For a mere $44 million, two years, and despite terrorist attacks, Bank of Ceylon has integrated 302 branches. The total cost, with hardware, software and implementation cost 1.5 to two billion rupees,” R B Ekanayake, IT Consultant BoC told LBO. “The (integrating) process started in September 2004 and we hope to connect all our branches by the end of this year. Source: LANKA BUSINESS ONLINE – LBO The key point is that they did it using online banking technology if I am reading this article right.  The devil is always in the details, but here is the quote: …..  the state … Continue reading Bank of Ceylon moves to offer online banking to all branches by year end

Dare makes a not inconsequential point.  Tags are a core tool in the web 2.0 toolbox, yet they remain highly undeveloped, with non-existent standardisation for usage, and display.  Tag clouds are already a pet peeve of mine because they are a poor navigational interface but it seems some people [who shall remain nameless] have found a way to make them even more annoying Source: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Tag Clouds 101   Technorati tags: tags, tagging Continue reading Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Tag Clouds 101

 I set this up tonight.  The concept is that it searches only the sites that I included.  I took the liberty of including sites that have generally aligned interest and content in the banking space, and that will provide relevant search results.  Volunteers to be included, (or excluded) are welcome. We can try it, to see if the relevance is useful in ours/ others searches for research and planning. Search Bankwatch, and sites of blogging colleagues sites included to date: https://bankwatch.wordpress.com/ http://bankervision.typepad.com/bankervision/ http://www.edmblog.com/weblog/ http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/ http://digitaldebateblogs.typepad.com/digital_money/ http://www.ingblogs.com/mycupofcha/ http://ozrisk.net/ Source: Google Co-op – Custom Search Engine   Technorati tags: Google+co-op, banking+search Continue reading Google Co-op – Custom Search – Bankwatch community

Totally off topic, but if you use these two then get this app.  It just reminds me how much Google get it.  This thing runs on the blackberry with the same speed, and functionality, including search, lables, and automatic TO: names as does the browser version.  Enough said. Point your blackberry browser to gmail.com/app   Technorati tags: google, blackberry, gmail Continue reading gmail for Blackberry

 This is a well researched post describing the evolution of bookmarking into the different types of tagging that exist now.  As I have said before I remain convinced we can use tags in a useful and meaningful way for banks and our customers. Summary:  There are many different approaches to bookmarking and recent changes in web browsers, add-ons, and a web of participation will continue to fuel growth in the sector. There’s still a lot of work to be done in terms of search and service integration and creating compelling reasons to generate useful content, connecting users with the information … Continue reading Bookmarking, tags and social sharing trends