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SEC greenlights "notice-and-access" news releases

By Dominic Jones on August 8, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new guidance for company websites gives investor relations departments an opportunity to cut their disclosure costs and boost traffic to their websites by using “notice-and-access” news releases for Regulation FD. Although the SEC’s guidance goes so far as to say that “some companies” may not need to use [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged disclosure practices, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, hedge funds, Internet, investor relations website, ir departments, national investor relations institute, news releases, NIRI, notice-and-access, nyse, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, Thomson Reuters, Twitter, us sec

SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted

By Dominic Jones on August 2, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD. Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial [...]

Posted in Annual Reports, Articles, Corporate Governance, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, Compensation, disclosure documents, earnings, EDGAR, electronic delivery, feedback, feeds, finance, financial information, financial reporting, forums, insider trading, Internet, investor relations website, law, management, market participants, new york stock exchange, newswires, nyse, proxy statement, Quarterly Reporting, rss, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, strategy, technology, usability, XBRL, XML

Innovator: George Tsiolis, AGORACOM Investor Relations

By Dominic Jones on June 5, 2008

IR Web Report’s Q&As are unpaid profiles of service providers that we believe are doing interesting and innovative work in the area of online investor relations and stakeholder communications. If you would like your firm featured in a Q&A, we invite you to contact us using our general email inbox. Firm name: AGORACOM Investor Relations [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged feeds, finance, online communications, Online Investor Relations, SEC, stakeholder communications, web content, yahoo

Innovator: zu.com communications inc.

By Dominic Jones on May 12, 2008

IR Web Report’s Q&As are unpaid profiles of service providers that we believe are doing interesting and innovative work in the area of online investor relations and stakeholder communications. If you would like your firm featured in a Q&A, we invite you to contact us using our general email inbox. Firm name: zu.com communications inc.  [...]

Posted in Annual Reports, Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations, Social Media | Tagged annual report, content management systems, e-proxy, feeds, Flash, GRI, Internet, national investor relations institute, online annual reports, online communications, Online Investor Relations, Ryan Lejbak, stakeholder communications, technology, Tony Zuck

What is "fundamental" on an IR website?

By Dominic Jones on May 7, 2008

I WAS having a conversation the other day with a client about recommendations we had made about her company’s website. She wanted to know if a certain recommendation was really “fundamental” to her company’s site. That’s a really good question and one that every company needs to think about. What are the basic requirements for [...]

Posted in Annual Reports, Articles | Tagged annual meeting, annual meetings, annual report, feeds, ir departments, recommendation, rss, shareholder, technology

The real story behind RSS registration

By Dominic Jones on April 24, 2008

JUST over 70% of the people who participated in this week’s poll guessed correctly when choosing the word I would use to describe the practice of making investors register to access RSS feeds on corporate websites. This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for the past two years but never got around to. [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged corporate websites, feeds, Google, NASDAQ OMX Group, rss, Ryan Lejbak, Search results, southern company, thomson financial, yahoo

Build better insider filings pages with free feeds

By Dominic Jones on April 9, 2008

WHEN it comes to disclosing insider trading on their investor relations websites, companies’ practices vary widely. Most firms give the information little thought, while a few go out of their way to make the information easy for investors to access and digest. But with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adding free XML-based news [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, insider trading, rss, SEC filings

Get your SEC filings widget here!

By Dominic Jones on April 6, 2008

THE EDGAR XML feeds were not even a week old and already intrepid web developers were finding new ways to reuse them. Over at iBanknet, where they have been doing interesting things with XBRL call reports, Marian Albert and Chris Smith saw the opportunity to create a little tool called a “widget” or “gadget” that [...]

Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, Google, notice-and-access, SEC, SEC filings, ticker symbol, XBRL, XML

SEC adds free news feeds to EDGAR

By Dominic Jones on March 31, 2008

IN A move that portends dramatic changes in how disclosures are disseminated online, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added news feeds for every issuer and reporting person who files with the commission’s EDGAR database. The development is potentially bad news for news release distributors such as Business Wire, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, finance, financial reporting, microsoft, news releases, notice-and-access, rss, SEC, securities, XBRL, yahoo

SEC releases Financial Explorer for XBRL

By Dominic Jones on February 19, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission is hoping to boost private sector development of XBRL tools for investors with the launch of a new graphic-rich interactive data viewer. The Financial Explorer application will be released under an open-source license to enable developers to create tools for investors to read and analyze company financial reports tagged [...]

Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings, feeds, financial reporting, microsoft, rss, SEC, securities, XBRL

Weekend reading…

By Dominic Jones on January 26, 2008

For those with the misfortune to be working this weekend, some reasonably stimulating stuff:

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged blogs, feeds, finance, rss, SEC

SEC outlines 2008 Web initiatives

By Dominic Jones on January 24, 2008

MOVING forward on mandatory XBRL, issuing new guidance for corporate website disclosures, and keeping an eye on the e-proxy process are among the key priorities for the US Securities and Exchange Commission this year. In a speech Wednesday in San Diego, John White, the SEC’s Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, provided an update [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged blogs, corporate reporting, corporate websites, e-proxy, earnings, feeds, finance, financial reporting, rss, SEC, securities, technology, XBRL

NYSE's antiquated Timely Alert Policy

By Dominic Jones on January 20, 2008

THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE wrote to its listed companies last week to remind them of their disclosure obligations, including its policy around issuing news releases about material information. The exchange said that it “feels strongly that its longstanding policy of requiring a press release for the dissemination of material corporate information is in the [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged Bloomberg, feeds, finance, news releases, rss, SEC, yahoo

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