First of all, thank you to EVERYONE for the overflowing of advice, encouragement and well-wishes. I’m happy to report I only had one anonymous comment saying, “guess you just couldn’t survive in the big city. glad to see you go. We can go back to having fun. Fuck you.”<\/p>\n
When I visited my new home in July, the first thing I noticed was the complete dismay of Yelp.com results for the city. Foursquare is actually pretty popular but, for the most part it’s a small town with very little tech focus. The thing is, the college has meant that Flickr Geo-tagged images and Foursquare are being used but I want to take it a step further. I want to enable information sharing in this part of the state. I won’t be jumping in head first but my over-sharing and data organization that has been a key for both my personal success and professional\u00a0success\u00a0in tech can have a huge impact on this area. Here are a few things I’ll be taking on.<\/p>\n
Here are the Yelp restaurant listings for Hanover<\/a> and Lebanon<\/a>. As you can see, there are some photos, some reviews and some basic info like hours of operation but very little has gone into completing the places database for Yelp in this area. Here’s what I’m going to do to improve this.<\/p>\n As an example, this review from Matt J<\/a>. is amazing. He does a good job pointing out that the restaurant is categorized wrong, he gives useful info about it being good for dates AND mentions Daniel who is this FREAKING awesome bartender there. I talked to Daniel for over 2 hours when I was in town. He’s a great mixologist\u00a0and one of the nicest bartenders I’ve ever met. We talked liquor, life and joked around all night but he did this with everyone. I left him a $20 tip. I was just amazed with his style. Now that review highlights this. I just voted that review useful and people in town SHOUlD be doing that and reporting errors if the restaurant is filed under “bistro”.<\/p>\n Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite all need some better listings. Actually, this isn’t an issue with Brightkite since they have millions of places pre-loaded where all of the content in the other two big-guys come from users. I’ll be asking for a level 3 superuser admin on FourSquare and updating the places for that area with details, tips, twitter accounts and confirming there aren’t duplicates of places and that addresses are correct. Of course, you can be sure I’ll be the mayor of every place in town.<\/p>\n Flickr needs a community. There are so many great photographers in upper valley that I’ve already reached out to. Now it’s about education and putting faces to names. I’ll be connecting with photographers, learning the best spots to get shots and encouraging these users to properly tag their\u00a0photos\u00a0with geo-data and other critical information to make it easier to find photos of the area. It was hard to find good pictures when I was planning my first visit mostly because the absence of good map data in the area. Places on Flickr: Hanover, NH<\/a> & Lebanon, NH<\/a>.<\/p>\n Twitter has a solid adoption when I did “people near me” on Twitter for iPhone and saw a few accounts. Most of this is due to the college. I’m not looking to get any Twitter clients there but I will be encouraging some local businesses to sign up to twitter. I doubt this will catch on and I’ll be getting some push back but as I meet more locals, it’s something I’m going to work on even if I start it for them and simply ask they put the account on their menu with a very easy to use promotion like, “mention us on Twitter @CanoeClubHanover and get 10% off any of our Single Malt Macallan Scotch”<\/p>\n Something that may take a bit longer to pull together is a blogging web-ring of sorts for Lebanon \/ Hanover. I was trying to find bloggers who live in the area and there are a few but I get the feeling that they’re not talking to each other and not interacting. There’s no meetup or social element to it but these bloggers are sometimes talking about the same events and things. SF is easy because everyone blogs so a directory would be information overload but I really want to connect people as I’ll be blogging about it as well and it will help me meet new people and also get some other tech initiatives accomplished in the area.<\/p>\n There’s a lot of work to do and if you think I’m leaving something out, comment below. I’m not trying to bring the tech revolution to this small town. In all honesty, I want to make it easier for ME to find reviews, photos, mention places I’m eating at on Twitter and connect with other techies. It’s not about the information as a whole. It’s about connecting people. I think this can be accomplished and I’ll get to make new friends and it’ll keep me busy on the weekend which is something I need in this normally quiet town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First of all, thank you to EVERYONE for the overflowing of advice, encouragement and well-wishes. 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