Conflicted over NIRI’s activist investor survey
By Dominic Jones
I’VE BEEN thinking about the National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI) executive alert this week on how investor relations professionals should deal with activist investors.
August 30, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 
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Sun CEO’s blog now on Yahoo! Finance
By Dominic Jones
SUN Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) CEO Jonathan Schwartz is now able to publish from his blog directly to his company’s page on Yahoo! Finance.
August 28, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 5 Comments »
Basic guidelines for online annual reports
By Dominic Jones
IF you are looking for guidelines on how to design and format online annual reports so that they will meet the needs of most investors, the Investor Relations Society’s best practice guidelines are a good place to start.
August 24, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
Sun’s Schwartz sparks storm over ticker change
By Dominic Jones
WHY should CEOs and boards of directors blog? Because it gives them feedback — real, honest, heartfelt feedback — they would otherwise never get. It keeps them in touch with the real world, something that’s easily lost after just a few months in the rarefied atmosphere of mahogany row.
August 24, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Twitter: the newswire killer
By Dominic Jones
A FEW months ago, there was a lot of hubbub in the technology blogging community about a new service called Twitter. The service asked people to write short messages about what they were doing, and then it delivered the one-liners to their friends in near real time via instant messaging, SMS and the Web.
August 17, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 7 Comments »
What is a convenient format for proxy materials?
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rules for online proxy materials require companies to use a “format, or formats, convenient for both reading online and printing on paper.”
August 16, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, e-proxy | No Comments »
Yahoo! Finance homepage redesigned?
Update: Looks like someone at Yahoo! Finance flicked the switch by mistake, or was doing some early morning testing, because the new design was quickly removed after we wrote this post. The screenshot we took is actually of the “tour” that was provided via a link on the new homepage we saw.
August 15, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Board portals, technophobes, and buying vs. renting
By Dominic Jones
A REPORTER called me the other day while I was off the network to ask about the SEC’s shareholder forums proposal. She wanted to know if I thought directors would participate in forums.
August 15, 2007 | Posted in Corporate Governance | No Comments »
Fixing finance calendars with microformats
By Dominic Jones
INTERNET earnings and conference call calendars provided by the likes of Thomson Financial, Reuters and OpenCompany, owned by Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., are broken.
August 12, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
The greatest IR show on earth
By Dominic Jones
RIGHT now, somewhere in the world, an IR department is doing stuff that makes everyone else in this business look like amateurs.
August 9, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 11 Comments »