Category Archives: Linkedin
How to talk to your staff about pensions
Quietroom are silently curating a lot of good advice using linked in. If you have the dexterity and the eyesight to access their posts , then here’s the link to the document. But I struggled and when I found the … Continue reading
Managing and enjoying our linked in groups
Linked in groups have for over a decade provided ordinary people to do extraordinary things. For me, Pension Play Pen has allowed me to speak to a small circle of friends that has grown to nearly 10,000 people by word … Continue reading
How Facebook works for pensions.
Most people know I use social media a lot – it serves me well and I’m keen to help people less familiar with it, to spend their time profitably. Two years ago I was saying, spend time on Linked in … Continue reading
Linked in – the predator’s playground
I suspect that your view of the $26bn (£18bn) cash valuation of Linkedin by Microsoft, will depend on whether your a linked in predator or linked in prey. Linkedin is the Serengeti of the social media world, a (cyber) space … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Employment, Groups, linkedin, Microsoft, predator, prey, serengeti, wildnerness
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The year pensions became real again
Pensions – real money Pension money is real money. It belongs to real people and is used to pay real bills, putting fuel into cars, buying flowers in supermarkets and paying for tickets to watch shows and sports matches. … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, Linkedin, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Personality
Tagged Basic State Pension, Business, DWP, Employment, Financial services, George Osborne, National Employment Savings Trust, National Insurance, national insurance contributions, pension, Pension Freedoms, Pension new, pension playpen, pension rights, pensions, Retirement, stakeholder pensions, state pension, Steve Webb
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Why I will accept your Linked In invitation!
I came across this article on Linked In from a guy called Michael O’Donnell. It had the title “why I won’t accept your linked in invitation” which is odd, because the guy clearly will accept most people who reach … Continue reading
Posted in Linkedin, mallowstreet, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Blog, endorsement, like, Linked in, share, social media, twitter
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Pension PlayPen needs your digits.
Digital marketing is something we’re having to learn as we go along. We’ve got to find 1,000,000 employers who don’t have a workplace pension and convince them of the importance of paying some attention to what their staff invest … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Linkedin, pension playpen, pensions, Personality, twitter
Tagged Business, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial Services Authority, Government, Investment management, Life annuity, linkedin, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Politics, public sector, social media, Society
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The trusted word
This is the model for what we are doing with Pension PlayPen, an attempt to harness the energy and credibility of a linked in group, the probity of an actuarial practice and the needs of advisers, employers and regulators to see through a great endeavour, the wholesale adoption of funded workplace pensions into our business culture.
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Posted in actuaries, advice gap, Consolation, First Actuarial, Linkedin, mallowstreet, poetry, Retirement, welfare, workplace pensions
Tagged Business, Financial services, Government, Linked in, pensions, social media, twitter, YouTube
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Do linkedin endorsements do your head in?
You can’t stop someone from endorsing you, but you can opt out of having your endorsements show on your profile Continue reading
Posted in brand, leadership, Linkedin, Retirement
Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, Financial services, Linked in, linkedin, London, pension playpen, social media, Society, twitter
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Spammed out on linkedin?
This article is about the inane messages we get on LinkedIn, why people send them and why they’re a waste of time There are two types of messages that really frustrate me when they arrive in my LinkedIn inbox. The … Continue reading
Posted in Linkedin, pensions, social media
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