The Banktastics

We’ve made a lot of really cool changes to Banktastic over the past year, and today we’re releasing a complete makeover of our site with the coolest feature yet - the user-centric pane, located at the top of all pages on Banktastic. This new addition will help centralize a lot of the information that you want to see when logging into our site. View profiles, send messages, check out recent activity and easily switch between different networks all within the pane! Check it out and let us know what you think!

We’ve also launched a network posts section onto the Banktastic dashboard. This gives our network administrators the chance to share announcements, videos and more directly to their members as soon as they login. That pertains mostly to our private networks, but our public members will now see all of our Banktastic Blog content featured directly on our homepage. This should make it a bit easier to check out what’s new on our shows and any major announcements we need to share without having you split to another site!

We are so thankful to have our members a part of our ever-growing community. The ideas and conversations that have stemmed from our members’ use of Banktastic has been great, and we truly appreciate you being a part of it.

So stop by the site and wish us a Happy Birthday! Thanks again for a great first year!

Check out the new degree of awesomeness attained on Banktastic.com. Included in tonight’s release is improved user profiles.  You’ll find some new stuff in the vendors section as well - head on over there and become a fan of your favorite vendors and products.

We have also been hard at work behind the scenes to perfect Banktastic Networks - communities that live within Banktastic.  We are very excited about Networks as they allow associations, banks and other organizations to use Banktastic to enhance community within their own membership.

Check it out at http://www.banktastic.com/ and let us know what you think.

We rolled out a ton of updates late Monday night (and early Tuesday morning) that we hope improve your Banktastic experience. We couldn’t talk about all the cool things we added in just one post, so we’re going to space it out over a few.

A few layout tweaks

We wanted search to be easier to use and increase awareness of the hot/fresh filters, so we did a little layout shuffle. You’ll now find the search bar always open in the main navigation bar and Hot/Fresh filters on the News, Answers, and Vendor pages just under the main bar.

If you’re looking for our aggregate Industry Feeds, the link has moved up to the very tip top of the page on the right.

Open Private Messaging

A while back, we had a roundtable discussion about whether a member should be able to private message any other member or if this communication should be limited to just friends. We received lots of great feedback on the matter and in response have opened up private messaging. This means if you are logged into Banktastic, you can send a private message to anyone else in the system. Just hover over their name on click on their profile to get a “Message” link and get started.

In addition, we’ve also added the ability to block a user. We hope that it never has to be used, but it’s there in case you need it.

More to come…