We have decided to provide a series of themed Darwin Editions™ powered by the Awareness Engine™ that focus on specific topics to better demonstrate its capabilities and as a service to our readers. These can each be accessed at no cost. You only have to go through a brief registration process and we promise you that no sales person will contact you as a result.
The initial themes for our Darwin Editions include: general news (our original alpha), social media on the web, social media in the enterprise, US immigration news and discussions, and oil and gas industry news. The last two will be released over the next few weeks and the first three were made available last week (see links below). In this context we also point to our partner, Twortex, which uses aspects of the Darwin Awareness Engine to provide a free Twitter search tool.
Here are links to a series of posts going into more detail on the first three Darwin Editions and how to use them:
Darwin Awareness Engine™ Edition Series: Part One – Explanation and Instructions
Darwin Awareness Engine™ Edition Series: General News (500 sources)
Darwin Awareness Engine™ Edition Series: Social Media on the Web (over 160 sources)
Darwin Awareness Engine™ Edition Series: Social Media in the Enterprise (over 170 sources)
Darwin Awareness Engine™ Edition Series: Energy Sector News (over 100 resources)
These Darwin Editions provide a way to monitor the conversations within several focused areas. They offer many of the user capabilities that come with the complete Darwin Awareness Engine. Darwin looks at targeted content rather than spidering the whole Web. This targeted content approach provides greater control to select relevant content and can be focused within the Web or within the enterprise through such applications as SharePoint, Domino, and many of the other collaboration and content management platforms. Determining and curating the target content is one of the administration function that come with the commercial versions. In this Darwin Edition series we have picked the content sources and will continue to refine them and add to the total sources.
The default view shows you what has happened in the target content sources in the last hour. You can expand it to the last two hours, 24 hours and even last 200 hours. You can also create "attractors" which are queries that allow you to look at how specific topics are being addressed within the target content. There are other options and you can find the features described in our instructions post. The color coding in the Scan Cloud represents different types of terms such as people, events, and organizations. They will be explained in the instructions and are an admin function.
We also used the Traackr A-List for PR 2.0 for some of the social media in the web sources and a Traackr A-List for enterprise social media that we developed for some of the choices in that Darwin Edition. These lists of 25 top influencers use a group of keywords you define and update weekly so we continue to monitor them for possible new sources.
We hope that you find these Darwin Editions useful and will certainly appreciate any feedback. Contact us at [email protected]. We will also be happy to discussion the various business options for a fully functional Darwin edition with all administration rights. You can create your own Darwin Editions on the topics of your choice with the target content of your selection. There are both individual and enterprise options.
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