{"id":1928,"date":"2009-12-01T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:46:24","slug":"honoured-and-amazed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Honoured and amazed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/news\/the-top-10-people-of-2009\" title=\"The Top 10 People of 2009\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 169px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.azaroff.com\/uploaded_images\/BTN_LOGO-742643.gif\" class=\"imgbord\" alt=\"The Top 10 People of 2009\" \/><\/a>As I was getting ready for work this morning, I looked at my computer a little bleary-eyed and saw this <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jeff_Stephens\/status\/6237975544\" title=\"Jeff_Stephens Twitter\">tweet from Jeff Stephens<\/a>. It was a nice way to start the day.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks back, <em>Bank Technology News<\/em> told me I had been named one of the top 10 innovators of 2009. I was humbled, kind of in disbelief, honoured and thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>Today, they published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/news\/the-top-10-people-of-2009\" title=\"The Top 10 People of 2009\">The Top 10 People of 2009<\/a>. I netted out in the coveted number 2-3-4 spot, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/APatzer\" title=\"APatzer opn Twitter\">Aaron Patzer<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/mint.intuit.com\" title=\"mint.com\">mint.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091004063408\/http:\/\/futurebanking.bankofamerica.com:80\/author\/jeffcarter\" title=\"Jeff Carter\">Jeff Carter<\/a>, CEO of azigo.com and co-founder of the Center for Future Banking at MIT&#8217;s Media Lab.<\/p>\n<p>Bank Technology News wrangled us together on a conference call and published this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110123184347\/http:\/\/www.americanbanker.com:80\/btn_issues\/22_12\/aaron-patzer-william-azaroff-jeff-carter-1004400-1.html\" title=\"Where Innovation Is, and Isn&#039;t, in Retail Banking\"><em>Where Innovation Is, and Isn&#8217;t, in Retail Banking<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, I guess this constitutes a good day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was getting ready for work this morning, I looked at my computer a little bleary-eyed and saw this tweet from Jeff Stephens. It was a nice way to start the day. A few weeks back, Bank Technology News told me I had been named one of the top 10 innovators of 2009. I [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,19,31,44,103],"tags":[170,185,190,198,236],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azaroff","category-banking","category-credit-union","category-innovation","category-online-banking","tag-azaroff","tag-banking","tag-credit-union","tag-innovation","tag-online-banking"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-v6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16992,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/16992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}