Q4 Blog

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. He said that it was important to socialize SM internally with legal, finance and other executive positions, who may be concerned about risk, in order to help them understand the importance of being involved and the fact that you just can’t vet everything through the same DC&Ps. “The IRO is in a perfect position to handle social media because they understand the risks, they understand the story. And it’s not like they’re monitoring every phone call I make or every conversation I have with an analyst.” Read more…

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 (could you have scripted it better – that the pronunciation of his name is: Made-off ?); the liability exposure of the major accounting firms; the culpability of the SEC in some of the year’s financial disasters and its need for a makeover…

Kudos to Securities Docket for assembling such an impressive speaker panel, all of whom have very worthwhile blogs – which inspired me to write this post: Read more…