PR Newswire Releases "How-to" Guide for Automated and Hands-free Social Media for Investor Relations Departments
Communications Brief offers public companies easy newsflow plan for new SEC RegFD guidance
PR Newswire
NEW YORK

NEW YORK, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire, a global provider of shareholder, compliance and multimedia communications, together with its CNW and Vintage Filings divisions, today announced the release of a Communication Brief that offers a simplified newsflow program for public companies to send their material news to social media channels including Twitter, StockTwits, Facebook and LinkedIn.

The Communications Brief is available for free download here.

The newsflow offered in the brief will especially appeal to Investor Relations Officers at public companies who want to take full advantage of the SEC's new guidance recognizing social media as a disclosure channel, but do not have the extra bandwidth or the resources within their Investor Relations department.

For consistent updates on shareholder communications, investor relations and regulatory compliance, the company invites professionals to register for email alerts on its "Building Shareholder Confidence" blog here.

About PR Newswire

PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 59 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content — from rich media to online video to multimedia — and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world's largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world's enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.

About Vintage Filings

PR Newswire's Vintage Filings division is a full-service financial filing and printing firm and a leading partner for all your XBRL filing needs. With more than 4,500 public company clients, Vintage is one of the fastest growing compliance firms nationwide. Vintage partners with its clients to provide the knowledge and service necessary to meet the SEC's ever-changing filing regulations. Vintage Filings provides high-quality, cost-effective compliance filings and production services, including EDGAR Filings, typesetting, XBRL tagging, section 16 filings, investment management services, drafting sessions, virtual data rooms (VDR) and more.

CONTACT and MEDIA INTERVIEWS

Bradley H. Smith
Director of Marketing, IR and SEC Compliance Solutions
PR Newswire
201 942 7157
Bradley.smith@prnewswire.com

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