Moreover Newsdesk Wins Third Major Award of 2011

Newsdesk has won its third major award this year, a Silver in the Best Evaluation Process category at the second annual Digital Impact Awards in London. Read more here >

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Leave a Comment October 27, 2011

Moreover to start regular online training sessions for Newsdesk users

Attention Newsdesk users! Moreover is starting a new, regular online training program for Newsdesk due to increased demand. We have 5 topics, and each one is covered at least once a week. No matter what your time zone, you should be able to find a session that is convenient for you.

Check out the full schedule and register for a session.

To get you started, here are the topics and times they will be presented:

Newsdesk Overview & Basic Instruction (30-60 minutes)

Summarizing the overall layout and functionality of Newsdesk, including basic searching. Reviewing the main tabs to provide a good general grounding in all the tools in the application.

Creating Searches and Saving as Feeds (30 minutes)

Demonstrating how to build basic searches: covering Boolean commands, advanced search filters, the refine panel and a run-through on saving, editing and sharing feeds.

Analytics (30 minutes)

Analyzing feeds and the various analytical models available to measure searches, identify trends and highlight hot spots.

Redistribution: Exporting Feeds to a Website, Email Alerts and Electronic Newsletters (30-45 minutes)

Covering the use and function of exporting feeds to websites, plus creating, editing and sending Alerts and Newsletters. Includes branding and styling of custom Newsletters.

Advanced Searching & the Refine Panel (45-60 minutes)

After users master basic searching in Newsdesk, this session will dig deeper into Boolean search, Advanced Search and the power of the Newsdesk Refinery’s faceted searching.

Leave a Comment August 2, 2011

(CODiE award winning) Newsdesk 4 update

We’ve been a bit quiet on the blog front recently, so it’s time to rectify that by keeping you all up-to-date with the latest product features and enhancements to Newsdesk.

• Added US State and UK County options in the source location filter
• Option to exclude regions/countries/states in the source location filter
• Option to exclude subscription and registration sources from a feed
• A new template search option that is automatically applied to new searches so as a user you don’t have to configure the same preferred settings each time
• New facets for Source Category, Source Section, and Publisher
• New HTML feed export option and simplified the UI a little for Feed Export
• Made the ‘expand search text area’ feature a little more subtle and neater

So far the feedback from customers and our peers has been overwhelming, we appreciate all your comments and help us to make Newsdesk the fantastic product it is!  Any questions or should you like a free trial just drop us a note below.

Leave a Comment March 1, 2011

Moreover Technologies Wins Dual CODiE Honors, Including First-Ever “Best Information Solution” SuperCategory Award

Newsdesk 4 Also Takes Home “Best Content Aggregation Solution” Award

Reston, VA (PRWEB) February 1, 2011

Moreover Technologies’ Newsdesk 4 discovery, refinement and sharing service became the first recipient of a new SuperCategory Award for “Best Information Solution” at the CODiE Awards recognizing excellence in the business software, digital content and education technology industries. Moreover also won “Best Content Aggregation Solution” honors.

Newsdesk 4 gives users unified portal access to millions of daily news articles and social media posts, and ability to refine results immediately using comprehensive cutting-edge faceted search and filtering tools. Easy-to-use sharing tools include automated newsletters, email alerts, and editorial control of feeds shared.

The CODiE Awards highlight the annual Information Industry Summit presented by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), principal trade association for the software and digital content industry.

“Now in its 26th year, the CODiE Awards continue to recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries,” noted SIIA President Ken Wasch. “In addition, its winners are a prolific testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to businesses and consumers.”

Commenting on winning two awards in its first-ever CODiE competition, Moreover Technologies’ President Paul J. Farrell said, “It’s a great honor. We are thrilled. We had so much competition and great products we were competing against. This is an incredible achievement for our people. Our total gratitude goes out to the association and all they do in the industry.”

The CODiE accolades reinforce a favorable independent review of Newsdesk 4 conducted by FreePint Research last fall. Partnerships involving Newsdesk 4 also are emerging. Moreover and Precise, the UK’s leading media intelligence provider, are working together to offer the UK a unique news and social media intelligence capability called Precise Profile, powered by the Newsdesk 4 engine.

