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By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on June 20, 2008
DENMARK’S Danske Bank this week swept the IR Magazine Nordic Awards in Copenhagen — winning three of the top regional titles, including the Grand prix for best overall investor relations and best use of technology. The bank’s head of investor relations Martin Gottlob was voted the Nordic Region’s best investor relations officer by the 180 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, danske bank, disclosure, Flash, Iceland, institutional investor magazine, investment proposition, Investor Relations, ir department, ir magazine, Martin Gottlob, nordic region, online communications, Online Investor Relations, portfolio managers, Sweden, technology, Tonny Andersen, usability, usability features
By IR Web Report on June 5, 2008
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. Firm name: AGORACOM Investor Relations [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged feeds, finance, George Tsiolis, Investor Relations, micro cap companies, online communications, Online Investor Relations, SEC, stakeholder communications, web content, yahoo
By IR Web Report on May 12, 2008
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. Firm name: zu.com communications inc. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, annual reports, content management systems, disclosure, e-proxy, enerflex, feeds, Flash, GRI, Internet, Investor Relations, IR websites, isotechnika, national investor relations institute, online annual reports, online communications, Online Investor Relations, opti canada inc, Ryan Lejbak, social media, stakeholder communications, technology, Tony Zuck, TransCanada
By IR Web Report on April 22, 2008
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. Firm name: Twentysix London Date [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, corporate communications, Ian Anderson, infrastructure architecture, Investec, Investor Relations, java oracle, online communications, Online Investor Relations, RBS, royal navy, SharePoint, Shell, Sodexho, stakeholder communications, technical consultancy, Twentysix, uk ir, waitrose
By IR Web Report on April 14, 2008
AS CORPORATE reporting moves increasingly to the web, annual report designers are learning that it’s incredibly difficult to create attention-grabbing online communications. We often see their feeble attempts in the form of online annual report splash pages, covers or homepages. If you’re lucky there’s some dancing text and flashing video, but most often even these [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, annual reports, Flash, Investor Relations, online annual reports, online communications, pepsico, shareholder communications, shareholder relations, westpac, wienerberger
By IR Web Report on April 4, 2008
A WEEK ago, I called the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) notice-and-access process for delivering annual meeting materials on the web “one gigantic flop from an investor protection perspective.” I think it’s worth beating that drum a little louder in light of the latest statistics from Broadridge Financial Solutions showing a sharp drop in [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, financial reporting, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, NIRI, notice-and-access, online communications, SEC, securities, shareholder relations, technology, usability, XBRL
By IR Web Report on March 28, 2008
AS MORE companies add blogs and other social media tools to their online communications, knowing how to handle errors in posts has become an important practice point. Business Wire (BW) is one company that hasn’t yet learned how to do this properly. And that’s a problem because part of BW’s business is advising companies and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, disclosure, earnings, Investor Relations, law, management, online communications, wordpress
By IR Web Report on March 4, 2008
ABOUT eight months ago, I let my membership of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) expire. I wasn’t happy with the direction of the organization, and I felt that being a member would restrict me from speaking my mind about it on this blog if I wanted to. Since then, however, I’ve kept my mouth [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, e-proxy, earnings, Investor Relations, management, NIRI, online communications, shareholder.com
By IR Web Report on February 11, 2008
OUR research has long found that big technology companies are among the weakest when it comes to online investor relations communications — and we’re now seeing that manifest itself in the Yahoo!-Microsoft dust up. I’ve already highlighted how neither company is making effective use of its website to keep shareholders informed, and I’ve complained aloud [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Investor Relations, microsoft, online communications, SEC, SEC filings, technology, yahoo
By IR Web Report on February 11, 2008
IBM’s investor relations department pro-actively reaches out to retail investors via its investor relations website to reassure them about the company’s resilience amid uncertain economic conditions.
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, corporate websites, Investor Relations, IR websites, online communications, shareholder relations
By IR Web Report on February 7, 2008
AND then there was one. Last month, Real IR magazine ceased publishing after less than four years as Europe’s magazine for investor relations professionals. The bright, high-quality publication launched by UK-based Caspian Publishing brought healthy competition to a market that has long been dominated by Cross Border Group’s IR Magazine. In a letter to subscribers [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Investor Relations, online communications, technology
By IR Web Report on November 2, 2007
THOMSON FINANCIAL, the 800-pound gorilla of corporate investor relations services, recently rolled out new features for its hosted investor relations website product that it promises will “transform” IR websites and improve their “user experience.”In this review, I assess each of the new features and provide my research-based, unbiased opinion on whether they are good, mediocre [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, earnings, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, online communications, SEC, shareholder.com, usability, wordpress
By IR Web Report on July 6, 2007
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s concept for an electronic forum where shareholders can discuss and possibly vote on corporate governance issues is too prescriptive and costly, and will mostly benefit a small group of vendors only. At their roundtable on proxy access in May, the SEC floated the concept of an electronic forum in [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, e-proxy, feeds, finance, google finance, law, online communications, rss, SEC, securities, technology
By IR Web Report on April 2, 2007
By Dominic Jones JUST over a week ago, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox gave an important speech that has so far gone unreported by the investor relations profession’s main associations and trade press. In his closing remarks to the Second Annual Corporate Governance Summit at the USC Marshall School of Business in [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, communications, disclosure, e-proxy, EDGAR, GE, investor communications, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, less-glamorous retail investor communications, management, online communications, PDF, retail investors, Roel Campos, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, shareholder law suits, shareholder materials, shareholder.com, SunTrust, technology, thomson financial, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, USC Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles, web communications, website hosting services, XBRL
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