Category: Investor Relations

  • When a UBS headline doesn’t tell you a story

    I’ve been following developments today in the UBS $2 billion rogue trades scandal – and the latest news re an arrest of the alleged rogue trader in London today – which could lead the Swiss bank group to report a…

  • Seeing PR sense behind latest News International events

    The announcement this morning that News International CEO Rebekah Brooks had resigned provoked near-universal applause on Twitter, from what I could see in my content stream. It was also reported in mainstream media around the world, illustrating quite clearly how…

  • What the FTSE 100 do with social media

    If you want to get a rich snapshot view on what many of the FTSE 100 companies are doing with social media, look no further than "The Communicators’ Guide to FTSE 100 Social Media Use" published last week by the…

  • 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…

  • 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…