Today we’re thrilled to announce the latest addition to our expanding product line: iPad apps for investor relations.  These apps have been created to give public companies another channel to easily engage with their investors and stakeholders through Apple’s popular iPad tablet.
This first generation investor relations app is a low cost entry-level product that is completely customizable with company colors, fonts and images. There is no content management requirement by the company to keep the app up to date, as it automatically pulls content from a company’s corporate website along …

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 …

Aimia (previously Group Aeroplan) is a global leader in loyalty management and listed on the TSX.  Yesterday, they launched the new brand and a new corporate website running on Q4. The new site is a great example of the capabilities of the Q4 web system. I did a 5 min video below to walk through some of the more interesting aspects of the site, specifically the flexibility of the design and social media integration.
Thanks to the fine folks at Aimia for their tremendous work and their agency, Interbrand for the fantastic design. …

Negative news coverage typically results in an increase in the number of calls to the IR department.  There is also the potential snowball effect of the news spreading faster than the company can keep up with, as more investors are using social channels to share information.  Oftentimes, negative news can also result in pushing the share price down.
There are several actions that companies can take to address negative news such as issuing a press release, having a press conference and reaching out to their larger shareholders to answer questions.  In …

On Thursday April 1st, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) – the Canadian equivalent to the SEC, put forth allegations against Agoracom.com an online investor relations forum for seeding fake conversations throughout their investor message board community. The allegations describe a scenario of more than 24,000 fraudulent posts made by 670 different accounts. The papers filed by the OSC go into detail on how employees at Agoracom were required to posts under several different aliases and on occasion, conversed with themselves on the forums using different aliases. Agoracom has denied …

On February 14, Darrell Heaps, our co-founder and CEO, and one of North America’s leading authorities on social media for IR hosted a guided tour of “The Current State of Social Media” webinar in which he walked through a current snapshot of what’s happening in the use of social media for IR and why it’s important to your investor relations program. Here is the full replay of the session and the Q&A, it’s 1hr15mins long:

The Current State of Social Media and Investor Relations – A Q4 Webinar from Q4 Web …

They may differ in their size and sector, but Canada Gas Corp.  and Barrick Gold both agree there is value in using social media.  I recently sat down with representatives from each company to discuss why they have adapted it into their online communications plan, how they use it and some words of wisdom for anyone looking to integrate it into their business strategy.  What follows is an overview of those conversations.
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Yesterday Catherine Crofton delivered our first webinar regarding removing the 5 barriers to an effective investor relations website.   I come from a web development and media background so I was a bit green to all this IR stuff when I started at Q4 a couple of years ago.  Needless to say I’ve been schooled the hard way and have learned internally and from our customers what issuers need to say to their investors.
One of the questions that stood out to me from yesterday’s webinar was when an attendee asked if …

Starting this past January we began aggregating the website statistics from our network of client IR websites. We plan to continue aggregating this data and then share interesting slices with our clients and the public. Our hope is that sharing this data will help all companies and their vendors build better websites and utilize web technologies more effectively.
Even though we only have 2 months of data and we’re in beta regarding our methods for aggregating, I wanted to share some initial observations that we thought were interesting. If you have …

FNX Mining (TSE:FNX.CA) recently launched their website on Q4 Web 3.5.   We are pleased to have FNX as another member of the Q4 family!  This launch includes all the benefits of our latest platform release including press release RSS feeds.
FNX Mining Company Inc. (“FNX”), a Canadian Nickel Company, produces, develops and explores for nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium and gold in Canada’s prolific Sudbury Basin. FNX optioned five former producing mines from Vale Inco early in 2002 (McCreedy West, Levack, Podolsky, Victoria and Kirkwood). The properties contained extensive historic …