Archive for the ‘Innovation’ Category
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Credit unions are lemmings. Nobody ever wants to be the first one to do something. Then, slowly, as some credit unions adopt the new technology/process/whatever more CU's start to follow. Pretty soon it is a mad rush because nobody wants to be the last.
From Wikipedia:
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Hindsight being 20-20, I wish I could have been in two places at once. We had a MaPS entourage at NACUSO (4 employees and a board member) and we had a great time. The conference was in the Wynn and very well put together. Personally, I get more out of ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
I'm build a presentation for an upcoming event and was cruising around slideshare.net for some inspiration. I stumbled onto Visual and Creative Thinking and not only was the design great, but the content is stellar. It is a must read for CU execs!
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Today was the first long day at BarCampBankSeattle and it was pretty amazing. We've got people from all over the blogosphere here sharing and learning. Jesse Robbins, all the Trabian guys, Brad and Mark from the Garland Group, Tim from Currency Marketing, and Jason from Wesabe just to name a ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Dell has started making some good progress towards turning the company around and their new IdeaStorm site is awesome.It just launched on Friday, February 16th, but the content of the site is already taking off. The basic idea behind the site is for current, or potential, Dell customers to ...
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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, December 19th, 2006
I recently attended a regional Raddon conference reviewing our CU's results. Paired with our recent member survey, some of the results were mind-blowing and very surprising. Part of Raddon's member survey is a "Zone of Performance" where the members rate how important a certain factor is in their financial ...
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
YouTube has launched Test Tube, their new "Idea Incubator" site, similar to Google Labs. (Imagine that.)CU's so often put up their website and call the project finished, only making changes when they add products or promotions.From Karl Long on his blog, Experience Curve: "For many years ...
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