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 …

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 …

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 …

Read the full release! 
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 …

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 …

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 …