About:

Moreover Technologies is a trusted aggregator of global news and social media. Through US and UK offices, the firm offers corporate customers worldwide unified portal access to 2.2 million news articles and social media posts from 1.8 million editorially vetted sources. http://www.moreover.com

SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 500 leading software and information companies. http://www.siia.net

2 Comments February 2, 2011

Moreover wins two CODiE Awards, including ‘Best Information Solution’

Moreover takes home two top honors at the prestigious 26th annual CODiE Awards Competition.  Newsdesk 4 won its first award for “Best Content Aggregation Solution.”  Later, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that Moreover was the winner of a new SuperCategory Award for “Best Information Solution.”  Interviewed after receiving the second award, Moreover President Paul Farrell said, “We’re just knocked over, this is an incredible achievement for our people.”  More to come.

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3 Comments January 26, 2011

Newsdesk nominated for 2011 CODiEs

After months of hard work getting Newsdesk 4 ready for launch at the tail end of last year, and the subsequent toil of tweaks, upgrades and ever-expanding features we are very pleased to announce that Moreover’s Newsdesk 4 has been nominated for a CODiE award.

We have been nominated in the Best Content Aggregation Solution, which “Recognizes the best product that gathers or collects information or applications from disparate online sources for reuse, resale, or distribution from, a single platform.  Products may be developed for the broader market or customized based on user needs.“  We’d love to thank the team at SIIA for considering us for such a prestigious award and for the opportunity to test what we feel is our best product yet.

Winners are announced next week, on January 25, so check back in with us then to see how we did!

Leave a Comment January 18, 2011

Merry Christmas from Moreover!

Everybody here at Moreover would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, we look back on the past twelve months feeling pretty proud of our achievements with Newsdesk 4 and are especially looking forward to further innovation in the next twelve.  We will leave you with this piece from Mashable, exploring where the news industry might head next year and we’d love to hear your thoughts on similar or reflections on 2010 in the comments section below!

Leave a Comment December 24, 2010

What’s new in Newsdesk 4, Dec 2010

Since the October release of Newsdesk 4 our engineering team have been busy testing, tweaking and generally playing with things under the hood, adding more functionality to make Newsdesk an essential media monitoring tool.

The latest version now offers the ability to chart multiple feeds across all media types:

Charts can be saved and edited from My Content, as well as being exportable in CSV format.  Pick from a variety of graph styles, then click and drag your way around the chart to isolate peaks in coverage and discover all the articles on any given day.  This capability allows users to compare and spot trends over a wide range of media types, along with the Moreover‘s comprehensive filters and facets.

It is also possible to add charts to your Dashboard, alongside your other important saved feeds:

All in all we are very excited with the way Newsdesk is shaping up, and expect much more to come as we race into 2011 ready to keep pushing ourselves forward!  Drop us any comments below or request a free trial here.

Leave a Comment December 8, 2010

Newsdesk 4 measures up

An independent review of our all-new Newsdesk 4 in FreePint’s November VIP Report reveals that this cutting-edge discovery and sharing service is fulfilling its promise.

In her conclusion, author Penny Crossland summarizes, “Newsdesk4 is a powerful search tool, providing users with links to global and authoritative sources on the web. One of its many strengths lies in the myriad of social media sources it aggregates. Searching is user-friendly and numerous filters result in targeted results – considerably more targeted than any web search engine could produce…The email and newsletter facilities make Newsdesk4 a useful tool for sharing information within corporations.”

Report excerpts confirm Newsdesk 4’s strong performance as a news and social media content search and sharing solution that “appeals to both end-users and experienced business searchers, by using standard search engine facilities and faceted search tools.” Areas addressed include:

Overall functionality and enhancements—

“Newsdesk 4 uses new technology, an improved search engine and incorporates several new features such as increased faceted search capabilities, more filters to refine searches and analytical tools…It is a particularly useful tool for media monitoring, corporate marketing and marketing communications departments and can be embedded into corporate intranets…”

Breadth and depth of social media and news coverage—

“Newsdesk 4’s social media coverage is impressive…news coverage spans numerous industry sectors…According to the vendor around 40,000 online news sources are monitored, however there is an overlap between sources when it comes to sector coverage. Analysed by industry sector, the number of sources is considerably more, reaching around 90,000.”

Global reach and presence—

“Customers are able to search for news from 148 regions, sub-regions or countries…this category also includes major cities… Newsdesk 4’s search facility covers an impressive range of languages.”

