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 [...]
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 [...]
We are super excited to officially announce the dates for the 2011 edition of Local Social Summit (LSS ’11). This is the third year for the event and in response to all the feedback the event has been extended and will be held over two days on November 9th and 10th in London. Please save [...]
What can we say, we are Über excited to have Greg Sterling from Sterling Market Intelligence and Search Engine Land back at LSS. This year he will be opeing the day with a Keynote and also running the panel: “Facebook and Local. Will Facebook do for Local what it did for Games?” Here’s the teaser for Greg’s [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
Local Social Summit 09 has been hailed a success by Greg Sterling and Furlong PR amoung others. This is nice to see. During the evening networking reception the general view was the Summit was 8 out of 10 – pretty good for a v1.0 event. In true social media sharing style we have put all [...]
This is what should be the final agenda… Main change is Robert Barnard from Decode will lead off at 9.30am with his presentation and Amino Technology will present at 3.20pm. Local Social Summit ’09 – Schedule & Agenda 8:30 – 9:30 – Coffee/Tea Morning Networking – 9:30 – 10:15 Welcome & Keynote Presentation: “Decoding Generation [...]
The mobile panel at LSS ’09 has now moved to 11.40am and we also have a different line up of panelists – please see below. Mobile – The Future of Apps is Bright This panel is all about apps – in particular social and local apps (and some mapping which is of course a key [...]
One of the sessions at Local Social Summit ’09 that we are looking forward to is an interactive lab session being run by Praized’s Seb Provencher. The session is called: What does the Perfect Local Media Company Look Like in 5 Years Time. This lab should draw upon Seb’s excellent white paper – “I Have [...]
