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 …

Advisors understand that social media is one of the fastest growing communications channels in the world. Social networks improve the ability of financial advisors to increase the amount of clients under management as well as increase their interaction and visibility with them. Unfortunately financial advisors still struggle to adopt and maximize social media and its benefits. Our study points out many of the challenges faced by financial advisors in utilizing social media, but it also seeks to emphasize the reasons behind these struggles while offering advice to help the financial …

We have many conversations with IROs and often get asked: how do I get started with social media? What’s the ROI? How much time is needed to keep the channels populated with content? What are the risks?
All of the aforementioned are important considerations. A recent article I read posed 6 questions for companies to think about before getting into social media: http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/01/social-media-ready.html.
The article was not necessarily public company specific, but I thought the ideas presented would be valuable to share with IROs. That said, I’m going to …

I came across this SlideShare earlier today and I wanted to share it here. It’s quite an indepth presentation that covers all aspects of social media. When you have a few minutes I highly recommend flipping through it. The numbers continue to blow me away, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
A quote from the author Esteban Contreras:
There might be saturation, but social media has changed the way we live. And this means social media is no longer a question for marketers. Companies of all sizes have accepted …

Yesterday we announced the release of Q4 Widgets to our popular Q4 Web content management system (CMS). As a follow up to the release we wanted to share some more details about how the Widgets work and what makes them such a huge improvement to the corporate and IR website design market.
The primary change that we made to Q4 Web to make these Widgets possible is to move to JSON feeds for the delivery of all investor and financial content (news, events, presentations, reports). Previously, content would come …

We are pleased to announce the launch of Q4 Widgets, the latest addition to the popular Q4 Web content management system (CMS).
Q4 Widgets have been created to give public companies and their web designers complete flexibility in how they design corporate and investor websites, while continuing to maintain complete control over content publishing via the Q4 Web CMS.
With this release, using JSON feeds as the source, Q4 Web has integrated a JQuery Widget Library that is completely extensible, and allows for virtually any type of content to …

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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Due to popular demand, you can now browse and download all of our whitepapers, webinars and presentations from our ‘Best Practices’ section on our website: http://www.q4websystems.com/Best-Practices/default.aspx.
 

Using the social media publishing capabilities of Q4 Web, our market leading website CMS and social media platform, we tagged the videos and presentations so we could seamlessly integrate the content from Vimeo and SlideShare into our website.
We have some new and exciting whitepapers and webinars in store for 2012 – and we’ll update this section accordingly.
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A lot of great stuff on Twitter this week, here’s what we’ve been reading and sharing:
Most young adults go online for no good reason at all: http://shar.es/oAFCO
Twitter Used By 91% Of B2B Marketers, But LinkedIn Generates Twice As Many Leads: http://ow.ly/7LL3f
‘Enforcement wave’ heading for advisers: Ex-SEC official: http://bit.ly/sbf83U
The Latest 15 Facts and Figures on Facebook – Plus Infographic: http://wind.mn/vo9YeY
Apple employee blogging and social media guidelines revealed: http://bit.ly/rYAde1
The Naked Retweet Dilemma: http://bit.ly/sKRkXY
Drafting Better Risk Factor Disclosure: http://ir4.me/zGJzl
2012 Outlook: Analysts See Volatility: http://bit.ly/ssF8qM
The mobile web in numbers: http://ir4.me/zS3hj
Announcing the Launch of StockTwits …

Social media has enabled anyone to be an influencer – and just because your company is not listening to the online conversations, doesn’t mean they aren’t happening.
Online conversations are multidirectional and everyone has a voice which makes it difficult to track everything that is being said.  We’ve had many discussions with IROs about how to get started using social media – a key aspect of which is monitoring.
We also often get asked who we recommend to help with monitoring efforts.  In general, we don’t like to offer ‘advice’ and say …