Bradley H. Smith >

"Compliant" is another word for "bare minimum."

Regulations are meant to protect. Not prohibit. 

Twitter: you get what you pay for.

Obviously, I love using Twitter and find it an excellent true Social Network and content distribution channel. (dang fun too). But I don't pay for it.

Thus... I cannot depend in it for my material or regulatory messages. I still need a mix.

 

OUCH. Let me know how “Tweeting your 8:30 earnings call” worked out. 

 

Cross pollinate your webform data with other departments.

This webform is on the investor relations website of a large corporation. The data ONLY feeds an automated news alert email engine for the IR department. For most compnaies, that is the data's only function. Eyeballs rarely look at the actual data. 

Now, imagine that whenever MEDIA is selected from the drop-down descriptor, the Public Relations department receives the sign-in data too. "DING!" A new media contact is born. Elegant solution for something your company is already doing. 

All companies have silos - it's unavaidbale and fairly real-world. But don't have bunkers.

Check the copyright data on your website's footer

If it's not 2011, you look unattentive. Ask your webmaster to program it to automatically update. 

 

Check your IR site too. If this simple data point is so wrong, can I trust the financials to be current?