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April 2, 2008

All Compensation Consultants, All The Time

I’m pretty excited to announce our latest blog on CompensationStandards.com: “The Consultants Blog.” This blog will feature wisdom from respected compensation consultants.

So far, these consultants have agreed to kick off the vibrant conversation on the issues, developments and trends faced by those seeking to implement responsible compensation practices: Don Delves, Mike Kesner and Fred Whittlesey. In the coming weeks, I expect to add more consultant bloggers willing to share their thoughts. Check out the blog and input your email address on it so that you can get an email whenever an entry is posted…

Evelyn Y. Davis: Catch Her in Action

Perfect timing for today’s webcast about conducting annual meetings, here is a CNBC interview with Evelyn Davis. CNBC should make her a regular commentator; I doubt it would impact the quality of their reporting. Thanks to ProxyMatters.com for digging this gem out…

SEC’s New – and Free – Edgar Feeds

Recently, the SEC has added news feeds for every issuer and reporting person who files on Edgar. You can now track what is being filed without having to use a paid subscription service. Note that the SEC has not yet touted this new feature via a press release or its various guides about how to search filings.

On his “IR Web Report,” Dominic Jones explains the potential ramifications of this development on Business Wire, PR Newswire, Edgar Online, etc. My guess is that their businesses won’t be too damaged – yet – since the Edgar feeds include only generic filing headings, dates and internal tracking numbers, which is less useful than providing a summary or the full text of each filing. Dominic also explains how this allows companies to ensure widespread syndication of their news to the masses simply by filing their news releases on Edgar.

By the way, Dominic had a beauty of an April Fool’s joke posted on his site yesterday…

– Broc Romanek