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Banks Assessing Risk Formula – Keep Security Also in Mind

April 14, 2010

This week the FDIC announced a fee proposal for banks to help try to capture and determine risks. The logic is the more increased the risk factors the more chances the institution may fail. With this new proposal, the FDIC will take into consideration a bank’s asset concentrations, credit quality measures and any underperforming assets. [...]

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iPad Review

April 12, 2010

Okay, so I’ve had my iPad for over a week now (yes, always an early adopter.) I premise this post with a few things. First, I already have many other Apple products including a Macbook Pro, a MacAir, various iPod versions and the like. I also have the first edition of the Kindle that I [...]

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You’re Using Twitter Wrong (and Other Egotistical Stuff Social Media Experts Claim)

February 18, 2010

Let’s be honest, us “social media experts” are a bit arrogant. We work in a world that has been around for years, but is seemingly new to most, giving us a certain level of commendable expertise that few others have. We also collectively truly do create the fate and reality of companies in our space – [...]

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Risks vs. Rewards

February 2, 2010

Post written by: Cassandra Luppens, Controls & Risk Compliance Expert
Here we are in the 21st century.  We monitor our trading, we monitor our friends, we get real time information (or as real time as we can), yet big brother is still trying to hold us back.  Why is it that so many of corporate america can’t [...]

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Outsourcing Social Media – Good Business Move or Fake Dialogue?

December 18, 2009

A lot of businesses are turning to outsourcing social media due to either budgetary restraints or lack of knowledge or expertise in this area. However, a lot of “insiders” are questioning this move, especially around message and conversation and how this impacts the authentic voice of an organization. But, business people argue it’s better to [...]

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“We meant to do that” and other random quotes

February 12, 2008

I’m not sure why, but it always amazes me that people cannot simply accept the knowledge of others, or even better, perhaps thank them for sharing that useful intellectual property.  Everyday, especially when speaking to small clients, you hear funny little quotes; most of them tied to an odd sort of defense mechanism than anything [...]

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Ohhhh…Everything 2.0

January 30, 2008

Today I feel like I’m in a time machine, or having flashbacks, or some mixture of both.  When monitoring the feeds coming in from writers that are seeking sources for stories, one of the requests for someone to comment on “sales 2.0″ and it led me back to my early days at AOL when we were working [...]

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