Good IR shackled by IT
filed inInvestor Relations
It’s sadly amusing how the largest companies, with the largest shareholder bases, often have the poorest Investor Relations websites. Now we love and appreciate IT experts (or whatever you call the information technology folks at your company), and zu has many of them keeping our own technology running up in Saskatoon. But when one thinks of the nimbleness an IRO must exhibit in dealing with issues, or in taking advantage of the rapidly improving means of displaying website content, is IT really the partner you should be required to work through?
The plague of the PDF in online IR
filed inInvestor Relations
After exploring company websites of many IROs, I found most suffered from the same shortfalls. Instead of a clear path of navigation, competitive positioning material and accessible files in the proper HTML format, I found rows of filing cabinets. In these cabinets are PDFs, multimedia files with required players and excel files. This results in a full workout for the potential and current investor to find pertinent information. In fact, they will most likely break out into a heavy pant and full sweat trying to rummage through all the print materials.
We just got sued for our PowerPoint transcript… NOT
filed inInvestor Relations
I’m curious. Are there any known cases of companies being sued or having legal problems as a result of including the text of their speech with their PowerPoint slides from an investor presentation?
“Living” Online Annual Reports (OARS) – What Happened Next?
filed inInvestor Relations
“Living” Online Annual Reports (OARS) – What Happened Next? We’ve been exploring the ‘living’ annual report format and are dying to create one. In our minds a living OAR captures a ‘snapshot in time’ of the official filing but is then updated over the next several quarters to provide current key financials and current links [...]
Drive people to your online annual report
filed inInvestor Relations
A brief list of reasons why doing a good job of the OAR (Online Annual Report) makes sense: • Decreases printing costs • Trains shareholders on the value of the website as a source of information • Green (environmentally much friendlier than a print version) • Respects Internet users • Shows strong desire to serve [...]
0