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The truth about Sun's Web-first earnings release — Update 3

By Dominic Jones on August 1, 2007

Note: I’ve added more specifics around the sequence of events around Sun’s release, including adding a screenshot taken from Yahoo! Finance which shows times various news items became available there. I’ve also added a link to a PRWeek article that provides a more balanced report than IR Magazine. I’ve also added an update about Business [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, corporate websites, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, finance, law, rss, SEC, securities, stocks, technology, wordpress, yahoo

The emerging engagement expectation

By Dominic Jones on July 6, 2007

AS INTERNET users, particularly younger generations, spend more time online, the Web has become a vital means for them to interact with one another. This has led to a surge in the popularity of so-called social media or engagement media –- websites and Internet-based technologies that enable users to converse, contribute, create and share online [...]

Posted in Corporate Governance, Issues, Online IR | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, SEC, stocks, technology, yahoo

Nothing to see, but much to ponder at XTO Energy

By Dominic Jones on May 15, 2007

AS PART of a continuing theme that many corporate websites are becoming increasingly irrelevant to investors due to poor management and a lack of a clear communication strategy, I offer two screenshots. The first is from the events calendar page on XTO Energy Inc.’s (NYSE:XTO) investor relations website, which is hosted by Thomson Financial on [...]

Posted in Best Practice, Online IR, Shareholder Services | Tagged calendars, corporate websites, google finance

How does pretty stand up when things get ugly?

By Dominic Jones on April 23, 2007

SOME corporate websites are gorgeous to look at. They make a strong impression the moment they load in your browser. They establish credibility instantly. It’s like when you meet someone who looks attractive. You’re immediately favorably disposed to them. Researchers have delved into the importance of looks on the web and they’ve found that a [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged corporate websites, earnings, SEC, usability

PDF flaw fears grow, Adobe seeks fix

By Dominic Jones on January 5, 2007

AS ADOBE Corp. worked to produce a patch for flawed versions of its ubiquitous PDF reader, new details emerged about the severity of the flaw and how it can be used to compromise visitors to trusted websites. CNET News.com reported Thursday that the PDF security risk was greater than originally thought. The online news site [...]

Posted in IR News | Tagged Acrobat, Adobe, corporate websites, Internet Explorer, PDF

A new model for corporate website management

By Dominic Jones on November 3, 2006

MOST corporate websites today are managed by different departments with different audiences and sometimes even completely different technical platforms. A big problem with this approach is that internal departments often don’t talk to each other. The problem is even worse when, as with many IR sites, outside vendors don’t talk to the company’s internal technical [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged corporate websites, management, media relations, SEC, web communications, Web developers

Johnson & Johnson bans right-clicking on its website

By Dominic Jones on September 24, 2006

I HAVE seen a lot of bad decisions made on corporate websites over the years, but this may be the worst by far. Apparently in an effort to stop people copying photographs from its website, health care giant Johnson & Johnson has coded its pages to make it impossible for people to use the right-click [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged corporate websites, feeds, Google, JavaScript, Johnson & Johnson, rss, web usability

Japan’s Bloggers More Trusting Than Their English Counterparts

By Dominic Jones on August 30, 2006

By IR Web Report Staff A COMPARISON of Japanese and English-language bloggers reveals stark differences in their attitudes towards corporations and in their reasons for blogging. Public Relations firm Edelman and blog search company Technorati Japan surveyed 213 Japanese bloggers and compared their answers with those of 821 English-language bloggers who were surveyed a year [...]

Posted in Social Media | Tagged corporate websites, Edelman, Japan, news releases, public relations

Who should control your corporate website? None of the above.

By Dominic Jones on August 19, 2006

PR BLOGGER Neville Hobson has a post today about the continuing battle between corporate IT departments and communications departments for control over companies’ web-based communications — see Communication and IT: Still an uneasy alliance. He says that while he still sees cases where IT and communications people are in conflict, it is much less prevalent [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged corporate websites, IR Websites

Survey finds analysts not into RSS, blogs or podcasts

By Pam Agnew on February 28, 2006

A THOMSON FINANCIAL survey of North American investment analysts has shone a light on their technology use and found that many are still in the dark about new technologies like RSS and podcasts. The global financial information and services giant surveyed 304 sell- and buy-side analysts in an online poll to probe their needs when [...]

Posted in Online IR, Social Media | Tagged corporate websites, investors, podcasts, rss, securities analysts, social media, surveys

Big companies snub small shareholders

By Dominic Jones on March 22, 2005

LAST week saw the deadline for big American companies to file their annual 10-K reports with the SEC. There was quite a bit of hoopla this year because it was the first time companies were filing their internal control reports in compliance with the much-hyped Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley act. Most companies made the [...]

Posted in Annual Reports, Online IR, Shareholder Services | Tagged corporate websites, finance, financial reporting, online annual reports, usability

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