Trends. Statistics. Casestudy. Analysis. Surowiecki. 5 Ways Banks Are Using Social Media. Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and is @obilon on Twitter. He's also the Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY. Many banks have started using social websites to help them with everything from healing the financial industry to promoting their latest credit cards. By embracing the most popular tools available, the industry has also been embracing the best of what social media culture has to offer, and smaller, community banks seem to be leading the charge when it comes to social media innovation. This post profiles some U.S. banks that have used social media in their marketing and communications plans in some interesting and successful ways. 1. Banks are not usually known for building warm and fuzzy communities around their products and services. Missouri Bank, known popularly as Mobank, is a financial institution with a cool vibe that makes them a natural fit to utilize social media. 2.
Steven L. 3. It took them a couple of tries to get social media right, however. #IranElection Crisis: A Social Media Timeline. In fact, so much has been recorded via social media that it is possible to understand the progression of events through it.
Thus, we have built a timeline of events utilizing information recorded via social media. This timeline uses Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia to paint a broad picture of the situation, as well as the growing conversation around it. June 12: The Election On Friday, June 12th, Iran held its Presidential Elections. According to the official (but now disputed) vote tally, Ahmadinejad secured 24.5 million votes, or 62.6 percent, while Mousavi garnered 13.2 million votes, or 33.7 percent. Social media was already tracking the results as they occurred. From Wikipedia: Iranian Presidential Election, 2009 The election had seen huge candidate rallies in Iranian cities, and turnout was very high with over 80 percent of the electorate reportedly voting. From Twitter: Twitter Search, #IranElection, June 12 From Flickr: Iran Election photostream, June 12 Credit: kaka.0098. Best Practices for Designing a Social News Website. How do you get your daily news these days?
Well… you may be visiting your favorite sites and blogs, but that’s inefficient since those blogs may not have any updates. Perhaps you subscribe to them using RSS, which delivers all the new articles straight to you, but in this case you’ll have to sort through all the new stuff to find what’s interesting to you. Another option today would be to visit a social news site. Social news sites are link aggregators, which means their main function is to collect and share interesting links.
This may be done through user submissions, or it may be done automatically by the system. In this article I’ll showcase some of the current top social news sites, will identify trends and patterns in their designs and suggest some best practices to follow when designing such sites. Digg Digg is the most popular social news site and features a usable design that is often adapted by many of its competitors.
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