Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
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
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“.
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
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.
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Some financial firms don't get Twitter
Let’s get this out of the way: Twitter is not a broadcast mechanism. It’s a way of engaging with other people in conversation about topics that interest your and that other person. It’s like a modern-day instant messaging service, but more immediate and public.
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Wednesday, July 15th, 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.
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Tags: financial adviser, hints & tips, IFA, social media, Thought of the day, twitter
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