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.
Today’s post is for our German speaking audience. It is the German translation of the probably most popular video about social media (Is social media just a fad?).
Der heutige Beitrag ist ein Video, das vielen vielleicht schon von der Englischen Originalfassung bekannt ist.
Vielen Dank an den Michael Ehlers Verlag für die Übersetzung!
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Frans van der Reep (InHolland University) talks at SOMESSO London 09 about how social media is driving a shift from ‘lean and mean’ towards ‘lean and meaningful’ business. (more…)
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Merran Wrigley, Head of External Communications and PR at Sony Ericsson, talks about her experience of introducing social media communications for a mobile telecoms multinational.