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The Halloween displays can't be tossed aside fast enough as the Christmas and other holiday displays go up. Daylight savings is over and the smell of wood smoke is in the air.  I enjoy this time of year, mainly due to the increased time spent with family and friends. The other reason is the release of new Gadgets and Geek stuff leading up to the holidays.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say today may be the day that social media was changed forever.

Yesterday was an exciting day for us here at Vantage Credit Union. You might have noticed we launched our new tweetMyMoney service (which you can use via computer or cell phone) to obtain certain types of information about your Vantage account.

Today, we just rolled out Part I of our mobile banking strategy. It's called tweetMyMoney and we're very excited. We believe your credit union is one of the first financial institutions in the country to implement such a service.

This post only applies to members using an Apple computer and Quicken to download account information.  Members using Microsoft Windows are not affected.

It has come to our attention there are some incompatibilities with Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and the bill payer section of our website.

To a lot of members (who am I kidding, probably to most members), Vantage Credit Union is just the place they go to cash checks, apply for loans, transfer money, etc. What most people probably don’t realize (and what we probably need to do a better job of communicating) is that we do a lot outside just the regular banking stuff.

For example, did you know...

***UPDATE*** Apple has released a patch for the iPhone (CLICK HERE)

Do you ever pick the brain of a person a generation or two ahead of you? I had a professor back in school who said senior citizens are like libraries, vessels of endless information just waiting to be tapped. I find this to be very true.

Recently we posted an article about the Credit CARD Act and its implications to consumers: President Obama Signs Act to Help Consumers With Credit Cards. All in all, it’s a good thing for consumers when you consider that the purpose of the new regulation is meant to offer more protection from things like unintentionally going over your credit limit, rate changes without ample notice, etc.