Posts Tagged social networking

  • Twitter: Security risk or serious enabler?

    In the online world you haven’t officially “made it” until your brand gets phished.Which is why it didn’t come as a big surprise to see fraudsters successfully target micro-blogging site Twitter this month.Attackers started by hijacking the accounts of high profile Twitter users including Br...

  • Are you banned from using Facebook at work?

    If you work for a large bank, chances are you’re banned from using Facebook during office hours. This fact was confirmed for me at Ross Dawson’s excellent Enterprise 2.0 forum held last month in Sydney.At the forum I led a roundtable discussion on enterprise 2.0 for financial services. You can r...

  • What’s the Twitter on your brand?

    Web 2.0 was the “phrase du jour” in 2007. Australians embraced Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and a plethora of other social networking sites.One social networking service that has not received as much media attention in Australia is Twitter. However, slow and steady streams of users from Australia...

  • Web 2.0 for financial services podcast

    Last month I sat down with HotHouse founder Simon van Wyk to discuss the issues and opportunities presented by web 2.0 for the financial services industry.The podcast can be downloaded from the HotHouse Noise blog.This 20 minute chat includes our thoughts on which web 2.0 technologies will be embrac...

  • Peer-to-peer lending for Australia

    A new peer-to-peer lending service is gearing up to launch in Australia and New Zealand.PeerMint founder Scott Rigby told Online Banking Review the group plans to launch locally in November, with Rigby's twin brother managing the Canadian arm of the business based in Vancouver.Rigby says of the thre...

  • Social networking rule no. 1: expect criticism

    TD Canada Trust’s move to enter Facebook with a sponsored site for students has created a lot of buzz in the blogging world.Speaking at Australia’s Retail Financial Services Forum on Tuesday, TD Canada Trust head of retail distribution Brian Haier revealed it hasn’t been all smooth sailing sin...