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Tennant Blog
Tennant Risk Services has introduced an electronic newsletter for insurance agents in the form of a blog (weblog). The service is devoted to the specialty lines insurance market, with an emphasis on professional liability, employment practices liability and directors & officers liability insurance coverage. While blogs can cover many topics and take many forms, our blog will provide information (and some commentary) to the insurance agent and broker community active within specialty lines. We expect to update the blog twice weekly with information, experiences and links useful to you.
Email Subscription
The easiest method of subscribing is via email. We will send you updates via email only at your request. Please send an email (to 
) requesting that we add you to our email list. You will receive an email from Feedblitz, our email service, which you must reply to in order to confirm your subscription. (Of course we do not sell our email list). Alternatively, you can sign up yourself on the blog.
To access the Tennant Risk Services blog, visit http://specialtyinsurance.typepad.com.
Our (former) Newsletter
Tennant Risk Services has switched from its prior periodic newsletter, sent via "snail mail," to a blog format in order to increase the amount of and speed at which information is provided to our agent and broker community. We would appreciate any feedback or suggestions you might have, positive or negative, specific or general, on our web-based services by emailing us at 
What is a Blog?
A blog is a website for which an individual or a group frequently generates text, photographs, video, audio files, and/or links, typically (but not always) on a daily basis. The term is a shortened form of weblog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts," or "entries". The person who posts these entries is called a "blogger". Additional information on blogs can be found here and here.
RSS Readers
An RSS Reader (or an RSS Aggregator) aggregates information from blogs for you to read. RSS Readers are typically web-based, free and use a version of RSS. The program maintains a list of sites you choose and displays only information you have not yet read. For you techies, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML format for communicating information and other web content. Euclid Managers' blog has an excellent summary of RSS and Readers (see here). Additional information on RSS can be found here and here.
There are quite a few web-based RSS Readers (News Aggregators) to choose from. Information on RSS Readers can be found on blogspace.com and on wikipedia. We have worked with the following web sites and recommend both of them:
There are also RSS Readers that work with email, but our experience with this approach is extremely limited.
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