CONTENTS
News Portal Navigation
| Viewing Menu | Refining | Folders | Search | Quick Browse | +Follow | Twitter Widget |
| Social Media & Sharing Tools |
Personal Streams
| Privacy Settings | Search for an Article | MarkIt | Email an Article to Personal Stream |
| Sync with Twitter Favorites | Sync with Google Reader | Create, test and manage filters |
| InstAlert | Remove an Article | Email Digest |
Glossary
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NEWS PORTAL NAVIGATION
Viewing Menu
All Headlines
This is the default view – what you see when you first arrive at a portal, or when you click on the portal name in the page header. This View shows a “River of News” with the newest articles on top. You can preview an article (in a pop-up window), reTweet it, or get directed to its source. This page also includes a Tweet count and a live Twitter Widget customized for that portal.
Top Stories by Social Attention
This view displays the most popular articles from the past 36 hours, according to the Eqentia ranking algorithm. This view is most useful on general news topics that are widely covered.
Top Stories by Relevancy
Rather than viewing the newest articles on top, you can choose to see the articles most relevant to the portal.
TIP:
To save time when jumping between these three views you do not need to return to the drop-down menu. You can instead use the 3 buttons near the top of each page:
News Stream Only
This view shows articles in a text-only column, with the same sorting options as above.
Latest Stories by Newsgroup
A newsgroup is a collection of the latest articles from a particular type of source, e.g. Blogs, Magazines, Main Media, Company News, Twitter, etc. This view will display articles in their respective Newsgroups. You can click on any Newsgroup to see only the articles from this Newsgroup.
Semantic Map (also called Connections Map)
This View reveals the hierarchical taxonomy of the portal, enabling you to dive deeply into the content that is most important to you. Here is a typical section of a Semantic Map:
In the example above, you can see that within the Advertising Agency “entity”, the most active Connection is Saatchi and Saatchi. You have a choice of two timeframes – the past 24 hours or the past month – selectable using the links near the top of the page. Click on any of the Connections to read more.
All Annotations
If the administrator(s) of this portal has annotated articles (e.g. adding their own commentary or additional information) this view will show you their annotations and links to the original articles, as in the example shown at right.
Twitter Leaderboard
This page ranks today’s top tweeters (people whose tweets have appeared on this portal). Tweeters are ranked by the number of times they have tweeted and been retweeted. Their latest tweet is shown.
To the right of their rank, you can see the change in their ranking since 11:59 pm yesterday. The page displays up to 100 top tweeters.
Preferred Sources
If your portal owner has designated certain news sources as Preferred, this view will show you content from those sources only.
Refine Portal by Semantic Connection
Click on the red button beside a portal’s title to see semantic Connections. To find a particular connection, you can select an Entity (e.g. People, Region) or scroll left and right to see all Connections.
Cascading refinements
If you go to a connection page (e.g. “Jay Rosen”) and then click on another connection (e.g. “New York Times Company”) you will then see all articles that relate to both Jay Rosen AND New York Times Company.
Canceling Cascading Refinements
If, for example, you want to change from viewing all articles related to Jay Rosen to viewing all articles referring to the New York Times Company, you must return to the portal front page and restart the refining process by selecting “New York Times Company”.
Folders
Every Eqentia user has at least two folders for saving articles. These are accessed by mousing over your photo or name at top right and clicking on My Folders.
Personal Folder
This folder is for long-term storage of articles. To put an article in your Personal Folder, click on the folder icon below the article text. Then choose Personal.
Read Later Folder
This folder is for articles you plan to read and delete (although you can always move them to your Personal Folder later. To put an article in your Read Later Folder, click on the folder icon below the article text. Then choose Read Later.
Group Folder
The Group Folder is only available to corporate license customers with 10 or more users per organization.
This feature allows users to share articles via a commonly accessible folder that is visible only to users of the same domain. In essence, it functions like a private social bookmarks repository.
Please email support@eqentia.com if you are interested in upgrading your account.
Search
The search box is at the very top of each portal.
Your search can include Boolean expressions and phrases placed within quotes.
Hit the “Enter” key to start searching.
Search Tip:
If you pause before hitting the Enter key, Eqentia will propose various search options, and show existing connections and portals related to your query.
Click on any of these connections or portals to view their content.
Quick Browse
Use this feature to go directly to the most recent articles in a portal, then page through them using the arrows at the top of the screen.
If you are already viewing a connection, Quick Browse will only show articles related to that connection.
+Follow buttons
Buttons near the top right of portal pages allow you to “follow” the portal or any of its connections.
