This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers.
How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream
The social network of a reader is quickly becoming their personalized news wire. That’s because in the last five years, a revolutionary shift has taken place in the way we consume news. We have gone from consuming news through traditional media and news websites to having the news broadcast to us by our social network of friends. In fact, 75% of news consumed online is through shared news from social networking sites or e-mail. Social news is finding us. (thanks http://twitter.com/gbewsh/)
Please Repeat: Influence is not Popularity
In a world where we are measured by our social graph and our stature within it, influence, not ignorance, is bliss. Attention, engagement and affinity are earned privileges and as such, with influence comes great responsibility.
Indonesia, Brazil and Venezuela Lead Global Surge in Twitter Usage
The study found that in June, nearly 93 million Internet users visited Twitter.com, an increase of 109 percent from the previous year, as the social networking site achieved strong gains across all global regions. Indonesia reported the highest penetration, with 20.8 percent of Internet users in the country visiting Twitter.com that month, followed by Brazil and Venezuela, with Venezuela’s growth fueled in large part by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s decision to join Twitter in late April.
Ranks of U.S. financial advisers shrinking—study
The number of financial advisers fell to 310,000 at the end of 2008 from 314,000 in 2004, Boston-based consulting firm Cerulli Associates said in a study released on Wednesday.
Tips & Tricks: GoogleFinance in Google spreadsheets
Would you like to easily keep track of stock market quotes and other data relevant to your stock portfolio? You can use the GoogleFinance function in Google spreadsheets to automatically pull up-to-date information into your spreadsheet. Using the GoogleFinance function in a spreadsheet allows you to create a one-stop shop for your stock data.
Using Real-Time Events in Electronic Trading
Built around the real-time discovery and interpretation of events, such as corporate earnings announcements, employment statistics or court rulings, event data systems combine sophisticated real-time search and extraction technology with proven market data distribution technologies to rapidly identify, distill and deliver machine-readable insight to electronic trading and risk-management firms.
Facebook Fan Page Changes…
Facebook has just announced that effective August 23, there are new sizing requirements for Fan Pages and they are removing the Boxes tab.
Did you miss any of these posts on IR Web Report this week?
- Telegraph invites readers to quiz Unilever CFO (and his PR firm)
- Will Europe ever get its own EDGAR?
- How Aviva uses Twitter for earnings announcements
- CICA publishes draft web reporting guides
- 5 CFOs who are using web video to communicate with investors
- iPads in the Boardroom: ICSA launches Blueprint BoardPad
- SEC’s proxy plumbing “does all we could have hoped,” says Computershare
- Reporting earnings, Cisco style
- Broadridge on SEC proxy plumbing: be careful what you wish for
- How hedge funds analyze your earnings calls
Thanks for all of your support of IR Web Report this week. It is very much appreciated. Have a great weekend! — Dominic
Dominic (bio & disclosures) is IR Web Report‘s founder and an online investor relations consultant. He advises leading public companies and investor relations service providers worldwide on using the web for disclosure, engagement and profile building. You can contact him via the contacts page.
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