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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
This is the investment business event you can’t afford to miss! Colossal Calgary is a once-in-a-lifetime event, a chance to hear the insider’s perspective on the debacle that was Lehman Brothers, the first domino that fell in the tumble leading to the current financial crisis. Lawrence G. McDonald, former vice-president of Distressed Debt and Convertible [...]
Everyone knows the first month of the New Year always represents an opportunity for change, renewal, and a fresh start. Calgary associations seem to be taking this fresh start very seriously with a dizzying array of events to choose from in Q1 alone. Forget six degrees (or pixels) of separation, if you go to all [...]
The good folks at Valiant Trust recently asked me to write an overview of how social media impacts an entire business. Not just PR or IR, but right across the enterprise. Here’s an excerpt and a link to the full newsletter article: Planning for the whole business There’s a lot of buzz about social media [...]
I recently had the pleasure of speaking to a group of about 30 Investor Relations types at an event, “Digital Disclosure – Pubcos in the age of the social web” co-sponsored by Valiant Trust and Kingsdale Shareholder Services. Below are my slides from that event, but essentially my point was, stocks and management teams are [...]