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 [...]
On Tuesday 25th October, Simon Baptist and Dylan Fuller from LSS, attended F8 London. A follow on conference from the annual Facebook Developer Conference that was held in San Francisco in late September. Having attended the first F8, Simon knew what to expect, but once again the team was impressed and excited by the scale [...]
LSS 2010 is taking shape nicely. We now have the teasers for two more of our world-class panels. Panel: Facebook and Local. Will Facebook do for Local what it did for Games? Leader: Greg Sterling, Screenwerk, Search Engine Land & Internet2Go Join industry thought leaders discuss and debate the future impact of Facebook on local. [...]
As part of my ongoing research into Facebook, I recently connected to Huffington Post – as part of the signup I was told that it’s possible for me to earn badges for my engagement levels with the Huffington Post (see image below). This is the first example I have seen of Media taking lessons [...]
To my knowledge only a small number of us have been closely tracking the Local Social Media intersection for a few years. But since Dylan and I organised the first Local Social Summit, it feels like the world has taken notice and Local Social is going mainstream. The Week that was in Local Social Below, [...]
For a Friday and again an old video but in case you haven’t seen it. Regardless if it’s 50, 500 or 5000 friends that you have on Facebook, I believe that Kate Miller-Heidke gives us real insight into why we only probably communicate regularly with a few of them in her: Are You F*cking Kidding [...]
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 [...]
