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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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged facebook, facebook pages, Investor Relations, Micro-blogging, public relations, social media, social networking
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 April 21, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, Online Investor Relations, public relations, web development, web strategy
By Dominic Jones on December 20, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Investor Relations, NIRI, public relations, strategy, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on October 19, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, news releases, newswires, public relations, technology, xhtml, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on June 20, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, Investor Relations, management, news releases, public relations, rss, SEC
By Dominic Jones on June 15, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Investor Relations, nasdaq, NIRI, public relations
By Dominic Jones on May 24, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, ExxonMobil Corporation, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, public relations, SEC, web-based investor communications
By Dominic Jones on May 16, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged ADP, broadridge financial solutions inc, communications, corporate communications, CorporateNews Group, Europe, finance, Investor Relations, nasdaq, pr newswire, privacy, public relations, reuters, rss, shareholder.com, strategy, thomson financial, wire services
By Dominic Jones on May 15, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, corporate communications, David Schlesinger, Devin Wenig, Investor Relations, journalist, media, public relations, Reuter Trust Principles, reuters, Reuters Group PLC, Richard J. Harrington, thomson financial, Tom Glocer, Woodbridge
By Dominic Jones on March 4, 2007
By Dominic Jones “ARE (ordinary investors) being played for patsies in this system? Are there really just two tiers, and the insiders are always favored?” That question by NewsHour correspondent Maragaret Warner to Columbia Law School professor John Coffee on PBS on Friday night (MP3, 4.0 MB) encapsulates a view many Main Street investors are [...]
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By Dominic Jones on February 6, 2007
By Dominic Jones SOMEBODY please explain to me why an institution that plays such a central role in the capital markets as the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. seems to have such a hard time writing transparent news releases. Yesterday, the exchange issued a less than forthright news release that had the effect of confusing at [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, communications, EDGAR, Edgar Ortega, Financial services, Investor Relations, management, nasdaq, NASDAQ 100, nasdaq stock market inc, New York, news releases, Prime Newswire, public relations, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, stocks, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
By Dominic Jones on January 6, 2007
By Dominic Jones THE social media revolution is giving rise to a new generation of savvy web users who have a higher level of technical know-how and well-developed online BS detectors. For corporate communicators, this is important to know. Brochure-ware websites and a tell-it-from-the-mountain approach to online communication isn’t working with this generation. Which generation [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, MySpace, public relations, USC-Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future
By Dominic Jones on December 10, 2006
By IR Web Report Staff (Update added Dec. 14) THE Nasdaq Stock Market has provoked an unprecedented uproar among its listed companies over a proposal to raise its listing fees and force them to pay for investor relations services from firms the exchange owns. In a major embarrassment for the exchange, dozens of investor relations [...]
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