EEk..they want to know where I am going?

Its bad enoigh everyone seems to know where I am thanks to Facebook, twitter and foursquare updates. Now a tool wants to tell the world where I am going to be.

Forecast is that tool. Downloadable to your phone its in test mode. The idea is that you will tell friends where you are going and organise serendipitous get togethers. Four square and Facebook help your friends know where you are or where you have been. Useful for keeping tabs in your friends. But it doesn't tell friends where you are going to be. Forecast tells people where and when I am going to be somewhere.

The first step is you search for where you are going to be.
You then enter when you are going to be there
When the time comes, Forecast asks if you are there. You can then check in and it adds the check in to your FourSquare.

I have been testing it for a few weeks. As you can tell, its not grabbed me, as a user, for three reasons:

1.  I am not sure I really want people to know where I am
2. Its one more app. I would rather it was integrated into Foursquare so i could do it there.
3. not many people I know are on it

As a user, I think I would use it occasionally.

As an agency, how can we use it? Create a location for your agency on Foursquare and/or Facebook. Encourage your volunteers who use Foursquare to "check in" to that location so that people can see you exist. If volunteers use Forecast, encourage them to broadcast to the world where they are going to be.

I will be blogging about Foursquare sooon.