Posts Tagged ‘Social Networks’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Surprise! Consumers use social networks for financial decisions
Spectrem, a financial research firm and consultant, surveyed 500 financial decision-makers in households with $50,000+ in annual income who spend at least two hours a week on the internet. “Two hours” means that this could be anyone from the recent college grad to your grandfather – in short, virtually anyone. The “Social Media and the [...]
The slow death of email; see you on Facebook
Last month, Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker and associates gave their annual insights on Internet trends. In short, social networks continue to grow leaps and bound, and we haven’t seen anything yet. Online users want to get information on their own terms. In the past, that meant email – consumers set their email preferences and institutions [...]
Much Ado about Facebook Fan Pages
Last week there was a ton of buzz around Facebook’s annual conference, f8. As part of that conference there was quite a bit of news for anyone that manages a Facebook Fan Page. I’ll get into that shortly. Before I do I want to announce the release of Fan Page support for Socialware Sync. Sync [...]
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
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
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 [...]
CMO Guide to Social Media
I just came across this great social media summary from CMO.com. According to a recent survey by The CMO Club and Bazaarvoice, 81% of CMOs plan to link their annual revenues to their social media investment. I think this is a great start but I would like to see columns for Lead Generation, Sales, Customers [...]



