Written By: Duncan Ogle-Skan, Director at Localisation Marketing Agency EMO (you can follow then on @emolocal) First published HERE on Brand Republic 23/11/11 (re-posted by permission of BR and the author – thanks!) When I reported for Brand Republic from last year’s Local Social Summit, (the annual event which explores the intersection of local and social) [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Find us on Guidebook We have create a mobile guide to enhance the Local Social Summit 2011 experience. As well as having the most up to date programme, maps and details for LSS'11, you can plan a personalised schedule for the two days. Guidebook has an app that works with iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches and [...]
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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 [...]
This year at the 3rd annual Local Social Summit we will be hosting a pop-up burger night as our main networking event on the evening of November 9th. This is going to be a very unique, fun and of course tasty dinner plus networking. We are very excited to be working with Young & Foodish (which [...]
The team at Local Social Summit love Mexican food. One of us (Dylan Fuller) has been saying for many years that London was lacking good Mexican food especially when it comes to fast and easy access to tacos and burritos. There is nothing better than a freshly prepared tasty taco or burrito – this is [...]
We are delighted to have InnerBalloons back on-board as a Silver Sponsor of Local Social Summit for the 2nd year in row. This is an innovative company that was an early spotter of the impact social media is having on local. The company is based in The Netherlands and does work across Europe. InnerBalloons Consulting [...]
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 [...]
