Our development team has put together some great improvements to Newsdesk for this release.
A Wider Screen to Show More Information. Newsdesk will now load in expanded mode to better reflect the majority of our visitors’ browsing resolutions. The shrink button will still be available.
Customize the Dashboard Your Way. Select the number of headlines to display in the dashboard widgets with the new drop-down menu. Combined with the new Group Dashboards, you can enjoy unprecedented control over multiple feeds and workspaces, whether sharing news with your team or your entire organization.
Faster Media Monitoring. We’ve reduced the turn-around time for new articles coming into the system by about 5 minutes, making Newsdesk’s media coverage even nearer to real time than before.
More Public Facebook Posts. We’ve made improvements to our Facebook coverage of publicly shared updates. Contact Client Services to find out more and if you would like us to look for specific keyword mentions on Facebook.
Updates to Yammer. We have updated our integration with Yammer, the corporate social networking service, to use their latest widget with many new features.
Improvements to the Interface. The feed dropdown menu no longer sticks around when you mouse away; thumbnail images are better aligned; user comments are presented in a nicer way; we are testing new styling for headlines in the search results
The Right Quotation Marks, Every Time. Now you can paste queries from Microsoft Word and Outlook without worrying about so-called “curly quotes” breaking your search. These quotation characters are now automatically converted to their plain text versions.
The award-winning Newsdesk service used by companies worldwide for media monitoring, competitive intelligence, and enterprise-wide news distribution launched new features this week! Read more about these new features and learn more about how Newsdesk gives marketing and corporate communications teams a powerful set of tools allowing them to turn unstructured mass media into actionable market intelligence:
Better Broadcast.
The TV broadcast coverage now includes ‘designated market area’ (DMA) data for local US TV channels. We are also showing keyword highlighting in broadcast transcripts for easier scanning, and have made improvements to the legibility of the transcript.
Power Search
Users adept at writing complex search queries can now use more advanced search engine parameters, for even more specialist and detailed search results. Contact your account manager to enable this new feature.
Refresh your dashboard
Update the articles in the feeds saved to your dashboard without having to refresh your browser.
Improved styling For Better Readability
The Dashboard and Saved Feeds list now sport sharper fonts and a cleaner layout, including thumbnail images, to make it easier to scan the latest headlines.
Rolling Out Shared Dashboards and User Comments
We recently announced “Shared Dashboards”, allowing administrators to customize a common Dashboard, and “User Comments”, enabling users to add comments to news articles. Tomorrow’s update will introduce these new features to all customers.
These are the new features that were rolled out earlier today. Thanks to our Development and QA teams for their hard work!
User Comments in Newsletters. Share comments from users in your email Alerts and Newsletters, and add the company’s view to news events. It’s easy to edit the styling to match your template.
Improved Dashboards. Share feeds between Group Dashboards and My Dashboard and collaborate on charts saved to a Group Dashboard.
Better Broadcast. Video thumbnails now make scanning Broadcast search results easier. Click on a search result to go to the relevant portion of the media clip. Click on a section of the transcript to jump to that part of the clip.
We are pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with NewsRight the digital rights and content licensing organization based out of New York.
This first-of-its-kind agreement introduces a new model for aggregated use of news content published on the web, ensuring reliable, rights-cleared news content for customers, while licensing the intellectual property rights of hundreds of publishers. In addition, the NewsRight partnership opens the door to new, previously unavailable media metrics directly from publishers.
We are genuinely excited about the NewsRight deal – it represents a significant step forward in aligning the interests of publishers and the users of the content, as the publishing industry continues to evolve.
We’ll be sharing more details in the weeks ahead.
If you have any questions in the meantime, please reach out to your account manager who will be happy to assist you or if you are not a client contact salesinfo@moreover.com for more details.
We had our usual Newsdesk bi-weekly point release yesterday, here’s the summary…
We’ve added user-level usage info to the new Admin section, showing nr of saved feeds / dashboard widgets / exported feeds / email alerts / newsletters
Broadcast clips now show on a newly designed, much nicer looking page, with transcript text next to the clip. You can search US and UK broadcast alongside any other media type such as online news, blogs, social media or PDF print.
Newsdesk broadcast clip example
On internal systems, we’ve extended premium content permissioning options down to user level (previously were at global account level), meaning specific users within an organization can receive licensed premium content while other users just access the standard search.
Searching over blogs now includes blog comments where available (you can exclude them via the Refine panel)
Various cosmetic improvements:
The relevancy slider now sits at the top of the Refine panel
The search result counts now show large numbers with commas (or dots depending on country)
We trimmed the little button cluster at the top of the Refine panel section so it’s cleaner
The row heights in the email / newsletter / email manager lists are now nicely uniform
You can now add a Yammer widget to your Dashboard showing latest colleague comments – just go to the “My Content” folder’s drop-down menu to add it (an optional feature for those with a Yammer account)
We hope you like the latest additions. If you’re not a client and want to find out more then here’s the link. Ciao for now!
Here’s an update on the latest feature enhancements from yesterday’s Newsdesk point release.
Content is indeed king in the world of media intelligence (as indeed Bill Gates mused in 1996), so we put some of our attention this sprint on helping customers see exactly which sources we cover and how we rank them.
Here’s the full summary:
A brand new “Coverage” section: A whole new area devoted to showing clients exactly which sources we index, and how we classify them, adding context to media analytics and giving confidence that we have key media covered. We’ll be building this out in the coming weeks to add more info and global harvesting stats.
Moreover Newsdesk Source Detail
Yammer and Twitter integration: Now you can post links to Yammer, the enterprise social network service. You can also Tweet articles.
Moreover Newsdesk Yammer Post
Spanish helpfile: The helpfile is now available in Spanish, completing the Spanish user interface we released two weeks ago.
A new Usage Stats section: We’ve also introduced a new stats section for Newsdesk admin users. Now you can see login activity across the account, view active users, and help get a gauge on ROI.
We hope you like the latest installment. If you’re not a client and want to find out more then here’s the link. Talk to you again in two weeks time!
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