Actiance and BDI Partner to Reveal the True Value of Social Media for Financial Services


BELMONT, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 9, 2013) - Actiance, helping organizations benefit from communications, collaboration and social networking, today announced a live webinar on August 14, 2013 to discuss how financial institutions can derive real value from social media. How Financial Institutions Get True Value from Social Media will feature insights into successfully using social media during an hour-long joint webinar hosted by Actiance and the Business Development Institute. Sarah Carter, general manager of social business at Actiance, will educate decision makers at leading financial institutions on the value of becoming a social business, best practices for utilizing social technologies and latest industry legal and compliance requirements.

The live webinar will explore how legal and compliance requirements do not curtail the benefits of firms using social media. Speakers will review case studies from leading financial institutions and discuss cost savings and revenue-generating opportunities. Importantly, attendees will learn how to integrate social into the fabric of their brands and take advantage of social business.

"Social media continues to impact the way financial services companies communicate and collaborate with customers, employees and the public. We're seeing more and more financial institutions developing robust polices, empowering advisors and employing technology to better use social," said Carter. "I look forward to discussing the myriad of ways that financial services businesses can use social to achieve business goals."

What: Webinar: How financial institutions get true value from social media
When: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm ET
Where: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/252916250
Who: Sarah Carter, general manager of social business at Actiance; Derek Stern, assistant director of compliance at Putnam Investments.

About Actiance
Actiance is a global leader in communication, collaboration, and social media governance for the enterprise. Its governance platform is used by millions of professionals across dozens of industries. With the power of communication, collaboration, and social media at their fingertips, Actiance helps professionals everywhere to engage with customers and colleagues so they can unleash social business. The Actiance platform gives organizations the ability to ensure compliance for all their communications channels. It provides real-time content monitoring, centralized policy management, contextual capture of content and smart archiving which improves the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of eDiscovery and helps protect users from malware and accidental or malicious leakage of information. Actiance supports all leading social media, unified communications, collaboration, and IM platforms, including Facebook (FB), LinkedIn (LNKD), Twitter, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Skype, IBM, (IBM), Jive (JIVE), Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO), and Salesforce.com (CRM).

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