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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

A whole 'nother level of online community.

I love Open Source software. The self-organizing of people to collaboratively create something they feel is worthwhile is an amazing model.

I've written a lot about ChangeEverything.ca here, but I have never written much about Drupal, the platform CE was developed on. This week we launched a small bit of new functionality to the ChangeEverything community called nudge. It's a fairly simple application:

...you use it to tell the creator of a change or the writer of a blog post that you're inspired by what they're doing... and you want to hear more. Click it, and ChangeEverything.ca instantly sends that person an email - including, if you want, a personal message from you.

But the thing I love most about it is that when we wanted to add this feature to the site, there wasn't a module available that did this. So after custom-developing "nudge" for the CE community, we released it free to the world as a module for any Drupal site.

Now that's community!

UPDATE: Here's a post on the subject from Social Signal.

Labels: blogging, changeeverything, drupal, socialsignal, technology, vancity, web 2.0

posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007

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Hi William,
I want to thank you for writing about drupal here. I might not have discovered it otherwise.

Recently our local life saving crew asked me to renovate their website, In speaking with them it seemed they wanted much more than an electronic brochure. What they described to me was a social site!

This week their new drupal 5 site went live and they're loving every minute of it. They even did their first podcast of a training session today! I am really blown away at how easy it is for non-techy people to put great, quality content out there.

You are absolutely right about the wonderful collaborative nature of the drupal community, and I think it's characteristic of the entire open source community. They really take care of their own.
comment from Dan Veasey on February 29, 2008

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