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NEWS – AGORACOM Launches IR RSS Feeds For Clients

Posted by AGORACOM at 1:00 PM on Friday, June 13th, 2008

AGORACOM is proud to announce the launch of Investor Relations RSS Feeds for each of our clients.

MORE THAN JUST PRESS RELEASE ALERTS

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) now provides shareholders with the ability to receive any IR communication (press releases, industry bulletins, event information, media updates, executive addresses, interviews) as soon as we publish them. If you’re on the shareholder list for any of our clients, you’ll receive e-mail alerts about press releases and some other information – but not the information that is not considered “material”.

WHY SHOULD YOU USE RSS?

RSS has been around for a while but largely the domain of techies and early adopters of technology. As such, if you are like most most small-cap investors, you probably don’t use RSS feeds – yet.

RSS is a really big help for investors, analysts, fund managers and brokers that use feed readers to keep up with the plethora of market information. If you don’t use a feed reader – or “personal newspaper” as I like to refer to it – then my post on the subject is a must read for you.

The advantage of receiving RSS feeds into your “personal newspaper” is that it keeps information from multiple sources neatly organized.

This is especially true given the fact you receive information about multiple categories (small-cap stocks, large-cap stocks, general economy, health, travel, etc.) via e-mail. Your personal newspaper thus allows you to review your information by category in one location. This is a big advantage over e-mail that shoots info to you as it happens – but provides little, if any, ability to organize and review all of your incoming information at a glance.

ANOTHER INVESTOR RELATIONS FIRST FROM AGORACOM

After a review of our biggest peers, we’re proud to say that AGORACOM is once again a pioneer of great investor relations tools. We were the first (and only) to create monitored discussion forums and the first to introduce search engine marketing, podcasting and webcasting to the world of small-cap investor relations.

Now, we’re the first to introduce IR RSS feeds for small-cap companies.

Why do we keep pioneering online investor relations?  The reason is quite simple.  It is what investors want.  They want you to provide information on their terms.  The days of forcing investors to visit your site for information are over.  Your website is no longer relevant.  Investors are no longer hopping around from site to site.  They’re aggregating all of their information into one place and consuming it on their terms.  Companies who don’t realize this will die.

If you want more information on this, read my post here.  It is perhaps the best and most valuable lesson you will learn as a small-cap CEO.

HOW DO YOU START USING AGORACOM RSS FEEDS?

For now, simply visit any one of our client’s hubs and look for this . You will find it above the executive address in the right hand margin of the HUB. Alternatively, go to any HUB Home page and look for this in the “Recent Updates” box:

In the next couple of months, we are going to create an RSS page on AGORACOM where you can select any RSS feeds you want from one page.

I LIKE IT BUT I DON’T HAVE A PERSONAL NEWSPAPER .. HOW DO I SET ONE UP?

This is the question most of you are probably asking. Stay tuned. We’ll be posting an easy “how to” later today.

In the meantime, if you want to read more about RSS feeds, take a look at the Wikipedia entry for RSS.

If you don’t want to read more and aren’t interested, keep this post on file. You will begin using RSS feeds intently over the next 24 months.

Regards,
George

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