we made some noise to trying to find a sponsor for our NYC leaderboard.  We had this idea that if we could turn points into dollars, we could probably find some way to turn those dollars over to local charities. And here we are, a month later, announcing a leaderboard sponsorship with Pepsi to do just that! This week (starting last night, thru Sunday Dec 13 @ 11:59p), every point added to the foursquare leaderboard will be lead to Pepsi donating $0.04 to CampInteractive, an organization that helps empower inner-city youth through technology skills and mentoring. We are *super excited* about this, not just because this is a great way to tie foursquare points into something in the real world, but *just like that* we’re about to raise about $10,000 for a great organization (btw, we capped the donation at 10,000 points / $10,000 as things can tend to get out of hand with foursquare :) A quick round of thanks to our leadererboard sponsor Pepsi and to Adam Gillman & Simon Kirk at Techies Give Back (these two made it all happen!) Also of note:  Techies Give Back is holding an ice skating event this Sunday December 13 where every ticket sold allows a child to have a day out and another day of mentoring.  You can buy tickets here. We hope to see you there!
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I’m late to the reblog party, I know, but this is exciting! Congrats team foursquare!
My only wish is that I could see it on the mobile site or regular site :(

foursquare:

As you may know, every checkin on foursquare generates points and we display the top users on the leaderboard. Users from city to city compete using this “high score board for exploring your city” as a baseline.

About a month ago, we made some noise to trying to find a sponsor for our NYC leaderboard.  We had this idea that if we could turn points into dollars, we could probably find some way to turn those dollars over to local charities.

And here we are, a month later, announcing a leaderboard sponsorship with Pepsi to do just that!

This week (starting last night, thru Sunday Dec 13 @ 11:59p), every point added to the foursquare leaderboard will be lead to Pepsi donating $0.04 to CampInteractive, an organization that helps empower inner-city youth through technology skills and mentoring.

We are *super excited* about this, not just because this is a great way to tie foursquare points into something in the real world, but *just like that* we’re about to raise about $10,000 for a great organization (btw, we capped the donation at 10,000 points / $10,000 as things can tend to get out of hand with foursquare :)

A quick round of thanks to our leadererboard sponsor Pepsi and to Adam Gillman & Simon Kirk at Techies Give Back (these two made it all happen!)

Also of note:  Techies Give Back is holding an ice skating event this Sunday December 13 where every ticket sold allows a child to have a day out and another day of mentoring.  You can buy tickets here. We hope to see you there!

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  1. luckyxrea reblogged this from foursquare and added:
    スポンサー連携の好例 foursquare:
  2. prgalinsocal reblogged this from foursquare
  3. mdfsmash reblogged this from foursquare and added:
    exciting! Congrats team foursquare! My only wish...it on the mobile site or regular site...
  4. yayjessica reblogged this from dpstyles and added:
    awesome. i wish i was in NYC so i could help raise some money byt going to bars too.
  5. tristanwalker reblogged this from dpstyles and added:
    baby’s first big big big partnership! :) dpstyles:
  6. willhutson reblogged this from foursquare and added:
    BRILLIANT integration...the fact that its cause driven
  7. ryangraves reblogged this from foursquare
  8. sys64738 reblogged this from foursquare
  9. funsize reblogged this from 6h057 and added:
    526 unanswered friend requests? this must be @dens phone.
  10. heyamberrae reblogged this from tywillis
  11. tywillis reblogged this from foursquare and added:
    Very smart (I wanted...work - curses :)). Good job Pepsi et al.
  12. 6h057 reblogged this from youngmanhattanite and added:
    I get wasted so the children may learn.
  13. leelikesthings reblogged this from youngmanhattanite
  14. mattlehrer reblogged this from foursquare
  15. emilyluger reblogged this from sarpa and added:
    Really happy for Camp Interactive.
  16. adeandabet reblogged this from foursquare and added:
    Look, Ma! I’m helping!
  17. evangotlib reblogged this from sarpa and added:
    Brilliant. I know the folks at Pepsi’s agency and they are VERY forward thinking. This is so great to see. I hope there...
  18. femmebot reblogged this from foursquare
  19. sarpa reblogged this from foursquare and added:
    what brand would be first….
  20. ianschwartz reblogged this from foursquare
  21. keaphope reblogged this from foursquare and added:
    check in for charity...Foursquare makes another huge leap towards becoming

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