A pair of prominent financial news agencies are teaming up with public relations and marketing firm Cognito to host a pair of soup-to-nuts events that will delve into what financial services professionals want and need to know about using social media in their practices.
Thomson Reuters and Finextra announced Tuesday the pair of "Social Media Days" events will be held in London and New York City on April 7 and May 18, respectively.
Organizers say the events will "highlight specific ways in which forward thinking financial organizations are increasing their use of social media tools for marketing, customer relationships and internal collaboration."
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Event organizers said committing to two full days of comprehensive sessions on either side of the Atlantic was something of a no-brainer following the success of a Finextra B2B social media webcast during the Sibos conference in October.
"The overwhelming attendance and interest generated from the social media event at Sibos confirmed that the financial sector clearly now has social media on its agenda," Cognito CEO Tom Coombes said in a statement.
The sessions at both the London and New York City event will explore regulation and compliance issues surrounding social media, the overall B2B environment and ROI measurement metrics, the ways and benefits of using social media for internal collaboration and a blue-sky session dedicated to predicting what social media in the financial services industry will look like and mean in 2016.
Speaker slots are still available at both events and interested firms and individuals are encouraged to
