An Overview of NewsEdge.com 1
Introduction This document introduces Acquire Media s NewsEdge.com service. The associated high-level walkthroughs are designed to guide you through the steps for using some of the service s key features illustrating ways you can gain immediate and on-going value from its use. This document does not supersede or replace the comprehensive documentation and tutorial materials available for NewsEdge.com, but is intended for those seeking to evaluate it. NewsEdge.com is a web-based service that lets you perform real-time news management, research, and redistribution. To support this three-fold mission of gathering, analyzing, and communicating, NewsEdge.com services incorporate four core components Content - a relevance-driven combination of licensed/premium news feeds and web-harvested sources processed, categorized according to a maintained multi-faceted taxonomy, and delivered for search and use, in real-time Research Tools powerful, graduated methods that support directed research, browsing/learning, and the ongoing monitoring of relevant news and information including extensive support for curation/editorial selection and commentary Collaborative Workflow role-based sharing and control of key service elements, e.g. saved searches, folders, templates allowing individual, workgroup, and organizational deployment, use, and enhancement of fundamental objects for gathering, analyzing, or communicating news High-Impact Deliverables from simple email to modern social media, scheduled email and Web-published alerts to event-driven alerting, ad hoc to scheduled newsletters, Web-published newsletters to RSS feeds, NewsEdge.com provides the right combination of push and pull options for providing timely, professional-quality news redistribution Together, these components are designed to enhance the productivity and effectiveness of five missioncritical activities performed by information professionals researching issues and events, browsing/analyzing news to discover, monitoring subjects or organizations of interest, organizing information for efficient re-use, and sharing information with key audiences. Why NewsEdge.com for Your Organization Commitment to Relevance Every component of NewsEdge.com from content licensing and harvesting to search analysis/refining to newsletter preparation is driven by our commitment (and our heritage) of providing the most relevant, actionable information to NewsEdge customers. It s why you ll never find us obsessing over the number of sources we provide only over the quality and incremental contribution of our continually maintained collection of licensed and Web-harvested sources. It s why you can rely on the categorizing power of our ACME Taxonomy updated and enhanced by news editors with extensive experience and unique subject-matter expertise. 2
Integrated, Real-time News Management and Redistribution Information productivity is directly related to information velocity. Spend less time searching and more time delivering mission-critical information with NewsEdge.com s integrated links between what you find in research, what you select as important, and what you put in the hands of decision makers. Whether you re producing an unexpected alert, a scheduled newsletter, or a real-time feed, redistributing what you ve found will look professional and be up-to-date. Superior Organization and Analysis NewsEdge.com takes unfair advantage of the most complete and up-to-date categorization of the news. Using its ACME Taxonomy, you can browse, research, analyze, refine, and monitor the news with greater speed and confidence than ever before. Every NewsEdge.com story is analyzed and tagged across six crucial dimensions Company, Industry, Subject, Names, Geo-location, and Source which you can browse, inspect, search, and use to find, confirm, and characterize relevant results faster. Flexible Communication Options Providing the right information to the right audience shouldn t be a one-size fits all operation in any organization. Whether you need immediate delivery of urgent information or reliable delivery of scheduled briefing material, NewsEdge.com offers the fastest, most integrated methods for increasing the velocity of what you ve found. With its comprehensive, WYSIWYG customization tools, NewsEdge.com shows your hard work in the very best professional light. In addition, with re-usable, clone-able templates and forms, the effort you put into a professional outcome will always be at your fingertips. NewsEdge Features You Should Review For Sharing You have a complete range of options for getting information into the right hands. NewsEdge.com supports routing to a print server, direct email, social media posting, scheduled and event-driven alerts (delivered by email or as an auto-updating Web-alert), RSS feed generation, and custom newsletter preparation (again, delivered via email or Web posting). Build professional-quality newsletters using simple, form-based wizards to create reusable templates. When you re done, clone and modify quickly and easily Control how/when newsletters are dispatched send with a manual request or autopublish on one or more time schedules Populate your newsletter with a combination of stories you manually select and automatically generated stories, using NewsEdge Story Folders and Saved Searches Customize your newsletter to look exactly as it should - use an easy WYSIWYG editor and live, HTML preview. Deliver your newsletter via email, or publish one-touch to a Web server for convenient browser access or do both, simultaneously 3
For Researching Generate RSS feeds from saved searches and Story Folders with manually-selected results simply Click, Copy, and Share Create email and auto-updated Web Alerts from Saved Search results, driven by eventbased triggers or multiple time schedules Send stories quickly and directly via email, or social media posting NewsEdge.com offers the right choice - a search interface suitable for every level of research experience. From keywords and phrases to document zones, using faceted metadata and Boolean operators, with a complete range of advanced search operators NewsEdge provides the right tools to achieve the precision you require. Coupled with its innovative Refinery for summarizing results and enhancing your search, NewsEdge will become your Found engine. For Browsing/Analyzing Turbo-charge traditional keyword and phrase searching with NewsEdge s Guided Search interface. Combine the simplicity of conventional Web search engines, such as Google or Yahoo!, with the focused precision of faceted search powered by NewsEdge s ACME Taxonomy Construct more precise, error-free searches quickly and understandably using the Boolean Search interface and its unique term-and-clause wizard. Coupled with the power of the ACME Taxonomy and full support for building nested searches, this interface is the quickest link between a researcher s intuition and a precise search query NewsEdge s Advanced