SLIDESHARE, best known as a presentation sharing service, has launched three new paid accounts with features that may appeal to investor relations departments looking for ways to spread their stories online and improve the user experience of their IR websites. A growing number of companies are using SlideShare for investor relations presentations. The main reasons [...]
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As investor relations professionals, we’ve all seen PowerPoint slides that get just a little bit out of control. Too many bullets, too many words, too many pictures – the CEO makes one more addition – and a visual aid turns into a visual Frankenstein. For your weekend enjoyment, I thought I’d share this slide – [...]
Just about everyone is happy to see 2009 fading into history and brighter prospects dawning with the new year. I share the enthusiasm for a new start, not to mention more favorable year-over-year comparisons. And I wish you personally a healthy and prosperous 2010.
The first question we confront, as communicators who will often cite the [...]
If you enjoy seeing your data in graphic form – not just drab tables or bland bullet points – you’ve got to check out a website called FlowingData. Nathan Yau, a PhD candidate in statistics at UCLA, publishes the site – a wealth of interesting pictures.
Investor relations people and our audiences are, of course, data [...]
Whether you’re raising first-round venture capital or cultivating shareholders in a public company, investors need to understand the business model – and drawing a picture of it may help – suggests Cliff Illig, co-founder and vice chairman of Cerner Corporation, a mid cap healthcare IT company listed on NASDAQ.
Illig told a meeting of entrepreneurs last [...]
Imagine my delight when I opened up a box of Cheerios and found a surprise inside: a snap-together plastic sports car. Cool! … Yes, I know. They say men are just 8-year-old boys in grown-up bodies, and this explains my glee upon running across a cheap little toy.
Call it quirky, but the surprise in the [...]
Harry Truman famously complained that what he needed was a one-handed economist, as all of the economists that were advising him would state “On the one hand… but then again, on the other hand…” Old Harry S. can now rest easy in his grave, b…
