Investor relations and social media: it’s all about the platform
FOR some time, there’s been a recurring meme suggesting that investor relations pros are to blame for their industry’s painfully slow embrace of social media.
Crisis investor relations in the age of social media
SO OFTEN lately, public companies have been under attack. Most of these attacks have been directed at Chinese companies publicly-traded on US stock exchanges.
CEO pushes Reg FD limits on Twitter
ALAN Meckler, CEO of WebMediaBrands Inc. (NASDAQ: WEBM), may be single-handedly redefining how corporate executives in the buttoned-down world of public companies communicate with their investors.
Live tweeting becomes a fixture of earnings season
OVER the past several weeks, dozens of companies have added a new feature to their normally mundane quarterly financial reporting ritual: they are using social networks to deliver a stream of updates and key facts from their results announcements in so-called “live tweeting” sessions.
Will Netflix CEO Hastings usher in a new era for investor relations?
REED HASTINGS, CEO of Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is a remarkable entrepreneur. He founded a DVD-by-mail business in the late ‘90s that now boasts 25+ million subs and is disrupting the media and entertainment industries.
First Level 1 ADR company gets verified StockTwits account
THIS is potentially good news for the hundreds of international companies with non-exchange listed ADRs that have long had to contend with low levels of visibility and few options for communicating with their US-based investors.
What social media pros should know about shareholder meetings and proxy solicitations
ASSUME you’re the social media manager for a publicly traded company and you’re responsible for monitoring and updating the content on all of your company’s various social networking channels. It’s the morning of June 2, 2011, and yesterday afternoon the company announced that its annual shareholder meeting will take place on August 15, 2011. The [...]
What is an API? 5 questions for Q4′s Darrell Heaps
IT SEEMS that hardly a month goes by these days where investor relations and corporate communications professionals aren’t being introduced to some new technology, service or acronym. There’s XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and more recently RT (Re-Tweet).
StockTwits launches world’s first social IR dashboard
EARLY adopters of social media for investor relations have long had to contend with consumer-oriented tools and services that don’t quite meet their stringent compliance and business needs. But that is about change as StockTwits* this morning introduces the world’s first set of social IR services built especially for public companies.
Canadian IROs agree, social media impacts stock prices
A SURVEY of mostly Canadian investor relations professionals who are using social media for business has found that a strong majority agree that social media impacts stock prices and influences investors’ decisions – but few are acting on that belief.
Social IR becoming more important in Europe, says study
WHILE investor relations departments in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK mostly shy away from using social media, there is a growing belief that new media will become increasingly important to their communications with investors in the next 12 months, a new survey has found.
With Reuters, StockTwits now rivals PR wires for reach
WITH the addition of Reuters.com as a distribution partner, StockTwits* now provides its users – including a growing number of public company investor relations departments – direct access to a financial audience of almost 60 million monthly users.
LinkedIn IPO told through social media
I put this together because I think it demonstrates how social media in the hands of ordinary people can tell company stories in a richer, more authentic and transparent way than polished PR and Marketing can.
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