my upcoming conferences

Hi, I'm William. I'm the Director, Online Banking & Engagement at Vancity, Canada's largest credit union.

My opinions and views are just that, and don't reflect the views of my employer (or, perhaps, anyone else).

my peers
:.BankerVision
:.Banking Kismet
:.Banktastic
:.The Bankwatch
:.Benry
:.The Boardcast
:.Buzz Canuck
:.The Client Side
:.CU Communicator
:.CU Employee
:.CU Hype
:.The CU Loop
:.Currency Marketing
:.Denise Wymore
:.Doug True
:.EverythingCU
:.The Financial Brand
:.Marketing ROI
:.NetBanker
:.Nexus Connection
:.Noise to Signal
:.Open Source CU
:.ShoreBank Voices
:.Social Signal
:.The Story
:.Tinfoiling
:.Trey Reeme
:.Verity's Our Voices

$1,000 still gets attention.

On August 28th, I blogged about the ChangeSomething contest now running on ChangeEverything.ca. At the time, we had very little uptake on the contest, and I even wondered if this was going to be the first unsuccessful initiative we'd had on the site

Now that the contest has closed, I thought I'd chime in with an update. In the end, we had 18 contest finalists all submitted by members of the online community. Some of the entries generated excellent discussion.

Voting began on Friday, September 21, and now just 3 days later, the poll has 753 votes. Normally a poll on ChangeEverything.ca gets between 20 and 100 votes after a week or two. This is extraordinary. The winning entry takes the $1,000, so get voting.

Major kudos to Kate, the site's moderator who helped keep this top of mind and build momentum, even when there appeared to be none. I'm looking forward to seeing which cause the community wants to give $1,000 to.

Labels: changeeverything, corporate responsibility, credit union, microcredit, social media, vancity, web 2.0

posted on Monday, September 24, 2007

make a comment

2 comments
Oooh comments. So i've checked out changeeverything a couple of times now, but I've been hesistant to get involved and vote on something like this because I don't live in Vancouver. But then again, this is an online community. So i guess the question is, to be involved in this site how important is it to be a Vancouver resident, or for that matter, a VanCity customer?
comment from Tiven on September 27, 2007

Hi Tiven. It's an online community that appeals to people who live in Vancouver and Victoria, but is in no way limited to them - anyone can take part. It is definitely not limited to just Vancity members, everyone is welcome.
comment from

wazaroff on September 27, 2007

make a comment

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.