Did Shareholder.com finally get a clue?
By Dominic Jones
INVESTOR relations website developer Shareholder.com, a subsidiary of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ), appears to be finally getting the message that snooping on the activities of investors on company websites is unethical — and even illegal.
July 28, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 
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SEC posts Web-related proxy rules
WHAT a week is was for Web-related investor disclosure news! I was supposed to be on an extended blogging break, but there was no way I could stay away when history was being made.
July 28, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, e-proxy | 1 Comment »
Academics blow lid off companies’ analyst schmoozing
By Dominic Jones
A TWO-YEAR study by U.S. academics has found that companies are bestowing favors on analysts like helping them get country club memberships — and those favors appear to influence analysts’ stock recommendations.
July 27, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Sun Microsystems dumps PR wires for Reg. FD — Update 3
By Dominic Jones
ON MONDAY, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) will break with long-established tradition by not immediately announcing its earnings via a paid PR wire service.
July 25, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 4 Comments »
NIRI’s obsolete Web policies
By Dominic Jones
JUST popping in because the U.S. National Investor Relations Institute upset my sensibilities today when it reiterated the following policy to members about electronic communications:
July 25, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 5 Comments »
For the dude with no budget
By Dominic Jones
JUST popping in because this guy from a mega-cap company emailed me on my “vacation” wanting to know if we could review his employer’s IR website and give them “the 10 most important improvements” for their site.
July 24, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 2 Comments »
Recharging… recharging…recharging…
That’s what we’re doing until September. If that sounds absurdly luxurious, it is. But once every few years you need to detach from the giant fire hose that is the RSS reader and read a book or two, gain some distance, and clear the decks.
July 13, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 1 Comment »
Quote of the Week #2
By Dominic Jones
THIS is actually a couple of weeks old, but it only recently came to my attention via RR Donnelley’s excellent Real Corporate Lawyer website.
July 13, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
CEOs as secret Yahoo! Finance posters no surprise
By Dominic Jones
REVELATIONS that Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) CEO John Mackey used a pseudonym to post bullish messages about his company while trashing its competitors on Yahoo! Finance’s message boards for eight years has tongues wagging in executive suites and boardrooms everywhere.
July 12, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 2 Comments »
Shareholder wiki warrior Eric Jackson is back
By Dominic Jones
ERIC Jackson, the individual shareholder and management consultant who launched an annual meeting campaign against Yahoo! with a wiki, a blog, YouTube and a lot of media interest, has turned his sights on a new target — struggling Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT).
July 12, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 1 Comment »