Putting The Audience Together – Using Social Network Analysis for Business Insights

19/01/2012 No comments yet

Local Social Summit & the Oxford Internet Institute Present a unique half day seminar on Social Network Analysis (SNA) Seminar in Social Network Analysis: Putting The Audience Together – Using Social Network Analysis for Business Insights When: Wednesday 29 February 2012; 12.30-17.30 Where: Wallacespace, London, WC1H 9PN Course Title: Putting The Audience Together – Using Social Network Analysis [...]

Local Social Summit 2011 – Day 2 Insights: Social Network Analysis (#LSS11)

24/11/2011 No comments yet

“We live in a networked society – we need to be able to understand networks, so we need tools to do so.” This was how Dr Marc Smith, director of the Social Media Research Foundation summed up the main theme of the second day of the Local Social Summit in his closing keynote. Although discussions [...]

Local Social Summit 2011 – Day 1 Insights: Social Media, SMBs and the “Now what?” Problem (#LSS11)

18/11/2011 No comments yet

For the 3rd year in a row Local Social Summit (LSS) explored the cutting edges of the intersection of local and social media. This is a place where people including consumers, businesses and community collide. Where the use of smart phones and tablets has created the SoLoMo ‘Mandala’… This year the co-founders of LSS, Dylan [...]

Cool Infographic: Local Search Evolves (US centric stats)

26/10/2011 No comments yet

Sweet infographic. We need one of these for the UK and Europe. Infographic by MDG Advertising

Session Overview (#LSS11) – BBC London 2012: The First Digital Olympics

17/10/2011 1 comment

London 2012 will be the first tablet Olympics, the first connected TV Olympics and the first 3D Olympics.  The BBC is the host nation broadcaster of all the Games and have one amazing year planned for 2012.   Join us as Tim Plyming will provide us with a sneak preview of the BBC’s plans. Tim Plyming [...]

Local Social Summit (@smwldn) – our event was a success!

11/02/2011 No comments yet

Another year and another Social Media Week. This year we did a cutting edge pop-up restaurant plus a seminar around a local social case study – Two Sides to Every Story. This was a collaboration with Young & Foodish and CowPR. Not to blow our own horn but this was a great event! Perhaps our best event [...]

Preview: Two Sides to Every Story – A Local Social Case Study

04/02/2011 No comments yet

In 3 days time its Social Media Week in London. We will kick off the week with our event – Two Sides to Every Story – A Local Social Case Study - at 6.30 on Monday Feb 7th in central London. As of today there are only 4 spots left for this unique event – if [...]

A Local Social Case Study @SMWLDN – pop-up restaurant, SNA and more

27/01/2011 No comments yet

The Local Social team are very excited to be part of Social Media Week in London for the 2nd year in a row. For 2011 we have put together what we hope if both an interesting and fun event. Here are the details for this years event: Two Sides to Every Story – A Local [...]

Decoding Social Media Users in the UK, surprises

09/12/2010 No comments yet

Generation Y connects with less than 20% of its social network regularly but social media is changing purchase behaviour. [Note: cut & paste of the PR word for word from Decode] This sophisticated, discerning generation demands to be treated with respect. London, December 9th, 2010 Decode’s latest study, Decoding Digital Friends, conducted in the UK, USA [...]

Local Social Beatdown on Local Search

10/02/2010 No comments yet

A quick post but just saw something interesting that I needed to write up. Amongst a couple of others, I was asked yesterday on Twitter for a recommendation for where to get a decent cup of coffee near Victoria Station.  Influential UK foodie blogger, Young and Foodish, replied with Flat Cap Coffee, which was new [...]