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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged facebook, Investor Relations, LinkedIn, rss, social media, strategy, technology
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, blogs, Compensation, corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure documents, earnings, EDGAR, electronic delivery, feedback, feeds, finance, financial information, financial reporting, forums, insider trading, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, law, management, market participants, new york stock exchange, newswires, nyse, proxy statement, quarterly reports, rss, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, strategy, technology, usability, XBRL, XML
By Dominic Jones on July 22, 2008
BANKATLANTIC Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:BBX) is embarking on a risky strategy by suing a veteran bank analyst for defamation and negligence after he included the company in a research report that ranked 107 U.S. financial institutions on the chances of them going bust. Yesterday, the bank holding company filed a lawsuit in the state court for [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, Bloomberg, Forbes, indymac bancorp, Investor Relations, Ladenburg, ladenburg thalmann, nyse, Richard X. Bove, securities, strategy, The Street, wall street journal
By Dominic Jones on March 12, 2008
IT’S still early in the season, but online annual reports and proxy statements are now flowing onto the Web at a rapid rate. We’ve been monitoring daily developments, especially in the US where large companies must for the first time comply with new requirements for usable online documents — although they clearly have noooo ideeaa [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, Flash, GRI, philips electronics, progressive corp., proxy statements, rss, SEC, strategy
By Dominic Jones on February 14, 2008
I THOUGHT I wouldn’t have to write about the Microsoft-Yahoo! takeover saga again after likening the investor relations communications around it to watching two drunks wobbling and slurring their way through a back alley rumble. But I can’t resist. A couple of hours ago, the great Web pioneer and innovator that is Yahoo! fired off [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, finance, Investor Relations, management, microsoft, shareholder.com, strategy, technology, xhtml, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on February 9, 2008
Yahoo! Finance, once the clear leader in finance portals, has been neglected to the point where it is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, finance, finance portals, google finance, Investor Relations, management, strategy, Tech Ticker, ThomsonOne, Yahoo Finance
By Dominic Jones on January 15, 2008
It is high time for regulators to take a hard look at the rules around companies providing third-party content and independent perspectives.
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings, Investor Relations, SEC, stocks, strategy
By Dominic Jones on January 11, 2008
DELL Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) launched its investor relations blog just over two months ago, becoming the first major corporation to use a blog to communicate specifically with its investors. IR Magazine posted a story this week by Anna Snider saying that the Dell Shares blog is “gaining momentum,” which I think is an accurate description. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Investor Relations, nasdaq, SEC, 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 December 7, 2007
THE Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants has awarded its Award of Excellence for Electronic Disclosure to oil and gas company Nexen Inc.Runner up in the annual awards for electronic disclosure, which I recently rated as among the most reliable of such awards programs, was past three-in-row winner PotashCorp, the international fertilizer company. (Disclosure: We have [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, disclosure, feeds, Investor Relations, IR websites, rss, SEC, strategy, usability, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on November 12, 2007
A U.S. hedge fund has launched a proxy battle against a small-cap fast food chain using an unconventional combination of billboard ads and a website to rattle the company’s board and get its message out to sympathizers.The Texas-based Lion Fund has posted ads on billboards around Indianapolis, Indiana, home base of The Steak n Shake [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, EDGAR, finance, Investor Relations, management, SEC, SEC filings, strategy, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on November 2, 2007
YOU know it’s a real investor relations department blog when the first thing that greets you is a long disclaimer!But what the heck, it’s the first* — and it’s about time someone in the reluctant investor relations community had the gumption to start talking to their shareholders openly on the Web. Dell Shares, the new [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Investor Relations, nasdaq, NIRI, rss, SEC, strategy
By Dominic Jones on November 1, 2007
By Dominic Jones IR MAGAZINE, which is a great publication most of the time, has me utterly baffled by their choice of cover story for the November 2007 issue. Of everything that is happening in the world of IR, why they would choose to make a hopelessly peripheral topic such as virtual worlds — Second [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, conference calls, disclosure, earnings, Investor Relations, nasdaq, NIRI, SEC, strategy
By Dominic Jones on October 29, 2007
Guest Post by Luanne M. Wing INTERNET video is a phenomenon that is making overnight stars of start-up entrepreneurs. Innovative videos provide information, as well as compelling and creative visuals of products and services that may never have seen the light of day. Video morphs yesterday’s media of passive text and still photographs into captivating [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, earnings, finance, Investor Relations, management, SEC, strategy, technology, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on October 29, 2007
By Dominic Jones AS STOCK ownership becomes increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few big institutions, what implications does that have for investor relations strategy? A far-ranging speech on the topic of “deretailization” by Brian G. Cartwright, who is General Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, got me wondering how smart IR [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, e-proxy, Investor Relations, management, rss, SEC, securities, stocks, strategy, technology
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