Des Moines Foursquare Badge

My #drakesocial class is trying to earn a Foursquare badge for Des Moines by creating a list with the best venues that Foursquare users should visit. I think it's pretty exciting and will give Des Moines a chance to show off how great it really is! We enjoyed picking venues as a class that we felt really represented the uniqueness of Des Moines.

The blog post that inspired us: http://bit.ly/xvFN5r

The site where you can post your comments with ideas on what we should include on the list: http://bit.ly/xdNQcS

The list itself: http://4sq.com/DesMoinesBadge - make sure to follow it!

We have been promoting our list through the #drakesocial blog, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and our own blogs. Currently, 150 people are following the list. We are second behind the Baltimore list, which has 331 followers. We even created a picture for others to share:

We have reached out specifically to influential social media users, including business and community leaders, and asked them to follow and recommend following our list. I think that we should continue to share our list with others through these mediums tied with our #drakesocial hashtag. If others haven't already, we could also promote our list through LinkedIn by posting a status update. We could also create a discussion within an appropriate group about our project to get others specifically interested in social media, Foursquare, traveling, etc. interested in what we're doing.

If we really wanted to get crazy, we could promote the list more at Drake by requesting the Times-Delphic to write an article about it and could also put up some posters around campus. They could be put up in Olmsted, Meredith and Spikes. We could also create table tents for the dining facilities.

It would also be pretty cool if we created a YouTube video to go along with our current promotions. We could go to all of the venues we put on our list and actually show how great they are. This would be entertaining and also generate excitement, which could encourage others to share the video, hopefully ultimately resulting in more followers for our list.

Do you have any other ideas? Let me know!

Yeah Des Moines!