We are pleased to announce that Q4 has partnered with StockTwits to address the increasing demand of establishing direct communication and engagement between public companies and their key stakeholders. The partnership will provide Q4′s best-in-class corporate IR website and social media solutions and integrate StockTwits platform for sharing financial information and news directly with investors, and leveraging a broad distribution network where messages are disseminated across the financial web.
Howard Linzdon, co-founder and ceo of StockTwits had this to say about the collaboration:
Public companies are trying to find ways to connect …

An effective IR strategy has many components.  Such as setting measurable short and long-term goals and objectives and developing strategic messages and tactics to deliver the program.  The plan must also be monitored to measure its effectiveness and fine-tuned as needed.
Short and long-term goals and objectives can include identifying investors who are interested in your sector and/or known to have invested in your peers to meet with over the course of the year. (Although making sure you also meet with your current investors should also be a priority).
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Due to popular demand, you can now browse and download all of our whitepapers, webinars and presentations from our ‘Best Practices’ section on our website: http://www.q4websystems.com/Best-Practices/default.aspx.
 

Using the social media publishing capabilities of Q4 Web, our market leading website CMS and social media platform, we tagged the videos and presentations so we could seamlessly integrate the content from Vimeo and SlideShare into our website.
We have some new and exciting whitepapers and webinars in store for 2012 – and we’ll update this section accordingly.
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Pacific Drilling (NYSE:PACD) is an ultra-deepwater offshore drilling company that went public on Nov 17, 2011. As of today, their market cap is $1.8B, which puts them just inside the small cap definition.
Their new website was designed by Mentus, our agency partner based in beautiful San Diego.  It contains a number of great features that really illustrate that you don’t have to be a big company or spend a lot of money to have an impressive corporate investor website.

The first thing you notice about Pacific Drilling’s website is the large background …

Some of the Q4 team attended the CICA corporate reporting awards (CRA) last night at the Arcadian Court downtown Toronto. We were well represented with a handful of us making it out including: Catherine Crofton our VP Sales & Marketing, who has been a judge in the electronic disclosure category for the past ten years, Darrell Heaps our CEO who has also been a long-time judge with seven years under his belt. As well as myself who has served as a judge for the annual awards for the past four …

We’re pleased to announce that our long-term client, Agnico-Eagle Mines, has been awarded first prize in the electronic disclosure category of the 2011 Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) Corporate Reporting Awards (CRA) for their investor website: agnico-eagle.com.
This is the second year in a row, that Agnico-Eagle has been recognized at the CRA for their best practice IR website, securing an Honorable Mention in the electronic disclosure category in 2010 – with first place awarded to Potash Corp., a winner in the electronic disclosure category multiple times.
Companies eligible for the …

Darrell walks viewers through the new Goldcorp.com website that leverages the capabilities of the Q4 platform.  It was designed by the talented folks at ZU.com.  The video highlights a new homepage slider and extensive data content management capabilities.  It also showcases Goldcorps extensive use of video to help tell their investment story.
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Last week, we outlined several observations we have made through our research on how public companies are using social media for investor relations and shared some best practices for live-tweeting investor events such as an earnings call, annual shareholders meeting and analyst/investor day including:

Preparing tweets in advance of the call.
Providing a link to the materials associated with the live event.
Proactively soliciting questions in advance.
Consistent use of #hashtags.
Appending tweets with your ticker symbol.

As I mentioned last week, I thought a separate post on disclaimers was warranted.  So this post is dedicated …

Twitter is increasingly being used by public companies to share key messages via live-tweets from their earnings call, annual meeting or analyst day.
As we are in the midst of earnings, and as annual general meeting season is just around the corner, I thought I would share some thoughts on best practices for live-tweeting.  Note: these best practices have been put together based on observations we have made through our research on how public companies are using social media for investor relations.  Here is a list of what we will cover …

If you’re not familiar with TekGroup’s research you should be.   For example they conduct regular surveys about what journalists expect in a company’s online newsroom and the feedback and stats they gather are useful – especially if you’re in corporate communications.
While their surveys are typically geared towards PR professionals, I’d like to highlight an important finding that should also resonate if you’re an IRO: 98% of journalists said it was somewhat important (8%), important (24%) or very important (66%) to find PR contact information within an online newsroom.
This stat has …