We’ve been hard at work improving Newsdesk to bring our clients more of what they need. Here’s a rundown of what’s new in the April 11th update.
Table of Contents Options in Newsletter Templates
You now have a new way to customize your newsletters templates more fully. The Table of Contents is automatically generated and included at the top of email Newsletters.
You may choose from:
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Table of contents (default)
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No table of contents (new)
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Table of Contents with article headlines (new)
Clean Layout
To make it easier to scan through the search results, the headline now appears below the source, author, and publish time.
The Twitter and Yammer icons have been updated and extraneous lines have been replaced by whitespace.
Rich Atom
For our “Rich Atom” feed format, we will now include a link to an XSD file that you can use to validate the returned XML. This brings us in line with industry standards.
If calls are made too frequently, a 429 “Too many requests” error will be returned. Calls for content should be spaced at least 60 seconds apart.
Enhancements to the “Add Articles” Feature
Articles that you manually add yourself can be translated directly from saved searches and Newsletters using Google Translate.
The language is set after clicking “Add Article” from a saved search’s drop-down menu.
Other Enhancements
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To help manage large source lists, in the Advanced Sources tab, we have made the selection area larger and added sources are sorted alphabetically.
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Further improvements to duplicate detection for similar articles.
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Wildcards now work with case sensitive searching and Power Searches.
Log in to Newsdesk to see them for yourself and tell us what you think.
April 11, 2013
We have just rolled out new changes to Newsdesk to facilitate your media monitoring efforts.
Improvements to User Comments on the Dashboard
You can now see which articles have comments from other users directly on the Dashboard widgets. Click the icon next to an article to see the discussion from colleagues about a news topic and to add your own comments.
New Article and Source Metadata in Feed Export
The Rich Atom feed now provides additional metadata about the source and the article. It can be used to build up a client-side index of articles for more detailed media analytics.
It also allows clients to offer a richer end-user experience by displaying more information alongside article headlines, such as the country of a source.
Here is an example of an article with the new tagging:
<entry>
<title type=”html”>Olympic and Paralympic Values – Excellence week</title>
<link rel=”alternate” href=”https://newsdesk.moreover.com/linkToStory/ />
<link rel=”enclosure” href=”http://site.com/image.png” />
<id>https:/newsdesk.moreover.com/linkToStory</id>
<updated>2012-07-12T17:57:00Z</updated>
<published>2012-07-12T17:57:00Z</published>
<summary type=”html”>Olympic and Paralympic Values: Excellence week. On June 11, World Class kicked off seven weeks of Olympic-themed content in our buildup to the London 2012 Olympic Games…
</summary>
<source>
<title>BBC</title> manually indent these a little more
<link rel=”alternate” href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk” />
</source>
<m:article_id>6817501983</m:article_id>
<m:language>English</m:language>
<m:publisher>British Broadcasting Corporation</m:publisher>
<m:source_rank>1</m:source_rank>
<m:source_category>National</m:source_category>
<m:source_sections>
<m:source_section>Society</m:source_section>
<m:source_section>Standard</m:source_section>
</m:source_sections>
<m:region>Europe</m:region>
<m:subregion>Northern Europe</m:subregion>
<m:country>United Kingdom</m:country>
<m:feed_class>News</m:feed_class>
<m:stock_tickers>
<m:stock_ticker>XSTU:ITJ</m:stock_ticker>
<m:stock_ticker>XMUN:ITJ</m:stock_ticker>
<m:stock_ticker>XFRA:ITJ</m:stock_ticker>
<m:stock_ticker>XBER:ITJ</m:stock_ticker>
<m:stock_ticker>XTKS:4951</m:stock_ticker>
</m:stock_tickers>
<m:topics>
<m:topic>Sports: London 2012 news</m:topic>
<m:topic>Sports: latest</m:topic>
<m:topic>Society news</m:topic>
</m:topics>
</entry>
To see how you can take advantage of these new features, contact your client services representative.
July 24, 2012
