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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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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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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “The Burst.” Here are some important notes about this episode:
Partnership Symposium Coverage
We got a lot of really great video and interviews from Partnership Symposium last week! If you want to watch everything we got, check out this week’s “CU Scoop”. We had a great time in Indianapolis and meeting a lot of Banktastic members for the first time!
Finovate 2008
Just a reminder - Mark and I will be in NYC next week for Finovate 2008! We’re going to be live blogging this event and getting some great video interviews for next week’s episode. At this time, we’re still looking for a guest blogger, so if you’re interested please email me at lisa@banktastic.com. We’re really excited to see the presentations and visit NY! Find us at the event next week!
How is Your FI Holding Up in this Economy?
The question was asked on Banktastic several months ago, but we’ve seen a huge change in the economy since then. How is the recession hurting your FI? What significant changes have you had to make? Our economy has taken many hits over the last couple of months, so we’re wanting to know what you’re having to do to keep your FI out of trouble. Share your thoughts on Banktastic!
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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “The Burst.” Here are some important notes about this episode:
BarCampBankBC
Brad wanted to touch on the awesomeness that was BarCampBankBC. Though we discussed it in this week’s episode of “The CU Scoop”, it’s well worth bringing to “The Burst!” There was a lot of great content coming out of this event. Check the videos posted by Brent Dixon over on OpenSourceCU and the live blogging from William Azaroff here.
Hurricanes and FIs
Brad asked recently if our members knew of any banks or credit unions that were directly affected by the recent gulf coast hurricanes. One of our Banktastic members was able to use Twitter via his phone to continually update everybody on the status of his bank. It was really interesting to see how despite power outages, we as a community are still able to communicate. If you have any stories to share from this past string of hurricanes, please feel free to do so on Banktastic.
Kids Cash Connection
We discuss in this episode a site that Brad came across called “Kids Cash Connection.” The site is dedicated to helping teach children about business and finances. We’re asking if you think that the children they’re targeting are even interested in learning about finances. I know that as a child, saving money or being “financially responsible” took a backseat to playing cops and robbers. We’d like you to check out their website and let us know if you think their efforts are going to hit home with the children they’re targeting. We’d love to hear from you all at Kids Cash Connection, so comment back if you have any feedback!
Partnership Symposium!
Just a friendly reminder that Mark and I will be at Partnership Symposium next week. We’re going to bring you some great behind-the-scenes footage along with interviews from attendees. Check out BanktasticTV next week to get in on the action!
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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “The Burst.” Here are some important notes about this episode:
The US Economy & Wall Street
With bailouts, buyouts and bankruptcy making news every day lately, we had to touch on it in this week’s episode. How and when will this affect us as consumers? Why aren’t some companies just allowed to fail? Is this coming out of the pockets of taxpayers? In trying to make sense of what this means for us and our economy, we brought the issue up. Feel free to expand on your thoughts of the recent downturn by commenting on the blog.
Discrimination in P2P Lending
I shared an article that I found on the Marketing ROI blog regarding research done on a year’s worth of activity on the P2P lending site, Prosper. According to the research, African-Americans, older borrowers, members considered unattractive or without an image at all were less likely to be bid on, while lenders tended to favor military members and single women. It was very interesting to read that even slightly altering the information that someone looking for a loan wrote out would make a difference in the amount of bids they received. This included changing your picture to something pleasant, or not getting too detailed to prevent giving a negative feel to your loan request.
Student Internship Help!
We’re working on starting an internship program, and we’re looking for some feedback. If you’ve ever started a program like this and have any pointers or information we could benefit from, please send it our way! We’ll be scouting at local universities to find the right fits, and look forward to helping some undergrads get their foot in the door.
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What do you want out of The Burst?
We’ve gone back and forth on a few ideas on what to feature on The Burst - now we’re really asking for your feedback! Do you want The Burst to:
-keep discussing content from Banktastic
-discuss up-and-coming companies
-take you behind the scenes to show how we’re growing
-take a completely different turn - share your ideas!
We’re very interested in knowing what you like about our show and what direction you’d like us to take The Burst in the future. So please comment on the blog, send us emails, shoot paper airplane messages - whatever you have to do to let us know what you think!
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News: Southwest joins the Cashless Airlines Move
Southwest Airlines is the latest airline to announce that it will no longer accept cash on its flights. The usual free snacks and beverages will still be there, but the items they charge for, like cocktails and energy drinks, can only be paid for with credit & debit cards as well as drink coupons. This may cause an issue for those that haven’t adopted credit or debit cards into their wallets yet.
