Oh Tampa, you’ve been there with me through it all — except more like the kind friend who will party with me but if I need help moving you’ll find a reason not to be there. It’s not that you aren’t a good friend, we just don’t get to see each other much anymore and you just need a little motivation. Well, Tampa, here’s a reason to finally get excited, and you can do it from anywhere, yes, even the local bar, you lush.
Foursquare Day is checking itself into Tampa on April 16th at the Hyatt Regency Tampa and you need to get involved. Why? Location-based technology is changing not only our social lives but promoting small local business and bringing communities together, and it just so happens Tampa is the epicenter for this new worldwide event, started by local business owner Nathan Bonilla-Warford of Bright Eyes Tampa.
How many cities of the Tampa Bay area can you name? Yeah, it’s a doozy. We’ve got at least 20 different parts of Tampa, not to mention Clearwater, Largo and St. Pete. (even Pasco County counts). Bottom line, it’s hard to round everyone up out of their different areas to get them into one place at one time.
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2010.