Inside Scotiabank’s new online community — MyVault
Scotiabank’s new Web 2.0 community site is now live, and I’ve taken a quick browse through the site and am very happy with what I found! For starters, the MyVault site is laid out in a very pleasing manner, friendly and approachable. The main interface is broken down into content blocks: My News — contains news…
Scotiabank’s new Web 2.0 community site is now live, and I’ve taken a quick browse through the site and am very happy with what I found!
For starters, the MyVault site is laid out in a very pleasing manner, friendly and approachable.
The main interface is broken down into content blocks:
- My News — contains news headlines, financial news, and user-subscribable RSS feeds
- My Plans — sort of an organizer / planner containing:
- My Calendar — sophisticated calendaring features that include user definable categories and alerts.
- My ToDo List — as the name says, it’s a list manager.
- My Cashflow — a cashflow modeling tool. “Whenever you have new sources of income, or new expenses, enter them into My Cash Flow to get an up-to-date view of your financial situation”. It’s not connected to your bank account.
- My Documents — a place to store articles and other content items you may want to refer back to at a later date.
My Library — contains personal finance articles, Q & A section, Scotiabank’s ‘The Money Clip’ podcast, and a Glossary of financial terms. There’s also a business section containing a few more business-related content items.
My Community — ah, now we get to the ‘social’ aspect of an online community. My Community is a community discussion forum, where members can conduct conversation in a number of themed, moderated forums, such as Investing, Home Ownership, Money Management, etc. One minor issue, I couldn’t find any way to subscribe to the forums and comments via RSS, but otherwise, it’s nice to see Scotiabank willing to enable this kind of discussion within their world.
My Tools — a collection of calculators and financial assessment tools to help you have better financial situational awareness. Some of the tools include RSP calculator, Net Worth, Mortgage Payment..etc.
Overall I think it’s a great resource. With the collection of news, information, and an online community to provide that ‘reality check’, Scotiabank has launched a very cool tool.
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