Tag Archives: Linked in
There’s only two Henry Tappers! (out of 800m active users of Linked in!)
It is difficult to get out of Microsoft (owners of Linkedin) how many active users there are. John Espirian reckons there are just under 800m “active” but 1.1 billion accounts. A lot (300m) of dead people, people on more than … Continue reading
Europe’s fastest growing pension community is on linked in!
We are 16, going on 17 (thousand users) On Tuesday last week, posts on the AgeWage and Pension PlayPen linked in group were viewed over 11,000 times. The weekly total reads average 40,000 since the start of the year. The … Continue reading
I do miss Twitter, I won’t miss X.
I’ve been contemplating the likely impact of there not being twitter for a few weeks now. Stuart Macdonald send me a link to BlueSky I’ve been enjoying the experience of using this fresh site and have started distributing invites to … Continue reading
You can be over-connected
You cannot be too-well connected, but you can be over-connected – if you’re on Linked in. Last night someone became my 30,000th connection and I cannot now receive new connections without kicking someone out (one in – one out). The … Continue reading
This may be the last week I can grow my linked in connections.
I currently have over29,900 linked in connections , 28,500 of whom follow me. I have recently been getting messages from Linked in reminding me LinkedIn members can have up to 30,000 1st-degree connections. To ensure an optimal experience on LinkedIn, … Continue reading
How linkedin is winning eyeballs
Linked in is the least sexy social media platform ever, but it has 750m + members which is more than one in ten people on the planet and in developed countries, especially those for whom English is the lingua … Continue reading
TPR needs to look above and abroad to stop pension fraud
The Pensions Regulator is rolling out another iteration of Project Bloom, now known as the “Pension Scams Action Group” which is certainly a better name. We’re told that the new scam-fighting plan from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) aims to protect … Continue reading
How Linked in saved you from my being hacked
Yesterday at 12.41 I got a mail from linked in telling me that an email address had been added to my Linked in account. At 12.46 I tried to remove the mail but I had already been locked out of … Continue reading
How well does Linked in’s fraud protection work?
Grant Eldred is the Chief People Officer of the world’s largest law firm – Clifford Chance. I worked with him at the start of his career, he is one of the most professional people I have ever met. Do you … Continue reading
AgeWage group hits 10,000 members
Marian Elliott and I had the idea of a linked in group for pension professionals in October 2009. Over the next decade it has grown from a playground where people could meet and do things off their own back to … Continue reading