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 [...]
Local Social Summit is overflowing with great sessions on Social Network Analysis (SNA) this year. We are fortunate to have Dr Bernie Hogen from the Oxford Internet Institute back to lead us on not one but two sessions. Both of these will be on Day 2 – Thursday 10th of November. He can follow him on twitter @blurky. 1) [...]
We are looking forward to Perry Evans’ keynote talk at LSS’11 which will be provocative, insightful and disruptive. Perry is CEO of Closey. He is also a proven innovator in the local space and LSS regular. The Timely Death of the Daily Deal [and the Birth of Everyday, Everywhere, Every Way Deals], A Daily Deal Insider Speaks: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wow, its already been over two weeks since LSS 2010 went off like a bang in London. By all accounts this year’s edition was better than the inaugural event in ’09. We had a couple of nice write-ups including this one from Greg Sterling and this one by Duncan Ogle-Skan (which was also cross posted [...]
Antony Mayfield, author of Me and My Web Shadow: How to Manage Your Reputation Online will be presenting on the following topic: Nosey neighbours and norming: Getting ready for the local privacy debate There are trends in place – rising privacy concerns, uneven digital inclusion – that developers, brands and other actors need to be [...]
As you maybe aware, post-summit we are planning to release various materials from Local Social Summit ’09 to various open social channels. First was the decks from the day onto SlideShare. We have just received notification that we are featured on the SlideShare homepage. ( Screengrab below). Will be interesting to see the impact of [...]
Local Social Summit 09 has been hailed a success by Greg Sterling and Furlong PR amoung others. This is nice to see. During the evening networking reception the general view was the Summit was 8 out of 10 – pretty good for a v1.0 event. In true social media sharing style we have put all [...]
