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 …

Here’s a list of interesting things we’ve been reading and sharing on Twitter this past week. Lots of great articles, we hope you find it interesting!
Social Media & IR Best Practice example “Dell Investor Relations Answers Questions from Social Media” http://t.co/EIPtZBj
FINRA proposes to exempt social media communications from getting prior approval: http://t.co/9OafC4K
Big Changes On Twitter – Everything You Need To Know: http://t.co/vh0Ifjs
New research on social media & IR, Euro focus “IR 2.0 International Benchmark Study”: http://t.co/taz1zoH
Twitter hedge fund beats the market, other funds: http://t.co/5OSpG1Q
Why Social Engagement Is Critical To Business …

Social media has made the sharing of ideas and information easy. Sometimes you may see a tweet that catches your eye – but if you’re not fast enough it’s already been replaced with something else. Add to that, the fact that sometimes there are not enough hours in the day to read everything.
That’s why we’ve decided to put together a list of some interesting things we’ve been reading and subsequently sharing with our followers for the week of August 8, 2011:
Social Media: Get Out of My Sandbox!: …

Social media has made the sharing of ideas and information easy.  Sometimes you may see a tweet that catches your eye  – but if you’re not fast enough it’s already been replaced with something else.  Add to that, the fact that sometimes there are not enough hours in the day to read everything.
That’s why we’ve decided to put together a list of some interesting things we’ve been reading and subsequently sharing with our followers for the week of July 18, 2011:
Is the SEC redefining Insider Trading: http://t.co/XMYHB2B
Google+, Investor Relations and …

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The Q4 team attended the CICA corporate reporting awards (CRA) earlier today at the Carlu in College Park in downtown Toronto.  In attendance were myself who has served as a judge for the annual awards in the electronic disclosure category for the past three years, Catherine Crofton our VP Sales & Marketing who has also participated as a judge in the electronic disclosure category for the past seven years and Karen Adams our Client Relations Director.
The CRA is in its 58th year and presents awards for excellence in financial reporting, …

In a recent edition of IR Alert, Jeffrey D. Morgan, CAE, President and CEO, National Investor Relations Institute cites “the top challenge facing IR now is regulation including moves to have companies become more transparent, governance changes and generally looking at corporate practices. Regulation is one of the key challenges right now. It’s evolving rapidly and where we’ll end up is not quite known.” 
What follows is some of his advice to IR professionals for keeping pace in this rapidly changing regulatory environment.  He also discusses current challenges and opportunities and …

As 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
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This month marks roughly the 2nd anniversary for  Twitter. If you don’t know what Twitter is here is a brief description from Wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets ), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends …

In the Sunday Opinion section of the New York Times, Christopher Cox, Chairman of the SEC wrote an article entitled ‘Swapping Secrecy for Transparency’ in which he recommended increased regulation and transparency governing the derivatives market and in particular, credit default swaps. In the article he says, “Transparency is a powerful antidote for what ails our capital markets. When investors have clear and accurate information, and when they can make informed decisions about where to put their resources, money and credit will begin to flow again. By giving regulators the …