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Why Regulation FD shouldn’t keep you from Seeking Alpha
By Dominic Jones on December 8, 2009
THERE are many reasons why investor relations officers and company executives avoid participating in new media such as blogs and social networks, but often the grounds they give are more misconceptions than real barriers.
Take Regulation FD, for example. In my discussions with companies and other consultants, it’s the main reason given for companies taking a [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogs, Business/Finance, Corporate finance, executive, finance, Financial economics, Investment, Investor Relations, regulation fd, SEC, seeking alpha, Seeking Alpha Inc., social media, Stock market, Technology/Internet, twitter, Twitter Inc, Web 2.0, World Wide Web | 1 Response
How to get started on Seeking Alpha
By Dominic Jones on December 1, 2009
NOTE: After getting some feedback from readers, I thought it good to make clear that I have no connection to Seeking Alpha other than being a user of the site like anyone else. Long time friends and foes will know that I never shill for *anyone.* Seeking Alpha’s independently verifiable numbers speak for themselves and [...]
Full Story »Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogging, blogs, Investor Relations, seeking alpha, social media | 5 Responses
For investor relations, Seeking Alpha may be the ideal social network
By Dominic Jones on November 24, 2009
BY now you have probably heard the sales pitches from various pundits and salespeople about how your company should be using social media in its investor relations program because investors are increasingly using new media.
And to a large extent, the pundits are right. Investors are using the web and various social media more today than [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Investor Relations, investors, new media, seeking alpha, social media, social networks | Leave a response
As brokers hit social networks, will companies meet them there?
By Dominic Jones on October 28, 2009
A YOUNGER generation of U.S. investment advisors is pushing employers and industry regulators to allow them to use social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter to communicate with customers and prospects — and new compliance technologies may soon open the floodgates for them to do so.
Speaking at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Annual [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged FINRA, Investor Relations, social media | 4 Responses
NASDAQ makes StockTwits even more relevant to IR
By Dominic Jones on October 26, 2009
NASDAQ OMX Inc., the world’s largest exchange company, has launched an iPhone application that prominently incorporates content from StockTwits, a service that aggregates Twitter messages by traders and investors about stocks and other securities.
The move is another wake-up call to investor relations departments that they cannot ignore social media or dismiss its role in [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Investor Relations, iPhone, NASDAQ OMX Inc, stocktwits | 3 Responses
Loose lips, loose morals, and outdated disclosure practices
By Dominic Jones on October 22, 2009
I’M A little bemused by the IR establishment’s response to the sensational allegations in the insider trading case against Galleon Management and a host of corporate executives and one IR consultant.
NIRI CEO Jeff Morgan’s immediate response was to publish the following in a Tweet: “Following Galleon & is another reminder to NIRI members & all [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Galleon, insider trading, Investor Relations, regulation fd | 2 Responses
How to build a powerful IR monitoring dashboard using StockTwits Desktop
By Dominic Jones on October 20, 2009
MONITORING what is being said about your company in the news and on the social web is something every investor relations department should be doing as a normal part of its daily activities.
There are many ways to monitor the web. Some involve big fees and offer the convenience of filtering the signal from the noise. [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogs, forums, Investor Relations, monitoring, news, social media, stocktwits, twitter, wikinvest | 9 Responses
SEC should focus on access in “notice & access”
By Dominic Jones on October 16, 2009
AFTER a long delay, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally proposed tweaks to its failed “notice and access” process for delivering shareholder meeting materials on the web.
The model, which essentially transfers the decision to receive materials electronically or in print from shareowners to companies, has resulted in a dramatic drop in the number [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual meetings, annual reports, corporate governance, e-proxy, notice-and-access, proxy statements, proxy voting, SEC | 3 Responses
Google brings transparency to the earnings call question queue
By Dominic Jones on October 15, 2009
ANALYSTS and investors have long complained that management at some companies manipulate the flow of information to the market and play favorites by carefully screening which questions they take on their earnings calls.
Now Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has taken the lead to bring transparency to the earnings call question queue by inviting analysts — and [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged earnings calls, engagement, Google Inc., webcasts | 1 Response
With investor relations RSS feeds, one is better than many
By Dominic Jones on October 14, 2009
I RECENTLY heard a senior investor relations officer talking about RSS feeds. He said his company was thinking about offering more feeds for different types of content.
This isn’t unusual. Many companies offer a variety of feeds for different types of IR website content. Thomson Reuters’ IR websites typically offer 3 different feeds –- one for [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged atom, Investor Relations, rss, web feeds | 2 Responses
Online annual reports: will we ever get them right?
By Dominic Jones on September 23, 2009
PEOPLE like me have been promoting online annual report best practices for almost a decade now, but the message mostly isn’t getting through.
According to the 2009 Nexxar online annual report survey, there has been a modest improvement in the number of companies that are providing at least some of their reports’ content in formats that [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual report, Business/Finance, Investor Relations, online annual reports, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., Tim Herrod, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability | 1 Response
Facebook Pages and Investor Relations
By Dominic Jones on September 22, 2009
FACEBOOK, by virtue of its 300 million strong user base and built-in viral marketing features, is an appealing target for investor relations officers who want to market their companies to a wider audience.
A growing number of companies have started to use Facebook Pages for IR and PR in recent months. Most pages are corporate pages [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged ABB Ltd, Facebook Inc, facebook pages, Investor Relations, Micro-blogging, Online social networking, public relations, regulations, social media, social networking, viral marketing, Web 2.0 | 4 Responses
Thomson Reuters buying Hugin is bad news for European IR and investors
By Dominic Jones on September 21, 2009
Early this morning, I posted the following on the IR Web Report Bits blog. I normally would not cross post items like this because IR Web Report is usually reserved for less personal and more detailed articles, but I think this calls for an exception. I’m sure there will be much more discussion about this [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | 3 Responses
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