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Utilize Social Media to Build Lasting Relationships

Utilize Social Media to Build Lasting Relationships

Social Media is a valuable medium to build and grow lasting relationships. As you start off, social media may seem foreign, but really it is just another way to communicate with your clients.

Find the Time to Utilize Social Media

Find the Time to Utilize Social Media

Social media isn’t just an additional task. It is an opportunity to build deeper relationships, create new relationships and do it more effectively and efficiently. A key component of your day is still building and maintaining those relationships but how you deliver those touch points has evolved.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announces move to Social Business

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announces move to Social Business

MarketWatch shared the news that, “Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisers soon will be allowed to make pre-approved status updates and tweets…”

Socialware and LinkedIn to tackle Financial Services

Socialware and LinkedIn to tackle Financial Services

Today Socialware and LinkedIn announced a new relationship to unlock social media for financial services organizations.

Ignoring social networks won’t work

Ignoring social networks won’t work

As all types of businesses evolve on the social web one thing is true, everything has changed. IT is no longer in control, decisions are made on a department-by-department basis. In the world of financial services this can also mean individual advisors are making their own decisions, regardless of corporate policy.

Just Released: Facebook Social Networking Guide

Just Released: Facebook Social Networking Guide

By now we all know that Facebook’s growth is off the charts. They are getting ready to announce that they have reached they half a billion mark. That’s right, 500,000,000 users. That is almost twice the size of the population of the United States. 

When will we learn? Enterprises are getting social.

When will we learn? Enterprises are getting social.

Access to social media at work continues to be a hot topic. A recent article – like many others – underscores the challenges and victories that can come from blurring the lines between personal and business. “It’s the dumbest policy in the world to block your employees from going to social media sites,” said Mark [...]

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 [...]

10 reasons you should use social networks for business

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 [...]

Gartner’s social software predictions for 2010 and beyond

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 [...]