Tag Archives: social media

Common questions about RSS.

I have had a few people tell me recently that they check out my blog, but don’t subscribe to my RSS feed because they don’t quite get what RSS is.
It’s a common problem. RSS is one of those things that’s easy once you try it, but is hard to explain.
And so, I refer you to the following video by the amazing people at Common Craft. If you ever run across a social media concept that you don’t understand, keep Common Craft in mind because they produce these helpful, simple videos that explain sometimes complex solutions.
Watch and enjoy!

By the way, this clip can be found here.

UPDATE: I should mention, you can always click this button to subscribe to my feed.

For credit union employees on LinkedIn.

I’ll be honest with you, I am not quite sure what to do with LinkedIn groups. LinkedIn started this service a little while back, and I thought it would be cool to create a group for all credit union employees on LinkedIn. But then I wondered if I was the right person to create such a group.

So I passed the idea to my friend and EverythingCU marvel, Morriss Partee. Morriss went ahead and started the group.

I’m not sure where it will go, but if you’re a CU staff member who uses LinkedIn, go ahead and invite yourself to this group and let’s see what develops.

And if anyone has any thoughts as to where it can evolve, let Morriss or myself know (and if anyone wants to create a little icon for the group, that would cool too!).

UPDATE: To join the group, click here.

Viva La Resolution! part 2

A year ago, we ran the Viva La Resolution! contest on ChangeEverything.ca for people to name their New Year’s resolutions, and if they blogged about them at least three times, they could win $500.

The entries last year were amazing. The story of EnviroWoman, who resolved not to use any new plastics in 2007, provided amazingly inspirational stories and drew a ton of new visitors to the site. She won the contest, and had to be paid in an alternative to the Visa gift card we were giving, because we just couldn’t give her plastic as a prize.

LJMK came in second with her resolution to de-clutter her life. And degan came in third place when she resolved to run a marathon.

Now, a year later, we’re re-running the contest, looking for people to name their 2008 New Year’s resolution and blog about it. The prizes have been doubled, so the winners will receive $1,000, $250 or $100 in the form of a Vancity mytreat Visa gift card.

Please spread the word.