A nice mention on Search Engine Journal of the free Moreover.com RSS feeds, as a way for finding great content -
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/9-stratgies-for-finding-incredible-content/11271/
Thanks Search Engine Journal! Good feedback too about finding the right content, we’ll continue to work on those features. In the meantime users can adjust relevancy of the results with the two slider bars there – the relevancy filter looks for articles that mention your search keywords the most, while the sources filter lets you select just top sources. You can also search within any of the prebuilt news categories.
At the moment it’s just news but we’ll be adding blogs soon, check back in the next week or two.
June 22, 2009
We are pleased to bring you the news that MetaCarta, a leading geoweb company, and Moreover have partnered on providing the news links for MetaCarta’s news maps. Give it a spin and find out what’s going on in your bit of the globe, http://geosearch.metacarta.com. Zoom in and click search again to update the results and see more local stories, e.g.
Scroll to the right location and the sad tragedy of the Air France crash is shown, south of the Cape Verde Islands. For brighter news, try a search for “new species” and see where they’re being discovered, and a personal favourite: check out Antarctica for news about hanging gardens long since lost in ice. (Leads to, what is the most geographically isolated news story out there?)
June 4, 2009
We’ve tweaked the free RSS feeds section on our site and made it a bit more friendly to use.
But the big new thrill is that you can run your keyword searches over our 600 news categories (‘woods’ over golf news, ‘black hole’ over space science news, etc) and effectively use the categories to filter the news for very targeted results.
screenshot moreover.com rss feed builder
February 24, 2009
We’re pleased and proud to share a great customer success story with you – we’re pleased because the customer is pleased, and we’re pleased because we can tell you about it. We’ll be even more pleased when we repeat the success at other organisations looking for similar solutions to those of Royal Dutch Shell.
The customer case study is on our website, but it’s printed below in full as well - as you can appreciate this is a pretty good story for us to tell, so please forgive us this slightly vanglorious customer case study post!
Two requirements stood out: the technical capability to deliver and integrate with Shell’s IT environment, plus extensive coverage of international news across the many languages needed by a global corporation. Delivery of service started in the autumn of that year and has progressed in close partnership ever since. In the process Shell has become one of Moreover’s largest customers.
Over time the project has developed and expanded. As part of an intranet re-design, Moreover’s Newsdesk was embedded within the Shell online portal as a key component, providing Shell’s employees with access to real-time news and blogs directly from the intranet – thanks to integration with Microsoft’s ActiveDirectory there are no additional login requirements for users.
In fact, employees on the intranet don’t even realise that they are using an externally provided service. When they click the News tab on the intranet, they go straight through to a Shell-branded version of Newsdesk, where they can search for news, retrieve saved feeds, set up email alerts and read feeds and headlines set up by central office. As part of a custom implementation for Shell, users can also search across internal company content through the portal.
Rossen Roussev, Head of External Intelligence at Shell who has led the project on their side, puts it as follows: “Usage of Moreover’s Newsdesk and its content has been quite phenomenal, with users accessing thousands of articles on a daily basis. The combination of excellent content, easy-to-use interface and full integration with our intranet were key to acceptance with minimal effort required for change management and end-user training.”
The other half of the Moreover-Shell project has been to provide Shell’s marketing and business intelligence teams with a media monitoring service, to help them manage the global tide of online news. For example, Shell uses Moreover to track and respond to news about the company and its subsidiaries, to monitor local operations and political developments, to read up on the industry and other companies and to track developments in technology, science and the environment.
Creating these targeted news channels takes editorial intelligence and expertise. “Having access to so much content at your fingertips requires a careful consideration of the topics and issues we wanted to expose to our readers”, says Rossen. “User’s confidence can be easily lost if you’re tracking a issue critical to Shell and your tailored feed has captured an irrelevant article. Moreover’s Editorial and Customer Services teams have been a major factor in ensuring this was a success and minimising the risk factors of running this in a fully automated manner.”
In the process, Shell was able to target and replace a number of existing media monitoring contracts and consolidate under a single provider. This has produced real, measurable bottom-line impact and has proven the service. Rossen states it clearly: “Utilising Moreover’s Newsdesk, we’ve been able to stop and consolidate a number of contracts with external agencies providing media monitoring for us. $4mln saved and another $1mln avoided in a single year – do I need to say more?!”
Today the work continues. Shell’s business requirements provide a great blueprint for the wider market opportunity for this type of service. Their product feedback has been hugely valuable to the product and engineering teams at Moreover. For instance, new features such as the recently introduced analytics, the upcoming newsletter and the improved email alerts service all incorporate feedback from Shell.
The challenges continue too of course, with intranets developing apace, driven forward by Web 2.0 technologies and expectations. Moreover’s long-term design on enterprise services and its commitment to Shell and its many other global clients create an excellent position from which to take advantage of the ever-evolving opportunities in this sector. These are challenging but also hugely exciting times, and Moreover is looking forward to working with Rossen and his team in the years ahead and to sharing future successes with other great companies and teams to come.
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February 10, 2009
