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Facebook Pages and Investor Relations
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 [...]
Microvision opens up earnings call via blog
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 to [...]
Service providers: are you interesting?
WE’RE LOOKING for service providers who are doing new and interesting things on the web for investor relations, public relations, shareholder services and corporate governance.
No matter where you are in the world, we want to give you an opportunity to talk about your company and its products on this site. No strings attached. No cost. [...]
With XBRL, more IR jobs will go to communicators
THIS XBRL thing has legs. The hype-o-meter is in overdrive and I can’t imagine anything is going to stop it.
So it’s now safe for me to tell you the awful, untold truth about what XBRL means to the investor relations profession as we know it today.
This truth is so frightening to the average corporate investor [...]
Business Wire, Yahoo! roll out readable releases
AFTER almost of decade of putting up with archaic news release text and garbled financial tables, Yahoo! Finance users may finally be getting company news releases they can easily read and reuse.
Yesterday, I noticed that the world’s most popular finance website is using Business Wire’s XHTML-based newsfeed, potentially ushering in a new era of usability [...]
Web 2.0 is delayed, please be patient
By Dominic Jones
DON’T know about you, but I’m finally getting tired of all the noise and nonsense coming from communications, marketing, public relations and even IR consultants like me who blog and podcast.
I’m talking about the endless parade of posts about all the new technologies that are going to “revolutionize” business, change the world and [...]
PRSA announces investor relations awards
By Dominic Jones
IT PROBABLY has something to do with the fact that it’s the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) gig, but most in the investor relations profession — including me — missed the announcement of the Silver Anvil Awards this week.
That’s a shame because among the winners for everything from community relations to integrated [...]
A truth many IR departments must face
By Dominic Jones
OIL giant ExxonMobil Corporation published its 2006 corporate responsibility report yesterday. I thought it was pretty good — until I came across something I knew wasn’t true.
In a section of the report called Communication and Engagement, the company says that good stakeholder relations are “essential to help identify and manage key issues.” It [...]
Is Thomson's IR/PR business for sale?
By Dominic Jones
I DREW attention yesterday to the fact that Thomson Financial’s corporate investor relations and public relations businesses don’t fit well in the structure outlined in the Thomson-Reuters acquisition announcement.
According to the companies, the combined Reuters and Thomson Financial business will be guided by journalistic principles, such as integrity, independence and freedom from bias. [...]
Thomson-Reuters: mixing journalism with PR?
By Dominic Jones
EARLY this morning, the boards of Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group PLC announced that they have agreed to combine their companies.
Reuters CEO Tom Glocer, 47, will become CEO of the new Thomson-Reuters. Thomson President and CEO, Richard J. Harrington, 60, will retire after the deal closes, which is expected after anti-trust clearances are [...]
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