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 [...]
Eric Freeman will be joining The Changing Landscape of Local Content panel at LSS'11 – which is on Day 1 (the Full Schedule is Here). Eric joins us from sunny Spain. Eric has worked in the technology industry since 1994, for multinationals in Silicon Valley (Oracle, Intershop Communications, AirWave and others) to entrepreneurial ventures in [...]
Michael Weston has worked for the past 14 years in the digital world, focused on creating value by understanding how to collect, interpret and act on the rich seams of data that digital channels create for marketers. A frequent speaker on both sides of the Atlantic, Michael draws on a passion for advocating the power [...]
Greg Sterling is a leading analyst and blogger covering the local search, social and mobile markets. He is a senior analyst with Opus Research's Internet2Go program and the founder of Sterling Market Intelligence. He is also a contributing editor with Search Engine Land, the leading online publication covering search. Before this Sterling ran BIA/Kelsey's Interactive Local Media program. He [...]
Duncan Ogle-Skan joins us from EMO. He is the creative genius behind our Big Brand Local panel which will explore how global/national/regional brands are developing social into something that works locally. Duncan joined in EMO, the specialist localisation marketing agency, in 1997 having worked client-side at Allianz Cornhill Insurance and Renault UK. From 1999, Duncan ran [...]
Miriam Warren from Yelp will back at LSS’11 as one of our star panellists on the Finding Locals – The View From Europe session. Miriam joined Yelp in 2007 as the company’s first Community Manager in Washington, D.C. and was promoted to oversee the East Coast Community Management team. As Vice President of European Marketing, she [...]
We are pleased to announce that we will have a dedicated session at the 3rd Annual Local Social Summit with the 1st European based executive at foursquare. This will be a conversation between Omid Ashtari from foursquare and Greg Sterling our ever skilled chief moderator. The session is schedule for 11.30am on Thursday 10th of [...]
Niels Borgers will be on our The Changing Landscape of Local Data panel. He is Business Development Manager at infohubble. Infohubble stands for smarter local search data. The company aims to provide a better user experience with relevant and correct business data. infohubble is satisfying this need through the aggregation and systematic enrichment of business [...]
Grant Muckle is Managing Director of Upcast Social – a world leading technology platform for managing ads in Facebook. Upcast Social is the sister company of I Spy Marketing where Grant was previously heading up their Natural Search, Social Media and Analytics division. He has 10 years experience working at the leading edge of digital [...]
Tim Plyming is the Project Executive, Digital & Editor Live Sites in the BBC’s London 2012 project team and will be speaking at Local Social Summit 2011 about BBC London 2012: The First Digital Olympics. Tim leads the day to day activity of the ‘Digital Olympics’ project which is responsible for the delivery of all [...]
