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Most popular posts Jan. – Feb. 2009

By Dominic Jones on February 28, 2009

A LOT of regular readers have been buried in year-end reporting and preparing annual reports, so I thought I’d recap the most popular posts on IR Web Report over the past two months in case you missed them.

Business Wire’s Double Standards About how Business Wire is attacking cheap notice-and-access releases even while its owner Berkshire [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, Investor Relations, newswires, Online Investor Relations, technology | Leave a response

Why I’m nervous for BGC and its next earnings release

By Dominic Jones on February 11, 2009

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, is taking the bold step of using the notice-and-access approach with its next earnings release on February 26 — but I think they should reconsider.
On Monday, the company issued a news release announcing the following:
“In compliance with the U.S. Securities and Exchange [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged BGC Partners Inc., business, business wire, Cathy Baron Tamraz, disclosure, Investor Relations, newswires, notice-and-access, reuters, Robert MacMillan, SEC, technology, Thomson Reuters, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, web disclosure, wire services | 5 Responses

Time to open up your earnings calls to bloggers

By Dominic Jones on February 10, 2009

AT HIS first press conference Monday night, US President Barack Obama made history at 8:52 pm ET by calling on blogger Sam Stein of the Huffington Post to be among only 14 reporters to ask a question.
The recognition of a blogger alongside mainstream media outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg and national television [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged bloggers, blogging, business, corporate governance, earnings calls, financial communications, Investor Relations, social media, social networking, technology | 3 Responses

The world's biggest expert network

By Dominic Jones on January 29, 2009

Investors are increasingly gleaning tradable information from blogs. Companies need a strategy to respond.

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogs, business, finance, firstrain, Investor Relations, online communications, penny herscher, social media, technology | 1 Response

UPDATED – Why I finally joined LinkedIn and Facebook

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 media [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged facebook, Investor Relations, LinkedIn, rss, social media, strategy, technology | Leave a response

Obama gives corporations one less excuse to avoid web engagement

By Dominic Jones on January 19, 2009

The example set by the Obama Presidency will put pressure on other public institutions, including public companies, to follow Obama’s lead to harness technology as a way to provide more transparency and encourage stakeholder engagement.

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, disclosure, engagement, Investor Relations, IR websites, social media, social networking, technology, transparency, web communications | Leave a response

The best corporate bloggers you've never heard of

By Dominic Jones on December 15, 2008

THERE was a bit of a fuss last week among consultants and corporate marketers who’ve made “social media” a big part of their business. Forrester, a technology research and consulting business, released results from a survey showing that only 16% of consumers trust corporate blogs.
The news that corporate blogs are not a panacea for all [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogging, blogs, Bo Gowan, business, corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, Mark Evans, nortel, Richard Brewer-Hay, rubbermaid, social media, technology, twitter | 8 Responses

CFA Institute backs IR Web Report on Regulation FD

By Dominic Jones on December 4, 2008

THE CFA Institute, the global professional association representing almost 100,000 financial analysts, portfolio managers, and other investment professionals in 133 countries and territories, has complained to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about companies that are slow to post earnings releases on their websites.
In a December 1 comment letter (PDF 281KB, 7 pages) on the [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, regulation fd, technology | 2 Responses

New technologies make audio and video searchable

By Dominic Jones on November 23, 2008

AS THE use of audio and video become increasingly common on investor relations websites and archives become deeper, IR website managers must consider ways to ensure that investors can easily find information in these formats.
The problem until now has been that information in audio and video is invisible to search engines, which rely on text [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, Investor Relations, technology, video | Leave a response

Why almost no one is complying with Regulation FD

By Dominic Jones on November 16, 2008

LAST July, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved new guidance for company websites that covered a broad spectrum of issues that have apparently been holding companies back from making better use of their websites as a source of disclosure.
Although the interpretive release provided advice on a range of topics, including links to third-party [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, Cisco, disclosure, Google, Investor Relations, IR websites, technology | 13 Responses

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