Credit Union Blogging

How To Create Your Own Credit Union Blog - An Introduction

So there has been a lot of interest from credit unions in setting up blogs. I am still leery of suggesting that all credit unions do this. If you aren’t prepared to give it 100% and give good and valuable information - DON’T DO IT! Don’t have your blog be a simple delivery channel for […]

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ROI, Web 2.0 and the Promtional Giveaway

I am so sorry guys. I posted this yesterday. I spent probably about an hour on it and I hit the “Publish” button and it didn’t publish. I lost all that work. ARGH!
Ok, it actually worked out for the best because I found some new information that pertained to the post.
Let’s see how much I […]

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Congratulations First New York FCU on your new blog!

First New York FCU launched their blog recently and I would like to give you an opinion - since I have so many.
First the not so great stuff. FNYFCU is using a standard template. It isnt really branded well to the credit union. I made the same mistake and launched with […]

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5 Things You Should Know Before Setting Up Your Credit Union Podcast

The word on the street is….
Podcasting.
Thats the stuff man, thats the dope, thats the new wave - maybe…
Look, I am not all that convinced yet. Podcasting has it’s place. I am just not sure that the place is a credit union website. The idea behind podcasting, for those who don’t know, is an audio file […]

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Protecting your credit union’s reputation - A User’s Guide

So, after my ever-so-embarrassing foray into breaking up with a blog feed - I decided to figure out how a credit union could take measures to protect itself.
#1 Google Alerts- See I use Google as my source of all things Internet. My homepage is a 5 tabbed page of probably over 150 feeds from everything […]

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“You have been Blogjacked” - “No Thank You” part 2

So, I just got off the phone with a very pleasant, yet confused gentleman. Our phone call began “Hi Tony, I need to talk to you about your CUHype.com blog. I am Mark from “The Credit Union”. My blood ran cold.
Had Mark called to unleash a torrent of verbal lashings? I flinched a bit and […]

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600 Ways to say “No Thanks”.

I have eliminate the first blog from my subscription feed. We need to go our separate ways. It just wasn’t working out. I am sorry, but you talk too much.
I was conflicted as to if I should tell my friends about you because it looks like your issue is a glitch in your software. But […]

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CU Blogging 2 - Rules for the road

I was reading Church of the Customer Blog, I hope they dont mind. They have a post that seemed seemed to support what we were saying here. Here is a reprint with some edits to make it more credit union related.
Blogs may provide credit union some benefits because they easily bridge the feedback loop between […]

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Credit Union Blogging - You Know What I’m Sayin’?

I didnt realize I had so much to say. This is our second blog entry and I have dozens of things that I want to talk about. I hope can keep this thing up to date and interesting.
So, what is blogging? You are looking at it. It is a regular Joe or Jane who happens […]

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