UPDATED – Why I finally joined LinkedIn and Facebook
(UPDATE: See the update at the end of this post.) I HAVE been holding out. I already have a lot on my plate managing a heavy consulting, research and writing schedule, this blog, 3 Twitter accounts, 2 FriendFeed accounts, 17 FriendFeed rooms, 393 RSS subscriptions, two bookmarking accounts, IM, and about 12 different other social [...]
SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted
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 [...]
The downside of suing stock analysts
BANKATLANTIC Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:BBX) is embarking on a risky strategy by suing a veteran bank analyst for defamation and negligence after he included the company in a research report that ranked 107 U.S. financial institutions on the chances of them going bust. Yesterday, the bank holding company filed a lawsuit in the state court for [...]
Great online annual reports of 2008 — Part 1
IT’S still early in the season, but online annual reports and proxy statements are now flowing onto the Web at a rapid rate. We’ve been monitoring daily developments, especially in the US where large companies must for the first time comply with new requirements for usable online documents — although they clearly have noooo ideeaa [...]
Yahoo!'s latest inspiration: snail mail
I THOUGHT I wouldn’t have to write about the Microsoft-Yahoo! takeover saga again after likening the investor relations communications around it to watching two drunks wobbling and slurring their way through a back alley rumble. But I can’t resist. A couple of hours ago, the great Web pioneer and innovator that is Yahoo! fired off [...]
Yahoo! Finance has lost its way
Yahoo! Finance, once the clear leader in finance portals, has been neglected to the point where it is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Why do regulators frown on this practice?
It is high time for regulators to take a hard look at the rules around companies providing third-party content and independent perspectives.
Dell's IR team finding blog rhythm
DELL Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) launched its investor relations blog just over two months ago, becoming the first major corporation to use a blog to communicate specifically with its investors. IR Magazine posted a story this week by Anna Snider saying that the Dell Shares blog is “gaining momentum,” which I think is an accurate description. [...]
With XBRL, more IR jobs will go to communicators
THIS XBRL thing has legs. The hype-o-meter is in overdrive and I can’t imagine anything is going to stop it. So it’s now safe for me to tell you the awful, untold truth about what XBRL means to the investor relations profession as we know it today. This truth is so frightening to the average [...]
Canada's top investor relations websites awarded
THE Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants has awarded its Award of Excellence for Electronic Disclosure to oil and gas company Nexen Inc.Runner up in the annual awards for electronic disclosure, which I recently rated as among the most reliable of such awards programs, was past three-in-row winner PotashCorp, the international fertilizer company. (Disclosure: We have [...]
With billboards & website, activists target Steak n Shake
A U.S. hedge fund has launched a proxy battle against a small-cap fast food chain using an unconventional combination of billboard ads and a website to rattle the company’s board and get its message out to sympathizers.The Texas-based Lion Fund has posted ads on billboards around Indianapolis, Indiana, home base of The Steak n Shake [...]
Three cheers for Dell Inc.'s new IR blog
YOU know it’s a real investor relations department blog when the first thing that greets you is a long disclaimer!But what the heck, it’s the first* — and it’s about time someone in the reluctant investor relations community had the gumption to start talking to their shareholders openly on the Web. Dell Shares, the new [...]
IR Magazine’s odd November cover story
IR MAGAZINE, which is a great publication most of the time, has me utterly baffled by their choice of cover story for the November 2007 issue. Of everything that is happening in the world of IR, why they would choose to make a hopelessly peripheral topic such as virtual worlds — Second Life specifically — [...]
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