To all Clients, Partners and Friends of Q4. Thank you for an incredible year! We wish you a wonderful holiday and a happy New Year! We hope you enjoy this holiday video card.
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All the best this holiday season!
Your friends at Q4 Web Systems.
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I attended an interesting CIRI (Canadian Investor Relations Institute) round-table luncheon yesterday, and the topic of discussion was Understanding how the buy-side makes decisions . The format of the session was great; it was almost entirely Q&A and provided the opportunity for participants to openly dialogue with the speakers.  The panelists were Stephanie Griffiths, Lead Portfolio Manager for Mackenzie Ivy Enterprise Fund, and Craig MacAdam, Portfolio Manager with the Aurion Capital equity team. Both were frank and concise in their answers, and while much of the information they provided was …

When the SEC announced the new Reg. FD guidance, a flow of blog posts followed – many speculating on the net result of these new changes. More than one purported that the announcement would spell the death of the press release.
I’ve been following numerous bloggers and Social Media Release (SMR) folks on Twitter for several months now and I don’t think the new Reg. FD guidance will kill the press release.  If anything, press releases will evolve and take advantage of new media technologies such …

I’m pleased to announce that we have closed our latest round of funding, bringing the total raised to $3M (CDN) since the fall of 2006. Investors include a mix of institutional funders and angels.  You can access the full press release on our web site:
Q4 Web Systems Closes $1.2M in Funding for Web Disclosure
Here are a couple of my quotes from the release:

I’m very pleased to close this latest round of funding in this current market climate. We continue to receive validation for our business model from the addition of new …

If you’ve had a chance to go through the 47 page guidance and specifically the section regarding “dissemination” of information and what “public” means in the context of RegFD and the corporate web site you’ve likely been left scratching your head thinking “ok, so now what?”The issue of what constitutes public information is one of the grey areas of the latest guidance. The purpose of this post is to try and provide some additional color to the guidance and help you understand what it is going to take in order …

As Jason mentioned in his previous post, we are getting ready to kick off a busy summer quarter. With this, we have a new set of priorities and goals that we want to achieve. This is going to be our second quarter implementing the Rockefeller habits, we learned a lot the first time around and will be aiming to improve the way we track and score our progress.
One of the biggest changes we are making this time around is in the area of product development, implementations and support. …

Fresh off my vacation, I was pretty excited to get back to work this week with new found knowledge from the Certified Scrum Master course I took a couple of weeks ago. We have a couple of big release projects starting this quarter for both Q4 WEB and Q4 PRESS and there are a few new Q4 WEB clients in development right now so it’s shaping up to a busy summer for Q4.
Q4 PRESS was very well received at CIRI and NIRI 2008 and we’ve got a whole host of …

If you weren’t able to attend CIRI 2008, you can catch up with Darrell’s live blog during the “Capital Markets Fraud Investigations – White Collar Crime” session which has been reposted on Zu Blog
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As part of our ongoing effort to improve and upgrade our infrastructure I’m pleased to announce that the new Q4 data center is now fully redundant and SAS 70 TYPE II certified.
SAS 70 is an internationally recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Our data center’s SAS 70 certification enables us to further our expansion into the enterprise market by delivering certification of the controls needed for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
This certification deals with the controls related to service delivery, operations, infrastructure maintenance, change management, backup of …

Last week BFI Income Fund (TSX: BFC.UN) went live on Q4 WEB. We’re thrilled to add BFI to our growing list of clients looking to increase the efficiency of managing their corporate web site disclosure.
“We are very excited to be using Q4’s content and disclosure management system to easily manage and control changes to our corporate website,” stated Chaya Cooperberg, Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications for BFI Canada Income Fund.  “In today’s regulatory environment, it is very advantageous and reassuring that the system automatically tracks and logs all changes …