Investment News Highlights Blogs
Davis Janowski over at Investment News highlighted a few blogs in the financial adviser service space in his weekly column, Tech Bits. He identified a new blog called Money Bytes authored by Edmond J. Walters, CEO and Founder of eMoney Advisor, Inc. I had the opportunity to speak with Mr. Walters about eMoney at an FPA annual conference and I’m happy to see the product doing well in the adviser marketplace.
The first thing I did was hop over to Money Bytes and try to add an RSS feed to my Google Reader. Oops, no feed exists for the Money Bytes blog. Also conspicuously missing is the ability to leave comments on blog posts. Hmm. Does this really qualify as a “blog” in the Web 2.0 sense, or is it simply a standard advertising page supplied with weekly commentary?
An open request to Mr. Walters: Can you add an RSS feed and a comment interface to Money Bytes? The addition of these features will give the blog some interactivity options with the adviser community.
In addition to the eMoney Advisor blog, I wanted to recognize Matt Abar and Mike Benson’s blog WealthFly that also received mention in the Tech Bits column. You’ll notice I have WealthFly listed under my Blogroll as I have subscribed to its feed since discovering it in November of last year. WealthFly is an excellent source for insight on practice management and behind-the-scenes developments in technology designed for the financial planning community.
Have a look at WealthFly and Money Bytes when you have a moment.
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April 29th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Bill, we wanted to leave a reply with regard to your comments on Money Bytes from eMoney Advisor. Thank you for recognizing our launch. We also wanted to update you on the functionality of Money Bytes. Unfortunately, our press release went out prematurely without the blog being fully functional. Money Bytes is now fully functional. The updated Money Bytes blog is located off of http://www.emoneyadvisor.com at:
http://www.emoneyadvisor.com/DasBlogce/default.aspx
The intention of Money Bytes is to provide advisors with up-to-date information on industry trends, best practice, as well as, the sharing of ideas that advisors are currently using to grow, scale and improve their practices. The blog will include contributions from the eMoney team and feature company founder and CEO Edmond Walters, who has more than two decades of hands-on experience as a financial advisor.
Thanks again for recognizing our blog.