We are pleased to announce that Q4 has partnered with StockTwits to address the increasing demand of establishing direct communication and engagement between public companies and their key stakeholders. The partnership will provide Q4′s best-in-class corporate IR website and social media solutions and integrate StockTwits platform for sharing financial information and news directly with investors, and leveraging a broad distribution network where messages are disseminated across the financial web.
Howard Linzdon, co-founder and ceo of StockTwits had this to say about the collaboration:
Public companies are trying to find ways to connect …

Six Social Media Trends for 2012: http://bit.ly/u15Uiw
Facebook Timeline Review: This Is the Greatest Thing Facebook’s Ever Done: http://awe.sm/5btZ5
New Twitter: 25 Tips and Tricks for Savvy Tweeters: http://on.mash.to/sY2BBf
Adults Now Spend More Time With Mobile Devices than with Print Media: http://bit.ly/uVtHCG
Twitter Reloaded: What it Means for Corporate Communications: http://bit.ly/vNi2uL
Coca-Cola, Best Buy Shareholder Votes Get Social Twist: http://bit.ly/t7uyFg
Bill Miller bows out: investors reconsider risk, returns, and consistency: http://tinyurl.com/7dsmsug
How Social Media Is Changing The Stock Market:  http://rww.to/tOCP1a
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Here’s what we’ve been reading and sharing on Twitter this week:
 
8 ways to humanize your business on social media: http://wind.mn/rpubIC
Why Americans Use Social Media: http://6sen.se/vHeyH2
Online Annual Meetings Begin to Click: http://ow.ly/7uGY6
Companies to integrate social media on Black Friday: http://bit.ly/rM3kJc
Will Facebook Go Public?: http://bit.ly/tClEW1
5 Tips: Avoid Being A Social Media Turkey: http://bit.ly/sqe43c
Groupon plunges below IPO price: http://cnnmon.ie/sSRpNy
The importance of managing investors’ expectations: http://post.ly/3zcqF
Fake forum comments are ‘eroding’ trust in web: http://bbc.in/sV5cIO
StockTwits: Why You Should Care: http://bit.ly/twIhku
 
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Measuring Social Media ROI: 3 Things to Consider: http://on.mash.to/tdUOe3
Media companies and Twitter – still mostly doing it wrong: http://bit.ly/srsKZj
Reporters Use Twitter to Promote, Not Report [STUDY]: http://on.mash.to/tBtS1F
Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think: http://stks.co/17ga
Over 48 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute: http://post.ly/3tLJD
Social Readiness: Architecting a Connected Enterprise: web-strategist.com/blog/2011/11/1
Paving a way for women in Brazil: http://j.mp/vOxSyG
Investor videos: Success Tips from a Producer: http://bit.ly/tpUzkc
Bringing you insights into LinkedIn Groups with our new statistics dashboard: http://zite.to/sYnFwp
5 Must Read Investor Relations Articles and Blog Posts: http://bit.ly/vJrT5P
We are …

A lot of great stuff was shared on Twitter this week:
Mary Meeker on 2011 Internet Trends [VIDEO]: http://youtu.be/Xdx0ezyUTTo
Perspective on Occupy Wall Street: SUZANNE: http://stks.co/dvA
Mobile Social Networking App Audience Grows 126% In Past Year: http://zite.to/n1cYt0
Can watching Twitter trends help predict the future?: http://zite.to/qfvcb4
Web savvy boosts client trust level: http://bit.ly/pqcVpX
The State of Social Media 2011: Social is the new normal: http://bit.ly/o3lcMW
The Missed Red Flags on Groupon: http://nyti.ms/r3LTIU
Report: Social media drives sales—especially when combined with PR: http://bit.ly/paFKnI
European Crisis Competence Barometer: http://bit.ly/pbPtBK
Is there a legal obligation to produce a paper copy of your Annual …

Here’s this week’s roundup of what we’ve been reading and sharing on Twitter:
Mobile Ad Spending In The U.S. Expected To Grow 65 Percent In 2011 To $1.2 Billion: http://tcrn.ch/nCou7f
Three Myths about Online Annual Reports: bit.ly/qtWKXd
Pitney Bowes Investor Relations Joins the Social Media Community: http://t.co/tdyUnLNS
MarketBrief Delivers Exclusive SEC Content on StockTwits: http://stks.co/azJ
Should you integrate your company’s social presence?: http://ow.ly/6W5dA
Say-on-Pay votes May Lead Boards to Revisit Pay, Survey Finds: http://buswk.co/owh8KF
Mobile digital gadgets are overshadowing the personal computer: http://t.co/KxwF56tv
For the First Time in 29 Months, Not a Single IPO: http://t.co/MUeJ8Ywv
RIM founder endures …

In its second survey on social media use by financial advisors across North America, Socialware sought to gather insight on social media use by financial advisors through answering the following questions:

What percentage of advisors use social media for business purposes?
Are firms taking the necessary steps to support this activity and remain compliant?
Are financial advisors getting value from their investment in social media?
Are the myths around social media true? For example, the sites are only used by the younger generation, it takes too much time, etc.

Based on the executive summary that …

This is the second part of an interview I conducted with PotashCorp.  If you missed part 1, you can read it by clicking here.
C: Often I hold your site up as a best practice example for other companies but the response I get from some IROs is, “We don’t have the same size team as a company like Potash – we don’t have that kind of budget.” What’s your response to that?
T: People think we have a much bigger team than we actually do. We have only just recently hired …

Here’s this week’s roundup of what we’ve been reading and sharing here at Q4 on Twitter:
 
A front row seat to Steve Jobs’ career:  http://tnw.co/pC9x4w
Twitter Is #1 social network for financial groups: http://bit.ly/ojpaO6
Investor Relations Atwitter Over New Technologies: http://t.co/08ElEHH
Bank of America Fires Back at Henry Blodget: http://t.co/j2uew0E
Mckinsey report predicts return to basics for investors: http://t.co/MjziXHY
Canadian Investor Relations Institute issues backgrounder on social media: http://t.co/i2q82g1
How baby boomers could depress stocks for decades: http://on-msn.com/rc9YCo
Financial Services Clamor for Social Media Guidance: http://bit.ly/prbkYl
B2B social media: Highlights from new benchmarking research: http://bit.ly/pL7dQ3
How to deal with the …

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at Deutsche Bank’s annual capital markets client training seminar in New York.  The session was entitled: Leveraging Technology: Online Communications and the Role of Social Media.
The audience spanned many countries such as China, Hong Kong, Russia, Germany, UK, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Brazil, South Africa and many more.  Knowing this I made sure that I included relevant information on what countries are using social media for investor relations.  I also thought the audience would appreciate some background on sector use as well.
I also …