Tag Archive | "UK"

Local Social Beatdown on Local Search

February 10, 2010 No comments yet

A quick post but just saw something interesting that I needed to write up. Amongst a couple of others, I was asked yesterday on Twitter for a recommendation for where to get a decent cup of coffee near Victoria Station.  Influential UK foodie blogger, Young and Foodish, replied with Flat Cap Coffee, which was new [...]

Stephen Leighton (@hasbean) Speaker Background

January 29, 2010 1 comment

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 [...]

Announcing LSS@Social Media Week

January 22, 2010 2 comments

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 [...]

Final Agenda

November 3, 2009 No comments yet

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 [...]

Updated Panel: Mobile – The Future of Apps is Bright

November 2, 2009 No comments yet

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 [...]

Schedule Changes – please note

November 2, 2009 No comments yet

The Local Social Summit is less than 24 hours away. Please note that we have made some changes to the schedule in terms of when 3 of the panels will run. Mobile panel is now 11.40am Local Gets Social is now 2.10pm Local Content & Monetisation is now 3.50pm All times are GMT. Full schedule [...]

Carolyn Watt Biography

October 29, 2009 No comments yet

Carolyn Watt is the Managing Director of Profero’s Social Media and Digital PR business unit. She is responsible for heading up Profero’s social marketing offering adding core competency around digital PR consultancy, social marketing strategy and implementation, blogger relations and community management, advocacy programs, content creation and brand reputation management, online buzz tracking and analytics. [...]

Anton Grutzmacher Biography

October 27, 2009 No comments yet

Anton Grutzmacher – Director of Custom Data Products UK Anton Joined Experian Hitwise in Aug 2001 and has been a member of the senior management team for the last 4 years. Anton spent the last 3 years as Head of Client Services where he was responsible for client retention and revenue growth across the UK [...]

James Thornett Biography

October 21, 2009 No comments yet

James is currently responsible for overseeing the development of BBC Local, the BBC’s online news and information service across the UK, and location services across BBC Online including mapping and location based technology. He spent four years as Assistant Editor for the local ‘Where I Live’ websites in England and has worked on many new [...]

Andrew Burke Biography

October 19, 2009 No comments yet

Andrew Burke is CEO of Amino Technologies Plc which specialises in digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution.  He has overseen the acquisitions of AssetHouse, digital proposition management experts, and Tilgin’s IPTV set-top box division. Andrew is Chairman of Crisp Thinking and a non-executive director at the IT Forum Foundation. Previously, [...]