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 …

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 early August, I presented ‘Leveraging Technology: Online Communications and the Role of Social Media’ at Deutsche Bank’s Annual Depositary Receipts Issuer Training seminar in New York.
I met a lot of great people and it was interesting to hear views about social media from IROs around the world.  I had a particularly interesting conversation (albeit short as I had a plane to catch) with Friederike Edelmann, Director of Investor Relations at SAP who mentioned that some of their analysts are on Twitter.
I was of course intrigued by this tidbit of …

Here’s this week’s roundup of what we’ve been reading and sharing on Twitter:
Merger and Acquisition Considerations For Investors & Shareholders: http://bit.ly/oTjqqQ
The need for a listening movement: From monitoring to learning: http://bit.ly/pp1hXI
The Great Twitter Unfollow Experiment of 2011: http://bit.ly/rab3aD
Nearly Half of Leading Asset Managers Using Multiple Social Media Profiles: http://tinyurl.com/3p2e3ry
I don’t have time to blog because I need to hire, get customers, get PR and raise money: http://tru.vc/p4cFE1
Is Your Social Working? (Infographic): http://owl.li/6q06U
It’s time to kill the IPO quiet period: http://ir4.me/kPvXn
Facebook is the Most Hated Social Media Company: http://bit.ly/nQzoF9
Happy Reading!
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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 …

Here’s this week’s roundup of what we’ve been reading and sharing on Twitter:
How Social Media Can Mesh With Traditional Corporate IT: http://t.co/xR7iIb6
Salesforce chief: CEOs must embrace social media: http://stks.co/4FJ
Can you stop poisonous news spreading on social networks?: http://goo.gl/oBZZn
15 Case Studies to Get Your Client On Board With Social Media: http://ow.ly/6fZVw
How The New York Times is taking Twitter reporting faster and deeper with @NYTLive http://bit.ly/qHVO3S
NFL Team Replacing Paper Playbooks With iPads: on.mash.to/nBcY6G
Ultimate Guide: Getting Started on StockTwits: http://bit.ly/q1gfu2
Twitter Ramps Up Its Ad Plan Again, With Ads You Haven’t Asked …

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 …

Through my involvement over the past 10 years as a panel judge in the ‘Electronic Disclosure’ category of the Canadian Institute of Charted Accountants (CICA) Corporate Reporting Awards, I have become very familiar with the PotashCorp website (www.potashcorp.com). In my work with Q4, I often refer to it as an exemplary model of best practices.
Recently I interviewed Tim Herrod, Director, Treasury (C.A.) and former Manager, Investor Relations with PotashCorp, who was instrumental in helping to plan both the award-winning former site and current redesign, which was launched in January of …

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
Why Social Engagement Is Critical To Business …