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		<title>Proposed legislation will let them expand outside their home province</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fiona Anderson, Vancouver SunApril 27, 2010  An interesting article sent to me by a colleague &#8230; see you online! Robert.  British Columbians love their credit unions with Canada&#8217;s two largest &#8212; Vanity and Coast Capital Savings &#8212; in the province along with about 50 other smaller ones. The attraction is they are member-owned and community driven. Vancity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=410</link>
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		<title>Federal Charter for Credit Unions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, I&#8217;m just pouring over the CUCC position paper for a federal charter for Credit Unions. While I&#8217;m sure it will take some years to develop the legislation and manage the risks and implications of offering federal incorporation, developing your own credit union&#8217;s strategy (or not) will likely take the same amount of time. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=408</link>
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		<title>Not Your Typical Best Practices Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Central 1 Credit Union&#8217;s System Operations Committee commissioned a report to assist credit unions in learning about social media and how they can be used to further a credit union&#8217;s presence in the online world. The report explains why credit unions should consider these new channels of communication in their strategic plans, what to understand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=347</link>
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		<title>Hamilton Community Employee Wins National Young Leaders Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A submission by Jordan Moat, business development manager at Hamilton Community Credit Union, has won the National Young Leaders&#8217; Be the Voice Big Idea contest. The contest solicited strategic ideas from the credit union system to increase member value. Jordan&#8217;s submission capitalizes on the environmentally friendly, organic and local (green) initiatives by encouraging credit unions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=321</link>
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		<title>Taking Service to the Next Level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meridian Credit Union : Taking Service to the Next Level (Central 1 Market Smarts newsletter, November 2009) Merdian Credit Union was created from the 2005 merger of HEPCOE Credit Union and Niagara Credit Union. The newly-formed organization manages approximately $4.6 billion in assets and serves 214,000 retail and business members throughout southern Ontario. With 44 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=305</link>
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		<title>We Won! (Well, sort of &#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year Meridian won the Central 1 Innovation award for operations and the overall Innovation award. The CUinnovate community site was part of the overall submission Meridian made highlighting its various social media experiments. I&#8217;d like to thank everyone who has been active in this forum and encourage you to spread the word. Creating a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=301</link>
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		<title>Canadian Tire&#8217;s beloved  &#8220;Bob&#8221; has passed away.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Globe this morning they talk about how Canadian Tire built stores, catalogues and service strategies around their customer base of “Bobs”. They have now come to realize that “Bob”– their high value customer is dead and they are faced with the task of reinventing themselves to appeal to their new high value customer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=300</link>
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		<title>“Who Moved the Water Cooler?”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Managing Teams in a Virtual Environment Sandi Verrecchia More and more credit unions are experiencing virtual work environments. From dual head office locations to virtual sales teams to home based employees; the rules supporting team engagement, interaction and communication are changing.   For the past 6 six years, CUMIS Insurance’s Strategic Solutions Group has worked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=297</link>
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		<title>Micro Loans and Lending to the creative sector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To say I’ve been enjoying my switch from corporate banking on Bay and King in Toronto to working for a local credit union would be an understatement. There are many reasons why I feel my quality of life has improved, but the one I want to focus on today is the freedom and encouragement to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=293</link>
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		<title>Credit Union Alliances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Value Proposition How many times in our Credit Union careers have we heard “what is our value proposition?” Too many to recount. The point is – people are still asking this question today. I just returned from a conference of Credit Union executives and the question was the centre of a great dialogue. I asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cuinnovate.ca/blog/?p=263</link>
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