IR leaders on YouTube and FriendFeed
LAST WEEK, I wrote about how the US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference was being given a little Web 2.0 treatment on the new, 100-day-old service called FriendFeed. That unplanned experiment, which occurred to me on a whim and far exceeded what I or anyone else expected, was followed this week by a [...]
Associations put online IR in spotlight
THE North American investor relations associations appear to be putting web-based disclosure on the front burner as the Internet moves to center stage and securities regulators increasingly rely on corporate websites to deliver information to investors. Earlier this week, Jeff Morgan, the new President and CEO of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), called to [...]
SEC sets up interactive data office
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues its steady march on the road to mandatory XBRL reporting with the creation of a new office inside the agency. David Blaszkowsky, 45, an 11-year veteran of McGraw-Hill and its Standard & Poor’s division, will quarterback the SEC-wide “disclosure modernization program” as director of the new Office [...]
Canadian IR conference blogged
SO I was wondering this morning why investor relations conferences are the only ones that no one blogs about. No one really blogged the recent NIRI annual conference, or the IR Society shindig in London, or the DIRK conference in Germany. That’s really very odd because if you look around you will see that almost [...]
Recognizing an IR website that doesn’t exist
THE 10th annual IR Magazine Awards Canada was held last night — and as always I’m most interested to see which company has the best Investor Relations website according to professional and retail investors. It’s an ongoing mystery to me how investors decide who should get the IR website award. I think it comes down [...]
CIRI Presents Webinar on IR Websites
The Canadian Investor Relations Institute will run a repeat of one of the most popular sessions from its recent annual conference. From the session description: “A tech-friendly SEC Chairman, E-Proxies, XBRL, RSS, Blogs and Podcasts have put websites back in the spotlight. How do Canadian IR Website practices compare to U.S. and European standards in [...]
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