The use of social media by institutional and retail investors is growing at a significant rate.  Companies that have embraced social media as a core element of their disclosure are seeing a substantial increase in awareness of their company and their ability to attract and influence investors.
Based on these findings, on June 14, 2011 Q4 sponsored a Lunch ‘n’ Learn session at the NIRI Annual Conference which sought to answer this question:
‘Is now the time for all companies to adopt social media disclosure and move beyond compliance to a more …

The Q4 team is off to the NIRI National Conference in Orlando, FL June 12-15.  For those who are attending stop by booth #617 to meet the team and learn how we have helped hundreds of companies across North America drive IR website traffic, expand content distribution and increase investor engagement.
There is a great lineup of sessions, but you won’t want to miss ‘Social Media Disclosure – Is Now the Time?’ – a Q4-sponsored Lunch ‘n’ Learn on Tuesday, June 14th at 12:15 p.m. in the Ritz Ballroom 4-6 on the …

Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a panel on the rising use of financial blogs and the impact they are having on the financial landscape. We also discussed best practices for investor relation professionals – specifically: how to raise awareness with bloggers to get “covered” and how to respond to incorrect or undesirable posts. Panelists included. Howard Lindzon, co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits®. Zack Miller, a professional investor and blogger at Tradestreaming.com and Mick Weinstein, Head of Editorial at Covestor.
Outside of some technical problems I had with the laptop, I think the session …

On March 22, Catherine Crofton, Q4’s VP Sales & Marketing hosted a webinar that showcased some best practice examples that companies are doing to optimize their web communications.
If you were unable to attend, you can view the presentation and video replay below:
 
Q4 Webinar – IR Website Best Practices to Optimize your Online Presence from Q4 Web Systems Inc. on Vimeo.
You can download the presentation by clicking here.
You can also download a copy of the complete transcription by clicking here.
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In the second of two posts from the NIRI ‘Fundamentals of Investor Relations’ seminar in Santa Monica, we examine ‘The Buy Side’ in understanding the work of analysts. Our presenter was Victor Hawley, a Principal of Reed Conner & Birdwell where he serves as a well-respected Portfolio Manager/Analyst and co-manages the RCB Large Cap Value strategy.
The Buy Side works for institutional stock owners and manages trillions of dollars for every type of investor (individual, pension, corporate, government, museum, hospital, charity etc). Their clients are as global, as is the investment …

Last Friday I returned from NIRI’s ‘Fundamentals of Investor Relations’ Seminar at the swank Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in sunny Santa Monica, CA. (My apologies to all my colleagues who toughed it out in -17 degree snow storms )
The program served as a boot camp for new IROs to familiarize them with all things IR: corporate disclosure issues and best practices; corporate governance; investor targeting & IR marketing; media & communications; understanding equity markets; planning and executing analyst days and non-deal road shows; understanding sell-side and buy-side …

On September 14, Darrell Heaps our CEO here at Q4, moderated an informative discussion with Andrea Wentscher, Investor Relations Manager at BASF SE and Caroline Japic, VP, Corporate Communications & Customer Marketing at Polycom including:

Their views on sharing analyst estimates and other IR-related content;
How they synergize the content shared on Twitter with other social networks and their IR website;
Setting realistic objectives for using the channel as part of their communications strategy;
Ways they listen to online conversations and how they use the information to refine messaging;
Whether they are interacting with investors; …

Whenever my good friend Dan Dykens aka @meetthestreet is unable to host #irchat, I get the pleasure of stepping in for him.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, #irchat is a weekly one-hour event held every Thursday at 11:00 a.m. EST on Twitter for IR professionals.
Each week, we tackle three-four questions that address IR-related issues, trends and to generally exchange ideas. The session has garnered quite the following and has become a popular hashtag on Twitter.
Recently, @IR_practice one of the regulars and a great IR resource …

Q4 Web Systems and MUNCmedia have formed a strategic alliance that gives issuers the ability to deliver their investor relations message directly to over 90 million active investors.
The video below provides an overview of MUNC’s Retail investor communications network:

Engage Investors WHILE they are online looking at your peers from MUNCmedia on Vimeo.
To formally introduce this alliance, Q4 invites you to join us on Wednesday, May 5th from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. EST to hear MUNCmedia’s Frank Lane, VP Client Services as he discusses the important role of a focused – …

Times have changed but have your web communications kept pace? Today’s more discerning investor is more open to portfolio diversification – which may mean that you need to provide different information than you are offering now.
Join us on Thursday, January 14th at 4:00 p.m. ET as we share top IR Website improvements to meet today’s challenging economic environment.  If you’re involved in your company’s IR website, this webinar will show some great examples of best practices from the world’s leading organizations as well as innovative small cap companies and how …