A LOT of regular readers have been buried in year-end reporting and preparing annual reports, so I thought I’d recap the most popular posts on IR Web Report over the past two months in case you missed them.
Business Wire’s Double Standards About how Business Wire is attacking cheap notice-and-access releases even while its owner Berkshire [...]
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As one of the founding members of the Media 2.0 Workgroup, I contribute to the greater collective of intellectual activity dedicated to advancing media and communication.Fellow members, Chris Saad and Stowe Boyd have been discussing the ethics and best…
With PR2.0 comes the responsibility to listen, engage, learn more and understand the new media landscape. If and only if you do this, then you can teach others how to listen, engage, learn more and understand how to use New PR effectively for their brands.
Communicate, a UK publication for corporate communications professionals, has a new article on listening to the social media world and managing your reputation. The article includes comments from our own Monika Maeckle, VP, Media Services and Product Strategy, and the voice of Business Wire’s Twitter feed. Lots of great info there for communicators new to social [...]
My friends over at HubSpot released the latest market data that reveals which tools and services people are flocking to when communicating on Twitter.According to the research, most people interact on Twitter using Twitter.com from their browser of cho…
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, yesterday announced its earnings using the notice-and-access news release method we have been advocating for several years.
Despite heated hand-waving by one b…
Shot at Web 2.0 Summit 2008Facebook is learning to listen.In the middle of February 2009, the company was yet again a “Beacon” for bad PR as it introduced an updated Terms of Service (Tos) for its entire community of users. We the people responded …
The rummage sale level of stock prices has produced an uptick in hostile takeover activity - and in the fear of unwanted suitors - according to the March 2009 issue of Mergers & Acquisitions magazine. As might be expected, there’s a step-up in defensive play among CEOs, boards and investor relations people:
Until last year, the [...]
There’s an interesting blog conversation going on right now, which grew out of a recent Twitter discussion on the value of PR vs. SEO. UK PR pro Stuart Bruce kicked things off by trying to define just what PR is for, and how SEO alone can’t accomplish PR’s goals. The Holistic Search blog responds with discussion of getting [...]
“Boring is the new sexy.”
I like this comment by Gail Cohen, a Fiduciary Trust Company International executive, who told the Wealth Watch newsletter of Trusts & Estates magazine that trusts and high-net-worth individuals are more drawn to dull stability now than the sexy alternatives they formerly chased. Wealth Watch adds:
Fiduciary Trust isn’t alone. A handful of stick-in-the-mud [...]
