Keynote Overview: Refining the Blunt Instrument that is Groupon

03/11/2010 No comments yet

GroupOn, and Daily Deals in general, represent the most impactful new local lead generation media play in decades.  Perry Evans will dissect and project the impact on this hot new space, examining the potential implications on search, mobile and display ad models and on SMB purchase behaviour.

Nosey neighbours and norming: Getting ready for the local privacy debate

19/10/2010 No comments yet

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 [...]

A Day in the Life

19/02/2010 No comments yet

At the recent LSS@Social Media Week event, Carolyn Watt, Managing Director of Yabber, treated us to a fictional near-future account of a day in the life.  Kindly, she has allowed us to publish it here. “I wake up shivering. I yawn. I stretch. “bbrrr”. My portal is already activated because and I am already plugged [...]

Tasty @hasbean Coffee for a Lucky Few During #SMWldn

05/02/2010 1 comment

For the people who came along to the LSS@Social Media Week event last night, they were treated to a goody bag of amazing coffee that Stephen Leighton from Has Bean Coffee provided us with.  Steve also treated us all with the story of Has Bean and how Social Media is really helping them succeed. The [...]

The Reality of Being Friends with your Mom on Facebook

27/11/2009 1 comment

Was recently watching Bernie Hogan’s (embdeded below as a Playlist) talk at Local Social Summit ’09. Afterwards found this piece from the Onion News Network, which being a Friday, hopefully you will agree highlights some of the problems with being a friend of your Mom on Social Media.

Social Media in Action

06/11/2009 No comments yet

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 [...]

Panel Input: Local Gets Social

20/10/2009 No comments yet

One principal behind the concept of Local Social Summit ‘09 is inclusive participant engagement.  Below is the current summary of one of the panels for people to provide input about what topics should be covered and questions asked. Please feel to comment here, on the LinkedIn group or via Twitter. Local Gets Social – The [...]

Panel Input: Mobile – The Future of Apps is Bright

20/10/2009 No comments yet

One principal behind the concept of Local Social Summit ‘09 is inclusive participant engagement.  Below is the current summary of one of the panels for people to provide input about what topics should be covered and questions asked. Please feel to comment here, on the LinkedIn group or via Twitter. Mobile – The Future of [...]

Panel Input: Local Content & Monetisation – A View from Europe

20/10/2009 No comments yet

One principal behind the concept of Local Social Summit ‘09 is inclusive participant engagement.  Below is the current summary of one of the panels for people to provide input about what topics should be covered and questions asked. Please feel to comment here, on the LinkedIn group or via Twitter. Local Content & Monetisation – [...]

Panel Input: Social Media Marketing – The Rules are Changing

20/10/2009 No comments yet

One principal behind the concept of Local Social Summit ‘09 is inclusive participant engagement.  Below is the current summary of one of the panels for people to provide input about what topics should be covered and questions asked. Please feel to comment here, on the LinkedIn group or via Twitter. Social Media Marketing  – The [...]


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