Sebastien Provencher will be coming from Montreal, bringing with him a wealth of hard-earned experience to Local Social Summit ‘09.  Sebastien will be talking on the Local Get Social panel but we are particularly looking forward to his leadership of the close of summit lab session:  “What does the Perfect Local Media Company Look Like in 5 Years Time”.

Biography

Sebastien Provencher
Co-founder, Praized Media

Sebastien is Praized Media’s intrepid explorer and ambassador. He has more than 12 years’ experience in local search, interactive entertainment and online media. From 1999 to 2007, Sebastien played an instrumental role in formulating Yellow Pages Group’s online strategy. He developed their most successful online advertising product ever (DirectoryPlus), struck a strategic partnership with Google, and created a vision around local search.

Sebastien co-founded Praized Media (www.praizedmedia.com) in 2007 to help Local Media companies tap into the growing potential of online word-of-mouth and social media.
He writes about traditional media, local search and social media on his blog at blogs.praized.com/seb and tweets at @sebprovencher.

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