IR Café

We prepared this sampling of resources & websites on web media and interactive investor relations for the “Trends in Media and Technology” session at the NIRI 2009 Annual Conference in South Florida, June 8, 2009. Hope it’s useful to you.

I decided to share an IR 2.0 “menu” as a starting point for investor relations people learning about new technologies and connections in web and social media.

(This is a long list, but not comprehensive – apologies to the many we’ve inadvertently omitted. If you’re already a social media guru, you’re way beyond me. Whether an expert or newbie, please let me know what you think.) 

BLOGS FOR INVESTOR RELATIONS
• ActivistInvesting.blogspot.com news on activists from various perspectives
• ComplianceWeek.com/page/505/bloggers magazine’s blogs by issue
• TheCorporateCounsel.net/blog/index.html good insights on corp law
• FinancialExecutives.blogspot.com/ FEI on disclosure & reporting
• blogs.law.Harvard.edu/corpgov/ legal experts on governance & regulation
• InvestorRelationsMusings.blogspot.com/ John Palizza viewpoints on IR
• IRcafe.com Dick Johnson on IR & communication
• crossbordergroup.typepad.com/IRmagazine/ staff blog of IR Magazine
• IRwebreport.com/daily/ Dominic Jones with a IR 2.0 focus
• modernir.com/tradingalerts.aspx market structure, trading patterns & IR
• derek.abdinor.co.za/ Online Disclosure S. African IR blog – global focus
• PWC.blogs.com/corporatereporting/ insights on IR from UK expert
• blog.riskmetrics.com/index.html risk & governance for institutions
• crossbordergroup.typepad.com/Say_on_Pay_forum/ executive comp issues
• transparencymatters.blogspot.com/ corporate disclosure comments (UK)
• Follow @IRbloggers on Twitter

BLOGS FOR INVESTORS – EXAMPLES
• SeekingAlpha.com stock ideas by investment pros
• BigPicture.typepad.com macro commentary
• BloggingStocks.com news & opinion on companies
• calculatedriskblog.com/ finance & macroeconomics
• ControlledGreed.com/ value investor ideas on stocks
• CXOadvisory.com/blog highlights studies on investing
• DealBreaker.com saucy commentary on Wall Street people & goings-on
• Footnoted.org hidden surprises & other nasty things in SEC reports
• BankStocks.com one guy’s take on banks
• invivoblog.blogspot.com pharma & biotech blog
• MergerInvesting.com watching M&A deals
• StockTwits.com indexes @stocktwits on Twitter

WEBSITES INVESTORS USE
• Google.com everyone’s search engine & now Bing.com
• finance.Yahoo.com/ aggregating & linking
• WSJ.com news plus blogs & feeds
• Bloomberg.com or proprietary services
• Reuters.com or proprietary services
• nytimes.com/business/ news plus finance blogs
• FT.com news from the UK side of the pond
• Local news media wherever companies are

WEBSITES ON NEW MEDIA – EXAMPLES
• Wikipedia.org encyclopedia write-ups on everything
• Mashable.com extensive social media news & guides
• AllThingsD.com Wall Street Journal‘s “All Things Digital” blog
• Silicon Alley Insider covering tech & new media biz
• Techcrunch.com reviewing everything new on the web
• gigaom.com/ supergeeks’ view of all things tech
• useit.com/alertbox/ir.html web usability guru on IR websites
• InternetEvolution.com bloggers talking about the Net
• readwriteweb.com/ thoughtful comments & explanations of web
• PNeo good new media how-to’s in Porter Novelli agency’s blog
• PR 2.0 Brian Solis blogs on doing PR on the web
• edelman.com/speak_up/blog/ PR perspectives from Rich Edelman

BOOKS ON NEW MEDIA
• Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff, Groundswell (2008) – good insights in trends
• Don Tapscott, Grown Up Digital (2009) – demographics of net generation
• David M Scott, New Rules of Marketing & PR (2007) – tactics of Web 2.0

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
• Facebook.com friends, family, marketers
• Twitter.com 140-character Tweets
• MySpace.com personal websites
• LinkedIn.com professional networking (see NIRI and IR 2.0 “groups”)
• Bebo.com friends, blogging, music
• Ning.com build your own network
• Your college alumni group or professional organizations

VIDEO & PHOTO SHARING SITES
• YouTube.com share videos (searchable)
• Flickr.com share photos (searchable)
• Twitpic.com share photos on Twitter

NIRI PUBLICATIONS
• Executive Alert 9/4/08: “IR Websites …” (NIRI members or fee)
• IR Update February 2009: “Shareholder Forums …” (NIRI members or fee)
• IR Update July 2008: “New Media? Old Media? …” (NIRI members or fee)
• IR Update June 2008: “IR Communications on the Web (Pt.2)”
• IR Update May 2008: “IR Communications on the Web (Pt.1)”

SEC RESOURCES 
• /rules/interp/2008/34-58288.pdf Aug. 08 interpretive guidance on websites
• /pdf/disclosuredocs.pdf survey of individual investors on use of disclosure
• /spotlight/xbrl.shtml XBRL home page (SEC webcast planned for 6/10/09)
• /news/press/2009/2009-116.htm proxy access proposal
• /rules/final/2007/34-56135.pdf e-proxy rules
• Follow @SEC_News on Twitter

MONITORING SITES & SERVICES
• Alexa.com free website traffic stats & additional paid services
• Biz360 using the web for market research on brands (blog is free)
• Buzzmetrics (Nielsen) paid online measurement & monitoring
• Compete.com free website stats compare traffic among sites, plus paid services 
• CoreMetrics website analytics, online marketing, consulting & training
• Delicious social bookmarking & search ranking blog popularity 
• digg ranks popularity of online news & postings
• Dow Jones Insight monitors online news & commentary on any topic
• FirstRain data mining yields investment research for institutions & companies
• Google analytics tool to gather traffic data on your corporate website
• Radian6 monitoring & analysis services for social media chatter
• Social Radar monitoring & analysis services for social media chatter (free blog)
• TNS Cymfony consulting on social media marketing & branding (free blog)
• Visible Technologies brand monitoring & marketing in social media 

IR WEBSITE VENDORS
• Q4 Web Systems IR-oriented software platform to manage web presence (blog)
• Shareholder.com platform to create automated IR section (part of NASDAQ OMX)
• SNL IR Solutions website services & IR practice platform
• Thomson Reuters IR communication services & IR website platform

IF WE CAN HELP PLEASE GET IN TOUCH:

Dick Johnson • Phone 913.649.8885 • Email johnsonstrategic@gmail.com

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