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 …

Measuring Social Media ROI: 3 Things to Consider: http://on.mash.to/tdUOe3
Media companies and Twitter – still mostly doing it wrong: http://bit.ly/srsKZj
Reporters Use Twitter to Promote, Not Report [STUDY]: http://on.mash.to/tBtS1F
Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think: http://stks.co/17ga
Over 48 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute: http://post.ly/3tLJD
Social Readiness: Architecting a Connected Enterprise: web-strategist.com/blog/2011/11/1
Paving a way for women in Brazil: http://j.mp/vOxSyG
Investor videos: Success Tips from a Producer: http://bit.ly/tpUzkc
Bringing you insights into LinkedIn Groups with our new statistics dashboard: http://zite.to/sYnFwp
5 Must Read Investor Relations Articles and Blog Posts: http://bit.ly/vJrT5P
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Last week, we outlined several observations we have made through our research on how public companies are using social media for investor relations and shared some best practices for live-tweeting investor events such as an earnings call, annual shareholders meeting and analyst/investor day including:

Preparing tweets in advance of the call.
Providing a link to the materials associated with the live event.
Proactively soliciting questions in advance.
Consistent use of #hashtags.
Appending tweets with your ticker symbol.

As I mentioned last week, I thought a separate post on disclaimers was warranted.  So this post is dedicated …

Lot’s of great reading on Twitter this week:
Josh Clark debunks the 7 Myths of Mobile Web Design: http://tnw.co/u9MqRR
Lessons from the Australian Parliament’s iPad Revolt: http://onforb.es/tDj75g
Google to end support for Blackberry Gmail app this month: http://bit.ly/uAgTqI
Company Tweets and Regulation FD: Material or Immaterial?: http://bit.ly/uJ3JLf
A New Way to Learn About Bloomberg: http://ow.ly/7jAZA
Global Buy-side Attitudes Regarding Superstar CEOs: http://bit.ly/s9ety1
When Placing Ads, Don’t Underestimate the Value of Mobile: http://goo.gl/5W4lS
It’s Official: Flash Mobile Player is Dead: http://on.mash.to/tDy9WA
Social Media Use in Financial Services: Our Ongoing Research: http://j.mp/sIvGir
Raymond James Gets Social Media Right: http://stks.co/14QY
Infographic: The social media …

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 …