10 Ways Social Media is Transforming our Culture and World. It’s 2012, and yet I feel more calm about our future than ever before.
The Internet has saved our asses, and we should celebrate. I’ve been on the Web for a long time, but every once in a while I have one of those tremendous moments when I have a mental flashback to these last 20 or so years… It happened today… one of my favorite Adele songs, writ large in a YouTube fan culture spectacular. Someone had pruned the 71 best YouTube covers of the track from the 350,000 or so available. Woven into a mash-up of all the covers in perfect synchrony. A Snippet of Magic I think it must have been magic that produced it. I mean, even if I had the skill, would I spend that time on a small gift to the Internet? But that’s what we’ve been doing.
Leveraging the power of six degrees of separation. Uniting in common purpose and effort in ways that we had been rapidly losing. New Possibilities Created by Connections 1. 2. That will serve us well. 3. 4. We learn from each other. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. That’s amazing. Share all of this! Social Media Not an Easy Call for Financial Advisors. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.
Thanks for visiting! When I accepted the invitation to keynote the Hillross Annual Conference 2012 in Canberra, Australia, focusing on practical strategies for social media, I was pretty sure that one of my main challenges would be finding examples of successful engagement via social media by financial advisers. Part of the problem is that financial advisers operate in a highly regulated environment and have a justifiable concern that engaging with clients and the general public via social media might bring problems in terms of reputational risk or even put their whole business at risk. My presentation is in the national capital, Canberra, this coming Friday Jan 20th and I’m very much looking forward to that. Global issues It’s clear to me from my research so far that the challenges facing financial advisors engaging with and through social media are by no means confined to the Australian scene. Twitter Analytics Tools - A Crowdbooster Review. Management of multiple social media accounts can be a huge drain on your time and resources.
Never believe anyone who says social media is free! It ain’t! In this post I will review a Twitter Analytics and scheduling tool called Crowdbooster – no affiliate relationship is involved here so you get nothing but the facts without a pitch. And seeing as this is social – please share with the Tweet, Like, Share type buttons at the top. Like most people you are probably feeling a little overwhelmed with the sheer number of social media accounts you need to be active on if you are in business. You are also more than likely finding that tweeting, updating, sharing, liking, +1ing, In-ing (Ha!) I have written previously about Twitter techniques to engage – this post is about how to cut down on the amount of time spent managing your social media accounts. Say hello to the wonderful world of social automation – and before you get up on to your high horse – yes, I can hear the chorus already: Engagement. A new tool for adding Facebook features to your website.