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May 20, 2013

A Credit Card Built Community-Strong

At the annual Lithium Technologies LiNC conference in April, Lithium customer Paul Wilmore from Barclaycard USA spoke about an innovative approach to credit cards in the Banking industry that is built on the core ideas of social business: a community-driven credit card. Forbes' contributor Rawn Shah sat down with Paul to talk about what makes their model different and what they are learning from this new product model designed around social business principles.

April 30, 2013

How Social Communities are Shaping the Future of Established Brands

Lithium's LiNC 2013 conference shows how brands are using customer experience to build a bold, 'disruptive' proposition and reinvent themselves as social businesses

April 26, 2013

Nate Silver: What Big Data Can't Predict

Statistics whiz, Nate Silver was in San Francisco Thursday to talk analytics as the keynote speaker at Lithium Technologies' annual LiNC Conference. Fortune sat down with him to talk about big data's limitations, its role in the stock market, how it applies to dating, and even his predictions for the 2016 presidential election.

April 26, 2013

Nate Silver Doesn’t Like Twitter Data

The 35-year-old professional prognosticator, Nate Silver, is now taking his show on the road, speaking to energized crowds about the effectiveness of trying to forecast everything from market and company performance to when a deadly earthquake will strike. He was the keynote speaker at Lithium Technologies‘ annual conference in San Francisco.

April 26, 2013

EE to Switch to More ‘Inspiring’ Social Message

The UK's largest operator has primarily used its online communities, powered by Lithium Technologies, as a customer support tool since the launch of its EE brand and its 4G network in the latter half of last year. However, EE head of digital and social Ben Kay told Marketing Week it will begin to transition to a more proactive social strategy in the coming months as it aims to better articulate the benefits of upgrading to 4G.

April 26, 2013

If Brands Want to Succeed in Social, They Must Learn to Let Go

It’s understandable that marketers may be hesitant in absolving control of their brand to (not always accountable) third parties. But if a truly effective social media strategy is to be put into practice, brands must be prepared not to have it all their own way. MarketingWeek's Ronan Shields shares his insights from Lithium's 2013 LiNC conference.

April 25, 2013

Lithium Enhances Social Customer Experience Platform

Lithium Technologies, a maker of social media marketing and community software, has added deep performance metrics and analytics to its Social Customer Experience Platform through the launch of Lithium Social Intelligence.

April 25, 2013

‘Brands Need to Earn the Right to Sell on Social’

Companies need to “earn the right to sell on social” by trusting their customers to become “super fans” according to brands including Barclaycard, HP and TomTom.

April 25, 2013

Lithium Takes a Stand on Customer Experience Hype

Lithium Technologies, at their annual LiNC2013 user conference, launched a host of new social customer experience products. No stranger to going against the grain, Lithium also announced their blueprint for change which steers customers through the transformation process. Not a gimmick for selling more software but an actual step-by-step approach that guides on the what, when, why and how-do-I-sell-this-internally to deliver a consistent, valued social customer experience.

April 24, 2013

Gamification: How to create a 'super user'

Rebecca Burn-Callander from Management Today sat down with Michael Wu, chief scientist at Lithium to find out more around the secrets of 'gamifying' the crowd.

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