Posts Tagged ‘Thought of the day’
My Financial Calendar from Unbiased
Unbiased, the place some consumers go to find an IFA or financial adviser, have launched a new consumer tool: The Financial Calender. It is intended to help consumers think about the finance related things that occur on specific dates throughout the year, for example renewing one’s car insurance.
It’s a great little tool that can integrates with Outlook to add the key dates into your diary. It’s a slight shame it doesn’t integrate with anything other than Outlook as I personally use Google Calendar, but it’s a good start.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Win a years’ subscription to Pingdom
The good fellows over at WebAppers are running a competition to win a year’s subscription to a Pingdom Basic account. For those not in the know, Pingdom lets monitors the availability of your website and emails or texts you when there is a problem. The system gives you uptime reports, response time reports, email, text & twitter alerts, multiple check locations, error analysis and public and email reports. Very useful if you are running a public site and want to keep on top of it’s performance.
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Popularity: 8% [?]
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Top websites in the world – not all are US
Having read this recent article from Bowen, Craggs and Co, I’m fascinated and slightly surprised to see that of the top ten corporate organisations only 3 are from the US, the rest being European, in turn 3 of these being UK-based firms.
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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.
Popularity: 22% [?]
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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