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By IR Web Report on September 2, 2010
ACCOUNTING professors at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan recently published a study with a rather startling finding — using social media like Twitter can help companies overcome a lack of media and sell-side analyst coverage and improve liquidity for their stock.
Posted in Articles | Tagged news, social media, stocks, twitter
By IR Web Report on August 23, 2010
NEWS today from the Australasian Investor Relations Association (AIRA) that only 7% of retail investors say they monitor social media for investing purposes has been wrongly interpreted as a rejection of social media as an information source.
Posted in Articles | Tagged AIRA, Australia, New Zealand, retail investors, social media, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on August 23, 2010
WHEN Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) reported its third-quarter earnings last week it did so using a wide range of new and traditional media in a reporting event that shows how complex online corporate reporting has become with the advent of social media.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, facebook pages, Scribd, slideshare, social media, stocktwits, time stamps, twitter, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on August 20, 2010
This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers.
Posted in Articles | Tagged Corporate Blogs, hedge funds, social media, twitter
By IR Web Report on August 19, 2010
STOCKTWITS, the growing investor and trader microblogging service, has introduced a new investor relations service that enables companies to provide verified information and better engage with their online investor audiences.
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, social media, stocktwits
By IR Web Report on August 18, 2010
TWITTER is becoming a popular way for investor relations departments to alert the market to important news, but many companies are not taking full advantage of all the features the service provides.
Posted in Articles | Tagged social media, twitter
By IR Web Report on August 16, 2010
SLIDESHARE, best known as a presentation sharing service, has launched three new paid accounts with features that may appeal to investor relations departments looking for ways to spread their stories online and improve the user experience of their IR websites.
Posted in Articles | Tagged content sharing, earnings calls, presentations, slideshare, social media
By IR Web Report on August 13, 2010
This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers.
Posted in Articles | Tagged facebook, google finance, Investor Relations, social media, twitter
By IR Web Report on August 12, 2010
EARNINGS reporting practices are evolving and becoming more complicated as companies increasingly integrate social media channels into their distribution circuits — and one good example is the closely watched technology bellwether Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO)
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, facebook pages, social media, time stamps, twitter, web disclosure, YouTube
By IR Web Report on August 10, 2010
A STUDY group of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) tasked with providing practical guidance on using the web for corporate reporting has published discussion drafts of three guidance publications.
Posted in Articles | Tagged IR websites, social media, web disclosure, web reporting
By IR Web Report on August 10, 2010
LAST week’s post about 10 companies that used Twitter as part of their recent quarterly earnings announcements generated a lot of interest, so we thought we’d look at one company that we didn’t mention because their activity occurred after we compiled the list.
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, social media, twitter, web reporting
By IR Web Report on August 8, 2010
THE Telegraph, one of the UK’s largest newspapers, invited its readers to put questions to Unilever (NYSE:UN) Chief Financial Officer Jean-Marc Huet on the day the global consumer products company announced its half-year results last week.
Posted in Articles | Tagged crowd-sourcing, executive communications, Q&As, social media
By IR Web Report on August 6, 2010
This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers.
Posted in Articles | Tagged integrated reporting, IR websites, social media, twitter, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on August 5, 2010
THE 2010 second-quarter earnings season has seen a flood of companies using Twitter to announce their financial results and tweet highlights from their earnings calls.
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, social media, twitter, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on July 29, 2010
COMPANIES that are early adopters of social media for corporate communications are increasingly using channels like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to deliver investor-related information, a new study has found.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, compliance, disclosure, facebook, Investor Relations, slideshare, social media, twitter, YouTube
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