Tag Archives: Online Communities

The Facebook timeline – a teenage diary.

Posted on March 23, 2013 by henry tapper

Facebook gives kids the space to learn who they are without the intrusion of unwanted authority. Parents, teachers, coaches and big brothers take note Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, social media, twitter | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

There’s a lot we can learn from town planning

Posted on February 20, 2013 by henry tapper

Many towns around the western world started out as Roman garrisons. Primitive stockades gave way to fortified settlements which attracted local residents who set up communities outside the fort’s walls. In time, the communities became protected by the Romans and the distinctions … Continue reading →

Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions, town planning | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

The new journalists

Posted on September 1, 2012 by henry tapper

We’re gearing up for the conference season whether we be journalists, delegates or the majority of us who get the highlights pumped at us through the media. Politics, business and journalism regard October as blanked out and historically those who … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Henry Tapper blog, Linkedin, mallowstreet, social media, twitter | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

The kids are more right

Posted on March 29, 2012 by henry tapper

We all move at different speeds; some of us use the web like our front room and share it with others without a second thought. Some of us see the web and the social sites with fear and loathing. I listened … Continue reading →

Posted in social media | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Facilitators and Institutions Defined?

Posted on February 12, 2012 by henry tapper

  This is an excellent peice by “pragmatist” who blogs at   http://www.sdj-pragmatist.blogspot.com   ” In essence, I’ve defined “facilitators” as organisations that exist to solve their own problems; and “institutions” as organisations that exist to solve their own problems at their … Continue reading →

Posted in Management | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

“How to keep these blogging jonnies in line”

Posted on February 10, 2012 by henry tapper

On-line reputations are hard-won and easily lost.               We are all prey to hackers who can range from the nuisance (mafia family on twitter) to the violently disruptive (where accounts are taken over as happened to … Continue reading →

Posted in de-risking, Facebook, social media, twitter | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

You can’t please everyone so please yourself

Posted on January 20, 2012 by henry tapper

Some people live for themselves, others live selflessly but most of us find our worth in the value others place in them. If you depend on the value others see in you for your sel-worth, your life will be an emotional … Continue reading →

Posted in happiness, religion, social media | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Domestic bliss at Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2011 by henry tapper

Christmas domestic bliss has been in short supply at the Tapper’s ancestral home. Some member’s of the family remember a happy Christmas Day in 1975 but we seem to have been in permanent warfare ever since. This year, the major issues … Continue reading →

Posted in Church of England | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

If you write as good as you talk – no one reads you

Posted on June 14, 2011 by henry tapper

None of us currently have the answers and if we don’t have these conversations I suspect we never will! Continue reading →

Posted in NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, social media | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Couldn’t have put it better myself

Posted on May 11, 2011 by henry tapper

“In a year’s time”, he says, “it will almost certainly look totally different to this”. Continue reading →

Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, Facebook, pension playpen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments