Visible Banking: 15th July 2009 - Visible Banking Social Media News #25: Twitter Drives Customer Retention & Advocacy (BoA, First Mariner Bank, Commonwealth Bank), Wesabe Partners Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union, Aaron Patzer @ Mint.com Meets Bill Clinton

Please find below my daily selection of tweets and posts on social media in banking and financial services from the twitterati and the bloggers I am following.

I invite you to check the other tweets which didn't make my post today.
I flagged them as favorites on @Visible_Banking.

Via Twitter
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Visible_Banking Twitter drives customer advocacy @BofA_Help http://ow.ly/hdlB @FMBCustServ http://ow.ly/hdlL @CommonwealthCU http://ow.ly/hdm7 #VBTW banking

bankingreview Raboplus NZ has launched an online game where you steal virtual money from a sleeping banker http://bit.ly/e8ziC (via @bernardchickey)

SonyaJMills Interesting account @bankssuck is now @BankingSucks will the criticism become constructive & cover both banks & credit unions? We'll see...

SmartyPig Putting the Fun Back in Money! Read our guest blog post by personal finance expert, Galia Gichon at http://ow.ly/hioH

apatzer Got an invite to have dinner with Bill Clinton at Russell Simmon's house on Monday...but it's in New York. Should I go?

Stats
jowyang Compare and contrast: Facebook vs MySpace vs Twitter http://bit.ly/6mfYb (Compete) http://bit.ly/HBRp2 (Alexa: Plz change time duration)

FinancialBrand A dynamically updated page of stats on Twitter usage and visitors here —> http://www.quantcast.com/tw...

Webcast
RockTheBoatMKTG Listening to Investment News' free Webcast on how financial advisors use social media. http://bit.ly/18TAh

Via Blogs
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* Wesabe (US) - Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union Taps Wesabe Springboard(TM) to Provide Community Application for Its Members
* Smartypig (US): Putting the Fun Back in Money
* Mint.com (US) - The Pros and Cons of Online Banks
* Social Signal (Canada) - How to use social media to recruit your dream hire
* Celent Banking Blog (Canada) - Customer Service on Twitter - Proactive or Reactive?
* PND (US) - Microfinance Industry May Be Stressed by Recession, Report Finds