GAC 2011 - Live Coverage - Monday, February 28th

Follow the happenings at CUNA's annual Governmental Affairs Conference right here! We will be providing coverage throughout the event including live blogs, tweets, daily posts, pictures and interviews. Providing the coverage this week will be both Carla Day and Tina Hall.

In addition to the CU Chat Up live coverage, you can follow all the #GAC11 tweets in our live blog event below. There will be a new post each day for you to follow along.

Some of Monday's events include the following speakers:

• Bill Cheney - President and CEO of CUNA
• Mark Halperin and John Heileman - authors of Game Change
• Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger - pilot that landed US Airways Flt 1549 on the Hudson River
• Other legislative guests

We will also be bringing you highlights from the National Credit Union Foundation's Herb Wegner Memorial Awards.

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Current Issues in Credit Unions - Covering Social Media and Compliance

Last week I had the privilege to be a guest on Rob Rutkowksi's Current Issues in Credit Unions podcast, along with his two of his regular co-hosts Hal Scoggins and Anthony Demangone.

The topics covered included:

• Social Media update
• Lending money to the elderly
• When a scam becomes a SAR
• Poor CU Directors
• SAFE Act happenings
• Class Actions and offers of judgments

I guarantee you will come away learning quite a few new things from this podcast. Rob and the rest of the co-hosts make topics that are typically boring ... interesting.

You can subscribe to the CIiCU podcasts on iTunes or listen to it directly here.

Also, check out Rob's That Credit Union Blog.

Examining QR Codes

Have you wondered what those weird black and white square boxes are all about? They are QR codes, which stand for Quick Response codes. And, credit unions should consider incorporating them into their marketing.

On this week's CU Chat Up, Jimmy Marks from DigitalMailer was the guest and we discussed QR Codes and how credit unions can use them.

Here is a direct link to the show: CU Chat Up - Examining QR Codes or you can listen via the player on the right.

Want to practice? Look up the above CU Chat Up QR Code. Created it in under a minute!

Here are some of the resources on QR codes mentioned on the show:

Mashable- How to Use QR Codes

Fast Company - 13 Creative Ways to Use QR Codes for Marketing

DigitalMailer - QR Codes and Webinar

QR Code Generator

How do you think credit unions can or should use QR codes? Is your credit union using them now? Share your ideas in the comments.

Also, tune in on February 16th to hear how Obee Credit Union is using Microsoft Tag (similar to QR codes) to run their community scavenger hunt, Capture the Tag.