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August 28, 2012 at 12:25 PM
ArchiveSocial, a Raleigh, N.C.-based social media archiver, emerged from its pilot program with a mind to “authentically capture” businesses’ social media activity and keep them compliant.
“We come from a background of social media technology,” Anil Chawla, founder of ArchiveSocial, told AdvisorOne on Tuesday. “When looking at the industry, a number of vendors are archiving, but not in an authentic fashion.”
For Chawla, that means designing a system that is simple and familiar. “We wanted to make it as easy as possible,” he said.
The ArchiveSocial system, which has been piloted among “a couple of dozen organizations for a good portion of this year,” is entirely Web-based. Advisors can set up their account in two to three minutes, Chawla said. Furthermore, the “interface feels like social media.” Data captured from a user’s Facebook wall, for example, look like Facebook status updates. Rather than a simple screenshot, though, captured data includes the post and all associated comments, the timestamp for each, and a digital signature that confirms that data originated on the social media network and hasn’t been edited or altered in any way.
“You wouldn’t capture Gmail HTML and call it archiving,” Chawla said. The digital signature allows an advisor to prove when and where a comment or post came from.
