BarcampBankDallas (BCBD) 2008 - my perspective

As my two-year Kate would say after a meal, “All done.” The 1st BarCampBank in Dallas is officially done. Pictures here. Videos coming soon.
It seemed like a whirlwind weekend but I’m thinking that’s the status quo for these things. We ended up having 29 people show up to the event and the [...]

I am passionate about financial services!

Couple of real good blog posts have come across my feeds lately and felt like I wanted to comment on both but figured it made more sense to put them in one concise post here.
Both posts talk about examples of other companies being passionate about their products and how they look for employees that have [...]

Traditional Bank Marketers, lend me your ears!

Exactly.
Spoke with a Sun Microsystems internal marketing person recently that still didn’t get this and he’s in the technology space that can do it! This translate very easily to banking IMO, listen up!

The whole article here.

Banking Core Processors are evil.

So one of my resolution this year was to blog more about banking stuff on my blog so here’s a rant I’ve been working on in my head for a while. Heh, how’s this for a first run:
Stealing from Google’s mantra of “Don’t be evil.” I think that banking core processors ARE evil. [...]

My Credit Card company rant

My 1st video blog post using Viddler.com. We are doing more video with Banktastic.com stuff so I figured I’d post something over on my personal blog, too! Hear how Mastercard is screwing around with their customers or at least ME!Enjoy!

Releasing a Web App | Banktastic.com

Today we announced the private release of our new niche banking-specific community site, Banktastic.com. We are definitely excited about it and understand that building any site like this will be a long and hard road. We hope our dedication to keeping our content specific and relevant to the industry helps build the site [...]

Transitioning My Blog

Over the past couple of months I’ve been trying to figure out how to focus this blog. I feel like my blog does not have a real distinct vision and I’d like to improve that. At this point, I pretty much blog about whatever, from tech to gastric bypass to web to personal [...]