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Compliant Social Media

By Messaging News staff
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For heavily regulated industries, such as financial services, social media is an attractive communications tool, but it needs to be managed carefully. According to a social business survey conducted last year by IDC, 51 percent of companies use consumer social media tools for communicating with customers, 43 percent are creating awareness about a company product or service, and 42 percent are acquiring knowledge/asking questions.

Published February 8, 2012

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