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Changing the face of super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... Gen Y. One key thing to avoid is to market super funds through so-called social networking websites including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. Pape said it is "far too risky" to have a company's brand name brandished on these sites and become an unwitting ...

Twitter my super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
Individuum is waving the Gen Y flag when it used digital platforms Twitter, Facebook, blogs and Vimeo video screening to stay connected to members. IOOF-owned Individuum, an online super provider, decided to embark on its online journey because most ...

Trade and chat at CMC Markets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Move over Facebook, a new social network program is in town - CMC Markets traders are now chatting, trading, and sharing their secrets of success with each other on the firm's Trading Social Network. CMC Markets first piloted its TSN April last year ...

Wiki me happy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... that the key is to tailor social networking sites to suit the company. "You don't want to be [combining] your personal Facebook with the Facebook for work...and it has to have the security settings where it is only viewed internally." It is not only ...

Crisis on Facebook

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
Call it the financial crisis that launched a thousand Facebook sites. The Web 2.0 has spawned Depression 2.0, a social networking site where individuals discuss a return to the Great Depression of the 30s. Financial planners and fund managers who want ...

Banks not ready for Web 2.0

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... also expects it to be as customisable and interactive as the Web 2.0 sites they are familiar with, such as MySpace and Facebook. "That can mean anything from having the customer's online bank permanently available as a widget, to having third-party information ...

Shift ad budget for Gen Y: Williams

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) Communications Forum, Williams said placing advertising or information on websites such as 'facebook' and 'myspace' super funds could easily connect with Generation Y. These changes, Williams said, do not require ...

Friendster to fundster

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... that has been talked elsewhere but the funds management industry is the power of online social networking sites like Facebook and Friendster to reach would-be investors. Kimber, who only this week moved jobs to become the Asia chief executive of Friendster ...

Wikis may be working for Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... online collaboration tools), has used the virtual environment Second Life as a training venue and allows staff to access Facebook from their work computers. Westpac chief information officer Simon Macnamara meanwhile is a veteran bank blogger. Unfortunately ...

Web 2 social networking websites under attack

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... information for financial profit. The AVG research revealed major virus threats were found in the Bank of India website, Facebook banner advertisements, an Alicia Keys MySpace page and a US National Hockey league website last year. "Last year, cyber ...