C-SPAN is going geosocial with political and policy education through a new partnership with Foursquare that will be announced later today.
The cable network will have a major presence on the mobile geosocial network, starting with Foursquare.com/cspan, a completely customized homepage for the C-SPAN/Foursquare partnership. It is the central nexus for C-SPAN content, including official tips and information about the cable network's new Foursquare presence.
Tips are at the core of the partnership. In public locations throughout Washington, D.C., C-SPAN will offer educational tips about U.S. public policy, politics, and government. If you check in to the U.S. Capitol for example, you will be able to access a YouTube video explaining aspects of the Federal Budget. More tips will be added outside of D.C. later on.
The second part of the partnership focuses on the "C-SPAN Digital Bus," a virtual entity that will travel the country, providing tips and checking in at locations across the U.S.
Partnering with media companies isn't new for Foursquare -- Bravo, The New York Times and MTV are just a few of the many with Foursquare presences. The C-SPAN partnership strikes us as both unique and utterly useful, though. Tourists in D.C. can use Foursquare to gain a great deal of knowledge about the lesser-known facts of the Beltway.