Marc Smith to speak at the Daily Fantasy Sports Expo in Miami Beach on August 6-7

New York, NY--Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces that social networking expert Marc Smith will speak at the Daily Fantasy Sports Expo ( www.fantasysportsexpo.com ) on August 6-7, 2015 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
 
Marc Smith is director at the Social Media Research Foundation, and also runs NodeXL.  Mr. Smith will discuss how relationships on Twitter and Facebook can be used to determine influencers, and how that information could be used by daily fantasy sports operators to gain new customers at zero cost.
 
Video:  http://youtu.be/l79vd6LVJR4

The fantasy sports industry has grown from an estimated UD $1.6 Billion in 2006 to USD $15 Billion in 2014.  Experts consider this the tip of the iceberg with the advent of daily fantasy sports (known as “DFS”).   With new players attracted to the market over the last 2 years, some fantasy sports leagues are experiencing double digit growth monthly.
 
The conference is for CEOs and Fantasy Sports operators and discuss the business of DFS.
 
 
ABOUT THE SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
 
The Social Media Research Foundation is a not-for-profit dedicated to Open Tools, Open Data, and Open Scholarship.  Social media is the term for all the ways people connect to people through computation. Mobile devices, social networks, micro-blogging and location sharing are just a few of the ways people engage in computer-mediated collective action.  Mapping, measuring and understanding the landscape of social media is our mission.  We support tool projects that enable the collection, analysis and visualization of social media data.  The Foundation’s NodeXL project makes analysis of social media networks accessible to most users of the Excel spreadsheet application.  With NodeXL, network charts become as easy to create as pie charts.   We host data sets that are relevant to social media research.  Today, in addition to improving NodeXL we are expanding to include data collection tools for additional social media sources, better support for exploring the changes in networks over time, and web based applications to expand access to network analysis services and insights.
 
ABOUT NodeXL
 
The free and open NodeXL project ( http://nodexl.codeplex.com ) is a spreadsheet add-in that supports “network overview discovery and exploration”.  The tool fits inside your existing copy of Excel in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013 and makes creating a social network map similar to the process of making a pie chart.  NodeXL allows non-programmers to quickly generate useful network statistics and metrics and create visualizations of network graphs.  Using NodeXL, users can easily make a map of public social media conversations around topics that matter to them. Maps of the connections among the people who recently said the name of a product, brand or event can reveal key positions and clusters in the crowd. A collection of network visualizations and reports can be found at http://nodexlgraphgallery.org.
 
 
 
ABOUT THE DAILY FANTASY SPORTS EXPO
 
The Daily Fantasy Sports Expo is the first ever trade show and summit discussing the DFS industry.  DFSE plans to bring new faces to the industry, introduce unique methods of thinking and provide the ultimate networking experience for executives.
 
For more information, please visit the website www.fantasysportsexpo.com or contact:
 
Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc.
Media, Marketing and Logistics Representative
Tel/ Fax: USA +1 (212) 722-1744 ext 77
Linkedin Industry Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/DAILY-FANTASY-SPORTS-8247642
E-mail: info-18@fantasysportsexpo.com


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Contact Information

Marc Lesnick

President

Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc.

(1) (212) 722-1744 x77

info-18@fantasysportsexpo.com