Re: Social Media
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Using Social Media to Protect Public Safety – The thrust of this article is not Fugitive Safe Surrender in Washington, DC (www.dcsafesurrender.org) but an overview of the possibilities that social media affords the criminal justice community. By social media, I’m referring to radio …
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The only real social networks are personal ones – Should Brands Join or Build Their Own Social Network? is the question Jeremiah Owyang raised yesterday on Twitter and in facebook. If you’re a facebook member, you can participate. I am a member, but I’d rather not. At least, not there. …
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Doc Searls Weblog · Toward a new search engine, powered by you – I ran into Jeremie Miller yesterday in an elevator here at the hotel where Defrag is happening in Denver. I last spoke to Jeremie while working on a story/interview with him for Linux Journal. Atlas: Hoisting a New World of Search is now up, and things have been moving along on the Atlas project, now titled Search Wikia.
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college hi-jinks and social derring-do – I’ve now passed the first week and half of my second semester at Gallaudet. I really, truly am glad to be back here. One month of holidays was far too long. I was keen to return to my college hi-jinks. On our first Saturday night back …
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A processor’s perspective – These views of our work areas give some idea of what it is like to process a collection as large, varied, and disorderly as the Morton photos. Since I began working on the collection two months ago, I have had regular moments of crisis …
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Ron on Middlebury · Welcome! – It was a very busy summer here on campus with convocation and commencement exercises for the Language Schools and the Bread Loaf School of English, not to mention the infamous leaf-logo, but it is hard not to feel energized with the beginning of a new academic year upon us. I am launching this blog to communicate directly with you, to get feedback from you on specific issues, and to hear what might be on your mind. (1) student work load: This issue came up during some of my lunches with students last year, and I shared the concern with my faculty colleagues at the opening faculty meeting last week.
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technology leadership follow-up discussion – dr. dexter gave us a very informative presentation about technology leadership this thursday. it was a great experience! in the colloquium, we have talked about the school characteristic of it leadership, responsibilities of it leaders, …
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Untitled and Undecided » Blog Archive » Copy and Paste Literacy … – Last summer, I had a chance to watch a group of teenagers use MySpace during their breaks while attending a summer program. I wondered what sorts of technical skills they were getting hooked into in the process of figuring out how to customize their pages using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). I wanted to know how this process of profile creation and maintenance could be seen as some new form of literacy (if at all).
Social Media and Brokerage Companies
* Six of the 20 brokerage firms studied have YouTube Channels.
* Schwab and Scottrade’s online communities are for customers only. Schwab’s (approximately 4,200 members) is restricted to active traders who make more than 36 trades per year, while Scottrade’s community (approximately 8,000 members) is open to all clients.
* TD Ameritrade offers a sentiment tracking tool on its website that allows clients to vote on the daily performance of a stock and see how other traders are voting.Social Media and the Banking and Credit Cards Industry
* Eight of the 20 banking and credit card firms tracked have YouTube channels. Bank of America and Citizens Bank feature content from their viral marketing campaigns and American Express devotes their channel to their philanthropy, MemberProject initiative.
* Wells Fargo was one of the earliest adopters of social media, participating in the virtual world Second Life before branching out with its own Stagecoach Island community targeting Gen Y customers.
* American Express, Bank of America and Capital One have also developed their own online communities to serve small business owners.
* Visa has launched its own Facebook application targeting small business owners, a one-of-a-kind in the industry.Social Media and Annuity Issuers
* Annuity issuers target older consumers who are the least likely to participate in social media.
* Only two firms, AXA and TIAA-CREF maintain online communities directed at retirees. New York Life lets public site users rate and bookmark pages using popular share sites like Digg.Social Media and Mutual Fund Companies
* While mutual fund company executives expressed a strong desire to incorporate social media into their business models, none had any concrete plans and most say they are being held back by compliance departments. Corporate Insight also believes that a conservative approach to the Web is partially to blame for fund companies’ inactivity in the social media space.
* T. Rowe Price does utilize social media for internal training of seasonal tax representatives.
Related External Links
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- HOW TO: Track Social Media Analytics
- Social Media and Public Relations Consulting PR Squared
