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Friday, 8th January, 2010 at 20:28
Europe’s first Social Business Summit, which we organise in cooperation with Headshift/Dachis Group will be held in the city of London on March 18 and is part of a series including a Dachis Group summit in Austin and Sydney. All three events are intended to engage with the leading practitioners on three continents and provide a global view of the market.
The Social Business Summit (March 18, London) is invitation-only. Therefore, save the date and let us know if you wish to participate.
Lee Bryant, CEO and co-founder of Headshift, calls upon on the next phase of social business design in companies: The use of social tools in business is now progressing from the experimental stage to the beginning of mainstream adoption. As with all transformational technologies, organisational culture change and technology adoption are closely related, with both influencing the other in subtle but important ways. We want to look ahead and consider the impact of social tools on the way we organise, structure and manage knowledge- and people-intensive businesses in the future, both internally and externally.
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Keywords: headshift, smo10, Social Business Summit, SOMESSO London 2010
Thursday, 5th November, 2009 at 17:48
This is an abstract of Dennis Howlett’s post on “The World’s First Social Community Bank” and Matthias Kröner (Founder & CEO of Fidor). Both met last Tuesday at the SOMESSO Zurich 09 conference. I’m certain that Matthias must have made a quite strong impression on Dennis - which is, let’s be honest here, not an easy thing to do. During the day the question “is fidor bank the worlds first social community bank?” was raised by @hubculture.
Here are Dennis’ thoughts:
[...] I doubt it. [...] The difference today is that Fidor is the first (that I know) that’s actively leveraging the innovations offered by Web 2.0 computing to create an entirely new type of bank.
It is a bank that is reputation based and where reputation is a transparently represented idea that is wholly dependent upon the activities of people who participate in the community that ARE the bank.
[...] I’ve talked previously about the value of reputation. Nowhere is this more obvious than in banking. Our trust in banks is vital to so many things we understand about business. Without it – Lehmans happens. Even after 100+ years.
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Keywords: community banking, review, smo09, social community bank, SOMESSO Zurich 2009
Monday, 2nd November, 2009 at 16:42
Stan Stalnaker, Founder and Creative Director of Hub Culture, explains why Hub Culture started a new digital virtual currency - Ven.
The world has undergone several large financial shocks in recent years that have changed the landscape of credit and our perception of the finance industry. While severe, these shocks have helped to cloud views on a much larger shift underway that is led by technology. Much in the way that communications have been flattened and democratized by the Internet, signs are emerging that the same forces are beginning to reshape our relationship with banking and finance, maybe even the concept of money itself. (more…)
Permalink | Posted by Arjen Strijker under Guest Articles, Zurich 2009 | Add a comment »
Keywords: 2009, future, Hub Culture, revolution, smo09, SOMESSO Zurich 2009, Stan Stalnaker, virtual currency, zurich
Monday, 2nd November, 2009 at 15:52
David Terrar is Executive Director at ITBrix and a well-known true social media expert (his blog). David is going to be the day-moderator at SOMESSO Zurich09 on November 3 this year. Below he shares examples of Social Media in Banking and Finance.
As I said I my last post, the smart organizations are the ones that realize the power of the connections and collaboration that social media tools can bring. As a prelude to SOMESSO I want to highlight some existing use cases in the banking and finance world as well as suggesting some information sources for finding out more.
Looking around the banking and finance landscape you can see the rise of use of blog and wiki technology for collaboration at Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (now Commerzbank), or social media oriented marketing campaigns by the likes of American Express and Visa. You can also see the other side of the coin - in the USA a number of consumer-driven anti-Bank of America blogs have shown how social media can adversely affect brand and reputation if it isn’t handled properly. (more…)
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Keywords: banking, David Terrar, finance, ITBrix, social media, Wordframe
Thursday, 29th October, 2009 at 20:47
David Terrar is Executive Director at ITBrix and a well-known true social media expert (his blog) David is going to be the day-moderator at SOMESSO Zurich09 on November 3 this year. Below his views on how companies can bridge the gap between corporate culture and the “web 2.0 society”.
The upcoming SOMESSO for the banking and finance sector aims to bridge the gap between corporate culture and the ‘web 2.0 society’. Why is that important? Why is that necessary? Well, as we progress in to the 21st century, we live at a time of astonishing extremes and rapid change.
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Keywords: 2009, corporate culture, David Terrar, ITBrix, preview, smo09, SOMESSO Zurich 2009, web 2.0, Wordframe, zurich
