Can Financial Bloggers Influence the Markets?
StockTwits Founder, Howard Lindzon, Says "You Bet They Can"
(firmenpresse) - CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/24/11 -- The Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) Alberta Chapter is pleased to bring co-founder and CEO of StockTwits, Howard Lindzon to Calgary on Thursday, November 17th, 2011. is a real-time financial platform for the investing community where traders and investors share ideas and information.
"Real-time communities, bloggers and other new communications channels are talking about your company and many more people are listening to these conversations," says Mr. Lindzon. "Research has shown that blogs and other online sources have lead over 50 percent of the investment community to dig deeper when it comes to making a potential investment".Stocktwits has seen:
"This is not a trend that can be ignored or denied by public companies" says Rhonda Bennetto, VP of IR for TVI Pacific, CIRI Board Member and Digital Media user. "These guys can sway your stock price in a matter of tweets (i.e.: a few short seconds) so it's imperative you engage, or at the very least follow, to stay current and informed. To pretend they (financial bloggers) don't exist, or that they can't affect your share price, is a big mistake".
Come and hear Howard explain who is talking about your company, what they are saying, how often they say it, how many people are listening, who they are influencing and how you can participate in the conversation.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Anyone involved in the communication of a public company, individual investors, traders, brokers, bloggers, fund managers, CEO's, CFO's, corporate secretaries- just for starters.
ABOUT HOWARD LINDZON
Mr. Lindzon has more than twenty years' experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. in 2007. He is an active angel with many success angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Mr. Lindzon's new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).
ABOUT STOCKTWITS
With offices in San Diego and New York, StockTwits is a real-time financial platform for the investing community and creator of the $(TICKER) tag for the widest syndication of investment information. It provides a specialized environment created specifically for investors where users can customize information and networks based on interests and investments, and corporations can easily monitor, disseminate and manage communication within the social media environment. StockTwits was named "One of the Best Websites, 2010" by Time Magazine, and was listed as one of the "10 Most Innovative Companies on the Web" by Fast Company.
ABOUT CIRI - event organizer
CIRI is a professional, not-for-profit association of executives responsible for communication between public corporations, investors and the financial community. CIRI is dedicated to advancing the stature and credibility of the investor relations profession and the competency of its members. Visit for more information.
Special thanks to Marketwire for their support of CIRI Alberta and the dissemination of our releases.
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Anne Plasterer
CIRI Alberta President
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Datum: 24.10.2011 - 09:00 Uhr
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