Reference Articles: Web Sites

• Social Networking: Creating Your Profile
  As you visit and use the various social networking sites, you will want to complete your profile, so people will know who you are.
• Why Your Web Site Vendor Needs a Project Manager—and Why You Need One Too
• Convey Your Message Professionally Using Fonts and Color
• Make a Podcast Your Own with Customized Openings and Closings
• Convey Your Message Professionally Using Fonts and Color
  No matter who designs and develops your Web site, you want to make sure that the look of your site represents the professionalism of your credit union or league.
• Social Networking: Participating in a Colleague's Blog
  If you haven’t joined the blogging community yet, chances are your kids or some of your peers have. And in time, you’ll probably start blogging, too. After all, it’s an increasingly popular way to share information with colleagues and strangers.
• Organize and Archive Articles Using the Article Module in CMS
• Answering Your Members' Questions Online
  To provide answers to frequently asked questions, without having to dedicate a staff person to the task, use an online knowledgebase.
• Save Time and Provide Consistent Information with Chat Canned Messages
  Use the chat canned messages feature in Boldchat. Chat canned messages are scripted answers that you prepare and save in anticipation of certain questions.
• Control Access to Your Web Site with the Public Security Module
  With the Public Security Module that works with the CU Village Content Management System you can assign security access rights to different pages of your site without having to ask your IT department for help.
• Calendar of Events Module
  Use the Calendar of Events Module to help market your events to your members.
• Product Highlight: Rates Management System
  Learn how to manage your rates from one location on your Web site.
• Apples and Oranges (or Not All Web Site Vendors Are Equal)
  If you're asking more than one company to provide a price quote on either developing a new web site or redesigning your existing site, you want to be sure that you are comparing prices for the same products and services…that you're comparing apples to apples.
• Here Today. Here Tomorrow
  Imagine this: At close of business one day your Web site is up and running. The next day, your site is gone…and so is your Web development and hosting company…with no warning whatsoever. Learn what happened to Municipal and Health Services Credit Union's Web site.
• E-member Service: Welcome to the Chat Room!
  When's the last time you chatted with your members? We don't mean conversing casually when members drop by to conduct a transaction, or exchanging gossip in a chat room. We mean a secure chat area in which your members can ask you questions about their accounts and your products and services; in other words, we mean Secure Live Chat.
• In-Person vs. Web: The Battle for your Conferencing Dollar!
  It's a dilemma we've probably all faced at one time or another. Do you host the meeting or training session in-person or go the tech route? Let's compare and contrast live sessions with tech-enabled sessions in general.