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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 [...]

Much Ado about Facebook Fan Pages

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

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 [...]

Top 10 social media best practices

Top 10 social media best practices

You can’t go a day without seeing a news article, blog post or tweet about the growth of social media. Many advisors, agents, firms and government agencies have already experienced the power of this new channel while many others are just getting started. In the financial sector, with the recent clarification from FINRA there is [...]

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 [...]

Advisor Spotlight: VitaVie Financial Planning & Social Media

Advisor Spotlight: VitaVie Financial Planning & Social Media

Welcome to the first edition of our Advisor Spotlight. Our goal is to find financial advisors that are successfully using social media to build their business and highlight them here. Ideally we can all learn something from the efforts of these trailblazers as more and more advisors start to take advantage of social media. Kristin [...]

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 [...]

25½ reasons to backup your social activity

25½ reasons to backup your social activity

By now we all know that if you are in a regulated industry you need to archive your social activity. But aside from complying with industry regulations there are a number of other reasons you should be backing up your social posts, mentions, updates, connections and more. Here are 25 reasons I came up with, [...]

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 [...]

FINRA Webinar Summary: Implementing Compliance Practices for Social Media

For those of you that weren’t able to attend, we live-tweeted this afternoon’s webinar and the full summary is available below. The webinar itself was geared at further answering questions around Notice 10-06. Here is FINRA’s description of the session: “This program addresses implementation of new guidance that FINRA recently issued in Regulatory Notice 10-06, [...]