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By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, newswires, Online Investor Relations, technology
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Investor Relations, newswires, notice-and-access, reuters, Robert MacMillan, SEC, technology, Thomson Reuters, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, web disclosure, wire services
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, earnings calls, financial communications, Investor Relations, social media, social networking, technology
By IR Web Report on January 29, 2009
Investors are increasingly gleaning tradable information from blogs. Companies need a strategy to respond.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, finance, firstrain, Investor Relations, online communications, penny herscher, social media, technology
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report 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 Articles | Tagged disclosure, engagement, Investor Relations, IR websites, social media, social networking, technology, transparency, web communications
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, Mark Evans, nortel, Richard Brewer-Hay, rubbermaid, social media, technology, twitter
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, regulation fd, technology
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, technology, video
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Google, Investor Relations, IR websites, technology
By IR Web Report on October 2, 2008
IR Web Report’s Q&As are unpaid profiles of service providers that we believe are doing interesting and innovative work in the area of online investor relations and stakeholder communications. If you would like your firm featured in a Q&A, we invite you to contact us using our general email inbox. Firm name: Ge-Ber Unternehmensberatung GmbH [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, corporate communications, Investor Relations, technology
By IR Web Report on September 9, 2008
IN PART one of this review, I mentioned that the US National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI’s) executive alert on investor relations websites includes a list of 14 Do’s and Don’ts for IR departments to follow. In this post, I review each of the guidelines and explain why I think they’re either good or bad. The [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on September 8, 2008
THE US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) has issued a 5-page briefing on investor relations website practices based on a review they did of the largest 100 US companies’ sites. On one level I can’t help but applaud the guidelines because they are long overdue. Investor relations websites have been around for more than 10 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 25, 2008
AS THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considers new rules to require companies to begin filing their documents in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), it has been having trouble finding software experts who can help make those filings usable to investors. The commission put out a pressing call in June for contractors to help [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, finance, financial statements, footnotes, IDEA, interactive data, Internet, Investor Relations, Officer Michael Davis, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report 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
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