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FPPad Bits and Bytes for December 31

Posted on December 31, 2010 by in Bits & Bytes

This is it, the final Bits and Bytes post of 2010. Bits and Bytes has drawn consistent traffic week after week, so we will continue our efforts to publish what we think are the best tech-related stories for financial advisers from around the web.

Here are this week’s stories of interest, and have a Happy New Year:

Custodians taking closer look at adviser compliance from InvestmentNews.com

Custodial firms have been raising the compliance bar for registered investment advisers, in some cases making it tougher for them to find a home.

Why B-Ds Should Embrace Social Media Now from Financial-Planning.com

Social media is the elephant in the room even if broker-dealer firms refuse to acknowledge its presence. Worse, continuing to do so could cost these firms their top talent as advisors migrate to platforms that help them be more productive.

Small Companies Look to Cloud for Savings in 2011 from WSJ.com

A growing number of small-business owners are expected to try cloud computing services next year, hoping to trim costs and stay up and running if disaster strikes.

Rock Point Advisors Leverages Advent’s Moxy(R) as a Standalone Solution from TradingMarkets.com

Advent Software, Inc., a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that investment management firm, Rock Point Advisors, is enjoying the benefits of Moxy(R) as a standalone solution. Rock Point is one of the first advisory firms to use Moxy(R) in conjunction with PortfolioCenter(R), Schwab Performance Technologies’ portfolio management solution.

FPATelevision: The First Thing Advisers Must Do When Starting A Social Media Strategy

Posted on October 28, 2010 by in Technology

Bill speaks to FPATelevision on the first thing advisers must do when starting a social media strategy.

Read My First Practices Column in the Journal of Financial Planning

Posted on May 3, 2010 by in Professional Development

I had the privilege of being asked to contribute to the Practices series of this month’s Journal of Financial Planning. The Journal of Financial Planning is the core publication of the Financial Planning Association with the mission to expand the body of knowledge of the financial planning profession.

For my first column, I described many of the best tools and techniques planners and advisers can use to roll out a successful social media strategy.

Click here to read Tools and Techniques to Leverage Social Media (link is good only for the month of May).

I always appreciate comments and feedback, so please let me know what you think by leaving a comment below.

The Twitter Backchannel for FPA Retreat 2010

Posted on April 22, 2010 by in General

FPA Retreat 2010 begins today in San Antonio, TX. I’m on baby duty this weekend, otherwise I’d be attending this event.

So for those of us watching from the sidelines, follow the Twitter backchannel for the event using the #fparetreat hashtag. Mary Corbin, Managing Editor of the Journal of Financial Planning, bless her heart, is live tweeting from the event.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but I think Mary, Rick Kahler, and Marion Asnes might be the only individuals tweeting from the event. No doubt Retreat attracts a more experienced crowd, plus many advisors choose not to send messages out through social networking sites due to compliance concerns, so don’t expect a flood of insight from the event.

Welcome Wealth Management Marketing Subscribers

Posted on April 15, 2010 by in General

FPPad.com is this month’s Featured Resource in Wealth Management Marketing’s newsletter. I want to welcome WMM subscribers to FPPad and provide some links to show you what’s popular on this site.

First, you can subscribe to the FPPad RSS feed by clicking here.

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So here’s a glimpse at what many visitors to FPPad find useful:

Thanks again for visiting and thank you to Wealth Management Marketing for featuring FPPad this month!

FPA of Maryland Webinar to Address Compliance Issues of Social Media

Posted on March 20, 2010 by in Practice Management

Despite FINRA’s issuance of social media regulatory guidance, advisors still have many questions about what can and cannot be done on social media websites.

I’ll be presenting a webinar to the Financial Planning Association of Maryland to address the compliance issues of using social media and networking websites.

I’ll be joined by Adam Schaub, CFP®, Compliance Manager for 1st Global in Dallas, TX. Topics covered will include:

  • Documentation of policies and procedures
  • Summary of regulatory guidance
  • Supervision and record retention
  • Overview of compliance tools and utilities

The webinar will be held on Thursday, April 1, 12:00PM EDT. FPA of Maryland members can attend for $20, all others can attend for $30.

Click here for the event PDF brochure. |  Click here to register.

View the Archive of Tweets from FPA Business Solutions 2010

Posted on March 3, 2010 by in Practice Management

Today was the final day of FPA Business Solutions 2010 in Dallas, TX. To capture the back channel discussion on Twitter, I used the Tweetdoc.org website to create a PDF file of tweets with the #FPABizSol hashtag.

Tweetdoc is free and extremely easy to use, and it outputs a fairly pleasing document to boot.

Click here to view the 96 tweets captured for FPABizSol.

Email Archiver LiveOffice Jumps Into Social Media Archiving Market

Posted on March 3, 2010 by in Compliance

In a press release yesterday, LiveOffice, an email archiving and compliance provider to financial advisors, announced the release of its LiveOffice Social Archive service.

According to the LiveOffice press release, Social Archive is:

the first social media archiving solution to capture and retain content from any public website, including popular social networks, such as LinkedIn and Facebook, as well as blogs.

Now I debate the statement that Social Archive is the first archiving solution (I’ve tweeted and blogged before about Arkovi Backups, Smarsh, SocialWare, and several others). Nevertheless, LiveOffice joins a short list of providers aimed at providing compliance solutions to registered representatives and independent RIAs who want to use social media websites.

Read the entire press release by clicking here.

FPA Business Solutions 2010 Conference Twitter Hashtag

Posted on February 26, 2010 by in General

In response to several inquiries on yesterday’s post, I’m going to use #FPABizSol as the Twitter hashtag for updates from FPA Business Solutions 2010 next week. That is, unless I’m overruled by a majority of tweets from other attendees using a different hashtag.

Nevertheless, you can click here to view all tweets with the #FPABizSol hashtag.

We’re Featured in the Top 10 Twitter Feeds for Career-Minded Advisers

Posted on December 2, 2009 by in Professional Development, Technology

This is my own blog, so every once in a while I get to do some shameless self-promotion.

Today, my Twitter feed @BillWinterberg is featured in FINS from The Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 Twitter feeds for career-minded advisers to follow.

Here’s a quick snapshot of my listing (click the snapshot for the full article):

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