Search interface provides experienced researchers with the full complement of advanced operators, options, thresholds, and nested searching to create the most sophisticated news queries Use the NewsEdge Refinery to analyze the characteristics of your search results, dynamically. Extend your analysis by refining your search, selecting metadata characteristics to target more relevant results Perform powerful search filtering easily and automatically, managing sources quickly and precisely. Hand-select stories from any search and use NewsEdge s Story Folders to collect and organize the information you want to share Save time with NewsEdge s Predictive Input as you search. Start typing terms and NewsEdge will display terms and metadata categories that might complete what you ve started. Select the suggestion and NewsEdge will add it correctly to your query Combine multiple searches, using conventional Boolean operators, with NewsEdge s Nested Search capability. Each saved search you create can be used as a powerful news filter as you construct new queries With NewsEdge, you have the world s most efficient and cost-effective newsstand at your fingertips. Every NewsEdge story, licensed or Web-harvested, receives comprehensive categorization on six dimensions Company, Industry, Geo-location, People, Source, and Subject and finding what you re 4
looking for is easy using dimension/facet-specific browsers. Categorization accelerates your analysis of results as well providing a meaningful summary of any results set and offering a one-click method for deeper investigation. For Monitoring The ACME Taxonomy is the basis for categorization, analysis, and browsing. Designed and maintained by subject-matter experts, its specific categories are constructed using discriminating, real-time filters - helping NewsEdge users get better organized information faster Take advantage of comprehensive results management throughout NewsEdge to adapt your perspective on a set of results quickly. Vary search settings such as date range, sort-order, relevance thresholds, source-filtering, duplicate and similar story detection from an always-accessible, easy-to-use form The NewsEdge Refinery provides an interactive summary of the metadata properties of the results for every search you build. It displays the frequency distribution of the most frequently occurring metadata and activates query refinement based upon one or more metadata categories. See the correlation of significant metadata in any results set with NewsEdge s unique Venn Analysis tool. This interactive, graphical tool displays the joint and conditional distribution of up to three metadata values quickly identifying disjoint, subset/superset, and result-overlap relationships in your result set. In addition, like other elements of the NewsEdge Refinery, you can refine your search by clicking on a subset of interest. Place noteworthy results in Story Folders, as you find them and use them to deliver powerful newsletters and RSS feeds. Want to flag a story for yourself or others to use later? It s one-click simple from each story s Share icon. Need to dig deeper? NewsEdge provides categorization for over 400,000 Private Company and over 500,000 People, so you ll be able to find that needle in the haystack When your research is gathering relevant results, NewsEdge makes the routine tracking of issues, organizations, and events straightforward. Display saved search results in powerful headline viewers, equipped for efficient review and immediate redistribution. Organize multiple front pages to track related items with multiple perspectives. With NewsEdge, combine the news and market activity into a powerful intelligence tool. Prepare a custom company watchlist to monitor market activity from more than 100,000 publicly traded companies, worldwide Need additional information? Use NewsEdge s Company Viewer to see trading details, prepare custom market charts, review regulatory filings, and check the company in the news again, it s one-click simple Want to offer basic news search, browsing/monitoring, and email alerting to a wider audience? NewsEdge provides a convenient Enterprise configuration your organization will love and you can afford. 5
For Organizing Arrange your perspective to fit your navigation style, viewing a single, multiple, or a grid of headline viewers on any page. When you re monitoring the latest news, you need a convenient way to collect the most important stories for further analysis and sharing. Once again, NewsEdge s collaboration-enabled Story Folders provide the perfect complete for curating the news If you want to provide a great, on-demand access to what you re seeing or what you ve selected, NewsEdge s RSS feed creation capability makes you an information source News management and redistribution are accelerated when tools for organizing and collaborating are always available. NewsEdge.com features a design that explicitly recognizes personal, group, and organization-wide workflows. Use its shared, re-usable formats and containers to create powerful information assets that increase the velocity of information. The essential elements of NewsEdge are shared objects. From saved searches to story folders to newsletter templates, administrators and users can customize the right collaborative workflow, quickly and easily Containers, such as saved searches, headline viewers, story folders, and templates are active combining the ability to gather results and share them efficiently. Operate on individual items or collections for immediate redistribution Newsletter templates organize everything needed to generate professional-quality results, with complete editorial and design control. And when you want to take advantage of work well-done, you can easily and confidently clone your work for further editing Place noteworthy results in Story Folders, as you find them and use them to deliver powerful newsletters and RSS feeds. Want to flag a story for yourself or others to use later? It s one-click simple from each story s Share icon. Is social media posting the best way to reach someone who needs to know? NewsEdge.com makes it simple and Acquire Media content licensing makes it legal. When you want to make internal content from your organization available for searching alongside the news, NewsEdge provides ad hoc and structured tools to upload your content. In addition, every document receives the same metadata categorization of the ACME Taxonomy making it easy to find and use. Evaluating NewsEdge.com The Next Step If you are interested in obtaining free-of-charge, online access to NewsEdge.com for evaluation, please contact your Acquire media representative. You will also receive a guide to help you evaluate NewsEdge quickly and easily with step-by-step instructions illustrating key capabilities. In addition, your representative will be happy to connect you with members of our Support and Product teams to answer any specific questions you may have. 6