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Socialware and LinkedIn to tackle Financial Services
Today Socialware and LinkedIn announced a new relationship to unlock social media for financial services organizations.
Joining the excitement of Socialware
I thought I had an idea of how exciting things were at Socialware prior to joining, but I honestly underestimated things. The daily focus on innovation, customer success and true (not just surface level) understanding of the challenges and opportunities for social networking in financial services organizations has inspired me
Social Networks – the CRM of the future
Businesses are very familiar with the idea of a CRM (customer relationship management) system. As individuals our CRM system tends to be either our cell phones or our contact list in our email.
New York Life “gets” social with Socialware
Today Baseline Magazine released an article on the efforts of New York Life to move from prohibition to participation in the world of social media. Recently recognized by FORTUNE as one of the world’s most admired companies in 2010, New York Life is now directing their innovation towards the social frontier.
Tweets of the week: Cool Vendor, New Survey and Best Practices
This has been an exciting and busy week here at Socialware. In case you missed it here are the tweets of the week. To stay up to date in real-time follow @bockius and @socialware. Gartner Names Socialware Cool Vendor in Cloud Security Services for 2010 http://bit.ly/dqA2lB RT @enterprises: Social media compliance extends beyond archiving http://bit.ly/9RS7jd [...]
Latest Social Networking Tools: GPS and a Helmet
Explaining business software can often be a challenge. You will typically see descriptions like this: “Our new collaboration cloud is the latest SaaS-based app to enable new levels of engagement, uncovering real-time influencers that gets translated into a listening grid so you can better automate outreach, nurture leads and convert high-value traffic.” While this is [...]
10 reasons you should use social networks for business
A while back The Harvard Business Review posted an article titled The Uber-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010. In the article they shared details about companies that are still blocking access to social media sites and those that have started to embrace the value these sites can offer. We’ve already shared some stats around companies [...]
Fans are great, connections are better
79% of the largest fortune 500 firms “use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or corporate blogs to communicate with customers and other stakeholders”, according to a study done by PR firm Burson-Marsteller. That number is only increasing. As many companies start to embrace social networking a common first step is to create a Facebook “Fan page” (54% [...]
Gartner’s social software predictions for 2010 and beyond
Gartner recently released a set of predictions on the use of social software in the enterprise. If you are like most executives you can feel the pressure from your organization to become more social. If you are already a consumer of social applications you will probably be nodding your head in agreement. I won’t analyze [...]
New research report on the use of social at work
Every day we are flooded with statistics about social media use, companies defining policies, companies blocking access and even companies forcing employees to delete their LinkedIn account. Well today is no different. Manpower, a world leader in the employment services, released a report that surveyed over 7,700 business in the Asia-Pacific region. Their findings are [...]
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