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THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing a rule for all companies to file their annual and quarterly reports in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) on a staged basis over the next three years.

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I WAS having a conversation the other day with a client about recommendations we had made about her company’s website. She wanted to know if a certain recommendation was really “fundamental” to her company’s site.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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?

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.