Category Archives: twitter

Top bum ,sedition and Gadaffi the penguin

“What” , you might be asking, ” is going on here?”. Continue reading

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Mittens- that wd stop em lootin

 “More than 90,000 people have signed an online petition calling for anyone convicted of taking part in the riots to lose benefits they get” Thomas Hardy wrote a book of poems entitled “life’s little ironies”. He’d have seen the humour in … Continue reading

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Wake up and swipe the coffee (#pensions folk)

My son uses barcode apps and taught me over the weekend . It’s time we woke up and swiped our coffee- literally and metaphorically.
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Well you’ve got to laugh..Cameron, Fogarty, Mourinho, me..

Two matters have made me chuckle this morning.

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What we can and cannot do (to provide our staff with better DC pension outcomes)

The Pensions Regulator has challenged us to establish what can practically be done for staff with DC pensions.
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Opinion is not a dirty word!

Give people their soapboxes and they will use them responsibly. Social media restores value,confidence and self-respect to “us lumpen proles”! Continue reading

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Post not that ye be not judged

“Relying” on on-line profiles is a problem that needs attention from us all, not just those in Government. Continue reading

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Social media and the corporate dilemma

As corporates catch up with the activities of their staff, there will be pain and frustration on both sides. Toys will be thrown..there will be blood! You need to be aware of the corporate dilemma and help manage the process of employer buy-in if you are not to become a casualty.
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Antisocial media

We are surfing the tsunami of social media but fun as it is on the wave, we shouldn’t ignore its destructive capacity. Continue reading

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Will PADA put pensions on Facebook?

It’s not beyond PADA and their administrators to get feeds to Facebook. For that matter, it’s not beyond the people who administer today’s personal pensions- or company pensions.
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