Is 'Openness' Inevitable For Asset Managers, Too?

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For the last two weeks I’ve been toting around a copy of Charlene Li’s Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform The Way You Lead. This is a book I received an advance review copy of but would have happily paid for because I admire Li.

She’s the co-author of the 2008 book, Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Her firm Altimeter Group provides high-value thought leadership on digital strategies, including some research we refer to in our Rock The Boat Marketing workshops.
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Google's Top 1,000 List Includes 5 Investing Sites—And Why You Might Care

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I trust that you will let me know if this blog starts sounding like a broken record. But some data became available this week that might give you added inspiration to plan for syndicating your content and exploring off your own asset manager domain.

I was checking my RSS feeds this morning when I came across the announcement that Google will now publish a list of the top 1,000 global sites on the Web by unique users as measured by Google’s AdPlanner. Huge, which is what I tweeted. Whether you’re buying online media or not, this is just interesting.
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Evolving Away From Site Tours And Toward ‘Likeable Objects’

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What are you doing to prepare for changes taking place online today that affect Web content?

Despite the fact that content is the value underlying much of the social media phenomenon, the discussion about social media has largely dealt with other issues—the practices, the practitioners, the policies, the enabling technologies. Content is my first love and I’m guilty, too, for having given it short-shrift in recent posts.

The sharing of Web content has sweeping implications for the development, delivery and analytic resources you invest in your firm’s content portfolio—Marketing and non-Marketing text, images and especially charts and graphs, video, audio. And it has direct bearing on how you build out your Web site, especially those of you who are working on redesigns.
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Asset Managers And Social Media, Circa May 2010

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WASHINGTON (5/7/2009)—Three sessions at the Investment Company Institute General Membership Meeting and Operations and Technology Conference provided a tidy snapshot of the asset management industry’s position on social media.

Better blog-writing and SEO would argue in favor of publishing shorter single-theme posts over several days, but we think you might benefit by considering this all together, including a bonus feature on recent investor research.

Asset Management Industry Leadership

This heavy-hitter panel moderated by Vanguard Chairman, President and CEO F. William McNabb included Hartford Life President and COO John Walters, First Eagle Investment Management President and CEO Bridget Macaskill and Franklin Resources, Inc. President and CEO Greg Johnson discussing financial reform, active management and…social media? Yes, in a question from left field in a ballpark down the street, McNabb polled the panel about social media.

Paraphrased responses: 

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