When you follow a portal or connection, its articles appear on your Personal News Page.
Twitter widget
The Twitter widget appears in the right hand column of the All Headlines view.
It has 3 tabs:
TWEETS shows the latest tweets
TOP URLS shows the most-tweeted links to articles in the past 24 hours
TOP USERS shows who has tweeted the most on this topic in the past 24 hours
Social media and sharing tools
Some or all of the above tools appear on each page of the portal, enabling you to:
- Follow this portal’s Twitter account (if it has one)
- Get a widget of content from this connection
- Subscribe to an RSS feed for this connection
- Share this page via Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc.
Article tools
- Facebook: Shows number of Facebook “Likes”
- Twitter: Shows number of Tweets of the article
- LinkedIn: Shows number of posts of the article
Find out who is sharing an article
For recent articles, you can click on the Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn icon to see who has been sharing the article on each social network…
Then, click on any of the profiles to learn about the person…
Each person’s social media influence is indicated by their Klout score [>K]
Share
- Tweet the article
- Post it to Facebook or LinkedIn
- Email the article
Save
Enables saving the article to a folder (see Folders section for details)
Related
Read more articles in related connections or portals
Curate
If you have administrator privileges for this portal, you will see options to remove the article, annotate it, or cross-post it to another portal for which you have privileges.
PERSONAL STREAMS
Your Personal Stream is a feed of news articles that matter to you, and which you define using various tools. It is created automatically when you set up an Eqentia account.
Some tools are used to add articles one-by-one, while others work automatically (employing filters).
You can view your Personal Stream on its own web page.
Your Personal Stream can also appear on your Personal News Page, along with articles from your favorite Eqentia portals and connections.
Making your Personal Stream public or private
1. Click on your username at the top right of any Eqentia page.
2. Click on ‘Edit Account Settings‘.
3. Under ‘Publishing Settings’ choose Public or Private.
4. Click on ‘Save Changes’ at top right of page.
5. You can change between private/public at any time.
You can add articles to your Personal Stream one-by-one, using these methods:
1. Search the Eqentia news database
Using the Search box near the top right of any Eqentia page, you can search the entire Eqentia news database.
Searches are case-sensitive. Searches scan the title AND body text extract. Sample searches:
apple OR banana OR cranberry will find content containing any of these words
Apple OR apple OR Apples OR apples will find content containing any of these variations
apple AND banana AND cranberry will find content containing all of these words
“apple juice” will find content containing this exact combination of words
(apple OR banana OR cranberry) AND (juice OR muffins OR pie) will find “apple juice”, “apple muffins”, “banana pie”, “cranberry juice”, etc.
“apple juice”~3 will find articles containing apple and juice within 3 words of each other (the order does not matter)
NOT (orange) will reject articles containing orange
apple AND NOT (computer) will find articles containing apple, but reject articles containing apple and computer
title:”President Obama” will find articles containing “President Obama” in the title (headline).
If you pause before hitting the Enter key, Eqentia will propose various search options, and show existing connections and portals related to your query. Simply click on your preferred option (see illustration above).
Then, from the search results page, you can add any article to your Personal Stream by clicking on the Curate link beneath the article, clicking on Republish, and choosing your Personal Stream from the list of destinations.
2. Grab interesting articles, as you discover them, using MarkIt
First, you need to install the MarkIt bookmarklet on your web browser toolbar.
- To get the bookmarklet, go to the Bookmarklets page (the link is in the footer section at the bottom of every page).
- Drag the MarkIt button to your browser toolbar.
When you are viewing a web page that you’d like to add to your Personal Stream, simply click the MarkIt button (see illustration below).
You can add the article to any stream for which you have administrator privileges.
3. Email articles to your Personal Stream
To enable this feature, go to your Personal Stream Setup Page (by clicking on Edit Account Settings, then choosing the Personal Stream tab). Click on “Create Secret Address”.
Save the secret email address in your email software’s address book. (Tip: Name it “Send to Eqentia” or something similar.)
To complete the setup, click on Change and choose the streams in which you would like emailed articles to appear.
Note that you can specify additional stream(s) whenever you email an article by simply including the stream’s nickname within the body of your email message.
4. Sync with your Twitter Favorites
If you logged in to Eqentia using your Twitter ID, you will automatically see all your Favorite Tweets in your Eqentia Personal Stream.
If you did not log in using your Twitter ID, you can still connect to your Twitter ID by logging in to Eqentia, mousing over your photo or name at the top right of any page, and clicking on Edit Account Settings. Then click on the tab marked My Personal Stream, and tick the box beside Sync Twitter Favorites.
