Archive for Blogging

Lambeth Savings & CU in Google Groups

Congrats to Lambeth Savings and CU (in the UK) for being the first credit union to use Google Groups as an outlet for speaking with members. View their Google Groups page here. As I’ve posted about previously, I believe that CU’s have an opportunity to use Google Groups not only for public communication with members, [...]

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Piedmont CU

I’d like to welcome Piedmont CU to the blogosphere! Looks like they started back in the beginning of March. Great to see a CU blogging!

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How blogging converstations go…

Great little blurb from MineThatData about how blogging might get discussed at an executive meeting. Sounds very CU-like to me!

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The New Blog

Well it is now official. I have moved my blog from Blogger to a hosted version of WordPress. And I’m pretty stoked. WordPress is a lot more powerful that Blogger is when installed on it’s own server. For anyone with hard links to my site in blogrolls, etc, the new address of my blog is: [...]

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Social Media and Political Campaigns (and why CU’s should pay attention)

Some of you have probably already read about the sudden usage of social media for the upcoming presidential campaign. Look at Rudy Giuliani for example. The link in his name is to his Wikipedia entry. Rudy’s site has been developed to encourage people to embed “Rudy widgets” on their pages. Look at his Get Involved [...]

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Beta’ing a new blog (Part Deux)

I have successfully setup a host and installed WordPress onto the server. I was on the fence about WordPress before, but that’s because I was using their free .com version. You can download WordPress for free (from .org) and install it yourself. When you do that, you get an immense amount more control of what [...]

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Beta’ing a new blog

I’ve been covertly trying WordPress out for a few days now to see if I like it or not. I like the look of it because it feels much more clean, but I already miss the ability to manage my own html like Blogger lets you do and WP doesn’t allow any javascript on their [...]

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Uncertain Trumpets

We’ve got another CU blog joining us, Uncertain Trumpets. Devon Callan, a COO at a CU, has just started up. Good luck Devon and welcome aboard! The post about the penguins and icebergs is very descriptive of many CU’s!

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