Posted by Christopher Stevenson

Posted by Christopher Stevenson

I always keep my eyes open for fun stuff for credit union folk. Luck shined upon me this week when I came across two new cool things for CUs. Larissa Walkiw, Common Wealth CU's Young & Free Alberta spokester posted the third part of her video series, The Credit Union Difference, and Brent Dixon has developed a new game. Enjoy the video and Brent's Co-op Crusader game.

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

On Tuesday I had an excuse to talk with Gene Blishen--and what a pleasure.

Posted by Christopher Stevenson

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

Weren't able to experience CUES Experience live in Minneapolis last week?

No worries. There are lots of ways you can experience it virtually. And I'm extremely grateful to friends in the blogosphere and at CUES for helping to make so many virtual experiences of the event possible.

Thanks to them, you can check out:

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

For me, this week at CUES Experience in Minneapolis was a big, positive, wonderful, well, experience.

I loved spending time with people I've met in the blogosphere, but hadn't yet met in person--Tim McAlpine, William Azaroff, Robbie Wright.

And re-connecting with people I've met at least once before--Brent Dixon, Katy Jett, Deb McLean, Morriss Partee, Ron Shevlin, Steve Williams, Denise Wymore--and, of course, my esteemed CUES colleagues.

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

Some credit unions lock down social media sites, making them off limits for employees. That's the case at the CU of one of my table mates at yesterday's opening general session here at CUES Experience in Minneapolis.

My other table mate's credit union looks at this differently. It shows employees its latest TV ads by posting them on YouTube.com, according to Lisa Fawcett, marketing director at $260 million Co-op Services Credit Union, Livonia, Mich.

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

I've been hearing rumblings that the current economy, complete with expensive eggs and way expensive gasoline, may actually be pushing people to SAVE again.

Wow! That's great news, isn't it! Credit unions are all about thrift, right? (Denise, that one was for you.)

At the same time, having people save more might be tricky for credit unions because, like it or not, they don't make money on share deposits. They make money when people take out loans.

Posted by Christopher Stevenson

A year in the making, CUES Experience has finally arrived.

Posted by Christopher Stevenson

Have you ever observed a cultural phenomena, a hip trend, and just not gotten it? I'm not talking about the things that are here today and gone tomorrow like 80's hair-bands, parachute pants, and leg warmers--those things that offend the senses when you look back ten years later. I'm referring to things that are inoffensive, innately good, but only simmer under the culture surface until something causes them to surge onto the scene and build a cult-ish following. In particular, I'm referring to Moleskine notebooks.