Archive for the ‘CU Industry’ Category
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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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
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, ...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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 ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
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 ...
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