"The Partnership Symposium" by Michelle Gabor

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:01:27 -0500

The conference was a beautiful thing! Many thanks to the Trabian and Forum families for putting together a fun, comfortable and engaging event. You made it look easy.

The most important thing I came away with (and what I was intending to say when Charlie asked with his videocamera) is a great sense of hope and pride in our future (along with a palpable need to purchase guitar hero). So many truly want to help people with their financial decisions and are finding amazing ways to do so. Credit unions are drawing like-minded partners and making a difference. Sure innovation is sloppy as Doug said but isn’t anything that is worthwhile?

The Partnership Symposium

kelly@trabian.com (Kelly Dean) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:19:00 -0500

As Brent noted before, this week all of our team members have traveled to Fishers, IN for The Partnership Symposium. This is the first conference we’ve been a part of hosting and it promises to be a great time.

We are co-hosting The Symposium with Forum Solutions. We decided to pool our resources which has led to an all star speaker lineup as you can see below:

Lydia Johnson from Vancity �� “Lending Innovation”
Jason Knight from Wesabe �� “Personal Finance Resurgence”
Guy Messick from cusolaw.com �� “Using Collaboration to Transform Credit Unions”
Tim McAlpine from Currency Marketing �� “Where Does Traditional Marketing Fit into a Web 2.0 World?”
Our very own Trey Reeme �� “Credit Union Guide to Social Media” (with Shari Storm)
Lisa Renner from Beyond Marketing �� “Trend Spotting”
Robert Rutkowski from Current Issues in Credit Union podcast �� “When Does a Credit Union Need Legal Counsel & Truth in Lending Update”
Ron Shevlin from Marketing ROI �� “Connect. Cooperate. Collaborate. Debate.” (lively session/debate with Denise Wymore)
Shari Storm from Verity Credit Union �� “Credit Union Guide to Social Media” (with Trey Reeme)
Denise Wymore the marketing guru �� “Connect. Cooperate. Collaborate. Debate.” (lively session/debate with Ron Shevlin)

Be sure to stay tuned to Opensourcecu.com for some live blogging action. Twitter will also be updated with thoughts from the Trabian team (and probably others attending the conference).

This conference will undoubtedly be a beautiful thing; knowledge will be shared, connections will be made, fun will be had. If you’re coming, we can’t wait to meet you. If you’re not coming we’ll do our best to share the good times via the web and remind you to put it on your calendar for next year.

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"The Partnership Symposium" by Michelle Gabor

The Partnership Symposium