Speaker list at http://www.websummit.net/digital-stage-schedule/

Speakers thoughts

Sarah Wood, Co-founder & COO of Unruly Media

• “The New media strategy represented a brave move for us and was a resounding success. Not only did we capture the imagination of the nation but we also delivered for the business” – Lysa Hardy T-Mobile UK
• “Embrace teh  oppahtunity” – Social media presents an opportunity to engage with people
• Advocacy, Attention, Awareness and Action are the 4 pillars of the social media video campaigns – @sarahfwood #websummit
• “Fish fur ideahs” Look for creativity but not without a meaning @sarahfwood #websummit
• Initiate emotional response to create engagement with your readers/viewers – inspire a physiological reaction from people
• 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations, 109% uplift in intent to purchase + 57% uplift in brand favourability @sarahfwood #websummit

Rachel Tipograph, Director, Global Digital & Social Media at Gap Inc. (Coolest name ever)

Kathryn Parsons, Co-founder of Decoded

Cindy Gallop, Founder of Make Love Not Porn & IfWeRanTheWorld

• Tackling the complete absence of healthy conversation around sex and porn
• “Pro-sex pro-porn pro-reality” @cindygallop #websummit
• “I want to socialise sex and socially sharable like anything else we share” @cindygallop #websummit
• @cindygallop “Women are different from men-we think differently” #websummit
• “Amazing things happen when tech startups have a 50-50 split between the sexes in business” #websummit

Omid Ashtari, Director of Business Development at Foursquare

Apologies for a lack of updates for Omid’s talk but it was a bit of product placement rather than an informational talk about the service:(

• “4square helps you make the most of where you are” @omid #websummit

Eray Basar of 9Elements took to the stage catching me by surprise

Short summary – 9Elements creates a visual representation of how content is shared through img.ly an image sharing service, Check out http://nine2011.9elements.com/#!/project/c5

Xava Thoughts

• Content that creates emotional response from people and see the traffic rise – Summary from @sarahfwood #websummit
• Social Media Measurement – the future of analytics #websummit
• Did you watch Felix Baumgartner skydive hoping something would go wrong? @janrezab #websummit
• Summary from #digital stage social media works like human society-word of mouth, engagement & content matter-its just all online #websummit
• Makelovenotporn has a category dedicated to sexual bedroom(or kitchen if you are so pleased) bloopers#websummit
• There is money to be made in sex – D’UH!! Probably Homer Simpson knows that too #websummit
• How socialising porn led to reinventing money!! Some link cos of mainstream companies refusing to work with the sex industry #websummit
• @cindygallop wants to blow the biases attached to the sex industry to smithereens and not compromise the name or identity of her venture.
• 4square allows micro-reviews – again allowing u 2 engage with strangers but in a way that wasnt possible without#socialmedia #websummit
• Some people need to stop using the stage to plug products and new services – I am here to listen to stories of why or how things are done and not to listen to a feature list that I can read about on the web anyway – thats what the old WWW is all about!

Discussion Topics

• Everyone heard of tennis elbow right? How about Twitter shoulder though #websummit @aoiferigney
• How do you use Social Media?