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Last year's list of top annual reports from Report Watch.  Lots of inspiration here!

Another collaboration between Black Sun and The International Integrated Reporting Council. 

CCE commissioned CorporateRegister.com to create this VideoReportAlert as a summary of their CSR activities. It's an easily understandable view of an increasingly complex subject area.

Some clues to what integrated reporting currently means in practice.

A report by Black Sun collaborating with Mervyn King. Pretty squarely sets them as experts in this field.

Interesting take on the traditional online annual report by Warby Parker. Financial data is mixed with interesting insights on company culture and everyday life at Warby Parker.

Now for some HIGHLIGHTS: 30% of investors use twitter to help investigate companies. Investor reliance on digital media to gather information doubled since 2010. 86% of investors say online (blogs, social media) sources have become more important this year with investors. Investors making use of a number of different digital sources (company website, syndicated and traditional online publications, and social media). 56% of investors report that the influence of digital and social media is increasing in their investment decision process. Along with the growth of investor consumption of digital information, investors are also using social media & digital media to contribute investment information. 24% of investors report making an investment decision after sourcing information from blogs. 61% of US investors have been prompted to investigate an issue further after reading about it in a blog post.

Employers must take action to motivate and equip their managers to act on engagement surveys, according to a report by Aon Hewitt.

This is a big report by Nielson. Focus on US though. 

A report and infographic on how leading CEOs are planning to use internal and external social media

"Employee Engagement Report 2011"

Big report on demographics in social media 

The more social circles or Facebook friends a person has, the more likely social media can become a source of stress, Scottish researchers say. The more groups of people in someone's Facebook friends, researchers at the University of Edinburgh Business School reported, the greater the potential to cause offense, particularly if employers or parents are included. Stress rises when users present a version of themselves on Facebook that is unacceptable to some of their online "friends," the researchers said. Some 55 percent of parents follow their children on Facebook, they said, while more than half of employers have admitted to not hiring someone based on the applicant's Facebook page. "Facebook used to be like a great party for all your friends where you can dance, drink and flirt," Edinburgh researcher Ben Marder said. "But now with your Mum, Dad and boss there, the party becomes an anxious event full of potential social landmines." The researchers surveyed more than 300 people on Facebook, mostly students, with an average age of 21."

a new report by IBM on "Social Business: Patterns in achieving social business success by leading and pioneering organizations." Among all the topics, the document reports on finding expertise, increasing knowledge sharing, improving recruiting and on-boarding, enabling workplace safety, etc. The paper is available from the following link:

Social Bakers are now ranking Facebook brands and media by the number of their local fans. They are still accompanied by the number of their total fan base but now you can also see the volume of local fans Liking the Page in the selected country.

Some of these we know about, some are less well-known.  All worth a look.

The IBM Institute for Business Value's report, The Business of Social Business, is full of research and survey data that can help in understanding how organizations are "seeing the value of applying social approaches, internally as well as externally.