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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “The Burst.” Here are some important notes about this episode:

Tips for Going Green
Have you been wanting to make your bank “green,” but don’t know where to start? Brad takes this episode to detail a couple of small changes your bank can make to help out the environment. From something as small as receipts to as big as your servers, check out this episode for Brad’s tips for “Going Green!”

If you have any tips that you’d like to add to this list to help people make the green change, please post them as comments!

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We’re planning on removing this blog in the near future and moving all of our BanktasticTV content onto Banktastic.com. Whether or not you are a member, you will still be able to view our posts and shows on the dashboard. If you have any questions, email us!

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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “The CU Scoop” featuring Mark McSpadden. Here are some important notes about this episode:

Interview with Eastern NY FCU
Mark got together with Chris Langley, the CEO/President of Eastern NY FCU to talk about RateMatch. We edited down the interview into a shorter segment which you can watch in the above video. If you want to check out the unedited version, watch the video below!

Again, huge thanks to Chris Langley for taking the time to let us interview him! We really appreciate it!

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We’d like to give a huge thank you to our sponsors, Syphr! We greatly appreciate your support!

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Feel free to email comments or suggestions about “The CU Scoop” to mark@banktastic.com, or post your thoughts on the Banktastic Community. We’re always looking for your input.

THIS BLOG WILL BE MOVING!
We’re planning on removing this blog in the near future and moving all of our BanktasticTV content onto Banktastic.com. Whether or not you are a member, you will still be able to view our posts and shows on the dashboard. If you have any questions, email us!

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-The Banktastics

Mashable is holding it’s second annual Open Web Awards, and we’re writing this in hopes that you’ll nominate Banktastic in the Niche and Misc. Social Networks category. If you want to vote for us, just use the widget below to submit your nomination!

Please spread the word and nominate Banktastic! If you want the html code to input the widget on your own blog, please shoot me an email at lisa@banktastic.com. Nominations end at midnight on Sunday, Nov. 16, so help us get the word out while you can! Thanks for your support!

-Lisa and the Banktastics

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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “Blow Up Your Marketing.” Here are some important notes about this episode:

2 Kool 4 Skool
This week, the CBC team gets together to discuss some big do’s and don’ts of youth marketing. Things like lumping together age groups, stock photography and trying to seem cool won’t be appealing at all to a younger audience. Check out the episode to see what tips Jeff and the team give to help you better your youth marketing!

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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “The CU Scoop” featuring Mark McSpadden. Here are some important notes about this episode:

CU Potential and KVFCU Merger
Mark has covered the KVFCU merger on past episodes of The CU Scoop, but he wanted to let you in on the coverage on the CU Potential blog. Christian Mullins is doing a great job writing about the merger process, so check out his blog for more info about KVFCU.

Open Source CU on Credit Unions and the Economy
Brent Dixon recently posted on the Open Source CU blog about how credit unions are getting a lot of positive attention in the news lately as the economic crisis continues to trouble banks. He shares some news snapshots from news stories that feature a lot of CU love, and asks how credit unions should respond to the positive attention. Check out the blog to get in on the conversation.

The Ask Jack Blog
Members Credit Union has launched an “Ask Jack” blog, where their CEO, Jack Braswell, will basically ask questions submitted by members of their credit union. They do a lot of video on the blog, which you know we love. Mark thinks this is a great way to communicate with your CU’s members, so go and check out the Ask Jack blog now!

Making Boring Stuff Fun!
Lisa Hochgraf posts on the CUES Skybox blog about how to teach members about important (yet, boring) things about credit unions through the use of fun. She points out the unique way that Larissa Walkiw and Common Wealth CU made learning about the difference between banks and credit unions fun. Lisa asks for other examples of teaching members about your products and services that are fun. Get in on the conversation here.

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Feel free to email comments or suggestions about “The CU Scoop” to mark@banktastic.com, or post your thoughts on the Banktastic Community. We’re always looking for your input.

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-The Banktastics

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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “The Burst.” Here are some important notes about this episode:

Brad at the MIT Media Lab
Brad has been on the road a lot lately, which is why you haven’t seen him in The Burst in a few weeks! But he’s back this week with a great episode discussing everything he saw recently at the MIT Media Lab. From robots to speech study projects, he talks about all the cool things going on within their Media Lab.

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A couple of other cool things for our 1st Birthday this year - The Banktastics singing Happy Birthday!

We’d also like to take a moment to recognize some of our members!

Our most active member - Mike T.
The member that Bank’d the most - JB D.
Our most popular member - Joni R.

That’s going to wrap it up for us on our first birthday. Have a great weekend!

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!

We have spent the past two days doing all things Finovate 2008 in New York City! Mark and I had a blast meeting with the presenters and getting some great video interviews. Here’s a list of all the content we’ve gotten at Finovate so far:

Company Reviews: First 6 | Second 6 | Third 6 | Last 6

Interviews: Fiserv MyMoney | Quicken Online | SmartHippo | Digital Insight | MoneyAisle | Vidoop | WeSeed | Boulevard R

Mark and I would like to thank all of the presenters that took some time to do a video interview with us. We live-blogged all day long on Tuesday, and we hope you’ve enjoyed the content that came from it! We appreciate everybody that has shared our reviews and videos so far, and we look forward to seeing more conversation coming from Finovate 2008.

Email us if you have any questions or comments on our coverage at Finovate. See ya later!

We sat down with John & Matt of Boulevard R at Finovate 2008 today. Check out the video above!

We hope you’ve enjoyed our day-long coverage of Finovate 2008 live from New York City today. Here are some quick links to connect you with other Finovate content from today:

Check out the first 6 presenter reviews!
Check out the second 6 presenter reviews!
Check out the third 6 presenter reviews!
Check out the last 6 presenter reviews!