Posted by Christopher Stevenson

A friend forwarded to me an e-mail from ASAE that was promoting a one-day seminar. The body of the e-mail was nothing special, but what set this e-mail apart was the footnote:

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:

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.

By Ron Jooss

Do you know what your members are having for lunch? Chances are, a good number of them are devouring videos over their lunch hour, at least according to a front-page New York Times article that ran last Saturday.