We’re pleased to announce that our long-term client, Agnico-Eagle Mines, has been awarded first prize in the electronic disclosure category of the 2011 Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) Corporate Reporting Awards (CRA) for their investor website: agnico-eagle.com.
This is the second year in a row, that Agnico-Eagle has been recognized at the CRA for their best practice IR website, securing an Honorable Mention in the electronic disclosure category in 2010 – with first place awarded to Potash Corp., a winner in the electronic disclosure category multiple times.
Companies eligible for the …

Negative news coverage typically results in an increase in the number of calls to the IR department.  There is also the potential snowball effect of the news spreading faster than the company can keep up with, as more investors are using social channels to share information.  Oftentimes, negative news can also result in pushing the share price down.
There are several actions that companies can take to address negative news such as issuing a press release, having a press conference and reaching out to their larger shareholders to answer questions.  In …

We’re thrilled to announce our latest report on the use of social media by public companies for investor relations.  If you’d like to get right to the report you can download it here.
Last year we released two research reports on Twitter for investor relations.  At that point, our sample told us that 35% were using Twitter for IR, in the current report you’ll see this number is now 65%.
However, it’s not all about Twitter. So we expanded our research to include Facebook, Linked, Blogs, YouTube and SlideShare.  Their respective adoption …

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. 
Register here to learn innovative ways to:

Improve your discoverability so your company is easier to find, exposing you to new investors and markets.
Package your content so it can be shared, disseminated and republished across the …

Yesterday Catherine Crofton delivered our first webinar regarding removing the 5 barriers to an effective investor relations website.   I come from a web development and media background so I was a bit green to all this IR stuff when I started at Q4 a couple of years ago.  Needless to say I’ve been schooled the hard way and have learned internally and from our customers what issuers need to say to their investors.
One of the questions that stood out to me from yesterday’s webinar was when an attendee asked if …

FNX Mining (TSE:FNX.CA) recently launched their website on Q4 Web 3.5.   We are pleased to have FNX as another member of the Q4 family!  This launch includes all the benefits of our latest platform release including press release RSS feeds.
FNX Mining Company Inc. (“FNX”), a Canadian Nickel Company, produces, develops and explores for nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium and gold in Canada’s prolific Sudbury Basin. FNX optioned five former producing mines from Vale Inco early in 2002 (McCreedy West, Levack, Podolsky, Victoria and Kirkwood). The properties contained extensive historic …

Barrick Gold (TSX, NYSE: ABX) officially launched Q4′s RSS feed for press releases today.  RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a technology that allows you to have updated news from your favorite websites sent directly to your web browser or email.
Barrick also recently went live on our latest 3.5 release which includes a whole host of new features in addition to RSS Feeds.
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Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation (TSX:BIM) officially launched on version 3.5 of Q4 WEB today.  Baffinland has been a Q4 client since January 2008 and this latest update includes some of the new features available on our latest release such as photo galleries and RSS Feeds.
You can read about other features available in our 3.5 release here and stay tuned for more information about our next release coming early in the new year!
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We are pleased to present our latest client, Canadian Oil Sands Trust (TSX: COS.UN), which has recently gone live on Q4 WEB 3.5.   Canadian Oil Sands Trust provides a pure investment opportunity in the oil sands through its 36.74% interest in the Syncrude Project.   Syncrude is a leader in Canada’s oil sands industry, operating since 1978 with a productive capacity today of 350,000 barrels per day of light, high-quality crude oil.
Canadian Oil Sands Trust becomes our 2nd client to launch on version 3.5 of our platform, and you can visit …

BFI Canada became our first client to officially enable our RSS functionality in Q4 WEB.  Website visitors can now receive BFI’s press releases in RSS format and we have plans to expand our RSS feeds to include events, presentations and other types of content within Q4 WEB.
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