"Social media" wire releases are bogus
By Dominic Jones
THERE’s a lot of talk these days from the big wire services about “social media news releases.” However, almost all of it is meaningless because people are mostly trying to reinvent something that is actually obsolete.
January 17, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 
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Noteworthy list #4
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January 15, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
NASDAQ pushes firms to flout SEC web privacy rules
NASDAQ is pushing its listed companies to flout recently approved rules that bar them from tracking investors’ personal activity on websites hosting annual meeting materials under the e-proxy provisions.
January 14, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, e-proxy | 6 Comments »
SEC assessing blogs for disclosure, says Cox
By Dominic Jones
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing to weigh whether to allow companies to use website and blog postings instead of news releases for investor disclosure.
January 10, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 4 Comments »
Noteworthy list #3
Notable excerpts and links to articles and reports we’ve found worthwhile reading. Some links may be intercepted by ads or may require free log-ins. Please don’t blame us for this. Publications have to make a living some way.
January 9, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Push your presentations to Yahoo! Finance
By Dominic Jones
A NEW service aims to improve the reach and economics of executives’ investor presentations by distributing them on the popular Yahoo! Finance website and exposing them to bloggers and their audiences.
January 9, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
Starbucks answers activists on YouTube
By Dominic Jones
January 8, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 3 Comments »
Like teenagers, IROs tell tall tales in surveys
By Dominic Jones
WHEN it comes to the web, what people say they do online, and what they actually do, can be two very different things.
January 8, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 2 Comments »
Survey asks how teens socialize online
By Pam Agnew, ABC
THE Pew Internet & American Life Project has released results of a survey of how online American teens use social networking sites.
January 8, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
When young analysts know more HTML than you
By Dominic Jones
THE social media revolution is giving rise to a new generation of savvy web users who have a higher level of technical know-how and well-developed online BS detectors.
January 6, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »