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By Dominic Jones on April 12, 2008
BACK in November 2006, I published a list of 10 signs that an investor relations website was in dire need of an upgrade. Reading the list again, it struck me how we still see many companies making the same mistakes. So I thought it would be helpful to post the list again and offer to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclaimers, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, rss, shareholder.com, stock chart, thomson financial, web usability
By Dominic Jones on April 10, 2008
YOU know how under the SEC’s notice-and-access process companies send their shareholders a postcard-size notice asking them to go online to view their annual meeting materials? Well, I think you will agree with me that the single most important bit of information on that notice is the URL that you want people to go to. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, Investor Relations, notice-and-access, url redirection, URLs, web usability
By Dominic Jones on January 2, 2008
LOOKS to me like the hype around so-called Web 2.0 is finally starting to take hold in the enterprise. I know this from reading the recent comments of two prominent web consultants. In today’s Financial Times, consultant David Bowen cautions that corporate website managers are “heading straight towards a dangerous quagmire of confusion” if they [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged usability, web usability
By Dominic Jones on October 16, 2007
By Dominic Jones LAST Friday was supposed to be a big day for Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox and the Center for Plain Language in Washington D.C. They were going to unveil a new model plain English executive compensation report. But there was a problem. As the New York [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, disclosure, finance, notice-and-access, rss, SEC, securities, usability, web usability
By Dominic Jones on June 15, 2007
Update: On July 26, 2007, the SEC posted the adopting release for the final rule requiring companies to post their proxy materials on their websites. The adopting release states: “The materials must be presented on the Web site in a format, or formats, convenient for both reading online and printing on paper.” This statement has [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, disclosure, e-proxy, EDGAR, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, nasdaq, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, technology, usability, web usability
By Dominic Jones on May 14, 2007
By Dominic Jones JAKOB Nielsen, probably the world’s most prominent voice on web usability, says Web 2.0 websites are ignoring basic web design principles that ultimately will undermine their effectiveness. The BBC writes that Nielsen has warned that the current fashion of making webpages more dynamic often means users are badly served. He says sites [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, shareholder.com, technology, usability, web usability
By Dominic Jones on April 13, 2007
WE ARE forced to take a break from posting here for the next little while. But rather than leave you cold turkey, we thought we’d offer up these 10 points to contemplate and debate while we’re gone from the blog. We’ll see you soon, though, so keep watching this space. 1. Walk in investors’ shoes [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, conference calls, disclosure, Google, investor communications, law, management, SEC, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability, web communications, web usability, XBRL, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on January 14, 2007
NASDAQ is pushing its listed companies to flout recently approved rules that bar them from tracking investors’ personal activity on websites hosting annual meeting materials under the e-proxy provisions. In a controversial proposal awaiting regulatory approval, the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. wants to bundle a number of shareholder communication services into the annual listing fees [...]
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By Dominic Jones on December 13, 2006
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today voted to let companies move to default Internet delivery of annual shareholder documents. Stressing that investors can still ask for free paper documents under its voluntary “e-proxy” process, commissioners voted 5-0 to allow companies to ditch bulk mailings of proxy materials and move to a “notice and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, e-proxy, earnings, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, nasdaq, online disclosure, printing, privacy, proxy statements, retail investors, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability, web surveillance techniques, web usability
By Dominic Jones on July 31, 2006
LAST week, Sun Microsystems Inc. reported its Q4 results. Like most investors, I went to the company’s investor relations website for the news.However, I learned today via the New York Times that I missed something. CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote a long post about the quarterly results on his blog. I would have liked to have [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, corporate communications, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, Jonathan Schwartz, rss, SEC, Sun Microsystems Inc., technology, Tony Blair, usability, web usability
By Dominic Jones on May 23, 2002
LINKS make the Internet work. Get them right and your site’s in business. Get them wrong and you risk putting people off for good. Recently, we’ve observed a rising number of issues with how companies format links on their corporate sites. These make it harder to identify links and, in some instances, actually confuse users. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged hyperlinking, Investor Relations, IR websites, links, navigation, Online Investor Relations, web usability
By Dominic Jones on May 13, 2002
Updated: Aug. 23, 2004 EARNINGS releases are important disclosure devices that should be written and formatted to make it easy for investors and the media to obtain essential material information as rapidly as possible. How you write and format your releases should reflect the realities of online behavior. Studies have found that the vast majority [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings releases, Investor Relations, news releases, Online Investor Relations, quarterly results, web usability
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