Suggested Link: Fat Pitch News
Some of you may have noticed a recent addition to the Gannon On Investing site. On the right side of your screen, you will see a “News” box subtitled “Fat Pitch News”. Within that box, you will find the top five value investing headlines courtesy of Fat Pitch News. These are clickable links that will take you to the brand new Fat Pitch News. From there, you can click on the headline (in the green header) and be taken directly to the story.
I’m really excited about Fat Pitch News. It’s a great opportunity for value investing blog readers and value investing bloggers alike. The service will only be as good as those who frequent it. The easiest way to support (and enjoy) Fat Pitch News is simply to check out the submitted links and vote for those you like best.
Of course, there is another way you can help. If you really want to do a great service for your fellow blog readers, you can submit any interesting links you run across. As more stories are submitted to Fat Pitch News and more votes are cast for those stories, the service will improve dramatically. Fat Pitch News will be a tailor made financial daily of sorts. Imagine the front page of the Wall Street Journal filled only with the value investing news you’re interested in. With your help, that’s exactly what Fat Pitch News will become.
I encourage everyone to check out the headlines on the right side of your screen. Click through the headlines; then, read, vote, discuss, etc. Before you do that, I want to make a few things clear about this service. Fat Pitch News is part of the Fat Pitch Financials site. It is not part of the Gannon On Investing site. Therefore, when you click these headlines you’ll be going off-site. I don’t mind, because I know they’ll always be plenty for you to come back for.
As I see it, if you’re interested enough in value investing to click on the Fat Pitch News headlines, you’re probably interested enough to find your way back to this site. Still, you should know that these links will not load Fat Pitch News in another window. They will take you off-site. If you’re enjoying my site and haven’t bookmarked it yet, you really should. Once you’ve bookmarked this site, you won’t need to worry about following links to other great sites like Fat Pitch News.
The first time you click a headline you might get a little confused, because you’ll be thrown right into things. That’s why I suggest you first read this description of Fat Pitch News taken directly from the Fat Pitch Financials homepage:
Today is the launch of Fat Pitch News, a new service provided by Fat Pitch Financials. Fat Pitch News is a community driven value investing news site. You can submit links to investment articles, “bid” up stories to the front page by clicking on the green up arrows, and make comments. With Fat Pitch News, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the front page, the users do. The goal of Fat Pitch News is to aggregate all the high quality investment information scattered across the Internet and produce a sorted list of “must read” articles selected by the community. This will save investors time and ensure that they do not miss out on important articles that might have been published on sites that they do not normally visit.
Every time you vote, submit, or comment on a story it is bookmarked and stored within your user profile. To visit your user profile, click your user profile on the left navigation column. This is one of the major incentives to registering at Fat Pitch News. As an additional incentive, each month the user with the highest activity points will get one month of free access to Fat Pitch Financials Contributor’s Corner, which is the home of the exclusive Going Private Transactions List.
Fat Pitch News is also encouraging other investment bloggers to submit links to articles and to vote on stories. A syndication box listing the top five articles on the front page of Fat Pitch News is available. You can see it in action on the right side of Gannon On Investing. (I need to thank Geoff Gannon for helping me test this feature.) You can get the code for this syndication box at the bottom of the Fat Pitch News FAQ page. I’m also encouraging value investment bloggers to freely link to their own articles.
I am very excited about the potential of Fat Pitch News and I hope you are too. The key to the success of Fat Pitch News will be your involvement. The more users contribute to Fat Pitch News, the more they will get out of it.
You should first go to the main page for Fat Pitch News. Once you’re comfortable with the service (which is really very easy to use) you can start voting and submitting links. Please feel free to submit links to items found here at Gannon On Investing. Always use the most specific URL possible. For instance, I would suggest you click the “permalink” on any stories you find here or on any other blog.
Fat Pitch News has been added to the following categories in the Value Investing Directory:
Online Resources>Investing Communities
Online Resources>Value Investing Sites