February 5, 2010 | Written by simonbaptist
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 coffee was the El Salvador Finca Los Amates Bourbon Cup of Excellence 2009 and below is the episode of Steve’s weekly video show, In My Mug, where he cups this special coffee.
November 23, 2009 | Written by dylanfuller

We have now posted up most of the videos that we took at LSS ’09 on our YouTube channel – 34 videos in total so far which is over 5 hours of quality video – http://www.youtube.com/localsocialsummit.
Please note that some of the ‘credit’ screens are not complete and are missing some of the names of panelists. There should be full details within the description on YouTube or you can view the final LSS ’09 agenda here – http://www.localsocialsummit.com/lss/final-agenda/.
Here’s a list of the sessions currently on YouTube:
- Session 1 – Parts 1 to 5: Keynote Presentation – Decoding Generation Y – Who really has digital friends? – Robert Barnard, Founder of Decode
- Session 2 – Parts 1 to 6: Panel – Social Media Marketing – The Rules are Changing
- Session 3 – Panel – Mobile – The Future of Apps is Bright. Panel 3 videos are not up yet, should be ready in a the next couple of days:.
- Session 4 – Parts 1 to 5: Afternoon Keynote – Making sense of the networked audience: The case of Facebook – Dr. Bernie Hogan is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.
- Session 5 – Parts 1 to 5: Panel – Local Gets Social – The Impact of User Generated Content and the Promise of Real-Time Search
- Session 6 – Parts 1 to 9: Panel – Local Content & Monetisation – A View from Europe
- Session 7 – Parts 1 to 4: Lab: What does the Perfect Local Media Company Look Like in 5 Years Time
No videos of the Hitwise Goes Postal presentation. But you can watch and listen to this as a great Webinar here – https://admin.na6.acrobat.com/_a799316515/p44796378/.
Also, no video of the The Opportunity of Social Media presentation but the slide deck is available here – http://www.slideshare.net/LocalSocialSummit/lss09-the-opportunity-of-social-media-amino-tech.
Suggested highlights from the YouTube videos include:
From Session 4 parts 1 and 2. Part 1 is what I am calling the “death of distance” segment and Part 2 which is the “paradox of conveince” segment.
From Session 5 parts 2 and 3 as this is where we start to get an interesting debate around both the definition and value of real-time search.
More about the real-time search debate (what is it and is it useful for local-social) can be found here on Search Engine Land and Screenwrek.