Following the Global Fraud Alliance using Social Media

The Global Fraud Alliance is more than members pooling data to create the world's most formidable force against fraud. It is also a community of like-minded merchants, sharing insights, news, stories and experiences.

Over the past year, Ethoca has rolled out a number of social media tools to help members stay abreast of what's going on, communicate with the community, engage in conversation over some of the key issues affecting us all, and receive alerts on breaking news. This blog is one of those tools, but we want to ensure you know about all of them and are able to choose the update methods that work best for you. Read on to learn more about the other community tools available.

Twitter

If you're already on Twitter, then no explanation necessary. Just click this button and start following Ethoca. If you're reading this blog on the web (vs in an email or newsreader), then you'll see that we also have the most recent tweets in the blog sidebar, and a button immediately below them that you can click to follow. 

You may find this the easiest way to stay in touch with the community if you are interested in being kept abreast of all updates, since Ethoca broadcasts all blog posts, press releases, videos or other Ethoca or community news as it happens from Twitter. We will also use Twitter to broadcast any topical news, including external articles of interest, quick opinions, and anything that has urgent relevancy to the whole community. You can also use hashtags (e.g. #fraudalliance) to post your own messages of interest to the whole community, or create your own tags for subjects of interest to you.

If you haven't started Tweeting yet, or following anyone, it's easy to do. Just go to Twitter, and sign up for an account. You can either come back here and push the button to start following us, or search for the username andreedelbrock, and click the follow button inside Twitter.

Andre's Finextra blog
(http://www.finextra.com/community/blogs.aspx?mem_id=44274)

This blog is hosted on the finextra.com, an independent news site and for the financial technology community. Finextra covers all significant technology news in wholesale and retail banking, the capital markets and insurance. Andre's blog is focused on issues of concern to that community, such as payments, credit card, financial fraud, and risk and responses to articles and other commentary on this site.

Global Fraud Alliance YouTube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/ethoca

Want to hear the stories of other members and the unique problems they had to solve? Want to tell your own story to the community? This is the place to see and be seen. There are already some very compelling video clips posted, and we hope you'll want to share yours too.

If you want to get your community video on the Global Fraud Alliance channel, send a note to Ethoca at community@ethoca.com and we'll get in touch to help you record and post it.