Banks turn to social networking


	Banks turn to social networking

butesch

7-30-2008 9:28 PM

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web 2.0, banks, social networking, gartner

butesch says:

You know something has begun to be less than cool when Banks are doing it

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7-30-2008 11:12 PM

Imnclady

Oh, for the love of money!

Nice find...good clip

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