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Here are a couple of infographics just about general Internet usage for your Friday fun. Media Bistro has a comprehensive infographic that covers a wide spectrum of Internet details. Some stats of interest: Social Networking users spend an average of 3.2 hours on social networking sites each day. Globally 50% of users use the Internet for Online Banking.
Splat F has a neat graphic showing the transition from the AOL Dialup Era to the Netflix Broadband Era of the Internet. In the news this week, AOL still turns a profit from their dialup subscriptions, what was unclear is if those are actual users of dialup, or people who just still pay for it because they think they need it. From Splat F, Netflix currentlyl has more users than AOL ever did.
Happy Friday!
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Congratulations to District Government Employees Federal Credit Union on the launch of their new website. The new site is based on our WordPress with SiteControl platform and utilizes many of our latest greatest features such as site search, RSS, SSL, It’s Me 247 Remote Login Widget, and Responsive Design for mobile support.
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CU*Answers Web Services is excited to announce the launch of a new website for Montauk Credit Union in New York. Montauk Credit Union does not currently utilize CU*Answer’s CU*BASE Gold, but came to our Web Services team for assistance with their new site. This new website is built on our WordPress with SiteControl platform enabling consistent content and search engine optimization right out of the gate. The website is one of our fastest loading site to date!
Check out the brand new Montauk website!
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CU*Answers Web Services is excited to announce the launch of a new website for New Horizons Credit Union in Ohio. This new website is built on our WordPress with SiteControl platform enabling consistent content and search engine optimization right out of the gate. In addition, New Horizon’s new website theme was built to use CU*Answers Web Services’ and CU*Answers’ Marketing standard banner sizes so that New Horizons can leverage collaborative pricing and electronic banners.
Please visit their New Horizons’ new website.
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There have been some news reports of ongoing large scale attacks against WordPress sites. Here is Ars Technica’s report.
CU*Answers Web Services is aware of these reports, and like the other hosting companies mentioned, we have seen an increase in brute force attempts.
CU*Answers Web Services is monitoring the news and the hosting servers. In addition, we have several security mechanisms in place to mitigate these attacks.
However, we do recommend you login to your WordPress account and verify or change your password to a strong password. Strong passwords include upper and lowercase letters, are at least eight characters long, and include ‘special’ characters (^%$#@*).
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Last week Michael Ogden,the Media Relations Manager for New Media at CUNA Mutual Group, posted some thoughts on Social Media interactions based on his conversations at GAC.
A couple of takeaways:
- Social media is pretty easy. You just need someone to do it. As he points out, he is mostly a team of one and the only equipment he needs is a smartphone.
- There seems to be a shift in the social media conversation. Social media is talking about the benefits of being a cooperative and the cooperative principles. Possibly, people are catching on that credit unions are cooperatives.
It’s a good time to be a cooperative, proudly display your Grand Opening Kit to reinforce that you are one.
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