Young & Free Jam

I received a Twitter direct message from Matt Hawkins today letting me know there was a mystery video in my Dropbox. Matt does a bunch of freelance video production for us and it turns out that he secretly recruited three of our Young & Free Spokesters to create a special birthday gift for Cheryl Wiens in our office.

Behold the ridiculousness of Lee Taylor in Alabama, Michelle Peterson in New Mexico and Kaylie Dame in Ontario. Nothing to do with money, financial literacy, credit unions or anything really.

Happy early Birthday wishes Cheryl! Enjoy.

Tim

Professional Shirt Wearers, Co-operative Principles and a Fun Contest – Oh My!

In celebration of International Year of Co-operatives, Young & Free is teaming up with those crazy shirt wearers at IWearYourShirt.com on March 16 to spread the word about credit unions and co-operatives.

In conjunction with our day, we're kicking off a fun seven-day contest. There will be seven videos with seven clues to find and seven $50 iTunes gift cards up for grabs. It'll be fun and you should enter!

Grab a peek of the contest page in advance.

Tim

International Year of Cooperatives Spokester Style

Young & Free Spokespeople from all over North America collaborate on a fun video to celebrate the International Year of Cooperatives.

Enjoy!

From the official 2012.coop website:

"2012 has been recognised as the International Year of Cooperatives by the United Nations. This is an acknowledgement by the international community that cooperatives drive the economy, respond to social change, are resilient to the global economic crisis and are serious, successful businesses creating jobs in all sectors."

As the World Council of Credit Unions put it:

"As cooperatively owned and democratically controlled financial institutions, credit unions worldwide have an unprecedented opportunity to increase public awareness about the movement's contributions to socio-economic development, promote membership growth and encourage the adoption of policies and legislation that promote long-term growth and stability."

Is your credit union doing anything to take advantage in all of the IYC 2012 activity?

Tim

Merry Currency Christmas: It's All About Movement!

We put together a fun Christmas video and a special page. Please head over, watch and comment.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Tim