Tag Archives: Facebook
E-Christmas Cards – a very rum idea if you ask me.
What do you do with e-christmas cards? They bother me. “E-Christmas card” is a misnoma, most of these e-thingies seem the product of the thought police who de-risk corporate communications. “Merry” is of course out – a whiff of intoxication … Continue reading
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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Pension PlayPen respond to FCA on IGCs and DC Governance
This is less of a blog – more of an epic! If you want to have a go yourself, the link is to http://www.fca.org.uk/your-fca/documents/consultation-papers/cp14-16-response-form The Pension PlayPen’s response was submitted online and this text is what we got back … Continue reading
Posted in FCA, pensions
Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, DWP, Employment, Facebook, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Government, pension, Pension new, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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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
Posted in FCA, pensions, social media
Tagged Business, Employment, Facebook, Financial services, linkedin, pension playpen, pensions, social media, twitter
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A week on the river
This is a photoblog of our five days aboard Lady Lucy for Henley 2014. If you have any photos when you were with us or took photos (like Alex O’Loughlin) from the bank- please send them in. Henley Royal … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged boating, Facebook, Henley, Henley Royal Regatta, HRR, lady lucy, pension playpen, Retirement
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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 best fans in the land – #ytfc
In characteristically generous fashion, Yeovil Town applauded the 2000 travelling Burnley fans at last week’s game at the Huish both at the ground and on twitter afterwards. They were generally acknowledged the loudest we’ve had all season and we are … Continue reading
Posted in Yeovil Town
Tagged Association football, championship, England, Facebook, football, social media, twitter, Yeovil, Yeovil Town, Yeovil True, YTFC
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Humankind cannot stand too much reality.
TS Eliot was right as the game-makers King have proved with their addictive smart phone and Facebook app Candy Crunch. Candy Crunch is a game that involves wiping out rows of candy shaped icons from a screen. Wipe enough and … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, brand, Candy Crunch
Tagged Business, Business and Economy, Facebook, social media, twitter
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How safe is my pension?
This is one of the five most commonly asked questions I’ve been asked in my time advising members of workplace pensions in the past 25 years. In that time I have only advised on one scheme where members lost their … Continue reading
Posted in brand, pensions
Tagged Actuarial science, Business and Economy, corporate risk, England, Facebook, Government, Insurance, Investing, London, pension, Pension new, Pension Poverty, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP
What are you on about now? http://www.pensionplaypen.com is a website set up to help Britain’s 1.2m employers work out auto-enrolment, adapt their existing workplace pension or get a new one and manage “auto-enrolment for life not just for staging”. As it’s the … Continue reading