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10 signs your IR website is *still* bad
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 answer [...]
E-Proxy Part 37: Try this for fun
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. So [...]
"Old Web" gurus lash out at Web 2.0 hype
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 follow [...]
Why Pfizer's plain proxy misses the real issues
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 Times’ Eric [...]
SEC to go back on e-proxy usability? — Updated
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 [...]
Usability guru: leave good enough alone
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 are in [...]
10 steps to a better IR website
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
Your IR [...]
NASDAQ pushes firms to flout SEC web privacy rules
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 it [...]
With e-proxy, SEC signals it gets the Web
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 access” [...]
Sun's CEO blogs quarterly results — but investors not told
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 known [...]
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