How to leverage the web for better compliance and investor communication Pages: 121 Screenshots: 20+ Last revised: July5, 2010 Price: only $575 BUY NOW Synopsis Corporate disclosure practices in the United States are undergoing dramatic change. New regulations and new web communications technologies are disrupting established practices. The old model is under pressure and increasingly [...]
By Dominic Jones on February 10, 2010
What’s with the IR website vendors and always being the last ones to the technology party? I’ve just finished reviewing the web feed implementations of all of the IR website vendors — from Thomson Reuters to Shareholder.com to Investis to SNL to Q4 — and not one of them has implemented push on their clients’ [...]
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By Dominic Jones on October 14, 2009
I RECENTLY heard a senior investor relations officer talking about RSS feeds. He said his company was thinking about offering more feeds for different types of content. This isn’t unusual. Many companies offer a variety of feeds for different types of IR website content. Thomson Reuters’ IR websites typically offer 3 different feeds –- one [...]
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By Dominic Jones on January 20, 2009
(UPDATE: See the update at the end of this post.) I HAVE been holding out. I already have a lot on my plate managing a heavy consulting, research and writing schedule, this blog, 3 Twitter accounts, 2 FriendFeed accounts, 17 FriendFeed rooms, 393 RSS subscriptions, two bookmarking accounts, IM, and about 12 different other social [...]
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By Dominic Jones on August 21, 2008
PR NEWSWIRE has trotted out its Disclosure Advisory Board (DAB) to say that they do not see companies changing their disclosure practices any time soon in response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent guidance for company websites. They have issued a statement that basically calls for companies to continue to use the [...]
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By Dominic Jones on August 8, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new guidance for company websites gives investor relations departments an opportunity to cut their disclosure costs and boost traffic to their websites by using “notice-and-access” news releases for Regulation FD. Although the SEC’s guidance goes so far as to say that “some companies” may not need to use [...]
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By Dominic Jones on August 2, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD. Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial [...]
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By Dominic Jones on July 30, 2008
UNDER certain circumstances, companies can rely on their websites and blogs to meet the public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD, according to new guidance unanimously approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission today. The move is significant as it could cut disclosure costs for many companies that today use paid PR wire services to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, disclosure, disclosure documents, EDGAR, finance, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, John White, liability, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission
By Dominic Jones on June 25, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to address within the next three months whether companies can meet their obligations under Regulation FD by posting information on their corporate websites and in RSS feeds, according SEC Chairman Chris Cox. The issue is among three areas that the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Improvements to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, conference calls, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, financial reporting, IR websites, liability, news releases, regulation fd, rss, securities and exchange commission, sun microsystems
By Dominic Jones on May 7, 2008
I WAS having a conversation the other day with a client about recommendations we had made about her company’s website. She wanted to know if a certain recommendation was really “fundamental” to her company’s site. That’s a really good question and one that every company needs to think about. What are the basic requirements for [...]
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By Dominic Jones on April 24, 2008
JUST over 70% of the people who participated in this week’s poll guessed correctly when choosing the word I would use to describe the practice of making investors register to access RSS feeds on corporate websites. This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for the past two years but never got around to. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, feeds, Google, Investor Relations, IR websites, NASDAQ OMX Group, rss, Ryan Lejbak, Search results, southern company, thomson financial, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on April 22, 2008
THERE is only one word to explain what is depicted in this screenshot I took while visiting the website of Southern Company, a big US energy utility. But rather than say what I think the word is, I thought you might like to have a quick guess using the poll embedded below the screenshot. I [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, rss, rss registration, shareholder.com, southern company, technology
By Dominic Jones on April 14, 2008
I WAS reviewing the latest traffic statistics for this blog this weekend and noticed that more than 70% of subscribers are getting updates via email instead of via our news feed. So I’m wondering why this is so. If you’re getting the email updates, please tell me what is holding you back from using RSS [...]
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By Dominic Jones on April 12, 2008
BACK in November 2006, I published a list of 10 signs that an investor relations website was in dire need of an upgrade. Reading the list again, it struck me how we still see many companies making the same mistakes. So I thought it would be helpful to post the list again and offer to [...]
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By Dominic Jones on April 9, 2008
WHEN it comes to disclosing insider trading on their investor relations websites, companies’ practices vary widely. Most firms give the information little thought, while a few go out of their way to make the information easy for investors to access and digest. But with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adding free XML-based news [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, insider trading, Investor Relations, rss, SEC filings
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