The IR Magazine Canada Awards is being held next week at the Royal York downtown Toronto.  You can read more about the event here: http://bit.ly/wHEWtu.
Every year, we, at Q4 look forward to networking and the amazing show put on by @irmagazine.
We’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate our clients who have been nominated:
Grand prix for best overall investor relations – large cap (C$10 bn and over)
Goldcorp
Best investor relations officer – large cap
Goldcorp
Best IR by a CEO – large-cap
Goldcorp
Best IR by a CEO – mid-cap
Intact Financial
Best financial reporting
Goldcorp
Best investment community …

Some of the Q4 team attended the CICA corporate reporting awards (CRA) last night at the Arcadian Court downtown Toronto. We were well represented with a handful of us making it out including: Catherine Crofton our VP Sales & Marketing, who has been a judge in the electronic disclosure category for the past ten years, Darrell Heaps our CEO who has also been a long-time judge with seven years under his belt. As well as myself who has served as a judge for the annual awards for the past four …

Twitter is increasingly being used by public companies to share key messages via live-tweets from their earnings call, annual meeting or analyst day.
As we are in the midst of earnings, and as annual general meeting season is just around the corner, I thought I would share some thoughts on best practices for live-tweeting.  Note: these best practices have been put together based on observations we have made through our research on how public companies are using social media for investor relations.  Here is a list of what we will cover …

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:
A Report on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism: http://bit.ly/riETlU
OSHA updates Whistleblower Investigations Manual: http://bit.ly/odNVZ1
Analysis: What if people stop sharing? Facebook has the answer: bit.ly/p13GhY
3 Takeaways from Nielsen Social Media Report: http://bit.ly/pQYB2y
A public company without a corporate website is like: http://post.ly/3ODvl
Are Investors Too Busy for Annual Meetings?: http://bit.ly/pXb9tP
Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity: http://bit.ly/o1JSP8
Netflix signs pay TV deal for Dreamworks animation: http://reut.rs/o170wY
Were Groupon’s And Overstock’s Mgmt & Auditors Stupid or did they Condone Improper Accounting Practices?: http://read.bi/rbAJGt
The …

Social media has made the sharing of ideas and information easy. Sometimes you may see a tweet that catches your eye – but if you’re not fast enough it’s already been replaced with something else. Add to that, the fact that sometimes there are not enough hours in the day to read everything.
That’s why we’ve decided to put together a list of some interesting things we’ve been reading and subsequently sharing with our followers for the week of August 8, 2011:
Social Media: Get Out of My Sandbox!: …

A lot of articles have surfaced as a result of the approval of ‘say on pay’ by the SEC in January of this year.  As I read through them, I decided to pose the question ‘How can IROs embrace the newly approved say on pay?’ as the topic for a recent #irchat session. You can click here to read the complete #irchat transcript.
What follows are ideas incorporated from the discussion (with direct ideas attributed where applicable) as well as commentary prompted by various articles (which will be referenced in the …

This week’s #irchat began with a discussion about how the changing corporate governance landscape has shone a spotlight on how IROs need to tackle new reporting requirements like CSR.  We ended the session with a great debate about what constitutes good guidance practices. Click here to read the full transcript.
Thanks to @bropo; @robberick; @TrevorHeisler; @stefanpetter; @irwebreport; @canicoll; @DWalshIR; @Box_IR; @fredmcclimans; @InsuranceIR for making it out today!
Q1: New rules see Corp Gov & IR converging eg. CSR reporting demands for IRO: http://bit.ly/by0EbC. Should AR and CSR be combined into one report? …

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We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Virtua Research to offer analysts and sophisticated investors the Interactive Analyst Center – a new standard of rendering a company’s financial data.

The Interactive Analyst Center was originally designed at the request of Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited with the purpose of providing investors and analysts the most advanced new suite of interactive financials and graphing tools, all embedded in a single, logical location — the investor section of a company’s website.
Some of the KEY FEATURES include:

Excel like Presentation – …

The Q4 team attended the CICA corporate reporting awards (CRA) earlier today at the Carlu in College Park in downtown Toronto.  In attendance were myself who has served as a judge for the annual awards in the electronic disclosure category for the past three years, Catherine Crofton our VP Sales & Marketing who has also participated as a judge in the electronic disclosure category for the past seven years and Karen Adams our Client Relations Director.
The CRA is in its 58th year and presents awards for excellence in financial reporting, …