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For investor relations, Seeking Alpha may be the ideal social network

By Dominic Jones on November 24, 2009

BY now you have probably heard the sales pitches from various pundits and salespeople about how your company should be using social media in its investor relations program because investors are increasingly using new media.

And to a large extent, the pundits are right. Investors are using the web and various social media more today than in the past, and they will continue to do so in the future.

The problem, however, is that Continue reading “For investor relations, Seeking Alpha may be the ideal social network”

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Investor Relations, new media, seeking alpha, social media, social networks | Leave a response

As brokers hit social networks, will companies meet them there?

By Dominic Jones on October 28, 2009

A YOUNGER generation of U.S. investment advisors is pushing employers and industry regulators to allow them to use social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter to communicate with customers and prospects — and new compliance technologies may soon open the floodgates for them to do so. Continue reading “As brokers hit social networks, will companies meet them there?”

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged FINRA, Investor Relations, social media | 4 Responses

NASDAQ makes StockTwits even more relevant to IR

By Dominic Jones on October 26, 2009

NASDAQ OMX Inc., the world’s largest exchange company, has launched an iPhone application that prominently incorporates content from StockTwits, a service that aggregates Twitter messages by traders and investors about stocks and other securities.

The move is another wake-up call to investor relations departments that they cannot ignore social media or dismiss its role in the investment information ecosystem. StockTwits messages are already included on a limited basis on Bloomberg, while Yahoo! Finance includes blog posts aggregated by Seeking Alpha. Continue reading “NASDAQ makes StockTwits even more relevant to IR”

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Investor Relations, iPhone, NASDAQ OMX Inc, stocktwits | 3 Responses

Loose lips, loose morals, and outdated disclosure practices

By Dominic Jones on October 22, 2009

I’M A little bemused by the IR establishment’s response to the sensational allegations in the insider trading case against Galleon Management and a host of corporate executives and one IR consultant.

NIRI CEO Jeff Morgan’s immediate response was to publish the following in a Tweet: “Following Galleon & is another reminder to NIRI members & all in IR-Reg FD compliance is a must. Train & refresh! http://digs.by/aT0” Continue reading “Loose lips, loose morals, and outdated disclosure practices”

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Galleon, insider trading, Investor Relations, regulation fd | 2 Responses

How to build a powerful IR monitoring dashboard using StockTwits Desktop

By Dominic Jones on October 20, 2009

MONITORING what is being said about your company in the news and on the social web is something every investor relations department should be doing as a normal part of its daily activities.

There are many ways to monitor the web. Some involve big fees and offer the convenience of filtering the signal from the noise. There are also many free tools you can use, but these typically involve checking a variety of services to get a complete picture of what is going on, which can be time consuming and hard work. Continue reading “How to build a powerful IR monitoring dashboard using StockTwits Desktop”

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogs, forums, Investor Relations, monitoring, social media, stocktwits, twitter, wikinvest | 9 Responses

SEC should focus on access in “notice & access”

By Dominic Jones on October 16, 2009

AFTER a long delay, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally proposed tweaks to its failed “notice and access” process for delivering shareholder meeting materials on the web.

The model, which essentially transfers the decision to receive materials electronically or in print from shareowners to companies, has resulted in a  dramatic drop in the number of retail shareowners who participate in annual meetings.

It has also meant that millions of passive individual investors receive little or no info Continue reading “SEC should focus on access in “notice & access””

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual meetings, annual reports, corporate governance, e-proxy, notice-and-access, proxy statements, proxy voting, SEC | 3 Responses

Google brings transparency to the earnings call question queue

By Dominic Jones on October 15, 2009

ANALYSTS and investors have long complained that management at some companies manipulate the flow of information to the market and play favorites by carefully screening which questions they take on their earnings calls.

Now Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has taken the lead to bring transparency to the earnings call question queue by inviting analysts — and everyone else — to submit questions online that are then voted on by other investors.  Continue reading “Google brings transparency to the earnings call question queue”

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged earnings calls, engagement, Google Inc., webcasts | 1 Response

With investor relations RSS feeds, one is better than many

By Dominic Jones on October 14, 2009

I RECENTLY heard a senior investor relations officer talking about RSS feeds. He said his company was thinking about offering more feeds for different types of content.

This isn’t unusual. Many companies offer a variety of feeds for different types of IR website content. Thomson Reuters’ IR websites typically offer 3 different feeds –- one for news releases, another for calendar events, and yet another for SEC filings. Continue reading “With investor relations RSS feeds, one is better than many”

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Investor Relations, rss, web feeds | 2 Responses

Online annual reports: will we ever get them right?

By Dominic Jones on September 23, 2009

PEOPLE like me have been promoting online annual report best practices for almost a decade now, but the message mostly isn’t getting through.

According to the 2009 Nexxar online annual report survey, there has been a modest improvement in the number of companies that are providing at least some of their reports’ content in formats that meet the basic usability needs of investors.

The country with the most marked improvement in recent years is Continue reading “Online annual reports: will we ever get them right?”

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual report, Business/Finance, Investor Relations, online annual reports, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., Tim Herrod, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability | 1 Response

Facebook Pages and Investor Relations

By Dominic Jones on September 22, 2009

FACEBOOK, by virtue of its 300 million strong user base and built-in viral marketing features, is an appealing target for investor relations officers who want to market their companies to a wider audience.

A growing number of companies have started to use Facebook Pages for IR and PR in recent months. Most pages are corporate pages rather than IR-specific ones, but they include enough relevant information to interest shareholders and prospective investors. Continue reading “Facebook Pages and Investor Relations”

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Facebook Inc, facebook pages, Investor Relations, Micro-blogging, public relations, social media, social networking | 4 Responses

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