We Make Fondu
Bite-sized blog posts from The Fondu Team
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Some of them are our most prolific reviewers.
Others are our most passionate advocates.
A couple are even our most helpful beta testers.And they are all just plain interesting people!
Follow them, chat with them, eat with them…and maybe they’ll share some of the sweet Fondu swag we gave them!
View Fondu Ambassadors in a larger map*Want to become a Fondu Ambassador too? Learn how at http://bit.ly/yWPwUh*
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Want to grow your Marketing experience? Now is your chance—Fondu is hiring!
Fondu is a fun, new way to share bite-size restaurant reviews with your friends. We’re an angel-backed startup in midtown NYC and our team of five is incredibly ambitious and moving at lightening speed.
We’re looking for a Marketing intern to help grow our community of passionate foodies by developing and executing on both grassroots and large-scale initiatives.
Some of your responsibilities:
- Help maintain our social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Quora, and our Blog
- Creating marketing materials for pitching to possible partners
- Working with restaurants to run contests and promotions through Fondu
- Getting out to food related events to build the Fondu brand
Requirements:
- passionate about food and restaurants
- excellent writing and communication skills
- comfortable getting out there and talking about the product
- experience maintaining many tasks at once while not missing the details
This is an unpaid position, but you will be well rewarded in the network, experience, and intense games of Dominion. We’re looking for interns to work about 20 hours/week.
If this sounds exciting to you, send over a resume and a quick paragraph about why you’d like to work with us to gauri at fondu dot com.
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Fondu is and always will be a labor of love by you and us. It’s a partnership. But you all have been “laboring” so hard—reviewing thousands of places and inviting scores of people—that we thought we would up the ante a bit.
Introducing: the Fondu Ambassador program.
- Suggested User Status - Always wondered how to get into that top list of Fondusers? Well, here’s your chance. All Fondu Ambassadors will be featured on their local Suggested User list. You will be front and center because you’ve already got a presence on Fondu and we know you’ll be a great resource for new users.
- A Blog Post a Month - Every month, you will have the opportunity to write one blog post and have it published on our community blog. You can write whatever you want as long as it relates to food/drink/Fondu. Whether it’s a lowdown on nightlife in your town, commentary on the food industry, or just some ideas you have for the app, we’re excited to help share your knowledge and taste with the world.
- Swag - While you certainly might find yourself walking with a bit more attitude, confidence, and style as a Fondu Ambassador, what we’re talking about is good old-fashioned stuff. Shirts, stickers, cards; that kind of thing. We’ll send you some swag for yourself and a lot more swag for sharing—with friends, family, foreigners, anyone who you think would appreciate feeling some of the Fondu love.
We know we’ve got some impressive power users and we want to recognize you all. We hope that you’ll set the tone and be the example for a whole new wave of reviewers. If you’ve already been spreading the word or if this program makes you excited to start, apply to become an ambassador by emailing Orion (orion@fondu.com). Let him know your name, job, city of residence, and include a brief blurb about why you would be a fantastic Fondu Ambassador.
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If you recently migrated your App Profile Page to a normal Facebook Page (as we did yesterday), you might find it hard to add the proper work to your employees individual profiles. We suspect it’s because the Page category is now Product/App which is sorted lower on the “Where have you worked?” text box under Edit Work And Education. Of course, if your company has a dedicated company page separate from your app(s)/project(s), this is irrelevant.
The workaround we figured out requires that one employee already have successfully linked their work to the Facebook Page. This person will then have a work Smart List (automatically created) on the sidebar to the left of the home newsfeed. Once in this list, there is a small text box on the right to “Add coworkers to this list”—see the above picture. If you add a coworker here, voila, they will receive a notification to fill out the corresponding work information to add to their profile.
Another possible workaround may be to change the category of your Page to something that shows up higher in the edit work list (i.e. company).
If you end up using either workaround, be sure to comment below with how it worked out for you.
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We just migrated our app profile page and we think it would behoove you to consider it too. About a month ago, Facebook announced they would be removing all App Profile Pages on Feb 1, 2012. Having spent many hours trying to figure out exactly how they differed from normal Facebook Pages and whether or not to focus our energy on maintaining them, we can see where they are coming from.
So, “hip-hip-hooray” for simplification! Here are some things to keep in mind when you decide to migrate your App Profile Page to a normal Facebook Page:
- Likes are migrated, but may take up to anywhere from 1-7 days to be added to the page total.
- Vanity URL is migrated, as long as the target Facebook Page did not already have one.
- Everything else is NOT migrated. This includes ALL posts, photos, and Insight (analytic) data. You will have to repost if you want them transferred and/or back them up if you want them saved.
- Target page must have the same name as the app and be in the Product/App Category.
- Starting on February 1, non-migrated App Profile Pages will have their traffic sent to directly to the app.
Good luck with migration; if you need any help, don’t hesitate to ask us (@Fondu).
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With an impressive eight slots out of our top twenty-five, we’ve confirmed something everyone already knew:
New Yorkers love their coffee.
(especially La Colombe Torrefaction it seems)
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If you didn’t catch it last week, here’s our early gift for all the Fondu users out there: Update 1.02!
We’ve seen how much everyone loves writing bite-sized reviews, and now that process is a little bit more elegant and a lot faster. We also added the ability to publish your reviews as a foursquare tip (as a check-in is still an option) or as a tumblr post.
And, don’t forget to spread the holiday “cheers”: we added some new ways to tell your friends and loved ones about Fondu.
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If you were too busy going on a Cyber Monday buying spree yesterday, you should check out the App Store…because you’ve got a new update for Fondu!
One of our most requested features makes it’s debut: @ (“at”) mentions! If you’re good with Twitter or Facebook, this works just the same. For the uninitiated:
- Use the “@” symbol before a username in a review or comment.
- That user will receive a news item and a push notification letting them know that you mentioned them.
- Wherever you see that “@username” text, it will turn into a purple link that you can click on to go to that user’s profile.
And that’s @ mentions! Now you can drop a witty line directly in response to a recent comment, remind a friend to write a review, give kudos to someone who made a good recommendation, or bug your coworkers to actually pick a new bar FOR ONCE for after-work drinks ;)
Download the update, give @ mentions a whirl, and let us know what you think via tweet or email.
