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Webinar Series: Four Steps to LinkedIn Success
January 31, 2012 07:01 -
Social Media for RIAs in Massachusetts: The Fourth Castle
January 24, 2012 11:01 -
It’s Not Just Social Media: You Want Social CONNECTION
January 20, 2012 12:01 -
How CIOs and Other IT Leaders Can Enable Social Business
January 19, 2012 12:01 -
Financial Professionals Must Work Social Media To See Real Results
January 17, 2012 12:01
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Adam Cohen:
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victor gaxiola:
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Timothy E. Walker:
Excellent coverage and advice! It's too bad that a few "bad eggs" make life har
SocialTurns
Archive for January, 2010
New Socialware Release: Tag, Search, Export and more
This past week has been busy for the team here at Socialware. The big news earlier in the week was the launch of our Companion Guide to FINRA Social Networking Compliance. In addition we also had a product update that included some great new capabilities. First you will notice a design and usability overhaul for [...]
Just released: Companion Guide to FINRA Social Networking Compliance
Yesterday FINRA surprised everyone by releasing Regulatory Notice 10-06, titled “Social Media Web Sites – Guidance on Blogs and Social Networking Web Sites.” Since September of 2009, FINRA created and has been working with a Social Networking Task Force to discuss “how firms and registered representatives could use social sites for legitimate business purposes in [...]
Government, Social Networks and Freedom of Information
I came across an article yesterday, titled Twitter and Government Transparency. In it Andy Opsahl outlines the potential challenges social networks are creating for government entities. The question being raised is whether or not activity on sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn need to be archived and available for records requests. As Melinda Catapano points [...]
When is a social media policy not enough?
As more and more companies race to adopt social technologies they inevitably ask the question, “what should our policy be?” Depending on the industry and the company you will find a wide range of policies. Some are a few paragraphs and some are literally pages long. If you are looking for some examples here is [...]
New Cisco Report: Need for Social Middleware
Cisco recently commissioned and published a report to study how organizations use consumer social networking tools. The results were both promising and shocking. The report reveals the both the value of adopting these tools in the enterprise and also the risks that need to be addressed through stronger governance and IT involvement. Here are a [...]
Building a culture of passion, excellence and fun
Do you build a company culture or does it emerge by making the right decisions about the people that you make part of your early team? The truth likely lies somewhere in the middle, i.e. having the right group involved with a company that have a shared passion is critical but you also have to [...]
3 SEO Strategies for Social Media, the next frontier of search
Guest post by Jeff Watts, CEO of Strongpages, a search engine marketing firm specializing in making customer acquisition campaigns profitable. With the recent deals between search engines and social networks, a frequent question is what impact this has on search engine optimization (SEO) initiatives and on social media in the marketing mix. Because content on [...]
Socialware featured in the Austin Business Journal
Staff writer Christopher Calnan just published a profile piece on Socialware and the need for Social Middleware. The article gives an overview of the company, the problems we are solving in the social space, background on our funding and a perspective from the industry. On that front here are a few of my favorite quotes: [...]
The convergence of social in the enterprise
There is a lot of buzz these days about the social enterprise, social CRM, social business, enterprise 2.0, collaboration platforms and everything in between. Just look at a few of these recent articles and reports. – TechCrunch listed Social CRM as a top 10 trend in 2010 – There are full blown conferences focused on [...]
Power struggle between employees and the enterprise
When one imagines the layout of a hierarchy, they usually think of an up-right triangle: the most powerful at the top and the least powerful at the bottom. As one moves up the hierarchy, the circle of people becomes smaller and smaller. The up-right triangle was the hierarchy of life before the explosion of the [...]