Tech of the Week | Project Glass

Anything we try to write or summarize about this technology won't do it justice. So we'll just direct you straight to the source.

Click here to watch the video about Project Glass that will quite literally change your view of the future

Tech of the Week | Nimble, Business Relationship Management Across Platforms

We already have a plethora of options when it comes to social media brand monitoring tools. But what about in depth contact and customer monitoring across all communication platforms - from social media to personal email? 

Nimble allows you to import your contacts from email, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn and connect contact information for individual people in your network, creating unique profile pages for those contacts. So, if you follow a particular client on Google+ and Twitter, that information will be all be accessible from the same profile page.

The Nimble platform allows you to see all interactions with an individual, no matter who in your company is interacting and no matter the medium. 

“Business is social, and people buy from people they like and people who known them,” Nimble CEO Joe Ferrera told Mashable. “CRM systems treat their customers like cows they’re going to process. We want to promote engagement.” 

Click here to read more about this new era of CRM that should prove beneficial to all industries

What technology trends are having a huge impact on risk management?

The latest trends in information technology have a huge impact company-wide, from the IT department implementing new resources to the managers and executives who utilize them. Each office, person, and device add a dimension of risk, cost, storage, and compliance. I’d like to focus on the risk component, and how the information technology trends we are seeing today are challenging risk professionals, more than ever, to know what they are dealing with. And like Charles Tremper once said, “The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning.” So let’s get to acknowledging...

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Guest Post - The Cloud Computing Revolution – Are You on Board?

This guest post was written by Matt Saunders. Matt writes for Qubok, a blog which offers help to small companies on how they can grow their businesses and increase productivity by using various technologies...

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Guest Post: Technology Tools For Today's Insurance Professional

The SmartCompliance Blog welcomes guest contributor Ashley Hunter, President of HM Risk Group. Prior to heading HM Risk Group, Ashley worked in various claims management positions, for carriers such as State Farm Insurance Companies and Chartis Insurance Companies. She has managed worldwide developments in excess of $83 million US dollars. Ashley holds the CRIS designation (Construction Risk Insurance Specialist) and the AIC designation (Associate in Claims). Ashley has a BM in Music Theory and Composition from Centenary College of Louisiana and a MBA in Management from Texas A&M University. She is also an accomplished violinist...

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