LinkedIn recently added status updates for company pages.  This is good news for companies as prior to this change, information such as news, a stock quote and key statistics was automatically being communicated through LinkedIn and displayed without any involvement from the company.
One of the challenges of working for a public company is keeping an eye on what is being said in many different mediums including social media.  Having this information provided by LinkedIn left companies little or no control over the content.  It also imposed an onus on the …

Here’s this week’s roundup of what we’ve been reading and sharing on Twitter:
 
State of the Media: The Social Media Report:  http://bit.ly/qFvlxM
How has social media changed the way newsrooms work?: http://j.mp/ohGE9A
IPO Backlog Hits Record Despite Market Turmoil: http://stks.co/CU2
Five Reasons Why Websites Still Matter: http://bit.ly/qjBJKV
6 Social Networking Questions IT Should Investigate: http://bit.ly/pidQbN
The best and most complete story on the UBS rogue trader: http://bit.ly/mWrWKA
Robot traders set to oust humans from the trading floor: http://bit.ly/r9M5I4
HP execs misled investors before August stock crash: lawsuit: http://reut.rs/mVXyma
Until next week!
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In this second part in our series of whitepapers concerning public company use of social media for investor relations (the first addressed Twitter) we have found that Facebook has quickly become a popular channel used by companies – with 45% using it to provide investor-related material compared to 37% we cited in July 2010.
IRO’s continue to use Facebook to provide greater context to the company and its markets by sharing industry-related information and using multimedia to showcase assets.  We are seeing emerging trends, such as increased engagement with investors and …

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 …

Here’s a list of interesting things we’ve been reading and sharing on Twitter this past week. Lots of great articles, we hope you find it interesting!
Social Media & IR Best Practice example “Dell Investor Relations Answers Questions from Social Media” http://t.co/EIPtZBj
FINRA proposes to exempt social media communications from getting prior approval: http://t.co/9OafC4K
Big Changes On Twitter – Everything You Need To Know: http://t.co/vh0Ifjs
New research on social media & IR, Euro focus “IR 2.0 International Benchmark Study”: http://t.co/taz1zoH
Twitter hedge fund beats the market, other funds: http://t.co/5OSpG1Q
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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 …

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 1, 2011:
Paper on investor relations and social media in the new …

Lubrizol created their Twitter account in January 2011.  A couple of months later, in March, the company claimed their Ticker symbol on StockTwits and began using the channel.
As an early adopter of social media, we used Lubrizol as an example of a company that benefits from using StockTwits to augment their news distribution in our latest whitepaper: Public Company Use of Social Media for IR – Part 1: Twitter and StockTwits.
After we issued the whitepaper, Jennifer Tucci, Lubrizol’s Financial Analyst (and the person responsible for getting the company’s investor relations …

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 July 25, 2011:
Madoff Trustee Makes $1B Settlement With Tremont: http://bit.ly/o2g0HS
Social Business TV- …