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Simple and Clean
Imagine if you could make a credit union web site as simple (and gorgeous) as Snooth. A real simple home banking login in the top right corner, and the massive search box in the middle. Some CU’s are using virtual assistants (like Julie at Coast Capital) and some CU’s are using voice recognition for telephone [...]
Read moreSwitching banks…
Addressing pain points for consumers is always a great way to launch a successful business and the new BankSwitcher is doing just that. BankSwitcher analyzes consumers’ checking accounts for direct deposits, automatic payments and the like to determine what exactly needs to be switched by using Wesabe’s newish free API. After determining all of the [...]
Read moreCU Posts for Website Redesign on Blog
Here’s a CU that has posted for a website redesign on a blog with a budget of $500 to $1000 to do some basic modifications to their site! Awesome way to use a blog to get the word out! Looks like the bid actually came from an online firm called designquote.net. If anyone knows which [...]
Read moreHow well are credit unions prepared for data center outages?
Back in July, 365 Main, a major data center hosting companies such as c|net, Craigslist, e-surance, and the Oakland Raiders, lost power. For most of the day. And 365 Main has the time, money, and resources to make sure that (almost) never happens. Here is the full story straight from 365 Main. Jesse Robbins has a [...]
Read moreCheckChecker Beta Testing Opportunity
The CUSO that I’m slowly migrating to, FiLinx, is getting ready to release our second product, a simple check fraud tool called CheckChecker that is designed to be used by front-line staff. Each CU gets a specific url and can pass that url around to the entire CU. No logins or passwords for tellers to [...]
Read moreOpen Source Software and CU's
In an article on TechCrunch today, the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, took some harsh words about the grey line that exists in the open source community: how to make money from it. After BarCampBankSeattle, a small group of us have continued the discussion surrounding the core processing marketplace and opportunities that exist within that [...]
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 [...]
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