By Dominic Jones 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.
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By Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones 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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By Dominic Jones on July 21, 2010
PERHAPS I’m old-fashioned, but when a company uses a service like Twitter to tell followers about company earnings, I expect them to make a reasonable effort to post the news simultaneously to other channels.
Posted in Articles | Tagged compliance, earnings calls, earnings releases, Investor Relations, social media, twitter
By Dominic Jones on April 29, 2010
IF YOU’RE looking for a good example of how corporate social media campaigns are rapidly overtaking traditional investor relations communications in both reach and effectiveness, look no further than Hewlett-Packard Company’s (NYSE:HPQ) announcement that it is acquiring Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) for $1.2 Billion.
Posted in Articles | Tagged document sharing, facebook, Investor Relations, social media, twitter
By Dominic Jones on April 20, 2010
INVESTOR RELATIONS professionals at hundreds of companies are exposing their firms to potential compliance risks because they have failed to play an active role in monitoring, managing and engaging in their companies’ activities on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Posted in Articles | Tagged facebook, Investor Relations, regulation fd, social media, twitter
By Dominic Jones on February 26, 2010
This is a complicated post, but I know that some people in the IR profession are very interested in this right now. First, I am on record on this blog as saying that until Twitter is more secure, investor relations departments should steer clear of using it as a news dissemination channel and use it [...]
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