Archive for Technology

What would you do with your savings?

I think a creative credit union should help their members save and launch a similar campaign to what Volvo has done here. I know other CU’s and banks have done things like the My Ugly Room campaign. It’d be a perfect fit to do a savings campaign and have people vote online for the best [...]

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Internet Explorer 7 Released

Internet Explorer 7 RTM (final) has been released. Grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx

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The Reality of Virtual Economies

In-game money is beginning to attract real-world tax attention. From the article: Second Life, for example, was specifically designed by San Francisco-based Linden Lab to have a free-flowing market economy. Its internal currency, the Linden dollar, can be converted into U.S. dollars through an open currency exchange, making it effectively “real” money. And it is [...]

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Spokane Teachers New Website

I don’t know how long it’s been up, but I really like STCU’s new homepage. It’s clean, has an online membership app, RSS feeds for the member classifieds, and a huge FAQ section that covers just about everything. STCU recently went through a re-branding effort and they are pulling it off very effectively. They’re doing [...]

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Is your website ready for IE7

Windows Internet Explorer 7 is going to be released this month. A few weeks later it will be automatically distributed through Automatic Updates. We all need to make sure our web sites are compatible with this new browser, because its adoption rate should be fast. You can pick up Windows Internet Explorer 7 RC1 and [...]

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Google Groups or cu2cu?

So I was using Google Groups to attempt to help me solve a problem this afternoon and decided to see there was a credit union group on there. Surprise, there is not. Mainly just people venting frustrations. Anyone else noticed this? Is there a demand? Cu2CU is doing the same thing, they just aren’t getting [...]

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Is Your Site Accessible?

Target’s web site doesn’t look that much different from many others, yet it is the target of a lawsuit because it failed to make its site accessible to the blind. This lead to a ruling a few days ago clearly stating that web sites are subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act. This may just [...]

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website eggs?

So what would happen if you hid an egg, some type of hidden content, on your new website? Incentive people for find the egg, deposit money into their account, whatever, but advertise the fact that you’ve hidden this valuable thing on your new website to make your members explore it more? It seems to me [...]

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