This article was originally published in Newsline, a publication of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute. Investor relations people are not social. Oh, don’t get me wrong; I know they are in real life. I’ve been to numerous CIRI conferences and have witnessed this firsthand. Great banquets, golf tournaments, galas and hospitality suites – IR [...]
CALGARY, AB, Dec. 6, 2011/ Troy Media – While wandering through Google Plus the other day, I ran across a video “CEOs suffer from social paralysis” by Thomas Power. Power, chairman and founder of Ecademy.com, essentially posits that CEOs are rewarded for things like reducing costs, automating processes and producing short term results, none of [...]
I recently had a chance to interview Howard Lindzon, co-founder of StockTwits.com and long-time angel investor. Howard will be stopping in Calgary to address the Third Tuesday Calgary chapter November 17, 2011 thanks to our event partner the Canadian Investor Relations Institute. Here’s that interview: Send to your network:
Every week I speak to executives who are avoiding social media. Given my Calgary location they are often from resource or energy companies, and they treat the subject as if it were bleeding or leading edge. That’s hardly the case, given the huge numbers of resource companies that already have robust social media programs, [...]
For those who follow this column (Hi mom!), you’ll recall that last week I was helping Toronto entrepreneur Tammy Gilden, the chief energy officer at Employee Energizer. With minimal assistance, Tammy was able to separate her personal Facebook profile from her business page, which is now at facebook.com/EmployeeEnergizer. One might call that a happy ending. [...]
Online Marketing, Social Media. We hear these words all the time and think we should get our companies on board, but how? And where? Google, Yahoo, Bing, Business.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Slideshare…..the list goes on and on and on. How are you supposed to figure out what to do and where your customers are? [...]
This week I spent some time listening and speaking at a Canadian Investor Relations Institute seminar entitled The Essentials of IR. Other, smarter people spoke about finance and working the street, road shows, investment bankers, regulatory compliance and relationships with business reporters. My bit was on developing and delivering key messages. A publicly listed company [...]
Social media pundits have been busy predicting, even advocating, the death of the news release in favour of the “social media release” (SMR) or simply website disclosure. That’s wrong-headed, but perhaps not for the reasons you might think. First, a little history. The news release (or, as we old print guys say, “press release”) has [...]
This is a reprint of an article originally published in the Valiant Trust newsletter. Social media across the enterprise View more documents from Doug Lacombe. Send to your network:
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