This week in Investor Relations
A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC.
iPads in the Boardroom: ICSA launches Blueprint BoardPad
THE Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators is this month launching new Apple iPad software for directors that it says is “aimed at bringing the boardroom into the 21st century by moving board papers into the digital realm.”
Most popular posts Jan. – Feb. 2009
A LOT of regular readers have been buried in year-end reporting and preparing annual reports, so I thought I’d recap the most popular posts on IR Web Report over the past two months in case you missed them. Business Wire’s Double Standards About how Business Wire is attacking cheap notice-and-access releases even while its owner [...]
Why I’m nervous for BGC and its next earnings release
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, is taking the bold step of using the notice-and-access approach with its next earnings release on February 26 — but I think they should reconsider. On Monday, the company issued a news release announcing the following: “In compliance with the U.S. Securities and [...]
Time to open up your earnings calls to bloggers
AT HIS first press conference Monday night, US President Barack Obama made history at 8:52 pm ET by calling on blogger Sam Stein of the Huffington Post to be among only 14 reporters to ask a question. The recognition of a blogger alongside mainstream media outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg and national [...]
The world’s biggest expert network
Investors are increasingly gleaning tradable information from blogs. Companies need a strategy to respond.
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 [...]
Obama gives corporations one less excuse to avoid web engagement
The example set by the Obama Presidency will put pressure on other public institutions, including public companies, to follow Obama’s lead to harness technology as a way to provide more transparency and encourage stakeholder engagement.
The best corporate bloggers you’ve never heard of
THERE was a bit of a fuss last week among consultants and corporate marketers who’ve made “social media” a big part of their business. Forrester, a technology research and consulting business, released results from a survey showing that only 16% of consumers trust corporate blogs. The news that corporate blogs are not a panacea for [...]
New technologies make audio and video searchable
AS THE use of audio and video become increasingly common on investor relations websites and archives become deeper, IR website managers must consider ways to ensure that investors can easily find information in these formats. The problem until now has been that information in audio and video is invisible to search engines, which rely on [...]
Why almost no one is complying with Regulation FD
LAST July, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved new guidance for company websites that covered a broad spectrum of issues that have apparently been holding companies back from making better use of their websites as a source of disclosure. Although the interpretive release provided advice on a range of topics, including links to [...]
Innovator: Nexxar/GeBer
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: Ge-Ber Unternehmensberatung GmbH [...]
Evaluating NIRI's IR website guidelines 2
IN PART one of this review, I mentioned that the US National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI’s) executive alert on investor relations websites includes a list of 14 Do’s and Don’ts for IR departments to follow. In this post, I review each of the guidelines and explain why I think they’re either good or bad. The [...]
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