Description: Department article that describes how the SOA is extending its e-Learning system with a set of new social learning tools.

Description: The SOA president discusses how communication skills are of paramount importance to actuaries’ success.

Description: This article explains the way in which the SOA's 'Actuaries Online', its electronic bulletin board, have made the SOA's work more efficient and expanded its capabilities.

Description: Feature article discussing the uses and advantages of Twitter.

Description: This article features a test of your email etiquette that will help you polish your professional image.

Description: In this article, Aneesha Deshpande examines how Hagerty's complementary business models- specialty insurance and automotive lifestyle and membership services- are a result of a deep understanding of customer needs.

Description: The reports you draft, presentations you make, emails you write, posts you put up and texts you send all contribute to your professional image, so make sure that everything you write (and do, wear, or say) sends a consistent, professional image.

Description: Author argues that using social-networking technology is important, but face-to-face interaction is still better for career advancement as an actuary.

Description: This article describes Actuaries Online- the Society of Actuaries electronic bulletin board sponsored on the CompuServe network, with additional sections identified for the Actuarial Standards Board, the American Academy of Actuaries, and the International Forum of Actuarial Associations. All bulletin boards on CompuServe have three key pieces: messages, libraries, and conferences. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1996, Vol. 1.

Description: The barrier between humans and machines continues to blur, but curiously, this may have been prediction thousands of years ago in ancient myths. This article looks to how some of the early legends are becoming manifest in modern technology, particularly in the area of elder care. From automation, to humanoid assistants, to mind clones will the age of technology bring a new utopia?