Actiance and Bank of Montreal to Present at South by Southwest 2015 on Social Media Challenges in the Workplace


AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwired - Mar 4, 2015) - (SXSW 2015) - Actiance, the leader in compliance, security, archiving and eDiscovery for all critical business communications, will present on the promise of collaborative communication in the workplace at South by Southwest on Monday, March 16, 2015. Joanna Belbey, social media and compliance expert at Actiance, will join Julian Mills, head of corporate intranet & internal social media at Bank of Montreal, to explore the ethical, generational, cultural and regulatory issues that interfere with the value of social, collaborative communication at work.

The session, titled "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Fallacy of Social at Work," will engage event attendees in a lively discussion about the real challenges facing organizations and how to overcome them to create collaborative workplaces. Mills will share insights from his role managing internal social media utilization, workplace productivity and social business tools at Bank of Montreal. A frequent speaker and Forbes contributor, Belbey will outline best practices from her role helping regulated firms use social media and other forms of communications effectively and compliantly.

"Being social is part of individuals' digital DNA now, and it can be a shock for employees to come across barriers that inhibit them from using social and collaboration tools at work," said Belbey. "In this session, we'll help attendees discover that social collaboration is within their grasp."

What: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Fallacy of Social at Work
When: Monday, March 16, at 5:00pm CST
Where: South by Southwest, Room 404, JW Marriott, 110 E 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701
Presenters: Joanna Belbey, social media and compliance expert, Actiance; Julian Mills, head of corporate intranet & internal social media, Bank of Montreal

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About Actiance
Actiance® is a global leader in communication, collaboration, and social media governance for the enterprise. Its governance platform is used by millions of professionals across dozens of industries. With the power of communication, collaboration, and social media at their fingertips, Actiance helps professionals everywhere to engage with customers and colleagues so they can unleash social business. The Actiance platform gives organizations the ability to ensure compliance for all their communications channels. It provides real-time content monitoring, centralized policy management, contextual capture of content and smart archiving which improves the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of eDiscovery and helps protect users from malware and accidental or malicious leakage of information. Actiance supports all leading social media, unified communications, collaboration, and IM platforms, including Facebook (FB), LinkedIn (LNKD), Twitter, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Skype, IBM, (IBM), Jive (JIVE), Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO), and Salesforce.com (CRM).

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