Social Media in Finance

Facebook is more than just a social network; for some brands, it’s their entire web presence. With some marketers redirecting their web addresses to Facebook and others displaying only Facebook URLs in offline communication, there’s no denying that Facebook is gaining media channel status. But there’s more to Facebook than Like buttons and wall posts. …

Free tools keep appearing in the social media monitoring space.  Over a week ago we discovered a social media monitoring tool made with Yahoo Pipes, an extremely powerful (but not at all user-friendly) web application for building, well, other web applications.  Still, the tool works well for monitoring conversations on-the-fly and can be customised (check …

The World Is Obsessed With Facebook from Alex Trimpe on Vimeo. According to this video it most certainly is; however, why do these videos not come directly from Facebook? This is impeccable marketing material and the information design – although not technically accurate – is very engaging.

This year’s London Fashion Week was the most interactive yet. Bloggers gained prominent seats at the event, the official website hosted video highlights, attendees tweeted using hash tags, and designers used their own Facebook pages to communicate with their fans. A stream of updates, using the #lfw tag, provided a good digest about daily events …