Amid proxy fight, investors still love Applebee’s IRO
By Dominic Jones
BEHOLD Carol DiRaimo, vice president of investor relations for restaurant chain Applebee’s International, Inc.
March 31, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 
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IR Magazine US investor relations awards 2007 announced
By Dominic Jones
IR MAGAZINE’s awards for the best investor relations in the United States were handed out Thursday night in New York to the IR profession’s best and brightest in the opinion of investors.
March 31, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
No plain language please, we’re Canadian
THE provincial securities regulators in Canada have decided to copy their U.S. counterparts by beefing up their disclosure requirements for executive pay.
March 29, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Surprise! People do read online
By Dominic Jones
NEW research is smashing a decade-old belief among designers that the vast majority of people don’t actually read web content but merely skim it for pertinent facts.
March 29, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 2 Comments »
Why blog network’s "open CEO interviews" are a hit
By Dominic Jones
SOME readers might be wondering if I’ve gone completely mad by saying this week’s three-day CEO open interview hosted by blog network Seeking Alpha represents the future of IR.
March 29, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 2 Comments »
The most powerful IR I’ve ever seen
I know it’s got the word “blog” in it, and many of you are preconditioned to switch off when you see that word. But if you have any interest at all in what the future of IR might look like, you will read the prior post.
March 28, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Throw your CEO under a blog bus
AND IF he or she can withstand the three-day onslaught of probing questions, you will have a highly credible and effective piece of investor relations communication.
March 28, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 1 Comment »
How a pro reads a proxy statement
IF ALL business journalists and finance bloggers were like David Phillips, companies would get away with a lot less nonsense than they do now.
Just go read his post on Aflac: Long Live the AFLAC Duck!
March 28, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Media sows more CEO pay confusion
By Dominic Jones
PITY average Americans trying to keep track of what the CEOs of public companies earned last year. Chances are that the pay figures they see reported in their morning newspaper are different than the numbers firms are reporting.
March 28, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 1 Comment »
Six years of IR Web Report…
By Dominic Jones
SIX years ago almost to the day, I sat down to write the About Us page for this website. It was more a mission statement and an explanation for what I was hoping to achieve and why.
March 27, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 4 Comments »