Archive for the ‘CU Industry’ Category
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Chris Saad, of Data Portability fame, posted this video on his blog. It clearly demonstrates what Gen Y'ers think about when they build a company. I also think that many other Gen Y'ers look for environment like the ones described when they are looking for employment. And if credit unions ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
While at the CUES Experience a few weeks ago, a number of great ideas were discussed both at the conference and at other social events. One such idea revolved around the common bond/affinity aspect nearly all credits unions were founded on and how that seems to be waning in popularity. ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Unless you are an ostrich and have had your head in the sand, the US economy isn't doing great. Arguably we are already in a recession with the dreaded word "Depression" occasionally getting thrown around if we have any type of bank runs or if more large investment or retail ...
Posted in CU Industry, Products | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Shopping around on Amazon the other day and decided to search for credit union. And the results were pretty, um, not interesting. Most look like text books and seem to be fairly dated. What does this say about credit unions? Search for social media and you'll get a bunch of ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Facebook recently announced their move to translate the site into different languages for use all over the world. Facebook, facing a massive translation project, did what any good web 2.0 company would do: make their users do it.
Facebook has created an app called Translations that lets users translate phrases and ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
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 ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
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, ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
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 ...
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