Archive for the ‘Community Service’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Our CU has a ratio of three employees to one server. Astronomical. Barely any of those servers get used all day long and rarely do their resources get maxed out. To me, it seems like a wonderful opportunity to use credit union resources for the better good: distributed computing projects. ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
More people are taking notice of Vancity's Bike Share program. Springwise has a great article about it here. Great job William and Vancity!
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
Remember Whisher? I blogged about it a while back and not it seems there is another player in the game. Go check out FON.
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
I asked the same question the first time I saw IDA. Did someone misspell IRA???
An IDA is an Individual Development Account and it is an initiative the state of Oregon kick off a few years ago through The Neighborhood Partnership Fund. The fund lists three main goals:
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Seeing as today is Earth Day (really every day should be earth day) I was trying to think of a good way for CU's to participate.
HSBC has their "Virtual Forest" for switching to e-statements and quite a few institutions are going the carbon neutral route.
How difficult would it be for ...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
You heard me. Free WiFi.But how?Whisher is how. Whisher is a software technology that people install at home that enables secure sharing of their WiFi. Anyone in the Whisher community can travel about, find other Whisher members and use their WiFi for free. The software does ...
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
I ran across America First CU today and they seem to know what's going on. It is one of the better looking CU websites I've seen lately (although html and css don't validate) and the navigation is super easy. They use flash excellently and their ads look amazing. ...
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