Share | Please find below 20 blog posts & articles U may`ve missed last couple of weeks. BANK`g * 4 financial services companies Z don’t suck w/ social media (by Ian Greenleigh) * Corporate banks want more – welcome to transaction banking: Version 2.0 (by John Beck) * Play`g Offense & Defense in Social Media (by Nicole Sturgill) Twitter * Top 10 Most Followed Financial Institutions on Twitter in October 2010 (on Visible Banking) * Don’t Ignore My Tweets (by Ron Shevlin) Facebook * Top 10 Most Liked Financial Institutions on Facebook in October 2010 (on Visible Banking) Online Communities * PlanBig just got bigger – again! (on the Plan Big Blog) Contests * Standard Chartered`s Hir`g the World’s Coolest (on Visible Banking) Interviews * Tech vision: Wells Fargo’s Steve Ellis (by John Beck) FINANCIAL SERVICES & INVESTMENT * Facebook 4 Finance (by Len Costa on Institutional Investor) * How Finance & Investment Firms Can Use Social Media (by Robert Holland) INSURANCE * Insurance Industry Look`g To Engage Customers Via Social Media (by Chad Hemenway) STARTUPS * Finovate Alumnis Weekly Updates (on the Finovate blog) OUTSIDE THE BANK`g INDUSTRY * Facebook`s Worth $2.52, Twitter Only 43 Cents: Study (on Fast Company) * Innovative or the joke? Company uses multiple Twitter accounts as its website. (by Brad McCarty) * Conan O’Brien: K`g of Social Media (by Austin Carr) * Social media the waste of time? Not to gen Y (by Mitch Joel) * Facebook Groups: Privacy Blunder or Twitter Replacement (by Matthew Ingram) * CMO Erin Nelson on Her Decision To Leave Dell (by Melanie Wells) * Social Media Now More Popular Than E-mail on Mobile Devices (on Mashable) Related articles on Visible-Banking.com * Previous Weekly News * Top 10 Most Followed Financial Institutions on Twitter in October 2010 * Top 10 Most Liked Financial Institutions on Facebook in October 2010 * Visible Bank`g Directory: Social Media in Financial Services * Visible Bank`g Social Media Watch Series (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, YouTube)
@ the Bank Systems & Technology Executive Summit in San Diego today, Dan Marks, chief market`g officer, 1st Tennessee Bank pointed out Z the way people want to do their bank`g`s changed dramatically over the past 70 years, just as the the way V consume music`s changed from LPs to iTunes.
Share | 3 days ago, I published the blog post on Caja Navarra’s latest initiatives in the social media space: Trwivial , their 1st twitter contest. Early next week, I`ll publish my interview about this contest w/ the Caja Navarra Team. Stay tuned on Visible Banking! 1st Big Milestone Today, just the few days after launch they broke the good milestone: 1,000 tweeps`ve already registered to participate to the contest which`ll kick off on 4th October. Happy Birthday Fernando By the way, I`ld like to wish the happy birthday to project owner: Fernando Egido - Head of Bank 2.0 @ Banca Civia: Feliz Cumpleaños Fernando! What the perfect timing, & the nice present your your birthday. ;) 1st Email to the Contestants the few minutes ago, I received the very 1st email from Caja Navarra since I registered (please C below). It`s almost the shame they sent it less than the couple of hours before reach`g the big milestone… Related Articles on Visible-Banking.com * Guest Post #4 – Overview Social Media & Bank`g in Spain (by Jesus Perez) * Interview Jose Antonio Gallego, Online Community Manager @ BBVA * Interview Pol Navarro, Head of Channels & Innovation @ Banco Sabadell * Bankinter Launches ‘Bankinter Labs’ + Online Innovation & Social Media from the Spanish Financial Institutions * Top 10 Most Followed Financial Institutions on Twitter in August 2010 * Visible Bank`g Directory: Social Media in Financial Services * Visible Bank`g Social Media Watch Series (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, YouTube
Share | I`ve`en invited to contribute to the webchat w/ Matt Colebrook , 1st Direct’s CEO , which`ll take place on Friday 1st October @ 1:30pm BST. I invite U to register now ( via the embeded screen below ), & visit this page on Visible-Banking.com on Friday, to watch and participate to the webchat. I am delighted to B 1 of the 3 facilitators w/ my friends Brett K`g & Chris Skinner . Unarguably, the 1st Direct brand`s the great asset. HSBC’s direct bank`s been the most recommended bank in the UK 4 years now, w/ the clear focus on customer support. It`s the source of inspiration & the model 4 many other direct banks such as NAB’s Ubank or Rabobank’s RaboDirect.ie. 3 Key Questions to Matt Matt Colebrook`s 1 of the bank`g CEOs the most “pro innovation”, & he`s always will`g to break new grounds in our very conservative UK bank`g industry. I invite U to check the bottom of this post & watch the videos shot w/ Matt about the Future of Bank`g & Telephone Banking, videos recently relayed on Reuters & the Independent. Dur`g the 30mn webchat, Matt will share his vision and his views on the 3 follow`g topics: * the last 21 years of bank`g & how it`s changed * the credit crunch & the trust deficit * the future of banking 1st Direct`s the Most Social UK Bank (so far) The bank`s always`en @ the forefront of innovation
Share | The European Financial Market`g Association (EFMA) & Oracle Financial Services`ve just released the report based on the recent survey answered by key executives in the top 100 retail banks in EMEA like CEOs, CIOs, SVPs, Heads of Operations, General Managers & Product Managers of Youth Banking. I invite U to download the report below. As soon as I go through the report, I`ll updated this post w/ my comments. Please contact me to discuss into more details: christophe.langlois@visible-banking.com , twitter , linkedin , facebook . We`ld B delighted to help U to successfully leverage social media, in the pragmatic way. Related articles on Visible-Banking.com * Top 10 Most Followed Financial Institutions on Twitter in August 2010 * Visible Bank`g Directory: Social Media in Financial Services * Visible Bank`g Social Media Watch Series (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, YouTube)