Thursday afternoon, WebMedley successfully kicked off – for the first time ever – a Facebook/Foursquare scavenger hunt for Coach Calipari to promote the Alltech World Equestrian Games that will be starting in just 22 days. The announcement went out on Coach Calipari’s Facebook Fan Page just 24 hours before the contest started, sending followers scrambling to Foursquare to follow their favorite coach on his latest social media conquest.

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Earlier this week, Facebook introduced "Places". This is very similar to other location-based social services like FourSquare, Gowalla, and Loopt. Some of those services are working with Facebook even though it appears Facebook could replace them if it wanted to. Our contacts at Foursquare let us know they feel very good about working with Facebook.

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Today it seems more organizations are becoming interested in how they can be found online via local search engines and gearing their efforts to being placed at the top of a search list.  There used to be reports that stated keyword stuffing was the way to go.  It has become a bit more complicated than simply adding specific words for your organization on the Home page of your website, even though that still plays a part in the process.  Here are a few ways we can help increase your local presence from the services we offer:

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Summer is almost here – our new WebMedley t-shirts just came in, people are taking vacations, and the A/C is definitely on. Read on to learn more about some web tips, news, and what’s going on at WebMedley. BTW, if you are in the Lexington area, save the date (July 14th) for our online advertising seminar.

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