Last week, at our second webinar of the year, Darrell Heaps, Co-founder and CEO of Q4 discussed the current trends in social media and investor relations. Social media has been given a lot of attention within the IR arena and Darrell has been an active participant in some of those discussions. For example, he recently sat on two panels on the evolution of financial communication and the evolution of disclosure at the NIRI and CIRI conferences respectively this past June. He also presented to the CICA research group in Toronto on trends in corporate reporting earlier this month.
We had another great turnout and a lot of insightful questions at the end. The team at Q4 did tweet the event, but we thought we would provide an overview of the salient points for those of you who missed it:
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We would like to thank everyone who participated in our Summer ‘09 Preview Contest. We had a significant number of people enter and are pleased to announce that Heather Dalton (pictured here) is the lucky winner of the HP 100 Netbook!
UPCOMING WEBINAR – Learn innovative ways to integrate social media into your IR program!
Mark Thursday, July 16th in your calendar and join our free webinar to learn innovative ways to integrate social media into your IR program! Official invite to follow soon. Or you can drop me a line sherylj@q4websystems.com to reserve your spot now!
Live from NIRI ’09 – Session: How the Buy and Sell Side Trade your Stocks Today
The weather is hot in Florida and so are the sessions here at the NIRI ’09 conference. Yesterday I tweeted live from the “IR Emerging Issues and NIRI Advocacy” session. The second session entitled “How the Buy and Sell Side Trade Your Stock Today”, was so hot, that I decided to put together some notes and compile for this blog.
This session was designed to help IR professionals understand what happens behind price and volume. Here is an overview of what was said:
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We officially launched our Summer ’09 release from the NIRI National Conference in FL, which introduces Social Media and XBRL capabilities to IR websites. This latest release offers different ways for investors to find, subscribe and share content through social networks.
Q4’s web platform continuously evolves with market and regulatory trends that keep the IR website on the leading edge of companies’ investor communications. Q4’s latest IR website products create viral IR content, which means they can be shared, disseminated and republished across the web to millions of retail and institutional investors.
Customers can now:
- Embed and distribute presentations, videos and documents through SlideShare, YouTube and Docstoc,
- Automatically update Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook with news presentations and events, and
- Aggregate all social activities on the IR website with inbound RSS feeds.
We also announced from the NIRI National Conference, that our Q4 web platform now delivers a highly accurate real-time rendering of XBRL-tagged SEC filings.
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This new product enables users to view XBRL-formatted financial statements in an easy to read display on IR websites while helping public companies meet the new SEC XBRL regulations which require them to post financial statements in interactive data formats.
To respond to this mandate Q4 now offers US-based filers:
- XBRL financials with real-time rendering on your website – once your XBRL filing is accepted by the SEC, within minutes your website is updated with the complete filing displayed in HTML,
- Multiple report formats for enhanced financial analysis and reporting by investors, analysts and the financial media, and
- Ability to view and download XBRL reports, or share embed codes through social networks.
If you’re interested in learning more contact us today and we’ll setup a live product demo.
The Q4 team is off to the NIRI National Conference in Hollywood, FL from June 7-10. For those who are attending we are looking forward to meeting with you, so stop by booth #504 to:
• Find out why social media is now a key aspect of investor relations in lowering capital costs, why it doesn’t need to be difficult and how to responsibly get involved.
• Learn about XBRL filings that can be viewed in an easy to ready display on your website.
For those of you, who can’t make it, we will be providing regular updates on Twitter and posting on our blog.
I recently read an interesting article entitled “Corporate Tweets and the SEC: Sometimes It’s Better to Keep Your Mouth Shut” which provides some insights and commentary on social media, investor relations and web disclosure.
Since the SEC announced its recognition of corporate blogs as public disclosure in July of last year, social media has been used quite effectively by PR, marketing, and advertising professionals. However IR practitioners are still pondering the risks and opportunities outlined in the recent SEC guidelines.
There are many things to consider for integrating blogs and other social networks into an IR program – such as disclosure and adhering to legal compliance. This is quite a dilemma as the adoption of social media has exploded and continues to be a medium of choice for millions of individuals hungry for instant information. Read more…