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Pam Agnew, ABC
“The Web’s impact on stakeholders’ opinions has made it imperative for companies to manage their online reputations effectively.”
Pam Agnew, ABC [...]
Dominic Jones
“The web has the potential to bring millions more people into the capital markets as productive and engaged participants, but only if companies are there to welcome them.”
Dominic Jones is the founder of IRWebReport.com and President of IR Web Reporting International Inc. He has more than 20 years of experience in journalism, investor education and [...]
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Thomson Reuters buying Hugin is bad news for European IR and investors
Early this morning, I posted the following on the IR Web Report Bits blog. I normally would not cross post items like this because IR Web Report is usually reserved for less personal and more detailed articles, but I think this calls for an exception. I’m sure there will be much more discussion about this [...]
That cloud thing in the drawing used to be Business Wire. Now made redundant by machines.
1. The Writer gets an idea.
2. He or she enters it into the authoring tool, saves, it goes to a file, a feed.
3. The authoring software sends an Update ping to the Cloud (which is just a bit of software running on EC2).
IR Feedback 2.0
If you follow investors and analysts on Twitter you might learn something.
Here’s the news release he’s referring to. I read it and didn’t see a lot of corporate-speak (OK, a little), but it frustrated me more that the financials are in PDF only. That makes them impossible to import into a spreadsheet without manually copying [...]
Companies source annual meeting questions from web
A GROWING number of companies are using the web to give their shareholders opportunities to pose questions to directors and executives at their annual meetings.
Since many shareholders are unable to attend meetings in person, the move by companies to use the web could help to reengage apathetic retail stockholders in the annual meeting process. At [...]
Most popular posts Jan. – Feb. 2009
A LOT of regular readers have been buried in year-end reporting and preparing annual reports, so I thought I’d recap the most popular posts on IR Web Report over the past two months in case you missed them.
Business Wire’s Double Standards About how Business Wire is attacking cheap notice-and-access releases even while its owner Berkshire [...]
My advice to Directors: get out the vote!
EVER since the folks at Risk Metrics asked me several weeks ago to write something for directors about communicating with shareholders, I’ve been struggling to put down my thoughts in some sort of coherent form.
The problem, you see, is that I don’t think there’s anything directors can do. Communication is not enough. PR and lobbying [...]
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