The online newspaper The Paypers has recently published The Mobile Payments Market Guide 2012. This useful document provides an in-depth look at the global mobile financial services ecosystem, combining insight from key stakeholders and top-level industry thought leaders with a comprehensive overview of market players (MNOs, banks, technology providers, phone manufacturers or payment processors).
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Brett King’s speech at the “Era of the Customer Marketing Summit” in Istanbul, 7-8 December 2011.
A short animated film by Crowdsourcing.org, narrated by Crowdsourcing.org’s Founder, Carl Esposti, describing the four different ways Crowdsourcing works and the five different categories of things you can do with crowdsourcing.
See how to tap the power of the crowd for creative projects (Crowd Creativity), to collect and organize knowledge (Distributed Knowledge), how to use the crowd to develop and test new ideas (Open Innovation), to access an on-demand scalable workforce (Cloud Labor) and how to use the crowd to raise capital (Crowdfunding).
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Many companies seem to be jumping into the mobile payment game. Since almost every day a new player enters the market Mobile Payments Today has tried to capture in this infographic the companies that are entering the market and how they’re placing their bets.
A new video from producer & author of Socialnomics Erik Qualman showcases what technology will replace this digital decade: from checkbooks to car keys. Leaders will also be replaced by new Digital Leaders, which is the focus of Qualman’s new book.
Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman this is one of the most watched social media video in the world.
This is the long version produced June 2011.
Social Media Revolution 2011: new version of the famous Erik Qualman’s video.
Grand Theft Auto style game educate people about banking.
The game is build around a teenager that comes to the city in search of making it big, along with characters like landlords, fraudsters, old ladies, partners, banks, businesses, etc. To progress in the game, you have to pass challenges (generally financial ones about managing money) and once you get a roll on you’ll start to make more money, to spend on more things, on your way to creating an empire on 56 Sage Street.
The Remote Payments Task Force of the Mobey Forum has recently published a white paper, Mobile Remote Payments
General Guidelines for Ecosystems, for industry guidance and consultation. This paper suggests that the mobile phone number, and not any other specific code or identifier, should be used to identify the payer and payee in a mobile remote payment transaction. The paper identifies guidelines for developing a payment “ecosystem” stressing the need for interoperability across different payment systems and stakeholders across the globe.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) micro-finance is expanding from lending marketplaces like Zopa to peer-to-peer affinity-driven financial support for a wide variety of projects. Several names are used to describe the phenomen is a kind of a crowdsourcing initiative and is usually named as crowdfunding or social finance.
There are a number of websites accomodating crowdsourcing, many of them in creative domains, as described in Ross Dawson’s article How to raise money from the crowds.
Linkedin’s statistics can finally be obtained using Linkedin advertise tools.
As shown on Vincenzo Cosenza blog (Vincos blog), Linkedin has almost 69 million members in over 200 countries and finance (12%) is one of the most represented industries with hi-tech (16%), manufacturing (10%) and engineering (15%).
Here is video – courtesy of gaspedal – where TurboTax’s Social Media Marketing Manager, Christine Morrison, explains how they are applying the fundamentals of word of mouth marketing to social media.
Christine describes how social media is helping them build a persuasion engine, how they’re making user reviews more relevant, and how they’re using Twitter for customer support.
gWallet, a recently launched company that partners with both brands and game developers to bring users virtual currency offers, is launching a new format for offers. Called the Brand Bar, the offers to earn virtual currency appears in a bar across the top of a social game on Facebook.
Where mobile banking is headed by 2020? In my view most of the technology is already here and therefore those predictions are more likely to happen around 2012 – 2015 rather than in 2020.
Technology could potentially bring a lot of innovation in the banking space but how innovation can eventually happen without changing old infrastructures and regulations?
Per conoscere di più su Kiva e su un caso reale di Social Lending, si consiglia la lettura dell’articolo su Wired di Febbraio 2010 intitolato Matt Flannery (fondatore di Kiva).
This video is a sort of elevator pitch and explains in 2 minutes using 10 key facts why brands need to take notice of social media.
Dan Robles, the Director of The Ingenesist Project, share with this video a provoking thought: since people are trading knowledge assets in social media why not developing an alternate financial system that can capitalize the knowledge assets in social media?
Technology could potentially bring a lot of innovation in the banking space but how innovation can eventually happen without changing old infrastructures and regulations?
