This week we’ve made some significant additions to PositivePress. These additions are direct results of input from our customers. All these features are available today. If you are a PositivePress customer or someone evaluating it under our 30-day free test drive period, these features will just magically appear.
First, we have made some significant changes to the overall navigation. We reworded some of the top navigation elements to be more logical. But I assure you everything is still there as well as some new features that we believe you will really like. Without further ado, the new features are:
Topics: We built PositivePress using best in breed Open Web technologies (read: RSS feeds). This works for some customers who like the ability to monitor specific media sources. But the number of people who feel comfortable working at this level is admittedly a subset of the general populace. Some people told us they just want to enter a term and not get into the details of where the data comes from. So we built Topics.
A Topic can be a product, a company, a person, a place…whatever you want to monitor. Sometimes you may want to monitor a set of products. Other times you may want to monitor a product as well as the products that compete with it. Under the covers, we do the work to scour the web for information on a Topic. With this in mind, we’ve also changed the way we charge for PositivePress. We now charge by the Topic and Feed – so that you can choose the right combination for you.
Overview Dashboard: Users told us they would like one spot to get an overview of what they are monitoring. The Overview Dashboard is just that place. Under the Overview tab you will see both a place to get a quick, at-a-glance look at what you are monitoring in PositivePress as well as a workspace to compare various types of web traffic. If you want to understand what makes up the coverage for a certain point on a graph, just click on it and you will be redirected to the Web pages in the Archive that make up that point in time. (Slick, huh?). The Overview Dashboard has 3 sections, as described below:
Workspace: The workspace is where you can track and compare Web traffic by Topic and Date Range as well as by Tag and Folder. The workspace defaults to showing overall traffic across all Topics by channel – Blogs, News, or Twitter – and allow you to change the parameters to compare just about anything interactively.
All Topics Overview: This view gives you a quick at-a-glance look at the relative coverage of each of your topics. This is especially valuable when comparing a product or company against its competition.
Individual Topics: Each topic displays a line and pie chart showing the mix of coverage – Blogs, News and Twitter. This is useful for tracking coverage in greater detail. And any time you see something of interest and want to look deeper, just click on the point on the line graph to be directed to the articles that make up that point in time.
Automatic Reports: Based on user feedback, we created a way to email reports automatically on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. These Automated Reports contain graphs to give you an overview of your coverage. To use Automated Reports you simply give the Report a title, determine frequency (daily, weekly or monthly), decide which Topics to include, address the report, and select OK. PositivePress will send the reports out as instructed. As well, a copy of each report sent will be kept under Reports-> History for referral at a later time.
View Slideshow: This feature exists under the Archive Tab and is optimized for review of the details of a set of pages. Each page is shown in full size – as opposed to the thumbnail view in the Archive view – and across the top are controls optimized for tagging and adding notes to a Web page. View Slideshow is very useful when you want to examine a set of articles over a period of time, commenting on some, tagging others, and perhaps deleting some that were captured by error.
This sums up the major features of or new release. We hope you find these new features useful. Either way, we appreciate it if you let us know what you think.
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