Real-time relevancy—

“Newsdesk4’s strength lies in its near real-time access to news.”

User-friendly look and feel—

“The Newsdesk 4 interface has an attractive layout and is easy to navigate. Despite a wealth of sources, categories and search facilities, the portal does not feel overcrowded.”

Robust search tools—

“…a relevancy slider, which scores articles against keywords used in a search, allows users to zoom in on the most relevant stories…I particularly liked the ‘refine’ function on the right hand side of the screen. This bar displays results according to 13 criteria, which can be used to further filter results…Advanced Search options…are all intuitive to use and self-explanatory.”

Flexible sharing options—

“At this point it is possible to clip articles to feeds or drag and drop them into feeds. The email button on the results screen allows customers to forward stories on to colleagues…The email tab on the interface enables users to set up and manage email alerts and to create custom newsletters.”

The complete Report is now available for FREE download on our website.

Leave a Comment November 23, 2010

Moreover Technologies rolls out all-new Newsdesk 4

Gives users unified portal access to millions of news and social media results daily, cutting-edge faceted search and filtering tools.

Media aggregator Moreover Technologies announces the release of its all-new Newsdesk 4 real-time news and social media discovery, refinement and sharing service.  Newsdesk 4 gives users unified portal access to millions of daily news articles and social media posts, and ability to refine results immediately using comprehensive cutting-edge faceted search and filtering tools.

“Users can capture combined news and social media coverage all in one place, then rapidly slice and dice searches in ways that will pinpoint only what they need, and discard the rest,” emphasizes Paul J. Farrell, Moreover Technologies President.

Product Manager Brian Mackie adds, “We’ve focused on the top concerns voiced by clients – ability to easily and rapidly find, process and share information.  This SaaS application enables users to drill down fast to the best and most relevant search results, decide if or how to modify them, then share them easily while they’re still fresh and focused on the burning issues of the day.”

Newsdesk 4 previewers have cited ease of use of the Newsdesk 4 dashboard tools, intuitive search capabilities, and fast finding of needed content.  Among discussion forum comments are: “…design is real well done,” “…very elegant application,” “…from what I’m seeing, plug and play for us,” and “…you guys are going to do great with this product…It’s a home run.”

Newsdesk 4 meets five major media aggregation aims:

• Provides multiple ways to find relevant content – including faceted search; category filters; source filters; relevance and rank filters, on the fly (e.g., mentions of companies, people, products, events and stock ticker), and pre-canned searches with cross-referencing to enable targeting relevant information without frustrating trial-and-error.
• Unifies the search for both real-time news and social media through a single conduit.
• Captures the depth and breadth of the best read, most highly regarded coverage demanded by the world’s largest companies (2.5 million results daily from more than 1.7 million-plus sources spanning 800 searchable industry categories, 100-plus countries and 50-plus languages).
• Returns clean, spam-free results that have been editorially vetted.
• Offers easy-to-use sharing tools that empower rapid and reliable distribution, including automated newsletters, email alerts and ability to maintain editorial control of feeds shared.

Mackie elaborates, “Search options abound. You can look for headlines, languages, locations, individual sources, and result digests summarized by various criteria which can be further refined.  You can conduct very user-friendly Boolean searches.  While sophisticated and intuitive, Newsdesk 4 also is simple and straightforward, appropriate for everyone from power users to novices.”

Newsdesk 4′s intelligence-gathering capabilities enhance strategic, tactical and operational decision-making that scales for small and enterprise businesses alike, according to Rossen Roussev, Moreover Technologies’ Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Business Solutions.

Roussev, former External Intelligence Chief at Royal Dutch Shell, attests that Newsdesk saved his company $5 million in one year, due substantially to consolidating a variety of media monitoring vendor contracts under Moreover Technologies.

He identifies a variety of intelligence-related uses, including ability to: create an early-warning system for threats, identify emerging opportunities, compare performance and sentiments across regions, countries and competitors, refine messaging to help achieve business and communications objectives, and share all pertinent information with the right people through user-friendly distribution channels.

“Newsdesk 4 gives you a myriad of ways to find information you weren’t even looking for – such as negative information that can damage reputation, but has remained off the radar,” Mackie points out.

For more information, contact Brian Mackie, bmackie(at)moreover(dot)com.

Leave a Comment October 20, 2010