Investor Relations 2.0 — is SeekingAlpha.com the answer?
(Disclosure: I’m one of the core group who built SeekingAlpha.com. I launched the China Stock Blog in 2004 (now Seeking Alpha China Stocks) and subsequently worked on product development. I’m no longer affiliated with the company. All opinions are my own.)
Why Regulation FD shouldn’t keep you from Seeking Alpha
THERE are many reasons why investor relations officers and company executives avoid participating in new media such as blogs and social networks, but often the grounds they give are more misconceptions than real barriers. Take Regulation FD, for example. In my discussions with companies and other consultants, it’s the main reason given for companies taking [...]
How to get started on Seeking Alpha
IN MY previous post, I called attention to the outstanding readership profile of Seeking Alpha, an increasingly popular web service that offers public company representatives an unprecedented opportunity to connect with a highly qualified audience of investors and analysts. In this post, I’ll explore different ways that investor relations departments can use Seeking Alpha to [...]
For investor relations, Seeking Alpha may be the ideal social network
BY now you have probably heard the sales pitches from various pundits and salespeople about how your company should be using social media in its investor relations program because investors are increasingly using new media. And to a large extent, the pundits are right. Investors are using the web and various social media more today [...]
As brokers hit social networks, will companies meet them there?
A YOUNGER generation of U.S. investment advisors is pushing employers and industry regulators to allow them to use social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter to communicate with customers and prospects — and new compliance technologies may soon open the floodgates for them to do so.
NASDAQ makes StockTwits even more relevant to IR
NASDAQ OMX Inc., the world’s largest exchange company, has launched an iPhone application that prominently incorporates content from StockTwits, a service that aggregates Twitter messages by traders and investors about stocks and other securities. The move is another wake-up call to investor relations departments that they cannot ignore social media or dismiss its role in [...]
Loose lips, loose ethics, and outdated disclosure practices
I’M A little bemused by the IR establishment’s response to the sensational allegations in the insider trading case against Galleon Management and a host of corporate executives and one IR consultant. NIRI CEO Jeff Morgan’s immediate response was to publish the following in a Tweet: “Following Galleon & is another reminder to NIRI members & [...]
How to build a powerful IR monitoring dashboard using StockTwits Desktop
MONITORING what is being said about your company in the news and on the social web is something every investor relations department should be doing as a normal part of its daily activities. There are many ways to monitor the web. Some involve big fees and offer the convenience of filtering the signal from the [...]
SEC should focus on access in “notice & access”
AFTER a long delay, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally proposed tweaks to its failed “notice and access” process for delivering shareholder meeting materials on the web. The model, which essentially transfers the decision to receive materials electronically or in print from shareowners to companies, has resulted in a dramatic drop in the [...]
Google brings transparency to the earnings call question queue
ANALYSTS and investors have long complained that management at some companies manipulate the flow of information to the market and play favorites by carefully screening which questions they take on their earnings calls. Now Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has taken the lead to bring transparency to the earnings call question queue by inviting analysts — [...]
With investor relations RSS feeds, one is better than many
I RECENTLY heard a senior investor relations officer talking about RSS feeds. He said his company was thinking about offering more feeds for different types of content. This isn’t unusual. Many companies offer a variety of feeds for different types of IR website content. Thomson Reuters’ IR websites typically offer 3 different feeds –- one [...]
Online annual reports: will we ever get them right?
PEOPLE like me have been promoting online annual report best practices for almost a decade now, but the message mostly isn’t getting through. According to the 2009 Nexxar online annual report survey, there has been a modest improvement in the number of companies that are providing at least some of their reports’ content in formats [...]
Facebook Pages and Investor Relations
FACEBOOK, by virtue of its 300 million strong user base and built-in viral marketing features, is an appealing target for investor relations officers who want to market their companies to a wider audience. A growing number of companies have started to use Facebook Pages for IR and PR in recent months. Most pages are corporate [...]
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