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No, you can't know what movies I watch!
Blockbuster and Facebook have recently come under attack for some aspects of Beacon, Facebook’s semi-new intrusive marketing tool. Years ago, when I actually worked at Blockbuster, it was fairly well known that you couldn’t divulge what movies someone has watched. Similar to how you have the primary member at a CU, the account holder of [...]
Read moreNames and Age
When I’m bored, I randomly snoop through 5300 data to find interesting things. If you go through the list, you’d be really surprised what you can find. Namely, no pun intended, the names of the CEO’s. They all seem like "old" names. Yes, that’s a gross generalization, but Kenneth, Millard, Wendell, Gerald, and Richard all strike me [...]
Read moreIf they can do it…
The New Zealand Police department recently created a wiki that their constituents could edit and help form an upcoming bill. "The Police Act Review has maintained an open process throughout, and wiki technology offers a novel way for people to have a say in the law-drafting process as well. This may well be one of [...]
Read moreFree Blogs for the CU Industry!
Yup you read the title right. Free blogs. But wait, you can get free blogs just about anywhere you say. While that it true, I’ve grown slightly tired of seeing credit unions attempting to get into blogging using free tools like Blogger or wordpress.com. While both provide some basic functionality, neither are flexible enough to [...]
Read moreCU Homepage on WordPress!
Just stumbled onto Mutual Savings CU’s website and it is done with WordPress. And, I don’t know if sadly is the right word here, but it looks a lot better than many CU sites I’ve seen! Very easy to navigate and very clean! It is a great example of how WordPress doesn’t just have to [...]
Read moreI'm not sure about the name, but Banktastic looks cool!
My earlier post this week, Making RSS Easy, stirred up a great pot. Mark over at the Garland Group has been working on exactly what I was talking about. Banktastic is, "A community helping bankers quickly find relevant, industry specific information and share it with others". While I can pick on Mark about the name, the [...]
Read moreFlash, Flash, everywhere!
As of late, I’ve been seeing flash websites pop up everywhere. The latest FI-related one is called Lose Your Lunch Hour. We’ve seen Dump Your Bank and the Coop Crusader this year. It seems that lots of FI’s and organizations are spending money on these great looking flash sites, but what exactly is it [...]
Read moreMaking RSS easy
I’m continually finding myself talking to more executive level employees about ideas generated from the blogosphere (like Doug’s funeral plot lending) and the sources of the ideas. Most of them are now familiar with the the term blog and kinda have a grasp of it, but now we need to make the information easy to [...]
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