Category Archives: social media
Room 101 for BT Fon
Join me if you would like the appallingly intrusive BT Fon service banished to room 101. The ridiculous pay as you go service is like the unwanted guest who turns up uninvited at your every event. BT Fon sits on … Continue reading
Making social media work for us
One of the things that social media does, is blur the line between work and play. The distinction is one that employers , regulators and brands attempt to manage, often with arcane rules that make them a laughing stock to their … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, employers, Employment, Facebook, instagram, Linked in, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, social media, twitter, WordPress
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Fear of feedback
Everyone knows what social media does. For every blog there are comments, every forum has its threads, some twitter conversations last for weeks. It is the interaction between author and reader that makes it distinctive. The “Letter in the Times” … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, social media, Start ups, twitter
Tagged Business, database, DWP, Employment, Facebook, fail, Feedback, Financial services, Government, like, pension, Pension new, social media, trip advisor, twitter
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The FCA and Social Media (Canute II)
The FCA have set out their policy on social media which concentrates on the use of Twitter. It is worth a read, if only to establish why the supervision of the internet is as feasible as Canute’s supervision of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Employment, Facebook, Financial services, linkedin, pension playpen, pensions, social media, twitter
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Pension PlayPen- Britain’s most innovative pension consultancy
Dawid Konotey-Ahulu mailed me yesterday to tell me we’d been named Engaged Investor’s most innovative pension consultancy. It’s a mark of Dawid’s genorosity that he thought to contact me, even though the firm he started Redington had (along with … Continue reading
Do I need a TV anymore?
Other than for the prurience of watching Tina’s come uppance on Corrie. I have not engaged with terrestrial TV for some time. Phone and laptop in hand I have found all I needed on the Monaco Grand Prix, … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, social media, twitter
Tagged BBC, Business, Business and Economy, Buzzfeed, Communications, Facebook, pensions, Savings, Smashed Sudents, social media, Society, TV, twitter, Vice
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The Vision of the Plowman
The “Vision of the Pension Plowman” is a bastardisation of the title of a 14th century english Poet (William Langland’s) great poem, “the Vision of Piers Plowman”. In this great book, the Plowman falls asleep by a stream and dreams … Continue reading
Why bother to save? – Invest instead!
What this policy is about is getting people to invest in real assets for the best interests in society Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, Bankers, Change, club pension, Management, Mark Carney, pensions, social media, workplace pensions
Tagged BOE, Business, Business and Economy, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Fiscal, Government, Human Resources, Inflation, Insurance, interest, Mark Carney, monetary, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, rates, Retirement
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