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:
Darrell Heaps, Co-founder and CEO of Q4 discusses the current trends in social media and investor relations in the following presentation and video versions of our webinar held on Thursday, July 16, 2009.
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 ways to address them.
Join us on Thursday, July 16th from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET as we share tips on how to integrate social media tools into your current IR program. Social media is a great way to increase your audience reach, empower people to engage with your company and give them a better understanding of your investment proposition.
Last week our CEO, Darrell Heaps, and I presented to a study group formed through an initiative of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) Research Studies Department. Comprised primarily of volunteers, this panel of experienced professionals research and provide guidance for comprehensive and integrated corporate reporting in order to promote effective communication.
By reading their reports and following their guidance, any IRO in North America can improve the standards of their company’s stakeholder communications.
To familiarize you more with their work, I have provided an overview of their most recent study, Corporate Reporting to Stakeholders.
As more companies begin to slowly dip their toe into the social media realm, they are not only trying to figure how it fits into their overall business strategy, but what is the ROI of using it?
On June 10 I attended a panel discussion at the NIRI annual conference in Hollywood Florida entitled The Evolution of Financial Communication, which centred on social media. Michael Nowlan, President & CEO of Marketwire, the event sponsor, did an excellent job of moderating the discussion.
Panelists were: Timothy Carey, Managing Director, Digital Media, ICR, Inc; Ruth Cotter, Director, IR and Treasurer, Advanced Micro Devices; Eileen Cassidy Rivera, Vice President, Communications & Investor Relations, Vangent, Inc., and Darrell Heaps, President, CEO & Co-founder, Q4 Web Systems.
Michael opened the session by asking each panelist to introduce themselves and to describe their involvement /perspective on social media.
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,
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.
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 todayand we’ll setup a live product demo.
Earlier today we released our Summer ‘09 Preview through Twitter and LinkedIn. In case you didn’t see it there, we wanted to let you know that our latest release brings Social Media and XBRL to Investor Relations websites in a way that you haven’t seen before. If you’re interested, register for a demo today and your chance to win an HP Netbook!
Over the next couple of weeks we are going to officially launch Summer ‘09 and provide more details on these exciting new additions. Until then, a couple of key features that separate Q4 from the rest of the IR website providers include:
30+ best practice IR website modules integrate with any website
Easy to use content management and workflow
Leading edge Investor Tools and Social Media Sharing
XBRL financials with real-time rendering on your website
Presentations, videos and documents distributed through popular social networks
Full-text RSS feeds, email alerts and subscriber management
Website disclosure records and verifiable audit trail
They may differ in their size and sector, but Canada Gas Corp. and Barrick Gold both agree there is value in using social media. I recently sat down with representatives from each company to discuss why they have adapted it into their online communications plan, how they use it and some words of wisdom for anyone looking to integrate it into their business strategy. What follows is an overview of those conversations. Read more…
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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.
In a recent edition of 
Join us on Thursday, July 16th from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET as we share tips on how to integrate social media tools into your current IR program. Social media is a great way to increase your audience reach, empower people to engage with your company and give them a better understanding of your investment proposition. 
Last week our CEO, Darrell Heaps, and I presented to a study group formed through an initiative of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) Research Studies Department. Comprised primarily of volunteers, this panel of experienced 
As more companies begin to slowly dip their toe into the social media realm, they are not only trying to figure how it fits into their overall business strategy, but what is the ROI of using it?
On June 10 I attended a panel discussion at the NIRI annual conference in Hollywood Florida entitled The Evolution of Financial Communication, which centred on social media. Michael Nowlan, President & CEO of 