“We live in a networked society – we need to be able to understand networks, so we need tools to do so.” This was how Dr Marc Smith, director of the Social Media Research Foundation summed up the main theme of the second day of the Local Social Summit in his closing keynote. Although discussions [...]
As part of our continuing series of talks, seminars and events on The Science of Social Media we will again have a number of sessions at Local Social Summit ’11 cover this topic. First up we will have Dr. Bernie Hogan back at LSS giving a flash talk introduction to social network analysis. Bernie will [...]
One of the panel sessions we are going to hold at Local Social Summit 2011 (LSS’11) in November that I am most looking forward to is titled “Can Social Media Be Outsourced?” The starting point of the debate will be from the perspective of the small and medium sized local business. The questions we will [...]
Another year and another Social Media Week. This year we did a cutting edge pop-up restaurant plus a seminar around a local social case study – Two Sides to Every Story. This was a collaboration with Young & Foodish and CowPR. Not to blow our own horn but this was a great event! Perhaps our best event [...]
We are super excited that Stephen Leighton, owner of leading UK coffee roaster Has Bean, is going to join us at LSS 2010. Many of you will remember he was part of our LSS@Social Media Week event back on February 4th. Stephen will be part of our panel: The Rise of the Super SMBs. Conversations with some [...]
Mike Rowley is Chief Commercial Officer for Northcliffe Digital which is the regional digital arm of DMGT which publishes a range of local websites around the “Local People” and “This is” brands. Mike has worked in DMGT as Classified Director for the Evening Standard as well as Digital Director for Northcliffe Media. He has worked [...]
Speaking from a biased position, there were many highlights last Thursday night at the LSS@Social Media Week event. But the definite dot on the i that ensured it was a memorable night was when Dr. Bernie Hogan, presented the graphic below. After Bernie completed his talk, Rebuilding the Collapsed Contexts in Social Media, Bernie performed [...]
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 [...]
Local Social Summit is very excited that Stephen Leighton owner of leading UK coffee roaster, Has Bean, has agreed to come speak at LSS@Social Media Week on 4th February 2010. We are planning to have a conversation with Steve about how as an artisan coffee roaster he is utilising a proliferation of Social Media channels [...]
We are very happy to announce that on Thursday 4th February, we will be hosting another Local Social Summit event. LSS@Social Media Week: The Science of Social Media It could be said that most people have faith that Social Media is more than a new hype bubble. While faith alone isn’t a bad thing, we [...]
