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By Dominic Jones on December 8, 2009
THERE are many reasons why investor relations officers and company executives avoid participating in new media such as blogs and social networks, but often the grounds they give are more misconceptions than real barriers. Take Regulation FD, for example. In my discussions with companies and other consultants, it’s the main reason given for companies taking [...]
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By Dominic Jones on December 1, 2009
IN MY previous post, I called attention to the outstanding readership profile of Seeking Alpha, an increasingly popular web service that offers public company representatives an unprecedented opportunity to connect with a highly qualified audience of investors and analysts. In this post, I’ll explore different ways that investor relations departments can use Seeking Alpha to [...]
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By Dominic Jones on November 24, 2009
BY now you have probably heard the sales pitches from various pundits and salespeople about how your company should be using social media in its investor relations program because investors are increasingly using new media. And to a large extent, the pundits are right. Investors are using the web and various social media more today [...]
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By Dominic Jones on August 13, 2008
UPDATE: Limelight Networks has responded to this article in the comments below. US INVESTOR relations departments that continue to issue full-text press releases are not only wasting their shareholders’ money, they’re also shooting themselves in the foot by ensuring that their websites will fail to meet “recognized channel” status under the SEC’s new guidance for [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, dow jones, Investor Relations, IR websites, limelight networks inc, SEC, seeking alpha, silicon alley, technology
By Dominic Jones on April 27, 2007
By Dominic Jones LET’S just assume that the Alexa trends I reported earlier this week are reasonably accurate and investors are deserting cookie-cutter IR websites in droves. That might not be such a stretch given that no one has stepped forward to dispute Alexa’s numbers with their own figures. If it is true, and I [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, content management systems, disclosure, finance, IR websites, law, management, nasdaq, NIRI, PDF, printing, privacy, SEC, securities, seeking alpha, shareholder.com, transcripts, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on April 24, 2007
By Dominic Jones IN WHAT may be an indication that U.S. IR websites are no longer able to attract and hold the interest of investors, traffic to IR websites hosted by Thomson Financial has slumped to all-time lows, according to the Alexa website information company. Alexa, owned by Amazon.com, measures traffic only of people who [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, Lou Thompson, messenger, NIRI, S&P 500, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, stocks, thomson financial, transcripts, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on March 29, 2007
SOME readers might be wondering if I’ve gone completely mad by saying this week’s three-day CEO open interview hosted by blog network Seeking Alpha represents the future of IR. You might be wondering why I am advocating that you put your CEO in front of a group of hardened investors, analysts and finance bloggers — [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, conference calls, David Jackson, disclosure, finance, finance bloggers, Google, google finance, law, management, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, Steven Sprague, Wave Systems Corp., yahoo
By Dominic Jones on March 19, 2007
WHY don’t more companies provide transcripts of their earnings conference calls and investor presentations on their websites? Of the 525 large-cap companies whose websites we review, only 12% are currently providing transcripts of their earnings calls on their investor relations websites. It’s NOT because investors don’t want them. There wouldn’t be a transcript industry if [...]
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By Dominic Jones on January 9, 2007
By Dominic Jones A NEW service aims to improve the reach and economics of executives’ investor presentations by distributing them on the popular Yahoo! Finance website and exposing them to bloggers and their audiences. Seeking Alpha, an aggregator of finance commentary from over 200 bloggers, is offering to transcribe companies’ presentations at investor conferences and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, Ezra Marbach, finance, finance bloggers, Investor Relations, Joffoni, market leader, Nielsen Net Ratings, Omaha, retail investors, SEC, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, SeekingAlpha.com, thomson financial, transcripts, yahoo, Yahoo Finance
By Dominic Jones on October 20, 2006
By Dominic Jones I’M HAVING a bit of fun here, but shouldn’t the quintessential Web company be just a little more hip to using new technologies in its communications with investors? Google Inc. — which just acquired web video sensation YouTube for $1.65 billion — webcasted it earnings call yesterday using investor relations website outsourcing [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, earnings, earnings calls, finance, google finance, Google Inc., IE7, investor communications, Investor Relations, management, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, MP3, nasdaq, Real Player, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, Skype, Skype services, technology, transcripts, VOIP, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on September 12, 2006
PITY the investor relations people at Illinois Tool Works Inc. They arrived at work this morning to find that someone named Jason Wood had gained access to Yahoo! Finance and is calling their latest acquisition a “strange, strange deal.” You can almost hear them asking: “Who the hell is Jason Wood and where did he [...]
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By Dominic Jones on July 17, 2006
Study Finds Backdating of Options Widespread More than 2,000 companies appear to have used backdated stock options to sweeten their top executives’ pay packages, according to a new study that suggests the practice is far more widespread than previously disclosed. Broadcom to Take $750M Backdating Charge Broadcom officials said the company will restate financial results [...]
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