“Readers will still have access to the same great content they have come to expect from our blog“, said Darrell Heaps co-founder and CEO of Q4 Web Systems, “with a continued overarching objective of striving to have the blog serve as a key resource to IR professionals – which is currently accomplished by staying apprised of and sharing news relevant to IROs such a changes in the regulatory environment and online IR best practices“.
We will continue to share findings from our active research into IR website and social media best …

Many public companies do little more than fulfill regulatory/exchange requirements in the content of their Investor websites. Opportunities are missed to more effectively engage and inform investors due to poor site structure, missing content and an ineffective use of technology.
Join us on Tuesday March 22 at 4:00 p.m. ET to learn some IR website best practice examples that will help optimize your web communications including how to:

Use your website more strategically
Increase and maintain user engagement
Build relationships between your management team and investors
Prime investors for more meaningful conversations
Broaden your online footprint

If …

There are some interesting developments in the highly regulated healthcare industry that are taking place – particularly around the sharing of product information on social media by pharmaceutical companies.
In a bid to get a handle on the situation, in late 2009, the FDA issued a Call for Comments on their public notice:  Promotion of Food and Drug Administration-Regulated Medical Products Using the Internet and Social Media Tool.
In response to the FDA’s call, in March 2010, AstraZeneca responded to the FDA’s notice and asked them ‘to adopt guidance that will enable …

We are pleased to announce that Q4 has partnered with RiccaRI, a Brazilian based Investor Relations firm as our exclusive channel partner in Brazil and Latin America.
Together with the features and best practices of the Q4 platform, RiccaRI adds a full package of website solutions to its portfolio, including a communication strategy, analysis and segmentation of shareholders, information architecture, as well as visual and written content creation and translation.
Darrell Heaps, our co-founder and CEO had this to say:
I’m very excited about our partnership with RiccaRI and about offering our IR …

The IR website is a leading source for the investment community to learn, verify and stay up-to-date with company information. Because of the growing importance of the IR website, many leading companies are continuously looking for ways to do things better.
The following report includes 100+ examples of best practices and how innovative companies around the globe are using the web to communicate more effectively with analysts, shareholders and the financial media.
Download the FREE whitepaper today and you’ll learn how to:

Improve your homepage to provide easier access to key information
Present a …

Strategic Use of Javascript (instead of flash)
Over the past few years, we’re seeing companies replace flash with javascript – mainly because it loads faster and displays on all devices.
For example, Agnico-Eagle* uses javascript to cycle through a series of pictures on the homepage of their corporate website:

http://agnico-eagle.com/

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Note: This is our last post of 2010.  We’ll resume the week of January 3, 2011.  Happy Holidays!
Part two of this series will focus on some tools that companies are using to help investors review, download and analyze their financial information.
Financial information is a key metric that investors use to decide whether they want to buy shares of your company.  So it is critical to take the time to ensure that all of the relevant information is in one place.   You should also consider how to make it easy for …

Technology can help to effectively aid communication and engage users. We are seeing so many great things on this front that I’ve decided to do a three-part post.
Customization – IR Index Page
A ‘Customization’ feature is not as common as other emerging trends (like an ‘Investor Briefcase which we’ll discuss later in this post), but we are seeing a few companies who do this well.
For example, ENI offers the ability to customize the investor index page by using a tool to move modules around on the page:

http://www.eni.com/en_IT/investor-relation/investor_relations.shtml

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In my last post, I only scratched the surface on some of the tools that companies are using on their IR website to make themselves more accessible to investors and increase awareness about their brands. Here are some more…….
IR CALENDAR
Another emerging best practice tool to help increase company awareness is an interactive IR calendar that provides more details and links to associated assets.
Some good ones include upcoming corporate actions, conference calls/webcasts, presentations and other related events and allowing users to add the event to their online …

Today we are going to talk about some best practice tools that companies are using on their IR website to make themselves more accessible to investors and increase awareness about their brands.
COMMUNICATING ACCESSIBILITY
It is not uncommon to find a generic email address such as info@investors on a company’s website.  Thankfully, this is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Instead we are seeing a surge in the use of ‘Contact Us’.
Quite a few companies are using the ‘Contact Us’ feature to its fullest, and I wanted to highlight some interesting …