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The Federal Trade Commission has released three videos to illustrate how folks try to phish you for your personal information.
While they aren’t passing around the videos for use, please feel free to use the graphic I clipped
from their site (I think that’s legal right?). Just drag thisgraphic to your desktop or click the image with […]
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Enough already! Credit union blogging is not for everbody!
Anyone who reads credit union blogs, likely reads OpenSourceCU. Yesterday they had a comment that said:
If I hear one more vendor referring to their social media clique members using terms like “cool kids” or “big brains”, I am going to puke. Just take a look around at some of the posts on this site and […]
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What makes a great credit union logo?
There are five critical elements that can be seen in every great logo design:
It must be describable
It must be memorable
It must be effective in black and white (and at low resolutions – say on a fax)
It must be scalable (this means it will work well on pens or other swag)
It should never include a […]
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How To: What to do when your CU gets Blogjacked
Look, I am no lawyer, and if you get blogjacked, a lawyer is likely to be your sidekick in your blog crime-fighting adventure. I am merely an assistant, a learned advisor, even a friendly guy at the gas station offering you directions.
Consider me Q to your James Bond. Maybe even the Obi Wan to your […]
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Friday Fun - Marketing in a foreign tongue
Cracking an international market or non-english speaking demographic is a goal of most growing corporations (and credit unions). It shouldn’t be that hard, yet even the big multi-nationals run into trouble because of language and cultural differences. For example…
The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of […]
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Another credit union blogjacking victim
At first I thought that Arizona Federal Credit Union had decided to “Go Blog” in the worst possible way. What the heck was I looking at? What credit union in their right mind would put google ads on their blog?
Ahhh, yeah. I looked at the URL.
While the blog was called the Arizona Federal Credit Union […]
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A credit union member who gives until it hurts.
You may have heard this story. But, in case you haven’t in Bremerton, Washington, a credit union member was making a deposit into her local ATM and gave until it hurt.
A female member “allegedly” dropped an envelope containing her deposit and a bag of meth at a Kitsap Credit Union. She was arrested and charged […]
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Articles
This happens from time to time and it drives me crazy.
I accidentally write a post and hit publish instead of save or something like that. Then my server sends out a notice to everyone with the web link to the new post. Well if I delete the post, all the feeds stop working for that […]
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Friday Fun: When Customer Complaints Really Suck
Ok, I like to read reviews on products.
I rarely buy something that costs more than $50 without checking the reviews
for the product.
Well I came across a review that I had to share for an Electrolux vacuum cleaner.
Here is a snippet for your enjoyment:
“Listen, I’m a simple guy. This is clearly what I get for being […]
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Welcome to the Stupid Life CU
So I was going through my blog feeds and I went to YES Summit (Excellent Blog) and read a small post about CUs and Second Life. I know what I am about to say may scream blasphemy to my pro-cu-tech amigos but here it goes…
I have never seen SL as an opportunity for credit […]
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