Q4 Announces Summer ‘09 Preview Contest Winner

July 2nd, 2009 by Sheryl Joyce
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heather_dalton_headshot_for-blog1We would like to thank everyone who participated in our Summer ‘09 Preview Contest. We had a significant number of people enter and are pleased to announce that Heather Dalton (pictured here) is the lucky winner of the HP 100 Netbook!

UPCOMING WEBINAR - Learn innovative ways to integrate social media into your IR program!

Mark Thursday, July 16th in your calendar and join our free webinar to learn innovative ways to integrate social media into your IR program! Official invite to follow soon.  Or you can drop me a line sherylj@q4websystems.com to reserve your spot now!

M.O.M. knows what’s best for IR and Social Media

June 30th, 2009 by Sheryl Joyce
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measuring-sm-blog-picAs more companies begin to slowly dip their toe into the social media realm, they are not only trying to figure how it fits into their overall business strategy, but what is the ROI of using it?

Mike McDonald of WebProNews cites an interview with Tarla Cummings, Social Media Manager from Location3 Media from the SMX Advanced Conference recently held in Seattle, WA.

When looking at your social media campaigns, Tarla discusses the acronym M.O.M. which stands for Monitor, Outreach, Measure.

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Study Reveals CEO’s Are Social Media Slackers

June 26th, 2009 by Catherine Crofton
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Earlier this week www.uberceo.com released a study on the use of social media by Fortune 100s chief executive officers. The presentation has been included with this article.

Fortune 100 CEOs and Social Media

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NIRI ’09 Session: Understanding IR Strategies Behind XBRL – IROs Evolving Role

June 18th, 2009 by Sheryl Joyce
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xbrl_logoAs usual, there were a lot of great sessions to choose from at NIRI’s Annual Conference from June 7-10 in Florida.  The Q4 team attended as many as we could which meant we didn’t always have the time to do write a blog post that day.  What follows is an overview of a session I attended on Tuesday, June 9th entitled “Understanding IR Strategies Behind XBRL – IROs Evolving Role”.

Moderator/Lead Speaker:

Mike Willis, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Chairman, XBRL International

Panelist(s)/Co-Speaker(s):
Michael Becker, VP, Global Disclosure & Financial Reporting Services
Business Wire

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From NIRI 2009 – The Evolution of Financial Communication

June 12th, 2009 by Catherine Crofton
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evolutionOn June 10 I attended a panel discussion at the NIRI annual conference in Hollywood Florida entitled The Evolution of Financial Communication, which centred on social media. Michael Nowlan, President  & CEO of Marketwire, the event sponsor, did an excellent job of moderating the discussion.

Panelists were:  Timothy Carey, Managing Director, Digital Media, ICR, Inc; Ruth Cotter, Director, IR and Treasurer, Advanced Micro Devices; Eileen Cassidy Rivera, Vice President, Communications & Investor Relations, Vangent, Inc., and Darrell Heaps, President, CEO & Co-founder, Q4 Web Systems.

Michael opened the session by asking each panelist to introduce themselves and to describe their involvement /perspective on social media.

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SlideShare Partners with Q4 Web Systems to help Bring Social Media to Investor Relations

June 11th, 2009 by Sheryl Joyce
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slideshareYesterday, a press release was issued announcing that SlideShare and Q4 have partnered to offer public companies enhanced best practice capabilities for their IR websites using SlideShare’s innovative web platform for displaying and sharing presentations and pdfs combined with Q4’s market leading IR website platform.

Companies using our  Q4 web platform will be able to easily embed SlideShare presentations into any area of their IR websites and publish directly to both their IR website and SlideShare.com. Additionally, SlideShare is launching a separate Investor Relations category. Companies will also have the opportunity to promote their investor relations presentations to SlideShare’s 18 million visitors in a targeted manner.

Trends in Media and Technology - From NIRI 2009

June 9th, 2009 by Catherine Crofton
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Yesterday I attended a panel discussion that primarily focused on social media and the opportunity it provides to communicate with shareholders and potential investors. The panel included: Serena Ehrlich, Director of Social Media, Startup Army/BLAZE; Laura Graves, Senior IR Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc; Dick Johnson, President Johnson Strategic Communications Inc.& editor of  IR Cafe, and Robert Williams, Director Investor Relations, Dell Inc.

Robert said that Dell uses social media primarily to reach out connect with people who are interested in their company and want to access their information in different ways. He said that it was important to socialize SM internally with legal, finance and other executive positions, who may be concerned about risk, in order to help them understand the importance of being involved and the fact that you just can’t vet everything through the same DC&Ps. “The IRO is in a perfect position to handle social media because they understand the risks, they understand the story. And it’s not like they’re monitoring every phone call I make or every conversation I have with an analyst.” Read more…

The Sky Isn’t Falling - The Economy Will Recover

June 9th, 2009 by Catherine Crofton
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Reporting from the NIRI conference - it’s been incredibly busy since we arrived so finding time to write has been impossible. Attendance is down about 30 - 40% but delegates seem very engaged so I’m glad we’re here!

The conference kicked off yesterday with a lively presentation by Todd Buchholz, renowned economist and best-selling author of “New Ideas from Dead CEO’s: Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office”. His presentation was entertaining and his stories were a lesson in the value of common sense. (Some great stories regarding A.P. Giannini, the founder of  The Bank of Italy - which is now The Bank of America. Too much to cover here but you might want to buy the book.)

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How the Buy and Sell Side Trade your Stocks Today

June 9th, 2009 by Sheryl Joyce
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dark_poolLive from NIRI ’09 – Session: How the Buy and Sell Side Trade your Stocks Today

The weather is hot in Florida and so are the sessions here at the NIRI ’09 conference.  Yesterday I tweeted live from the “IR Emerging Issues and NIRI Advocacy” session.  The second session entitled “How the Buy and Sell Side Trade Your Stock Today”, was so hot, that I decided to put together some notes and compile for this blog.

This session was designed to help IR professionals understand what happens behind price and volume.  Here is an overview of what was said:

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Follow Q4 Web Systems at NIRI 2009 on Twitter

June 8th, 2009 by Jason Little
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We’ll be live blogging from NIRI 2009 this week and you can follow @darrellheaps, @ccrofton, @q4websystems for updates or via our NIRI Mashup feed.