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EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – The University of Connecticut’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is inviting Credit Union Journal readers to participate in research regarding their needs and concerns regarding financial management services within online banking.

Some niblets from among the Thanksgiving leftovers.

How one person's no-win situation in court could illustrate a way out of "the corporate mess" for all of us.

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." Cliché, perhaps, but fitting for the CU philosophy — but only if members know it.

Not that anyone has the budget, but that credit unions could not have bought the kind of positive press coverage received so far in 2009 goes without saying. Yet an awful lot of the reporting, while not inaccurate, still indicates there is much work to do when it comes to articulating what credit unions are all about.

If the topic of social media has been exhausted in the media, why then are a majority of credit unions still not taking the fullest advantage of the trend's many benefits?

The right direction in policies is a level of generalization that applies to the things you care about as end results, not specific conditions that prevent those results. Write policies that provide a foundation for discussion on the real issues, not the details of activities that get your goat.

The oldest trick in the Charter Conversion Bible is the multiple references to the pending land of Milk & Money. What goes unsaid is, indeed, there will be prosperity: just not for everyone.

CRA is the societal standard, and the true test is in our action. Unless we begin to exam our own sense of historical identity and hold ourselves accountable for our own performance, we can be assured that society will.

Bravo to Corporate America CU in suing U.S. Central. Finally, some natural person credit unions will be represented by their Corporate credit union in prosecuting these corporate pseudo-intellectuals.