Credit Union Blogging
I got mad so you don’t have to
Wow it has been quiet around here. But there is a good reason.
I have been busy flattening the top of my forehead by slapping it repeatedly on my desk. It was slightly involuntary, but I call this tried and true practice “Launching a website”.
Yes, I know my methods are controversial, but aren’t most genius-like endeavors? […]
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Friday Fun - The best of the CU blogosphere
Ok, I have to admit that I pilfered a bit of this list from Jeffry Pilcher’s new blog called The Financial Brand. But the reviews are all mine. If I left anyone out, blame Jeff.
Blogs AboutCredit Union News and Marketing
Currency Marketing’s CU Brand Blog - I like Tim and Nala and all the Currency […]
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Social Media and Credit Unions: A Recap from MAC 2008
To the folks who regularly tune in, thanks – I hope you find this helpful.
To the folks who attended the Marketing Association of Credit Unions 2008 Conference and Awards, I am compiling a list of the links that I mentioned in my presentation. I hope it helps in your presentations to your board and executive […]
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Twitter is your credit union marketing wingman
Hello ladies, have you met my friend Twitter?
Twitter is the perfect marketing wingman. He will tell everyone around you about the things that make you great. He will even go out and bring cool people to you. He is awesome like that. But not only is he a great wingman, Twitter makes a pretty good […]
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Why is your credit union website so ugly?
You know who you are. You had your site designed 5, 6 or 7 years ago. It was designed for an 800 pixel wide screen, or even worse, 640×480.You may not even know that your “drop-down” menu systems (if you even have one) don’t work on the new browsers because your IT department won’t let […]
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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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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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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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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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It’s Official, blogs are like asses. Everyone has one.
According to Technorati, 70,000 new blogs are launched every day (I wonder how many of those are Facebook, MySpace and random social networking sites). But, according to the same survey, only 5% of corporations have dipped into the blogging pool.
Now, Dave Sifry, the CEO of Technorati, seems to think that this is because corporations are […]
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