
Is “Regulation Fair Access” next for investor relations?
AMID deep public distrust of all things Wall Street, regulators are coming under growing pressure to act against the billion-dollar business of private meetings between corporate executives and an elite group of traders and analysts.

We should all hope for a Facebook IPO in 2011
ALTHOUGH company executives have repeatedly tried to dampen speculation about an impending IPO, Facebook looks increasingly ready to go public in the coming year – an event that could be a big boost to shattered public interest and confidence in the US stock market.
New series to demystify SEC rules for social media and web pros
STARTING little over a minute ago, we’re introducing a new series to IR Web Report that aims to demystify the laws, rules and regulations that govern what public companies should and should not do on the web when it comes to information about their financial performance and business activities.

A new investor relations jobs board for IR Web Report
IT HAS been a good month at IR Web Report. We added five outstanding new contributors, and judging by the feedback and engagement levels their posts have seen, they are off to a strong start.

Introducing new contributors
WE’RE very pleased today to welcome five new contributors to IR Web Report, each of whom has unique expertise and experience in investor relations communications in North America or Europe.

Opening IR Web Report to new contributors
AROUND this time 10 years ago, I began writing about investor relations communications on the web for an email newsletter that I sent to a handful of client companies. A few months later, in February 2001, I launched IRWebReport.com

New guidelines for online investor presentations
IR WEB REPORT is today publishing new guidelines to help investor relations departments maximize the reach and ROI of their investor presentation information on the web.
For the dude with no budget
JUST popping in because this guy from a mega-cap company emailed me on my “vacation” wanting to know if we could review his employer’s IR website and give them “the 10 most important improvements” for their site. Oh, and by the way, “we don’t have a budget for this,” he says. At that point, I [...]
Six years of IR Web Report…
SIX years ago almost to the day, I sat down to write the About Us page for this website. It was more a mission statement and an explanation for what I was hoping to achieve and why. While the page has changed a lot over the years, there is this one part that hasn’t changed [...]
Reader Survey: What You Said
TWO days ago, we asked you to tell us what you want from IR Web Report by completing a short reader survey. Here, in brief, is what you told us: Types of posts you prefer We were wondering if the “Daily Digests” of news articles were worth the trouble. Each one of these posts is [...]