MoneyCortex Personal Finance

My tumblr is a spin-off of https://moneycortex.com. Here I post updates and share things related to making money and other aspects of personal finance. Let's all get our wallets in the best shape ever but always do it in a fun and ethical way!

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HMRC accidentally issue 653 people with a £100 late payment fine

HMRC have publicly said that 653 people have incorrectly received letters ordering each person to pay a penalty of £100. HMRC initially released a strongly worded statement saying the claim is false. However, they've now backtracked and admitted the letters were sent in error.

If you’re in the UK always protect yourself when doing personal self-assessment returns. The department responsible for looking after our tax affairs isn’t shy of having a blunder from time to time.

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Discover some of the best British bloggers talking about money

I’ve started curating a list of finance bloggers in the UK. It has a voting system so that others can vote on which sites are the good and which are bad.

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What is the best WordPress theme to use for a money saving blog?

My answer: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-WordPress-theme-to-use-for-a-money-saving-blog/answer/Chris-Cortex?ch=99&share=9f1da2df&srid=uf2jt

Ive started using Quora to try and help more people out. It's actually a fun hobby! This is a link to my latest answer.

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A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

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Huge news from Tumblr. Will affect a lot of people by the sound of it.

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One of the most beautiful times of year. Tree leaves become a rich gold color and the air feels crispy. Enjoy the autumn evenings in and work hard on the weekdays to explore on days off! #autumn

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When working from home its nice to enjoy some treats to help keep things going on the quiet days. It may a long way from Christmas but its never too early to eat mince pies!

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Flipboard Mag!

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New Flipboard magazine launched! It's imaginatively titled "Personal Finance Bloggers Latest Posts". Can you guess what its about ;) Subscribe now for free using the link above.

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Grand Designs Live

Went to Grand Designs Live today at the NEC. It was good overall, lots of great products. Disappointed by the amount of smart home products though. Hive was the best. Seems like a genuine way to reduce electricity bills. Reducing electricity is a tiny bit good for the planet too :)

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12 signs you’re better with money than you realize

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I don't meet enough of these signs :( How many do you meet?

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Drowning in plastic

Watching the BBC One program "Drowning in plastic" is horrible, heartbreaking, terrifying, worrying and many other things! Ive started drafting a blog post which I cant wait to publish on the topic. It's an important issue so many people aren't fully aware of.

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Smart preparation

With brexit on the horizon it makes sense to triple check your personal finances are nice and fit. Even if you think the risk of a major impact from it is low it's still worth doing. Last time we had a global credit crunch. The next time we may have a global recession again, who triggers it doesn't matter. Make sure your finances are able to cope with shocks.

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This is my weekend book to read, its called "The One Thing". It scores very high reviews from other entrepreneurs. Ive heard its about how to improve productivity to get great results. Lets see if its good or not!

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BoardBooster is a pin scheduling tool for bloggers. It helps manage Pinterest accounts by automatically spreading new pins over ideal pinning hours. It can also save you time by repinning new blog posts to collaborative boards, and help you discover viral pins.

I recently did a 10-day test using BoardBooster. It is a paid product but you do get 100 pins for free. I wanted to see how many new followers I could get by using it. I scheduled 10 new pins per day for 10 days. The result was excellent. I got 67 new followers, meaning an average of nearly 7 per day. Great success!

If you want to make money from blogging then getting traffic from Pinterest is important. This is a great resource to help towards that!

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Schedule tumblr posts

I just found out it is possible to schedule Tumblr posts, excellent! This could help me out quite a bit. Could be useful during holiday times I feel!

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A new week

Good Monday morning to you. I hope you have a productive and successful working week.

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Scheduling pins

Today Ive been looking into how to improve my social media efforts. Pinterest scheduling looks like a good opportunity. At the moment BoardBooster is favourite, I look forward to trying it out.

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This is hilarious