I have updated the blog domain tonight, to:  thebankwatch.com Everything else about the blog is unchanged.  If you read in a feed reader, here are the rss links.  Any questions, please email me: New feed address:  http://thebankwatch.com/feed/ New comments feed address:  http://thebankwatch.com/comments/feed/   Technorati tags: bankwatch, thebankwatch Continue reading Domain update

 Phil’s article touches on several of the unspoken secrets of Banking that (today) ensures traditional banking drills down into the apparent secret sauce of wealth management for the few, yet leaves untapped the mass group that are sometimes characterised as ‘unbanked’ who represent significant opportunity. Why?  The average bank will tell you behind closed doors that the ‘average’ annual profit per customer is in the range of $10.  This is the classic average with the lower end being a loss.  If you can add in a group such as unbanked at positive profit, you are basically off to the races.  … Continue reading The Longtail of Banking

 Interesting news for web site owners (everybody!) – Firefox continues to grow market share and the autoupdate install of IE has not changed that share.  Despite downloading it, people are changing their usage patterns. While Microsoft had the WebSideStory numbers correct, it didn’t tell the whole story, says Geoff Johnston, an analyst with the Web metrics company. “[The growth of IE 7] seems to be exclusively at the expense of IE 6,” says Johnston. “It’s not eating into the Firefox share at all. Source: Despite 100 Million IE 7 Installs, Microsoft’s Browser Still Loses Ground – News by InformationWeek This … Continue reading Despite 100 Million IE 7 Installs, Microsoft’s Browser Still Loses Ground

 Simple evidence that social marketing is not easy, and people must need to want to see it.  Its all about the customer.  The story about Obama’s approach using online video is bigger news than the video itself.  Here is one sample – note the number of views. OBAMA 03:07 Tags: OBAMA Added: 1 day ago in Category: People  Views: 48 Source: YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.   Technorati tags: video+marketing, customer+centric Continue reading YouTube – video marketing – its not easy (Obama)

We all have the opportunity to speak somewhere, a meeting, a presentation, externally or internally.  Courtesy of Todd Bishop at the SeattlePI Microsoft blog, here is something you might find interesting. This analysis compares Jobs, Gates, and Dell’s keynotes using tags and English analysis. On average Jobs sentences are precisely half the length of Gates!  Gates talks in more generic terms, while Jobs speaks of products and brand names.  Check it out … and make your own observations on which is better. At the suggestion of a reader, we ran the text of both speeches through the tag-cloud generator, a program that displays the … Continue reading Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: Keynote text analysis

I just noticed that WordPress have turned on these Snap previews, when you hover over a link.  Its cool the first time, but I think it gets annoying.  It might be handy for the comments area. Let me know either way in the comments – thumbs up or thumbs down? There is an option somewhere, that I can turn it off.  I will let it ride for a bit, and based on reaction, will decide.   Technorati tags: snap+preview, wordpress+extras Continue reading Snap preview – thumbs up, or down?

 This is simply a marvelous compendium of all the ways to manage your to-do’s. How many ways are there to manage your task list? Almost as many as there are people with tasks to do. Here are 20 different ways of tracking your to dos, with examples of each. Source: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 20 Different Ways to Manage Your To Dos « Being impendent required me to update my own tools, and here is my selection of tools.  My criteria are simple.  free, or at least very reasonable web based, and works in blackberry browser as well as … Continue reading Web Worker Daily | Different Ways to Manage Your To Dos

Was chatting with Ed from Wells today and they continue to pursue good things in the social media space – yes this is Wells Fargo the Bank, and they are one of the leaders in Banking in this space, so worthy of support  in my view. In keeping with their evolution, they have some new posts available, and I am happy to mention them here: Social Media Programs Manager, Editor Developer/Designer Here is some initial blurb .. Rated by FORTUNE as the US’s “most admired bank”, Well Fargo is a leading Financial Services innovator. We are leading the adoption of “social … Continue reading Wells Fargo – Hiring Social Media folks

For those interested – a very complete and complete video.  Listening to this, its very complete, including a complete restore capability, that includes the operating system. More on Windows Home Server   Technorati tags: Recovery, backup, windows Continue reading Windows home server