A real financial community is near

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  • on August 15th, 2006

There is so much I am excited about as Web 2.0 proliferates. I think the area most likely to benefit is the financial community. There are bits and pieces all over – just look at my blogroll.

Here is why:

1. The tools are available to put a good community together

2. Stock bloggers are out in full force

3. The content is GOOD

4. Advertising is not important to us – making smart decisions is – so if we can create a smart community, it will survive on it’s own

Here is what our community of bloggers needs to do more of:

1. LINK, LINK, LINK (linking means location, location, location is not as important)

2. TAG, TAG, TAG

3. VIDEO

4. BEHAVE – different opinions are what make markets.

5. Respond to comment – we are pretty good at that.

One tool that I like is MyBlogLog . I get my stats from them and I have started to put the face to the name and see who my readers are as they sign up for the service.

It is like a MySpace for 40-year old stock market junkies. I think it has great potential as a community builder in the stock community. Try it out and join my stock community.

Although I have not activated it yet, I will today, CoComment is a cool tool to track the different conversations you have going.

A new idea comes from Feedburner that will allow people to create networks of feeds and split advertising revenue. I am going to be creating one for them and it seems like a good idea. Time will tell. At least they are offering an advertising revenue split and helping build the ad network.

Any tools and ideas I have missed?

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