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PODCAST: Advisers using Yammer can enhance collaboration without sacrificing compliance

Posted on October 30, 2012 by in Compliance, Podcast, Social Media

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Advisers experimenting with enterprise social networks now have an option to solve their compliance needs.

Sam Kolbert-Hyle, vice president of business development and strategic initiatives at Smarsh, Inc.

There are a host of new collaboration tools on the market today, all attempting to harness the promise of an enterprise social network.

Services like Chatter, Jive, and Yammer allow you to create your own internal network for your business that resembles many of the popular networks like Facebook and Twitter.

These services offer many new ways to work with colleagues and review important news at a glance, but advisers must address one persistent complication of any new technology: compliance.

Until now, there have been few methods available to capture and archive content posted on enterprise social networks, which is required for all communications related to client service.

Earlier this week, Smarsh, the email and social media compliance provider, announced the launch of Archiving and Compliance for Yammer, the popular enterprise social network.

For more information on Archiving and Compliance for Yammer, I spoke with Sam Kolbert-Hyle, vice president of business development and strategic initiatives at Smarsh.

Listen to the podcast below to learn how these collaboration tools can now be used without sacrificing compliance.

PODCAST: Financial advisers don’t need to tweet or like to get social media benefits

Posted on October 18, 2012 by in Podcast, Social Media

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Tim Walker, Marketing Product Manager for Socialware

Some financial advisers are under the impression that the only way to benefit from social media is to tweet on Twitter or propagate Likes on Facebook. That’s just not true.

Advisers can benefit from social media simply by listening to what others are saying, a technique called “social listening.”

Unfortunately, most software designed to survey the social landscape for relevant updates is targeted to huge enterprises with recognized brands and millions of customers (think Coca-Cola, Southwest Airlines, etc.). Tools like Radian6 start at $5,000 per month, well beyond the reach of nearly all independent advisers.

Now, Socialware, a social media compliance software provider, just announced its own social listening software called Social Network Listening.

To get more insight on how Social Network Listening can help financial professionals, I connected with Tim Walker, Marketing Program Manager for Socialware for the following podcast.

View more information about Social Network Listening at Socialware.com.

One item of note: Social Network Listening is currently targeted to institutional financial services companies and broker-dealers, but Walker said that sales to independent advisers is on Socialware’s roadmap for the product.

Trumpet Publisher might be your answer to manually uploading hundreds of files to a file sharing site

Posted on September 26, 2012 by in Efficiency, Software

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Jo Day, co-founder of Trumpet, Inc.

In my presentations to advisers, I talk about file sharing and synchronization services like Dropbox and ShareFile as an alternative to client web portals.

These file sharing services can sync to a folder on your local computer, so uploading and downloading files is as easy as dragging-and-dropping them in and out of a folder.

But what happens if advisers need to deliver hundreds of documents to all of their clients at once? This is exactly what happens during the quarterly portfolio reporting period.

One solution to avoid manual work is a new product from Trumpet, Inc. called Trumpet Publisher.

Trumpet Publisher integrates with the popular file sharing service ShareFile from Citrix (see: Rob Kirkland tells how ShareFile can be an alternative to Dropbox for advisers). The integration was announced in the press release a few weeks ago (see: Trumpet, Inc. Integrates with Citrix ShareFile)

To learn more about Trumpet Publisher, I spoke with Jo Day, co-founder of Trumpet, Inc., about her company’s latest product and how it can streamline many manual processes when attempting to share hundreds of documents with hundreds of clients at once.

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PODCAST: Cabinet President Andrew Bailey discusses secure file sharing, iPad app

Posted on September 6, 2012 by in Software

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Document management software provider facilitates secure file sharing between advisers and clients; iPad app releasing soon

For today’s podcast, I was joined by Andrew Bailey, president of document management software provider Cabinet, to learn more about his company’s solution for financial advisers.

Cabinet President Andrew Bailey

Readers likely recognize Cabinet as CabinetNG, but last month the company dropped “NG” from its name in a new branding campaign (NG stood for Next Generation, a label Bailey feels the company has since transcended).

Bailey and I spoke about Cabinet’s flagship product called SAFE, and how they’ve added features useful to financial advisers, such as a private cloud hosting option to eliminate the need for a local server to run the software.

Also, Bailey hinted at the upcoming release of Cabinet’s app for iPad, something I was able to see early versions of during a visit with vice president Jim True several weeks ago. Bailey anticipates the Cabinet iPad app will be released in Q4 this year.

You can learn more information on Cabinet at www.cabinetpaperless.com.

[photo: Cabinet – Flickr]

PODCAST: Smarsh president Stephen Marsh addresses Pinterest and compliance

Posted on August 29, 2012 by in Compliance, Podcast, Social Media

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Founder of email archiving provider says advisers can use Pinterest without skirting compliance requirements

I had the opportunity to connect with Stephen Marsh, Founder and CEO of Smarsh, Inc., a company well-known for its email and social media archiving services.

Smarsh Founder and CEO Stephen Marsh

By now, most advisers are aware of multiple archiving solutions for social media websites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, but it’s not so clear whether updates to emerging social media sites like Pinterest can also be archived.

In this podcast, Marsh shares information on his company’s Web Archiving product and how it allows advisers to “pin” updates to Pinterest and archive them for compliance purposes.

Marsh also addresses the company’s annual Electronic Communications Compliance Survey report with key statistics.

After listening to the podcast, use the following link to download the free compliance survey: 2012 Electronic Communications Compliance Survey

Click to view/download the PDF podcast transcript.

[PODCAST] Competing Against “Robo Advisors:” Delivering Advice in a New World from T3 2012

Posted on February 23, 2012 by in Podcast, Practice Management, Technology

Yesterday I posted two YouTube videos from the session from T3 2012 titled Competing Against Robo Advisors. I know that many of you prefer to download content like this to your media player of choice (i.e. iPhone) and listen to it on your jog or your commute home.

Using the audio from the Robo Advisor session, I created my first podcast. I’m currently going through the approval process with iTunes, but in the meantime you can listen and download the podcast directly from FPPad.

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Tibergien Podcast on Practice Management

Posted on May 28, 2008 by in Practice Management

PuzzlePart of my semi-daily web browsing habit is to check out the podcasts available at the Investment Advisor magazine website.  Recently added is a podcast of an interview with Mark Tibergien, the current CEO of Pershing Advisor Solutions.

02/23/2012: The content has been removed. Click here to listen to the Tibergien podcast on IA’s website. (opens an embedded audio player)

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