Having a chat

Chewing the fat, shooting the breeze, having a natter - call it what you like, talking to people is darn important and everyone should do it as often as they can (except in libraries). We talk to our members as much as possible, through our blog and discussion board and by getting people to email contactus@zopa.com if anything's on their mind.

‘Community News’ category

Oct 08 2007

Doing at least one Green Thing a month

Posted by Simon DJ at 11:09 am

Green Thing is a community that makes it easy and enjoyable to be a bit greener. Every month you’ll get a different Green Thing to do. All you have to do is do it. October’s Green Thing is “Walk Once”.

They say once, but this green stuff can be addictive. One night last week, I walked to the pub and back when I had planned to drive and not drink. Because I walked, I had two pints.

Now I’m walking every night.

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Sep 25 2007

Another Gong

Posted by Simon DJ at 3:01 pm

I was fortunate to be able to join Tim Parlett last night to collect another award for Zopa’s you-beaut, patent-pending, multiple-Consumer-Credit-Act-document-electronic-signing-widget.

This time it was Financial Services Technology Project of the Year at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2007. And it was interesting to note that we were the only retail application nominated amidst various financial markets projects. In fact, Credit Suisse were nominated twice in the same category. Clearly the UK consumer is in dire need of a little more financial services innovation!

Congratulations to all the other winners, including Balderton stable-mate Betfair (Retail & Leisure Technology Project of the Year) and the nice folks from Bebo, with whom it was a nice surprise to be seated. Not content with taking our UK Internet Innovation of the Year award from last year, they then beat us to the comfy seats in the bar at the top of the hotel. Talk about world domination. Not sure where they rushed off to next, but their seats were ominously empty by the time we left…

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