Social Media and Financial Services are getting to know each other pretty well. There are some obvious opportunities to be grabbed. For decades B2C verticals such as banking and insurance brands have littered doormats and TV screens with broadcast...
We’re inordinately proud to announce the launch of a new microsite by Salesforce UK that Velocity helped with. The site is called Social Success and it’s all about helping businesses harness the power of social media. Our job was to find the consi...
This is the first in a ten part series — you can read the overview here — that explores the latest examples of enterprise uptake of social media internally. The first company we’ll take a look at is telecommunications giant, Alcatel-Lucent, which ...
More than 670 companies submitted their web-based products to the fourth-annual SXSW Accelerator Presented by Microsoft BizSpark. Competition was tough and we're extremely grateful for all of the great submissions we received this year. Congratula...
Google is simplifying its privacy policies – going from 70 documents to 10 – and integrating its customer data across services. Along the way, the company will officially merge intelligence about you from many of its services.Is this beautiful sim...
We define social business as the creation of shared value for everybody in a business value chain, including the customer and the communities they live in, online or offline. For someone in technology, social business may mean free software, platf...
C'mon, it's Day 2 of Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2012 -- get with the program! My alarm clock had another big fail this morning, but fortunately my neurons were so in tune and excited about Day 2 of Lotusphere 2012, that I sprouted up just in time ...
At the Lotusphere 2012 session this afternoon entitled "IBM Social Business Strategy," I had the opportunity to hear directly from two of IBM's senior social business strategists, Douglas Heintzman and Andrew Warzecha. The first headline on their ...
Here are some thoughts on contributor’s perceptions when involved in crowd sourcing and collaborations… It is an accepted fact at this point: tapping into the “wisdom of the crowd” or “crowd sourcing” is a great way to get to a reliable set of tru...
Back in 2006, when the hype around the then-called Web 2.0 “thing” was reaching its peak of inflated expectations, much was said about an article published by Nature the year before, which boldly stated: Many organizations then started placing hig...
