Comments on: Social Media, Investor Relations and Web Disclosure

By: Legal Ramifications of Social Media in Enterprise 2.0 « Francine Hardaway’s Blog

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:25:47 +0000

[...] social media, which can be a valuable marketing and customer service tool, and shy away from it. The SEC, however, changed its rules to include blogs as a means of disclosure, so there’s a real reason to be proactive in the IR area, if only to create another arena [...]

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:50:34 +0000

In addition to waiting to see if social media is going to work, IRO’s from smaller companies generally feel that using social networks will add to their workload. This coupled with the fact that it takes time to see what is out there and how it can be used effectively for their particular company, that they haven’t made the time to discuss how social media tools work to the management teams, so it easier to have the “wait and see” attitude.

By: Tom Allinder

Tom Allinder — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:58:46 +0000

Many small and microcap companies are sitting on the sidelines waiting to see if integration of social media is going to work. Most management teams do not have a good grasp of use of social media tools and platforms. Those who have started using them, use them incorrectly (using web 1.0 marketing methods on web 2.0 platforms) in most cases. At this point, I can say that most have no grasp on the disclosure issue either. Actually, they haven’t really gotten that far…