Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Twitter + Compliance = Rocky road?

Twitter has got to be the bane of a compliance officer’s life. Control, order and regulation crumbles away in the face of it’s social, viral and instant communication methods. However there are things that an adviser can do to stave off the compliance officer’s wrath. This article aims to produce some practical advice for financial advisers on how to use social media and keep on the right side of compliance.

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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

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Why you need to use social media

Traditional marketing is not compatible with the social world. The social web is not just a different format; it is a completely different form of communication.

Best description of the difference I’ve seen so far between traditional, offline focussed marketing and the new online, conversation-oriented marketing from Thomas Baekdal. You should read the whole article and then start doing it. On a lighter note, if you printed Twitter….

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010

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Social Media in Financial Services

Would have loved to have gone to the Social Media in Financial Services conference, but sadly couldn’t make it. However as if to support the message of using social media in the industry the internet is awash with comment and write-ups on the event.

Of course the ubiquitous Twitter comes into it’s own via the use of the #socialmediafs hashtag from people at and around the conference itself, proving that word of mouth and technology can work together.

Blogging after the event has also happened with:

So overall it seems to have been a success and it’s good to see these kind of topics being discussed and dragging what is sometimes a very dry and backwards facing industry, albeit belatedly, into the modern world.

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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

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Adviser Twitter feed

Mucking about with things is how I learn best and one thing I like doing is building mash-ups, whereby I crash together two things to create something new. If that something new is also useful, then all the better, but normally it’s simply for the learning. So in the spirit of building a (possibly useless) mash-up, I’ve devised “Adviser feed“.

Adviser feed - UK professional financial advisers using Twitter

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Sunday, October 18th, 2009

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Live tweets from IFP Conference

The following is a list of the current live Tweets * coming from the IFP’s Conference at the Celtic Manor via Twitter’s hashtag mechanism – in this case #ifpc. Some of it is relevant just to websites and the internet, but all of it is relevant to IFAs and financial advisers so thought it would be helpful to have it here in full.

IFP Conference 2008

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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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