By Dominic Jones on August 23, 2010
WHEN Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) reported its third-quarter earnings last week it did so using a wide range of new and traditional media in a reporting event that shows how complex online corporate reporting has become with the advent of social media.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, facebook pages, Scribd, slideshare, social media, stocktwits, time stamps, twitter, web disclosure
By Dominic Jones on August 12, 2010
EARNINGS reporting practices are evolving and becoming more complicated as companies increasingly integrate social media channels into their distribution circuits — and one good example is the closely watched technology bellwether Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO)
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, facebook pages, social media, time stamps, twitter, web disclosure, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on July 29, 2010
COMPANIES that are early adopters of social media for corporate communications are increasingly using channels like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to deliver investor-related information, a new study has found.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, compliance, disclosure, facebook, Investor Relations, slideshare, social media, twitter, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on March 22, 2010
A SURVEY has found that financial websites and blogs are the top influences on U.S. individual investors, while those under age 40 are more heavily influenced by family, friends and work colleagues than are older investors.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, facebook, individual investors, Investor Relations, social networks, surveys
By Dominic Jones on December 8, 2009
THERE are many reasons why investor relations officers and company executives avoid participating in new media such as blogs and social networks, but often the grounds they give are more misconceptions than real barriers. Take Regulation FD, for example. In my discussions with companies and other consultants, it’s the main reason given for companies taking [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, finance, Investor Relations, regulation fd, SEC, seeking alpha, Seeking Alpha Inc., social media, Stock market, twitter, Twitter Inc
By Dominic Jones on December 1, 2009
IN MY previous post, I called attention to the outstanding readership profile of Seeking Alpha, an increasingly popular web service that offers public company representatives an unprecedented opportunity to connect with a highly qualified audience of investors and analysts. In this post, I’ll explore different ways that investor relations departments can use Seeking Alpha to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Investor Relations, seeking alpha, social media
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, forums, Investor Relations, monitoring, social media, stocktwits, twitter, wikinvest
By Dominic Jones on March 12, 2009
INTERNET conglomerate eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) held its first analyst day in two three years yesterday — and something big happened that almost no one noticed. For most attendees and observers, there was nothing special about the event. The analysts and journalists showed up at eBay North Townhall in San Jose, CA. The company’s executives [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, eBay Inc, Investor Relations, Richard Brewer-Hay, Scot Wingo, Scott Kessler, twitter
By Dominic Jones on March 7, 2009
SPARE a thought for eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) corporate blogger Richard Brewer-Hay. He is the only person on the microblogging service Twitter who live-tweets his company’s quarterly earnings conference calls. That’s partly why I’ve previously called him one of the best corporate bloggers. However, he has been doing these live-tweeting sessions for the past three [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, eBay Inc, Investor Relations, Richard Brewer-Hay, securities and exchange commission, twitter
By Dominic Jones on March 5, 2009
SEVERAL months ago, Microvision (NASDAQ:MVIS) IR specialist Tiffany Bradford set out to research how small-cap companies were using blogs for investor relations. She was referred to me by Shel Holtz, ABC, one of the leading advisors on the use of technology in public relations and corporate communications. I didn’t have a lot of concrete examples [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate communications, earnings, Investor Relations, Microvision, Microvision Inc, public relations, retail investors, Tiffany Bradford
By Dominic Jones on February 25, 2009
RECENTLY in a blog post here and in a discussion in the Investor Relations Executives Group on LinkedIn, I suggested that the time has come for investor relations departments to open up their earnings calls to finance bloggers. My objective in doing the story about President Obama taking a question from the Huffington Post was [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, finance bloggers, finance websites, Investor Relations, personal finance website, shareholder services, social media, The Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters
By Dominic Jones on February 18, 2009
WEB monitoring services that help investors track online mentions of companies they follow have become an emerging area of innovation as easy-to-use publishing technologies have brought a flood of influential experts to the Internet. Some of the companies offering “deep web” mining services to investors include FirstRain, SkyGrid and EventVestor, while a much larger group [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged alacra pulse, analysts, blogs, Investor Relations, law firms, monitoring, Union Square Ventures, Wall Street
By Dominic Jones on January 29, 2009
Investors are increasingly gleaning tradable information from blogs. Companies need a strategy to respond.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, finance, firstrain, Investor Relations, online communications, penny herscher, social media, technology
By Dominic Jones on December 15, 2008
THERE was a bit of a fuss last week among consultants and corporate marketers who’ve made “social media” a big part of their business. Forrester, a technology research and consulting business, released results from a survey showing that only 16% of consumers trust corporate blogs. The news that corporate blogs are not a panacea for [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, Mark Evans, nortel, Richard Brewer-Hay, rubbermaid, social media, technology, twitter
By Dominic Jones on October 27, 2008
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR) last night launched The Investor Network, a social network and discussion forum open only to participation by investors whose holdings in companies can be verified via their brokerage accounts. Details of the TheInvestorNetwork.com, which caters to a potential audience of up to 90 million investors in the United States and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Investor Relations, social networking
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