LinkedIn went public on Thursday. Shares listed at $45 but more than doubled in value before the day was out, leading to all kinds of speculative chatter about technology, social media and overheated equity valuations; either we are in the early days of an equity bubble that will end badly, or a communications paradigm shift [...]

HNW is going to be at “The Power of eMarketing” conference in San Francisco this week, hosted by the eMarketing Association. Look for us: SVP of Technology Srini Kandala will be participating in two panels on Tuesday, April 19th, including “Search Marketing Best Practices” at 1 p.m. and “Building your Following” at 4:30 p.m. The [...]

Interesting Reuters article here on how broker dealers and investment advisors are beginning to bristle at the outdated regulations that govern their use of social media. We at HNW validated this six months ago in our first HNW Advisor Survey: 70% of the over 600 financial advisors we surveyed said their firms don’t allow them [...]

Our colleagues over at TheAdvisorUpside have an interesting take on what Facebook’s new “like” function means for financial advisors and reps. It’s more challenging than you think!