What do you get when you hold an America’s Credit Union Conference & Expo (ACUC) planning session after watching Improv Everywhere’s I Love Lunch! The Musical? If you’re me, you get this crazy idea to hold a random musical at the Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC). That’s right, we’re so excited about ACUC we decided to sing about it at this [...]
Last night I witnessed history go down by the Wisconsin state capitol and it had nothing to do with politics. It was the release party for the first ever “thrift-rock” album. The album titled (Hey, We’re) The Disclosures features songs and lyrics by the Madison duo The Disclosures. The album deals with credit union history, financial education and [...]
Are you like me – do you have a to-do list that never seems to get any shorter? This time of year it seems like the list is never ending. My blackberry is loaded up with task reminders, appointments, and meeting after meeting. My desk is wallpapered with post-it note lists of things to do, phone [...]
Prior to starting at CUNA 7 years ago I had no clue what a credit union was. My parents had always belonged to banks and when I was looking for a financial institution, ”bank” was the only brand I knew. Even after my husband and I both had terribly negative experiences with our bank we stayed put because [...]
Just last week I sent an e-mail to former CUNAverse blogger Christopher Morris wishing him the very best in his new position at NCUF (check out his last official CUNAverse blog post ). After that e-mail we joked that it felt like I was signing his yearbook. That conversation got me wondering what words of [...]
I’m sure something like this has happened to you – a negative experience with a company that could have been saved so easily. Last week my daughter developed pink eye after our normal pharmacy was already closed so I was sent to the other pharmacy in our area. The pharmacist mistakenly declared there was no [...]
