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All posts by Jessica Callaghan

Financial services, listen up! Your customers need you to be social media savvy!

I’ve previously discussed why businesses should embrace social (‘Social media engagement tips for the financial services industry’). This time I’m going to look at why it is important for their customers. The ability for clients to make or break a brand, or certainly cause damage has been greatly enhanced with the advent of social media…

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Social media engagement tips for the financial services industry

The New York Times claims “Banks [are] slow to embrace social media”, following the results of the survey regarding private banking completed by assetinum.com.  This may be fair, but we need to understand the reasons behind the reluctance to embrace the social channels from the financial services sector.  Nerves heighten for a number of reasons,…

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Banking and Social Media Trends February 2012

February saw Gorkana analyse in excess of 346,955 social and mainstream media mentions about the UK’s financial services sectors, namely banking, asset management and professional services. Read on to discover the highlights uncovered this month… Banking had by far the greatest number of mainstream articles across the month of the sectors, (+13% compared with January). …

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Banking and social media trends 2012

Gorkana has analysed circa 273,770 social media posts and 63,425 pieces of mainstream UK coverage covering the banking, asset management and professional services sectors. So what does our analysis reveal about the banking and social media (and traditional media) trends so far this year? Here are some key highlights from January’s Barometer Reports…. Banking saw coverage across all…

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PR in 2020 – the shape of things to come?

Following on from the Gorkana Group sponsored PR Census 2011 which revealed a healthy and vibrant public relations industry, I attended an interesting event last week.  You may have heard of #PR2020, in fact some of you may have even attended one of Dr Jon White‘s sessions at the CIPR HQ in London.  I went…

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