Sharing AAII Content
by CI Staff
Web 2.0 is a concept that has been transforming the way we interact online. The term is commonly associated with Web applications that facilitate information sharing and collaboration on the Internet. Our recent redesign of AAII.com attempts to embrace some of those Web 2.0 elements, including opportunities for members to share content with non-AAII members.
With the redesign of AAII.com, members can now share AAII articles and other content through a variety of social media outlets, including Facebook and Twitter, or e-mail articles to friends.
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Figure 1 shows the CI in the Journal column from the December 2010 AAII Journal. At the bottom left of the figure, in the red box, are the sharing options you have.
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Delicious is a social bookmarking service where you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what others are bookmarking. The site also allows you to see the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across a variety of topics. When you click on the Delicious link at an AAII article, you add the article to your bookmark collection on Delicious.
If you have an account with Facebook, the popular social media site, you can share an AAII article by clicking the Facebook icon next to an AAII article. This will post the link to your Facebook news feed (Figure 2). From there, your Facebook friends can click on the link and read the entire article.
Also, if you are on Facebook, be sure to follow CI at this link: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Computerized-Investing/322511388012.
LinkedIn is a professional networking site, where you can connect with friends and colleagues, as well with like-minded professionals. Clicking on the LinkedIn link for an AAII article allows you to post a link to the article for the people that are in your LinkedIn network.
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StumbleUpon helps you discover and share websites. The site delivers pages matched to your personal preferences that have been recommended by your friends or other users. You can also rate sites to share them with like-minded people. By clicking on the StumbleUpon link for an AAII article, you recommend it to the StumbleUpon community (free registration is required).
Twitter is a microblogging service that allows you to post in 140-character increments, called “tweets.” You can follow other members of the Twitter community and garner your own following by posting your own comments or by re-tweeting what others have written or posted. If you are a Twitter user (registration is free), you can click on the Twitter icon; from there, you are taken to your Twitter page, where you can tweet the link to the article.
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Discussion
It seems this is an effort to dilute the value of our paid membership in order to get AAII content in the public domain for marketing purposes. These sharing services are anything but controlled or private.
I do not recall the membership being surveyed about this. However, by permitting such sharing, all we really need is one paid member to share content with the rest of the globe.
It also devalues the investment information AAII presents. As a much larger (and non-paying) investor market acts on that information, it will neutralize the value to AAII members, unless the members acted on it first.
This seems like a move to increase AAII income rather than to serve the paying membership.
posted about 1 year ago by SRM from Nevada
The comment of Stephen from Nevada reflects my own thoughts upon reading about the general availability of AAII articles and information.
It does raise the question "What's the point of membership"?
posted about 1 year ago by Michael from Maryland
Thank you for your feedback. We are respectful of the benefits of AAII membership, but we also recognize that our members are the best ambassadors for spreading the educational benefits of becoming an AAII member. Our mission is to educate individual investors and feel it is in the best interest of all our members and for the survival of the association to expose the outside world to AAII. We are monitoring the use and impact article sharing, and we will adjust our policies if it dilutes the value of membership or if members decide not to participate.
posted about 1 year ago by Wayne A. Thorp, CFA from Illinois
