Crisis IR in the Age of Social Media - IDI

Last week an anonymous blog post caused a mass exodus in shares of IDI Inc. (IDI).

Why Do Investor Relations Departments Continue to Experiment?

The race is on.

A Great IR Opportunity for Small-Cap CEOs

Every night, Jim Cramer interviews public company CEOs for his popular CNBC TV program Mad Money. These short segments are remarkably substantive and consistently actionable.

But for the most part, the CEOs interviewed run large-cap public companies.

Will Netflix CEO Hastings usher in a new era for online finance, investor relations & social media?

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is a remarkable entrepreneur. He founded a DVD-by-mail business in the late ‘90s that now boasts 25+ million subs and is disrupting the media and entertainment industries.

But similarly impressive and yet possibly overlooked is how he’s provided a blueprint for the future of online finance, investor relations, and social media. It’s not farfetched to conclude that Hastings’ latest actions will be the catalyst for a new way in which public companies court investors online.