Category: Communication

  • Social media driving IR evolution

    Social media offers a better user experience than investor relations websites, says Dominic Jones in a compelling post in which he argues that social media investor relations has reached a tipping point: […] company disclosure channels that once seemed innovative…

  • How would you define social media?

    The trouble with any discussion about social media is that, more often than not in my experience, a clear definition of the term ‘social media’ hasn’t been agreed by the parties to the discussion. The result sometimes is elevated temperatures…

  • Tweet outside the box

    Simple but imaginative: […] In late 2009, accounting firm Freed Maxick launched a digital “Twitter billboard” in Buffalo, NY. Located on a major connecting commuter thoroughfare of the area, the billboard displays updates from the firm’s Twitter account in real-time,…

  • CIPR wants you to join The Conversation

    Next week, the CIPR launches The Conversation. What is it? A content syndicator? An online place to network? Discover people? Discover interesting content? A social network? All of the above? Better to let the CIPR tell you: The Chartered Institute…

  • Salesforce and Radian6 combination signals social media ecosystem consolidation

    Yesterday’s announcement that Salesforce.com has offered to acquire Radian6 for $326 million strongly suggests that an embryonic social media ecosystem is evolving from a monitoring/analytics tools and services landscape that, broadly speaking, is immature, fragmented and piecemeal and ripe for…