CHAT.CEO.CA is now live...

I have a confession to make:  I have never been a confident writer.  Seriously, for someone who is supposed to be a blogger, I am finding increasingly that I often spend hours editing sometimes even the most basic of posts, with the outcome being only marginally better than the original.

The WordPress interface CEO.ca uses is one of the leading content management systems, but I still lose precious hours weekly waiting for it to load, or setting up a post just right (featured images, tags and categories, meta data, titles, etc, etc.). It's rare that it takes me less than 45 minutes to post something that's often just a summary of a press release and one simple opinion on what's happened. On the phone, that would take me 1 minute to communicate.

Yes, CEO.ca is a publication, and its readers (5,048 yesterday), deserve quality commentary. I'm grateful to have help from guys like Andrew Nelson, James Fraser and CEO Technician to help feed the beast.

Still, I find often that the friction associated with publishing here is preventing 9/10 of my ideas from becoming blogs, and to be completely honest, I would like to be able to deliver content much faster than we currently do on the site. Which is why it could be time to look for other CMS options, something with more customizability like these Sitecore customization and development services or similar.

Let me give you an example:  back on November 7, James Fraser, Travis McPherson and I were hanging out in a chat room talking stocks, as we always do. In our @Slack company chat we discuss ideas, quickly chat amongst ourselves to form a consensus, and then sometimes, what we chat about gets turned into a blog post some 45 minutes later.

45 minutes is eons in the stock market realm.

So November 7, 2014, James drops a link to Eastern Platinum's news release in our chat. We quickly realized that Eastplats would have 3x its current market cap in cash if their transaction with Hebei went through. When the stock started trading a few minutes later, both Travis, James and I were long. 15 minutes later, the stock had moved up nearly 100% and we were out. cha, cha, cha!

Regrettably, there was no time to blog that opportunity (with that said, I did manage to get a Tweet off, which nobody noticed).

This is a long way of saying that often enough, real-time chat is way more efficient than blogging.  And so, in addition to the more detailed and thoughtful traditional style of blogging we do here at CEO.ca, we are taking steps to enable us to relay information to CEO.ca readers instantly.

chat.ceo.ca - a new chat tool for Canadian investors - in development

chat.ceo.ca - a new chat tool for Canadian investors - in development

I am incredibly excited to have two awesome web developers working with us to build a mobile investor chat platform.

Rather than try to build something overly complicated in the beginning, we've already published a minimum viable product and are iterating this chat tool in real time now.

You can see the minimum viable product we're working with at Chat.ceo.ca. New features are added daily.

Over the coming weeks and months, we plan to add search, private rooms, and charts among other new toys. So far, everything's coming together nicely.

Kindly check it out on your mobile phone and tell us what you think: http://chat.ceo.ca/feedback

I've posted about 30 messages in there this morning, that's 29 more than this blog.

What do you think?