Excerpt from:  Think Outside the Feed
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June 09, 2005

Why Would an IT Company Outsource its Enterprise RSS Infrastructure?

As Robert Mendez, CEO of NetHawk Interactive, explains, its all about marketing.
The RSS channel is simply an opportunity to augment existing [marketing] efforts to gather the cognoscenti of the IT online world and offer them valuable information without the hassle now associated with the email channel.
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Robert Mendez, CEO
NetHawk Interactive

RSS provides a de-facto standardized means for moving information from point A to point B.  The possible use cases are endless.  But, as Robert Mendez writes in Outsourcing RSS Feeds & RSS Infrastructure, when you think about RSS as a market communication channel, certain business issues become clear.

Robert writes, "The RSS channel is simply an opportunity to augment existing [marketing] efforts to gather the cognoscenti of the IT online world and offer them valuable information without the hassle now associated with the email channel."  By asking three simple questions, Robert makes the business case for outsourcing enterprise RSS infrastructure easy to see.

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