February Call

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Pcushing

Date / Time

February 19th at 8pm EST / 5 PST

RSVP

Able to Attend: Patrick, Tom Shohfi, Brian Anderson, David Turetsky, Natraj Vannavada, J.B. Schag

Unable to Attend: Isayel 10:17, February 11, 2009 (PST), Hermann Schmitz

Please be advised the call is scheduled for PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) and or EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)

Agenda Ideas

• Editing Wikinvest -- tips & tricks
• Other revenue ideas from Wikinvest
• Monthly call reporting ;-) (a wiki is also a place a discussion, report or issue could be discussed in the Talk:February Call - Isayel 14:54, February 12, 2009 (PST))
• Wikinvest Twitter feeds? --PGSanalyst 20:05, February 16, 2009 (PST)

Slides & Call Notes

Guide to Writing Improvements

• David
  • Reduce the number of required clicks to information by adding more information to the table of contents
• JB Schag
  • Check out Hans Rosling from TED presentation for bubble / data expansion as a way to make this information more accessible
  • We'll look into other wiki plugins to see if there are other options to us. Pcushing 19:01, February 19, 2009 (PST)
• Tom
  • Words to Avoid puts him off a bit. Can these be rephrased?
  • Look into WYSIWYG tools for editing.

Powering other stock pages

• David
  • Impression of Wikinvest is that it has always been a cut superior than everything else in public domain.
  • Will local TV stations treat inofmration as credible? what's the competition?
  • Some people might have a problem with exposure -- hey, i'm contributing free and they're selling it to other sites.
  • Perhaps a more interesting route would be to provide data to other sites for free or nominal and sell ads on the space with our modules. Eliminates possibility of offending people.
  • Once you sell more directly, the material becomes more scrutinized. Don't want to ruin nice / clean sense of the original articles, invites people to be supportive. Every decision should be weighed by how it affects the clean design
• Patrick
  • Much of what we're exploring selling with be things like charts, news feeds, etc. -- the Wikinvest content will not be a major part of this. That's all largely for Wikinvest.com.
• JB
  • In general , sounds like you're on the right track.
  • Would guess that it'd be good to work with IP attorney / securities attorney to find out what we can and can't do regarding ownership of content
• Tom
  • Thinks its a great idea for us. When he thinks about what click-through-rates are, he has an idea of what Wikinvest can generate with ads and it's not enough. You need a tremendous amount of traffic because typically only 1% click on ads.
  • Sell basic data, give more analysis, etc. use as a conduit to the site, increase revenue and audience.

Twitter

• JB
  • Twitter is like a firehouse, so many things happening so fast.
  • Customer service non-existent. It's wise to consider how much effort would be put into Wikinvest / Twitter investment and how stable is it?
  • Could use different parts of Wikinvest data stream like newly mature articles, etc. Increase exposure.
  • Exposed to pump and dump, given the technical knowledge.
• Tom
  • Twitter is about brevity, quantity, andfrequency. Doesn't work well for fundamental research, industry analytics. Has been seekingalpha's market currents, which just gives timely links. Wikinvest has something similar with the "[PAGE] has been edited by [USER]" notices in the top right

Follow Up Notes

The impressive bubble show of Hans Rosling was recovering the IMF data mapper in my mind --Observer 11:55, February 20, 2009 (PST)