A sign that use of social media has become truly widespread, FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States, issued some interesting new guidance to stock brokers intending to use Facebook and Twitter. In Regulatory Notice 10-06 issued yesterday, the industry regulator [...]
by Zack Miller on March 24, 2009
Small business, especially ones that cater to local customers, have been slower to adapt to doing ebusiness. These prorprieters gripe that entirely local businesses don’t stand to gain much from going online, other than providing a small web presence for customers and prospective customers. Small businesses have the ability to absolutely “own their geographies” (see [...]
by Zack Miller on November 26, 2008
Interesting how an investor relates to a deeper understanding in a portfolio company after making the investment. Roger Ehrenberg is an investor in StockTwits. As Roger mentions in a recent blog post, StockTwits recently release a new version of StockTwits where users can insert a ‘$’ sign before any mention of a specific stock, effectively [...]
by Zack Miller on November 12, 2008
As first appeared in Dell’s launch of the first-ever crowdsourced whitepaper: This may not sounds politically correct but much of what we’ve experienced in this era of portable workers is while it’s great to talk about productivity and satisfaction from the employee’s point of view, much of the ROI for the business comes from lowering [...]
by Zack Miller on August 8, 2008
I’ve been mulling over the issue of describing risk in expert investment communities. Part of the value proposition of the community concept is the clearinghouse-like pairing of “advisor” to “advisee”. Users looking to tap expert advice in these expert networks need to be able to size up a potential advisor/guru on a variety of fronts [...]
