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Stakeholder engagement improves valuation: study

Stakeholder engagement improves valuation: study

By Richard Ketchen on August 4, 2011

WHAT gets measured, matters. Measuring the effectiveness of stakeholder, investor and other corporate communication activities, however, has always been somewhat ambiguous. Until now.

Posted in Communications, Corporate Governance, IR News | Tagged academic studies, engagement, Sustainability

Investors spend just 5 minutes on annual reports — stats

Investors spend just 5 minutes on annual reports — stats

By Dominic Jones on May 12, 2011

WEB traffic statistics compiled by Google show that investors are spending less than 5 minutes viewing annual meeting materials hosted by large vendors – and younger investors are almost entirely ignoring the documents.

Posted in Annual Reports, IR News | Tagged engagement, notice-and-access, usability

European investment pros mixed on social media

European investment pros mixed on social media

By Dominic Jones on May 5, 2011

AMID the hype that often surrounds the use of social media in investor relations comes a new survey that provides a valuable dose of reality on the adoption of new media by European investment professionals.

Posted in IR News, Social Media | Tagged engagement, Europe, social networks, surveys

Did OXY’s “fifth analyst call” violate Reg FD?

Did OXY’s “fifth analyst call” violate Reg FD?

By Dominic Jones on April 27, 2011

TWO senior members of Occidental Petroleum’s (NYSE:OXY) board yesterday held a private conference call with a group of shareholders ostensibly to discuss the company’s corporate governance practices, but uninvited investors might well be wondering what was discussed on the call given the subsequent performance of the stock.

Posted in Corporate Governance, IR News | Tagged engagement, Fifth Analyst Call

PGi makes investor relations social

PGi makes investor relations social

By Dominic Jones on March 21, 2011

WHILE many companies are using social media to push out investor relations information, global conferencing firm PGi (NYSE: PGI) is among a rare few that is also using social media in two-way conversations with investors.

Posted in IR News, Social Media | Tagged engagement, StockTwits

Fortune firm stops tweeting, blames poor engagement

Fortune firm stops tweeting, blames poor engagement

By Dominic Jones on March 1, 2011

A FORTUNE Global 500 company has suspended its activity on Twitter saying that the only people who engaged the firm were social media consultants and people trying to inflate their follower numbers.

Posted in Social Media | Tagged engagement, Twitter

Social media advice for IR in 2011: use your own website

Social media advice for IR in 2011: use your own website

By Ezra Marbach on January 6, 2011

A COUPLE of weeks ago, investor relations pro Patrick Kiss wondered why IR has been slow to adopt social media and what can be done to “move things forward”.

Posted in IR News, Online IR, Social Media | Tagged engagement, finance bloggers, Presentations, Q&As, Quarterly Reporting

Discussion: How to push social media for IR forward?

Discussion: How to push social media for IR forward?

By Guest Contributor on December 22, 2010

Patrick Kiss, Head of Investor & Public Relations at Deutsche EuroShop AG, sees a lack of progress in the use of social media for investor relations. He wonders if the time has come for IROs to take the next step and move beyond monitoring to active engagement — or potentially even withdraw to the sidelines.

Posted in Online IR, Social Media | Tagged communications, engagement, Facebook, Seeking Alpha, StockTwits, Twitter, YouTube

Telegraph invites readers to quiz Unilever CFO (and his PR firm)

Telegraph invites readers to quiz Unilever CFO (and his PR firm)

By Dominic Jones on August 8, 2010

THE Telegraph, one of the UK’s largest newspapers, invited its readers to put questions to Unilever (NYSE:UN) Chief Financial Officer Jean-Marc Huet on the day the global consumer products company announced its half-year results last week.

Posted in Online IR, Social Media | Tagged CFOs, engagement, executive communications

Google brings transparency to the earnings call question queue

Google brings transparency to the earnings call question queue

By Dominic Jones on October 15, 2009

ANALYSTS and investors have long complained that management at some companies manipulate the flow of information to the market and play favorites by carefully screening which questions they take on their earnings calls. Now Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has taken the lead to bring transparency to the earnings call question queue by inviting analysts — [...]

Posted in Online IR, Social Media | Tagged engagement, Google Inc., Quarterly Reporting

IR Feedback 2.0

IR Feedback 2.0

By Dominic Jones on August 28, 2009

If you follow investors and analysts on Twitter you might learn something. Here’s the news release he’s referring to. I read it and didn’t see a lot of corporate-speak (OK, a little), but it frustrated me more that the financials are in PDF only. That makes them impossible to import into a spreadsheet without manually [...]

Posted in Online IR, Social Media | Tagged engagement

Companies source annual meeting questions from web

By Dominic Jones on April 8, 2009

A GROWING number of companies are using the web to give their shareholders opportunities to pose questions to directors and executives at their annual meetings. Since many shareholders are unable to attend meetings in person, the move by companies to use the web could help to reengage apathetic retail stockholders in the annual meeting process. [...]

Posted in Corporate Governance, Shareholder Services | Tagged annual meetings, engagement, shareholder meetings

Microvision opens up earnings call via blog

By Dominic Jones on March 5, 2009

SEVERAL months ago, Microvision (NASDAQ:MVIS) IR specialist Tiffany Bradford set out to research how small-cap companies were using blogs for investor relations. She was referred to me by Shel Holtz, ABC, one of the leading advisors on the use of technology in public relations and corporate communications. I didn’t have a lot of concrete examples [...]

Posted in Online IR, Shareholder Services, Social Media | Tagged blogs, engagement, Quarterly Reporting, retail investors

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