The SEC inquiry that made me shudder
I NEED to find the time one day to put down some thoughts about where capital markets disclosure is heading because it’s a major issue facing the investor relations profession.
April 25, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 
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The real story behind RSS registration
JUST over 70% of the people who participated in this week’s poll guessed correctly when choosing the word I would use to describe the practice of making investors register to access RSS feeds on corporate websites.
April 24, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, e-proxy | 3 Comments »
Get your free ‘XBRL for Dummies’ book — Update
Update: I think you should ignore this offer. And I think Hitachi did itself a disservice.
OKAY, you have to pay $1.90 (see comments below) for postage and handling and it has to ship to an address in the US, but the book itself is “free.”
April 23, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, XBRL | 4 Comments »
6 tips for a better E-proxy campaign
I HAVE really enjoyed reading the first issue of InvestorRelationships.com, the new online publication for investor relations, shareholder services, and corporate governance professionals that launched last week.
April 22, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, e-proxy | No Comments »
Innovator: Ian Anderson, Twentysix London
IR Web Report’s Q&As are unpaid profiles of service providers that we believe are doing interesting and innovative work in the area of online investor relations and stakeholder communications. If you would like your firm featured in a Q&A, we invite you to contact us using our general email inbox.
April 22, 2008 | Posted in Vendor Q&As | 3 Comments »
An analogy that’s hard to miss
WHERE can you legally stuff the ballot boxes with votes from people who do not actually cast ballots? Where can you cling to your position by having those votes push you to a majority?
April 22, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
What’s the word I’m looking for?
THERE is only one word to explain what is depicted in this screenshot I took while visiting the website of Southern Company, a big US energy utility.
April 22, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 3 Comments »
Service providers: are you interesting?
WE’RE LOOKING for service providers who are doing new and interesting things on the web for investor relations, public relations, shareholder services and corporate governance.
April 21, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | Comments Off
SEC delays meeting on XBRL rule - Updated
Updated: SEC spokesman John Nester told Financial Week that “the meeting was postponed because the commission needed time to prepare and approve testimony for tomorrow’s Senate Banking Committee hearing, at which SEC chairman Christopher Cox is scheduled to testify on the role of credit rating agencies in the current liquidity crisis.” Original post follows.
April 18, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News, XBRL | 1 Comment »
SEC does first conference call with bloggers
IN A first for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a group of 13 bloggers were invited to a special conference call Friday to talk about XBRL ahead of the SEC’s meeting to consider making the financial tagging language mandatory.
April 18, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News, XBRL | 2 Comments »