By Terry Treadwell, CPA

Posted by Christopher Stevenson

At Tim's recommendation, I took at closer look at Young & Free Blog, where Larissa is the voice of the under 25 crowd for CUs. I couldn't be more impressed. Just take a look at Larissa's video explaining the credit union difference.

Posted by Christopher Stevenson

I've been negligent and am riddled with guilt. Our friend Denise Wymore is presenting a free Webinar for CUES next Thursday, January 31, and I failed to point it out to you. (Sorry, Denise.) Here's the session description:

Posted by Christopher Stevenson

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

As I jumped into the lap pool both Friday and this morning, I jumped back into my thinking about how blogging and traditional publishing compare. I'm grateful to Tony Mannor and Tim McAlpine for commenting on my post, "Is Blogging Really So Different?" which focused on how the two media are very much the same.

By Ron Jooss

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

I think I was in minute 22 of my early morning lap swim today when it hit me. Helping to publish a blog (which I just started doing in 2007) isn't really so different from helping to publish a magazine (which I've been doing in some fashion for almost 15 years).

Sure, the supporting technology is different; the format is different; the timing is different, but some key things are the same:

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

During the holidays, I found my wireless laptop displaying the Web site of a credit union I hadn't pulled up. (Imagine that!) My brother-in-law was visiting so I asked him if he belonged to this credit union, of which his large-company employer appears to be the single sponsor.

Yup. He belongs--and largely because of the convenience of having a branch on site where he works. "It's practically down the hall," he noted.

By Terry Treadwell, CPA

Posted by Christopher Stevenson

Let's talk about blogs for a moment. Everyone and his brother has a blog. Many are quite good, but few really capture the readers' attention and bring them back again and again. (Of the 75 feeds I have in Bloglines, I only read 10 or 12 regularly. How many do you read?) What makes the difference? Storytelling.