Morgan Stanley Brokers Will Use Twitter & LinkedIn To Market Themselves
This is huge for a wall street firm. As reported by Mashable:
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s financial advisers have gotten the go ahead to market themselves on Twitter and LinkedIn, marking the first time a major wealth manager was able to employ social media for that use.
This is in reference to self-promotion using social media. But, perhaps the wall in general is starting to come down.
If you haven’t worked on wall street, or with any major financial firm, you’re probably unaware of all the Internet restrictions in the workplace.
For starters, when at work for a wall street firm you can’t use any webmail products (GMail, Yahoo Mail, etc), Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or any other social media sites. At many firms you can’t even use sites that have a social twist (think Tumblr). And the list goes on and on.
Of course this is ridiculous. Most people just use their smartphones to access anything they like. Or in some cases, they bring in a MiFi device.