Q&A: Would you use a Twitter clone inside of your FI? J.B. D. recently asked the Banktastic community if we’d use a Twitter-like program inside our FIs for communication? Would something like Twitter or other networking applications be useful in your FI? Get the conversation going - share your thoughts!
News: HSBC Could Order 200,000 iPhones
Brad shared an article recently on Banktastic that discussed how HSBC is considering dropping the BlackBerry and picking up iPhones instead for its staff. This shows the significant impact that the iPhone has had on our mobile technology for a bank of this size to completely switch from the mainstream BlackBerry to the iPhone.
Brad Heading to San Antonio
Brad’s going to be speaking several times this weekend in San Antonio for the Texas Credit Union League. We wish him the best of luck on his several day trip and on his presentations!
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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “The Burst.” Here are some important notes about this episode:
News: Customer bank data found on computer sold on eBay
Apparently a computer that was sold on eBay had a ton of very sensitive customer information on it. The computer, property of Graphic Data, was not supposed to be for sale, and so an investigation has begun to determine how it ended up as a listing on eBay.
Q&A: Anybody want to recommend an online training program? Katie C. recently asked the Banktastic community for references for good online training programs. We’re bringing this question to The Burst so that we can get more responses for Katie. But Brad also had some thoughts on online training vs. in-person training. He sees online training comparable to something like online defensive driving, and says it’s easy for people to skim over something and not get proper instruction. Let us know what you think!
News: Quicken Beam Helps Consumers Keep Money in Their Pockets David G. shared with us an article discussing Quicken Beam, a new service that works on any cell phone or mobile device and is designed to give consumers instant access to their bank balances and recent activity. If you’ve checked it out, let us know what you thought about Quicken Beam by commenting on the blog!
Send Us Videos of Funny Bank Robbers
We all know that sometimes criminals just fail, and we really wanted to include clips of botched bank robberies in this episode, but we couldn’t find anything. If you know of a link you’d like to share with us, please do and we’ll be sure to include it in an upcoming episode of The Burst!
Do You like our Sidetracking?
A couple of times now we’ve covered some random and not necessarily banking-related information, and we want to know what you think. Are you interested in having us cover more random topics along with the latest and greatest in the financial industry, or would you rather us stay the course? Let us know by commenting on the blog!
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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 Texas Bankers Association
Brad’s back this week from spending some time with members of the Texas Bankers Association at their recent HR & Training Conference. We may not have any videos to show you from Brad’s trip, but we embedded some pics in the video. If you want to check out more, go here.
News: Ohio bank learns hard lesson about trademark law
I shared an article that I found on The Financial Brand Blog regarding a big lesson learned by a very old bank. Ohio Valley National Bank has been in business for 120 years, but another area bank changed its name to Ohio Valley Bank, which it immediately trademarked. After the 5-year contest period passed and the original Ohio Valley National Bank failed to make a move, they lost the right to use their name and have been forced to change it. This was a tough lesson learned by the original bank about trademark law. Don’t let this happen to you!
We Need Guest Bloggers for Finovate 2008
Mark and I are headed to NYC to cover Finovate 2008 on October 14, 2008. We’re looking to cover this event like we covered FinovateStartup 2008, which means we’ll need a couple of good guest bloggers! I’ll be in charge of making sure that the content is posted to the Banktastic Blog as soon as possible during the event, so we’ll need some people willing to share their honest opinions on the presenters while I’m doing the dirty work. If you’re going to attend Finovate 2008 and are interested in guest blogging for us, just shoot an email over to lisa@banktastic.com.
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Thanks for checking out this episode of BanktasticTV’s “The Burst.” Here are some important notes about this episode:
Banktastic LinkedIn Group David G., one of Banktastic’s awesome members, took it upon himself to create a group on LinkedIn for Banktastic! You can get to the group by clicking here, or search “Banktastic.com” in LinkedIn’s groups. We are super privileged to have members like David that do little things like this for Banktastic. David, you rock!
News: At Countrywide, One Overlooked PC Led to Loss of 2M Records
I shared news yesterday about an insider breach at Countrywide Home Loans. The company had sealed up all of the USB ports on employee computers, but they missed one. An employee caught the open USB port and began stealing customer information over the course of two years. The article discusses that closing off a port can be done with something as simple as glue, but that stronger measures, such as a registry hack, may need to be taken if you want to ensure that your company’s data won’t be transferred via USB ports.
Brad working with Texas Bankers Association
Brad was unable to join us this week as he was out of town working with Texas Bankers Association. As you know, TBA is the first private network to join on with Banktastic. We are super excited to have them on board! Brad has been attending one of their conferences to showcase the network this week, and he’ll have some great footage for us next week. Look forward to that!
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