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  • Will White
    Apr 12, 2010
    11 comments
    Managing News Beta 9 Released
    With a customizable dashboard, widgets, and a trash bin
    We just released Managing News Beta 9. This version includes a lot of improvements and three new features that we're really excited about: a drag and drop dashboard, widgets that can be embedded in other sites, and an option to hide unwanted news...
  • Robert Soden
    Mar 4, 2010
    2 comments
    Yahoo! Placemaker Geotagging Integration in Managing News
    To better tag content in multilingual versions of Managing News
    We just added support for Yahoo! Placemaker's geo-recognition service to Managing News. This is an optional replacement for the default place-term lookup feature and can be enabled and configured in the administration section of Managing News. For...
  • Alex Barth
    Feb 17, 2010
    5 comments
    Managing News Beta 7 Released
    New Beta 7 brings channel tagging, easier customization of maps, and a switch in parsers
    Managing News Beta 7 just rolled out the door. In this release, we've added inline tagging to allow for quickly sorting news into multiple Channels at the same time and improved the customization workflow for maps. Under the hood, we switched...
  • Ian Cairns
    Jul 9, 2008
    Tracking Low-Level Internet Chatter in Specific Regions for Reputation Management
    “Even one negative consumer comment online can end up influencing many customers.” That’s a quote from Zhou Chunlan, CEO of Daqi, a Beijing-based reputation monitoring service recently profiled in Business Week that has gone to work for several...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Apr 23, 2008
    Make Something Happen: Interview on Aggregation and Managing News
    Yesterday Alex Steed posted a great article about a discussion he and Eric had earlier this week about online strategy, aggregation, and Managing News. One area they talked about was the impact listening in – and acting on – online...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Apr 17, 2008
    Rootscamp DC Recap: Twitters, Reviews, and Lessons Learned
    This morning I finally had some time to look at what people were saying about Rootscamp DC on the blogosphere (and Twittersphere, of course). Last week before the conference got underway, I had set up a group on Managing News to track all mentions...
  • Steve Olson
    Aug 29, 2007
    Castro + CNN = Blog Spike!
    From a Blog to Traditional Media, Then Back to Blogs
    Who would have thunk that Fidel Castro could be a buzz leader in the U.S. blogosphere? Well, not me at least. But he sure was when he published his thoughts on the invincibility of a Clinton Obama ticket in 2008 - it positively rocketed around the...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Jun 20, 2007
    6 comments
    Analyzing News with Graphs and Tag Clouds
    Tools That Show What's Happening in a Glance
    One of the features that sets the Managing News system apart from other aggregators is that it makes it easy to act on information. It does this by showing you the big picture of what’s going on within the system over different timeframes. The...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Jun 11, 2007
    6 comments
    The World Bank News Tracker Demonstration
    The World Bank just made its open source aggregator BuzzMonitor available to the public to take for a test drive. This is great news. We worked with the World Bank to build the system, based on Pierre Wielezynski's ideas for source profiling, Yahoo...