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The world's most popular social network has filed for an IPO of $5 billion, launching the process for its highly anticipated stock market debut.
February 2, 2012
1 min read
Planning and Advice
The idea that we are but a few links away from everyone else forms the whole basis of networking. In fact, the professional website LinkedIn is hinged on this very concept.
By Natalie Jamison |February 1, 2012
3 min read
To effectively leverage and maximize social media tools to grow business takes more than just a social media presence.
By Vikram Barhat |January 30, 2012
As the vast majority of Canadians take their products-and-services search online, businesses are beginning to follow. The financial services industry is waking up to this trend.
By Vikram Barhat |January 16, 2012
2 min read
Those who predicted unstinted growth for social media in 2011 got it spot on. The global appeal and adoption of social media continue to create a hyperconnected world where, LinkedIn tells me, 240 connections can link you to over four million people. The ‘six degrees of separation’ theory, thanks to social networking sites, is all […]
By Vikram Barhat |December 30, 2011
Financial services industry has been slow to adopt social media and has so far been unable and unwilling to leverage the medium to its fullest potential.
By Vikram Barhat |December 29, 2011
If you’re in the business of advising, influencing, counseling, consulting or recommending ANYTHING to ANYONE, then the benefits of curation can be huge.
By Jay Palter |December 13, 2011
Canadian brokers have received an early gift this year: clarity in the regulations covering their use of social media. IIROC has issues a modernized set of guidelines for registrants’ communications and advertising.
By Staff |December 8, 2011
Important client e-mails can be lost in the daily deluge of information. Here are three inexpensive ways to help you manage messages.
By Kevin Cork |November 18, 2011
Investors may or may not "like" this. The first ever social media ETF has hit the market.
By John Powell |November 16, 2011
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