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IR leaders on YouTube and FriendFeed

By Dominic Jones on June 18, 2008

LAST WEEK, I wrote about how the US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference was being given a little Web 2.0 treatment on the new, 100-day-old service called FriendFeed. That unplanned experiment, which occurred to me on a whim and far exceeded what I or anyone else expected, was followed this week by a [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations, Social Media | Tagged CIRI, jeff morgan, national investor relations institute, NIRI, niri08, Ryan Lejbak, SEC, TheCorporateCounsel.net, Twitter, URLs, YouTube

E-Proxy Part 37: Try this for fun

By Dominic Jones on April 10, 2008

YOU know how under the SEC’s notice-and-access process companies send their shareholders a postcard-size notice asking them to go online to view their annual meeting materials? Well, I think you will agree with me that the single most important bit of information on that notice is the URL that you want people to go to. [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged e-proxy, notice-and-access, url redirection, URLs, web usability

A mock "notice-and-access" earnings release

By Dominic Jones on October 22, 2007

FOLLOWING up on my earlier post about a “notice-and-access” concept for disclosure news releases as a way to cut costs for issuers, I thought it would be interesting to put together a mock release based on an actual company’s quarterly results.Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), the pharmaceutical giant, reported Q3 2007 earnings earlier today [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged earnings, feeds, finance, nasdaq, news releases, notice-and-access, rss, URLs, xhtml, yahoo

My bad experience with first e-proxy notice

By Dominic Jones on July 4, 2007

THE first companies to take advantage of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new e-proxy process have sent out their notices to investors telling them where to find their annual reporting documents on the Web. Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC), a small-cap technology firm, was the first company to catch my attention when it [...]

Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, EDGAR, nasdaq, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, technology, URLs

Top posts in June

By Dominic Jones on June 29, 2007

HERE’S a list of the 5 most popular posts over the past month, just in case you missed any of them or are interested to see what other people find most interesting on this blog. The top posts are determined by the number of people who viewed the posts during the month. Posts earlier in [...]

Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, e-proxy, earnings, NIRI, SEC, URLs

10 signs you need a new IR website

By Dominic Jones on November 21, 2006

THINKING off the cuff, I jotted down 10 things that would suggest to me that a company needs to consider upgrading its IR website. They aren’t in any order but they are the first things that sprang to mind based on my recent site reviews. 1. If people want to contact you via your website [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged disclaimers, FAQs, rss, shareholder.com, stock chart, URLs

Use links instead of directions in new releases

By Dominic Jones on October 24, 2006

MANY IR news releases waste investors’ time unnecessarily because companies don’t provide direct links to webcasts and other information on their websites. Look at the screenshot below of restaurant chain Denny’s (NASDAQ: DENN) recent announcement about its upcoming earnings call. The sentences I’ve highlighted tell investors how to find the call on the company’s website. [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged Quarterly Reporting, URLs, web usability, xhtml

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