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Posts Tagged ‘Social Media Policy’

An Up-Close Look at FINRA’s Guidance on Social Media Webinar

Join Socialware, FINRA, BD Week, IA Watch and others this Tuesday for a new webinar: An Up-Close Look at FINRA’s Guidance on Social Media: Practical Tips to Comply Important guidance that FINRA issued this year can affect your firm in a big way when it comes to the use of social networking sites, whether you’re [...]

Center for Due Diligence Interview

In preparation for the CFDD’s New Age Marketing Advisor Conference I did a short interview which you can hear below. // Some of the topics discussed were: – Implications and questions of FINRA Notice 10-06 for financial advisors. – Whether or not financial advisors will get value out of social networks. – How you should [...]

LinkedIn Compliance Self-Assessment – Are you at Risk?

LinkedIn Compliance Self-Assessment – Are you at Risk?

In the last few months we’ve heard a common refrain from financial industry professionals regarding LinkedIn. Things like: “We aren’t allowed to use social networks but we can use LinkedIn” “Our firm allows us to use LinkedIn but the activity isn’t monitored” “LinkedIn doesn’t fall under Notice 10-06” “We prohibit use, and our employees follow [...]

Smarsh and Socialware Partner

Smarsh and Socialware Partner

We are very excited to announce a new partnership with Smarsh, a managed-service leader in email archiving and compliance solutions. Together with Socialware, Smarsh can now offer an integrated solution for messaging and social media compliance. Some of you reading this may wonder, what does email archiving have to do with social media? As it [...]

Webinar: Social Media, Can Advisors Afford to Miss It?

Much has been discussed in the industry around Financial Advisor’s use of social media. Should they use it? Is it valuable? What are the risks? What are the compliance issues? Can we afford to wait? Join us June 2nd at 11am EST as we participate in an interactive roundtable panel with other industry experts from [...]

Top social media myths in the financial industry

Top social media myths in the financial industry

Financial Marketing and Communications firm Ledermark, recently released a survey on financial services professionals use of Social Media to network and gain business. The findings are interesting and I will quote many of them here. The more interesting part is that it got me thinking about all the social media myths floating around out there [...]

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 [...]

New Twitter Guide Released, Socialware Insights Preview

New Twitter Guide Released, Socialware Insights Preview

On the heels of the FINRA Notice 10-06 we created and released a Companion Guide to FINRA/SEC Social Networking Compliance. After over 750 downloads and 6 webinars (and counting) focusing on the topic we knew there was still a major gap in the industry. It wasn’t a technology gap but one of information. We would [...]

Latest Social Networking Tools: GPS and a Helmet

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 [...]

What a difference a month makes

What a difference a month makes

I am excited to announce a lot of great changes at Socialware. Here is the quick summary (the full detail is below): We launched a new social media archiving solution called Socialware Sync aimed at individuals and small firms. We renamed Risk Manager to Socialware Compass as part of a broader re-branding effort with our [...]