Over the past month I’ve been fortunate to meet with many groups about the use of social media and investor relations.  This includes events in Chicago, Dallas, Toronto, Vancouver and New York.  I really enjoy getting out on the road and meeting with people face to face, it’s also great to sit on panels with really bright people like Serena Ehrlich, David Baer, Rhonda Bennetto, Doug Chia, Broc Romanek, Michelle Leder and Eric Jackson.
To prepare for this road trip my presentation and notes focused a lot on why companies should …

We’re thrilled to announce our latest report on the use of social media by public companies for investor relations.  If you’d like to get right to the report you can download it here.
Last year we released two research reports on Twitter for investor relations.  At that point, our sample told us that 35% were using Twitter for IR, in the current report you’ll see this number is now 65%.
However, it’s not all about Twitter. So we expanded our research to include Facebook, Linked, Blogs, YouTube and SlideShare.  Their respective adoption …

On Thursday April 1st, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) – the Canadian equivalent to the SEC, put forth allegations against Agoracom.com an online investor relations forum for seeding fake conversations throughout their investor message board community. The allegations describe a scenario of more than 24,000 fraudulent posts made by 670 different accounts. The papers filed by the OSC go into detail on how employees at Agoracom were required to posts under several different aliases and on occasion, conversed with themselves on the forums using different aliases. Agoracom has denied …

Yesterday I attended a panel discussion that primarily focused on social media and the opportunity it provides to communicate with shareholders and potential investors. The panel included: Serena Ehrlich, Director of Social Media, Startup Army/BLAZE; Laura Graves, Senior IR Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc; Dick Johnson, President Johnson Strategic Communications Inc.& editor of  IR Cafe, and Robert Williams, Director Investor Relations, Dell Inc.
Robert said that Dell uses social media primarily to reach out connect with people who are interested in their company and want to access their information in different ways. …

January always inspires retrospectives on the good, the bad and the ugly of the previous year  could you ever run out of content for 2008?
The 2008 Year in Review � Securities Litigation and Enforcement, is the first of a regular webcast series on related topics from Securities Docket(an online publication that tracks securities litigation and enforcement developments on a global basis).
This one hour presentation touches on all the big stories: the financial crisis; Siemens bribery; Mark Cuban and a host of other litigations (both successful and not); the Madoff scandal …