Your Personal Stream can automatically import any of your Google Reader content that you have “starred” (see illustration) and/or “shared on Facebook”.
To enable this, go to the Edit Account Settings page, and click on the Connect to Google Reader link (see screenshot above).
You can add articles to your Personal Stream automatically, using these methods:
1. Create, test and manage filters
Go to the Edit Account Settings page, click on the tab marked My Personal Stream, and create your own custom filter (see illustration above).
Test your new filter.
If you’re satisfied with the results, add it to your Personal Stream, or edit it and try again.
Keep your filter tight, because there is a limit of 30 articles per day on Personal Streams.
You can add up to 5 filters.
Edit or delete filters by clicking on the filter.
Filters will stop working after 30 days, at which time you may recreate them.
2. Create instant filters using the InstAlert bookmarklet
First, you need to install the InstAlert bookmarklet on your web browser toolbar.
- To get the bookmarklet, go to the Bookmarklets page (the link is in the footer section at the bottom of every page).
- Drag the MarkIt button to your browser toolbar.
While viewing any web page, highlight text from the page that you wish to include in your filter.
Click on the InstAlert button.
If you are satisfied with the results, click Add Filter. Or, edit the filter and test again.
Remove an Article from your Personal Stream
1. Click the ‘Curate’ link below the article
2. Choose ‘Remove Article’
Email Digest
You will automatically receive a daily email containing all the content added to your Personal Stream within the past 24 hours. To change your email preferences, go to the Edit Account Settings page and click on the Subscriptions tab.
GLOSSARY
API – The Application Programming Interface enables customers to programmatically access their Custom Content, e.g. to incorporate into their own website.
Article – An item of news (text, audio or video) indexed by Eqentia.
Bookmarklet – A button you install on your web browser’s toolbar in order to perform a specific task.
Channel - A collection of Custom Streams, organized by broad topic. See our current Channels list.
Connection – A specific descriptor within an Entity that is applied to Articles. E.g, in the Entity “Location”, Connections could include “North America”, “Latin America”, etc. An article may have more than one Connection within a single Entity, as well as Connections from multiple Entities.
Content Widget – An automated widget developed by Eqentia to dynamically display (on a website) a Custom Content stream.
Curation – Eqentia customers can curate (add, edit and delete) content from their Custom Content stream using our simple administration interface.
Custom Content - A stream of content that is defined by an Eqentia customer based on their choice of News Sources and Filters. Custom Content streams can be:
- Public or Private
- Free or Paid
Email Digest - An automated email that displays Custom Content stream and/or a Personal Stream, which is normally sent each morning. Users can subscribe to an Email Digest when they register at a Portal. Email settings are on the Manage Account page.
Entity - An Article attribute, e.g. Location, Industry, Events, People, Topic. Each Entity comprises several Connections.
Filter - Text-mining rules established by an Eqentia customer to determine which content will appear in their Custom Content stream.
InstAlert – An Eqentia bookmarklet, which you can use to easily create filters while you read.
MarkIt - An Eqentia bookmarklet which you can use to grab articles you discover, and add them to your Personal Stream.
News Feed – A feed of Articles that is crawled and indexed by Eqentia.
Personal News Page – A web page, hosted by Eqentia, on which a registered user can view Articles, organized into Sections, e.g. one Section might display a Custom Content stream, another might display a Connection, etc.
- Registered users can view Articles from any of the Custom Content streams they have been authorized to access.
- Non-registered users see Articles from a default set of Custom Content streams.
Personal Stream – A stream of Articles that a registered user creates using Alerts. It appears on a Personal Stream page (hosted by Eqentia) and is also delivered in the daily Email Digest.
Portal – A website, hosted by Eqentia, where a customer can see the Articles delivered by their public or private Custom Content stream. If the Custom Content is private, then only authorized users will be able to access the Portal.
Section - An area within a Personal News Page, displaying a Custom Content stream or a Connection.
Source – A provider of one or more News Feeds, e.g. a newspaper, a blog, a website.
Subscription - A Custom Content stream to which a registered user has been granted access by the customer who owns the stream. A subscription to a stream also enables a registered user to receive the stream’s content in their Email Digest.
Top Stories by Social Attention - An alternative view of the latest news, displayed on an Eqentia Portal, and based on the amount of attention being paid to an article on social media services such as Twitter and Facebook.
Twitter Widget – An automated widget developed by Eqentia to dynamically display (on a website) selected Tweets as defined by a customer based on keywords, Twitter users, hashtags, Twitter Lists. The criteria may be different than for the Custom Content stream.
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