On the 10th May, LinkedIn held its first ever Financial Services Summit. The event took place in New York, featured key people from such financial stalwarts as American Express, Citi, Fidelity Investments and Prudential Retirement and set out to examine the role that social media is playing within the financial services industry. An interesting review …
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin 46% of people think that Facebook will disappear within the next 5 years. Sound surprising? Well, at the time of writing those were the latest results …
Results are out for the first quarter of 2012 in the Financial Professionals Social Media Adoption Study, a regular piece of research sponsored by American Century Investments. You can find the whole report here but for those of you who like your news in brief, here are some of the stats we found most the …
The world is full of people telling us that “we are what we eat” or explaining why what we choose to fill our lives with is instrumental in determining how it turns out. There’s also a whole industry of pop-psychology helping us to analyse our various foibles or get under the skin of who we …
Can you imagine buying your next set of home insurance from Facebook? Would you love it or hate it if a change to your Facebook timeline prompted a flurry of financial offers, directly targeted at the latest developments in your life? Well, love it or loathe it, the expansion of social networks into the financial …