Last night the site completed a change to a new web site hosting service. We hope you will ultimately find it more responsive (and stable), and that responsiveness and stability will allow us to continue to provide our thoughts on community banks.
We still have several tweaks that we’re continuing to work on, and we’ve (temporarily) lost some functionality. But we think we can get items resolved quickly.
Details to follow.
As I turned a year older last weekend, I realized that BankBryanCave.com could use a spring cleaning, along with a new feature or two. In addition to simply needing a few changes, I needed to prove to myself that I could still make the changes myself. I’m sure I’ve broken a feature or two, and possibly added services that no one will ever use, but it was time to update the blog.
Most interestingly, we’ve added comments. All comments are moderated, but we would like to encourage further dialogue with our site’s visitors. We don’t expect there to be a lot of comments, but sometimes our readers share interesting additional information that we would like to facilitate for broader distribution.
We’ve also vastly improved BankBryanCave.com’s search results. Searches should now actually result in you being able to find whatever you were looking for.
The last change of any significance is that we’ve added options to easily share each post via Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. (I can’t tell you how many readers have asked us to more easily share BankBryanCave.com posts with their Facebook friends!… probably because no one has ever previously had that thought.)
In an effort to make it a little easier to find information about the Dodd-Frank Act, we have created a new page on BankBryanCave.com that highlights our best summaries of the Regulatory Reform Act and also provides copies of several of the presentations that Bryan Cave has given on the Act.
The latest and greatest information will continue to be posted directly on BankBryanCave.com, but if you’re looking for quick overview of the Act or easy links to our most popular posts on Dodd-Frank, please check our our new Dodd-Frank page.
Due to technical difficulties at BankBryanCave.com over the last several weeks, email updates were first slowed by more than 24 hours and then ultimately completely stopped working last week. By switching to a third party provider, I believe we have hopefully fixed those problems for the foreseeable future.
In addition, we are now offering three subscription choices: instant alerts, daily emails and weekly emails. Accordingly, you can now have as many (or as few) BankBryanCave.com emails as you desire. To sign up, simply visit our Email Sign-up page and select the frequency of updates that you would like.
I’ve taken the liberty of converting everyone that had previously signed up into the new system, so if you were comfortable with your prior settings, you shouldn’t have to do anything. If, however, you’d like to change anything, you should have a link at the bottom of each email you receive to change your subscription settings.
Thanks to the diligent actions of one client, we determined that we had a bug in BankBryanCave.com’s daily emails. That bug has now been fixed (we hope), and everyone that signs up should once again receive nightly emails with the prior days posts.
If you would like to sign up for a daily email (and you can always unsubscribe later), please enter your email address in the “Subscribe for Updates” box and hit the Subscribe button. You should then receive an email with instructions to confirm your subscription.
In light of the merger of Powell Goldstein LLP and Bryan Cave LLP, effective January 1, 2009, BankPogo.com has a new name, a new domain, and a new look. The site is now called, simply, Bank Bryan Cave, and can now be reached at www.bankbryancave.com. We think the new look will make it even easier for visitors to find the information they are looking for, while also increasing the speed of the site.
Despite these changes, the most important things are not changing. The site is still being written by the same attorneys; and we still plan to focus on providing up-to-date information, written in plain English, on the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Programs, and other items affecting community bankers.
As we complete the transition to Bank Bryan Cave, there will potentially be technical hiccups, and you may encounter a broken link, or other problem. If you notice a problem, or simply have a request, please send us an email. If you’ve previously bookmarked the site or subscribed to receive updates by e-mail (see the “Subscribe” button on the right hand side of the page), then you don’t need to anything, as they will continue to work.