Thinking about Collaboration? Come see it in Action! Passageways’ Annual Conference, PowWOW offers attendees the opportunity to learn from peers, collaborate on joint projects, share best practices, and discover new opportunities for using the portal investment to succeed in today’s business environment.
Join us as we engage with industry thought leaders, recognize our customers for best practices, offer sneak peeks to the latest Industry trends, and have fun doing it!
It’s easy to miss the significance of this event. So here is a list I think you need to consider and think about the value your organization will get from this conference.

Eight great reasons to attend PowWOW 2011
Like every year, this year too we will be having Best Practice sessions, a great opportunity to get together with your peers and learn more about how they use their portals creatively. We promise you enough light bulb moments in these presentations with all the great things that you could be doing with your Portal.
1. Drowning under customer feedback? Don't know how to get it all together to make your decisions. At PowWOW Sandia Laboratories CU is sharing their best practice of using the portal to have their entire customer feedback at one location with great tools like single source of information, customer follow up and much more.
2. How do you increase your Customer share of wallet without sacrificing on existing relationships? Bridge the gap between educating customers and seemingly being pushy about your offerings. See how Bank of American Fork increased their products per household by almost 30% within a year, using portal as an enabler.
3. How do you get New Employees productive faster by significantly shortening the learning curve? Motorola Employees CU leads the way in new employee orientation using existing Portal tools for getting their new employees ramped up and running faster - saving paper, time and cost along the way.
4. Implementing 'The Wave' - Corner Bank steps it up with Passageways portal. Learn from their innovative approach to designing the portal, getting employees enthused and starting to use the portal and generating about $15,000 savings just by getting all information in one place for their staff.
5. How do you work on Management development for your executives and key staff members? At PowWOW 2011 see how Bank of American Fork developed and rolled out Management development courses specifically for executives and key staff members to equip them for the future opportunities and challenges. Their approach is everything to do with overall manager performance and rating, succession planning and staff retention.
6. Do you get bad weather like the rest of us? See how DHCU alerts its employees using helpdesk about Branch closing and related process on those pesky snow days.
7. Kohler CU is getting compliant using the helpdesk. Learn how Kohler CU has been able to significantly reduce time taken on processing and reporting suspicious activity using Helpdesks.
8. Chances are you do multiple Customer Events during the year. Need to know who’s attending to make it more personalized or manage expenses better? At PowWOW this year learn how DHCU saves tons of time by using the portal to gather RSVP details.
Of Course there is a lot more to do at powWOW and these are just a sample of the things you can learn from your peers. There are a lot more sessions that would surely of great value to your portal project, check out the detailed agenda.
Four more reasons to attend PowWOW 2011!
1. A session by Randy Harrington (CEO Strategic Arts and Sciences)
2. 16 riveting sessions by Passageways pathfinders and other industry experts
3. Panel discussions, How-to Lounge, Hospitality suites, and karaoke night
4. A comedic send off by the very funny Johnny Lampert
And as usual we promise a great time catching up with the familiar faces and making a few new friends.
We look forward to seeing you there!