LinkedIn company pages help build brand awareness by providing a channel to promote your products and services to customers and prospects.

Setup a Facebook business account to make management easier. Pick a page name and short URL that’s unique to your bank. Here’s what else you’ll need to set up a Facebook page:

It's easy to sign up for an account on Twitter, but to create a professional and easy-to-find profile takes a little more effort. Follow this checklist to ensure your profile is optimized for the Twittersphere.

Tina Giorgio: In an e-book published last week by PYMNTS.com, “Fresh” is how I described payments in 2018. I can’t think of a time when we’ve seen as many innovations emerge in this industry than the past 11 months.

The adoption of the ICBA-backed legislation is quite remarkable given that community bankers and the agricultural community have been told for most of this year that the most likely outcome would be a one-year extension, thus pushing the legislation’s enactment into the next Congress. Passing a new farm bill is good for American agriculture and for community bankers’ ability to provide credit to support their local economies. Here are a few reasons why.

Learn what employee training is required by regulation, see what training examiners expect, and receive ideas to grow your employees’ knowledge and skills. With 2019 fast approaching this is the optimal time to ensure that you have a training strategy in place to achieve your community bank’s organizational goals for the new year.

With the holidays almost here, community banks recently received some good news that has been years in the making. The FDIC announced that the Deposit Insurance Fund reserve ratio has surpassed 1.35 percent, triggering approximately $750 million in assessment credits for community banks with assets under $10 billion.

The federal banking agencies recently responded to industry requests with a proposed rule to increase the threshold where bankers could use a property evaluation in lieu of a full appraisal—completed by a licensed or certified appraiser—for mortgage loans they retain in portfolio. The agencies are proposing to increase this threshold from $250,000 to $400,000.

Community bankers, you outdid yourselves in 2018. As we near the end of this significant year in community banking, it is worth taking a moment to look back and reflect on what we’ve achieved together.