{"id":1893,"date":"2009-03-31T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:29:52","slug":"hey-im-a-gonzobanker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1893","title":{"rendered":"Hey, I’m a GonzoBanker."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GonzoBanker<\/a>When I started working at Vancity in September of 2005 I was brand new to the financial services industry. My previous job was working at a telecom, and in my time there I never really learned much about that industry. From the beginning at Vancity I wanted to learn about credit unions and FIs so I could be more useful to the company and craft a more relevant business plan for what the web could do for the company.<\/p>\n

So I began looking for good websites and online publications to teach me a thing or two about banking. One of those was the enewsletter, GonzoBanker<\/a>, which gave me great insights into the industry, full of humour and street smarts. Their writers get to the heart of the issue, and certain posts have become classics – like Steve Williams’ brilliant Y Bank With Us?<\/a> and Tripp Johnson’s Web 2.0: It’s Not Just for Customers Anymore<\/a> (which mentions my blog). I have always appreciated that they don’t take themselves too seriously, but have good, informed opinions about the industry.<\/p>\n

So I was incredibly<\/span> honoured when they named me GonzoBanker of the Month for March<\/a>. As someone who is new to this industry, recognition like this is both inspiring and humbling.<\/p>\n

Thanks a ton to the entire GonzoBanker team, and especially Diana Ferguson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I started working at Vancity in September of 2005 I was brand new to the financial services industry. My previous job was working at a telecom, and in my time there I never really learned much about that industry. From the beginning at Vancity I wanted to learn about credit unions and FIs so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[170,130],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azaroff","tag-azaroff","tag-gonzobanker"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-ux","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16714,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/16714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}