Meet the new Engagor!

We are very excited to announce that we just released a major overhaul of the Engagor platform!

Over the last year we have been listening very closely to what our customers love about Engagor and what they would like to see in future releases. Initially, Engagor was all about monitoring and getting deep insights about your brand, your competitors and your industry. With the new Engagor, you can now also fully manage and engage with your social profiles. To further streamline online engagement with your audience, we added a whole workflow suite that makes it easy to collaborate with multiple people within your company.

So what’s new?

Inbox

Your inbox contains all mentions that we find across the web and on your connected profiles. Easily track what mentions are handled and what mentions need more work.

Track the Conversation

To make sure you never lose context, you can easily track and view the conversation of a any mention.

Engage with your audience

Easily reply from within Engagor with your Twitter account, Facebook user account, Facebook Page or Linkedin account.

Spread the word

Post at once accross multiple networks of your connected profiles.

Collaborate

Work together in a team and assign mentions to each other.

Sentiment

Track what people love and hate about your topics. Change the sentiment manually in cases where the automated detection failed.

Tagging

Tag your mentions for easier searching and for filtering the analytics. Tags can be set manually or automatically based on a certain search query.

Search your inbox

Search and filter your inbox in multiple ways in order to quickly process the mentions that are the most important for you.

History

Easily see what has been done with a certain mention. Tagged by person A, replied to by person C and completed by person D, …

Track Mentions

Manage your new and incoming mentions by ticking them off.

Twitter

Get detailed statistics on your reach, top posts, influencers and a lot more for Twitter in general and for your connected Twitter accounts.

Facebook

We track hundreds of metrics related to your Facebook Pages and Facebook in general. Easily compare the performance of your pages.

Sentiment

Monitor how your brand or your competitors are perceived online. Automated sentiment analysis is currently only available for English and Dutch.

Connect your Profiles

Connect your Facebook Pages, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ accounts to fully manage them from within Engagor. Additionally, you can closely monitor profiles of your competitors to see how good or bad they are doing compared to you.

Email Alerts

When the heat is on, you want to know as quickly as possible where, when and why it’s burning. Configure when you want to receive email alerts per topic.

10 Must-Have Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

Chrome Sniffer

Detect web applications and javascript libraries run on browsing website.  

Syntaxtic

Performs syntax highlighting on files visited in the browser based on thier extension

XML Tree

Displays XML data in a user friendly way.  

Clicky Monitor

A Google Chrome™ extension for Clicky Web Analytics.  

JSONView

JSONView for chrome is an extension that helps you to parse and view JSON documents  

JavaScript API Search

This extension adds support to the Chrome omnibox to search for and autocomplete JavaScript functions and prototypes from online JavaScript reference documentation.

jQuery API Search

Speed up your jQuery JavaScript programming with the jQuery API Search extension for Google Chrome. The extension integrates with the Chrome omnibox to provide autocompletions from the jQuery API, taking you quickly to relevant docs.

PhP API Search

Adds support to the omnibox to search the PHP reference docs.

SEO Lite Tools

On-Page / External metrics, Social Media info, PR / numbering on Yahoo, Bing, Google SERPs.Extends WMT, YSE and GA with metrics

Yslow

Make your pages faster with Yahoo!'s page performance tool

The Rise of the Personal Web

Social

The last couple of years have undeniably been a huge change to making the web more social. If I look around me to my family and friends, then most of them are active on the web in a number of ways. Some have a personal blog or website where they share information, are present on news websites, read RSS feeds and most of all have an account on multiple social networks. These days, everyone is online and shares information about their lives, interesting content they find and so on.

The essence of the internet is still as it was 20 years ago: a linked network of information. Lots of information! The amount of data present on the web and its continuous growth makes it more and more difficult to find all the relevant bits and pieces that are interesting to you. Making the web more social has already made it a little bit easier to manage this information overflow, but there is still too many signal noise in the information feed the web is bombarding us with all the time.

There are already great tools both offline and online to better streamline that information, but it’s not at all perfect yet. If I look at my personal setup, I have a personal Gmail account, multiple other Gmail accounts for work related emails, Facebook for checking stuff my friends share and messaging, Twitter for following like minded people, Google Reader to keep up with the news from 124 blogs in tech, social media, gaming, science, astronomy, programming, …, http://www.reddit.com for more news, Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/) for even more news, YouTube for entertainment, Linked.in for managing business contacts, etc…

This immediately shows that while it becomes easier to find information, it becomes a hell to manage it all. We need better ways to filter, deduplicate and prioritize all this information, targeted to my own persona.

The Personal Web will evolve around three major pillars, your friends, your location and your interests. Relevancy of all that content will be measured among the same three pillars.

On social networks like Facebook and Twitter not all content is always relevant to me. Pure social content like photos of my friends’ last trips, status updates about what they’re doing will be relevant to me based on how relevant my friendship is with them. Content sharing of YouTube videos, news articles, blog posts will on the other hand mostly be relevant if the content itself matches my personal interests. The same is true for location content.

What restaurant should I go to this weekend? Again, a combination of what the hottest restaurants are in a specific location together with what places my friends frequently visit and like, combined with my personal preference of eating could give my a quite accurate list of places to visit. The same can of course be applied to bars, events, shops, museums, city highlights, …

What is happening online that I like? Google Reader makes life a bit easier for keeping up to date what happens on a number of sites, but there is still too many noise and double content I need to go through every day. Again, adding relevance to this stream primarily based on my interests, intermixed with what my friends cross network are sharing right now and my current location could filter or prioritize this stream more intelligently.

The personal web is all about making that huge amount of information on the web personal again. Ideally I would have one interface (can be the browser itself or some website) where I can sift through all the content that is interesting and relevant to me.

There are already some successes in this field as for example Amazon. They do a great job in trying to understand what products might be interesting to you based on previous purchases. Others are for instance the Facebook news feed, Google Reader “sort by magic”, http://www.jinni.com/ for movies, etc

Companies like Google and Facebook will more and more merge into a similar model concerning content relevancy. Where Google used to be all about the content, they are more and more integrating social and local relevancy. Facebook is still not used that often as a search engine, but they will become bigger in that area in the next years. This makes a lot of sense, if you look at the new Open Graph api and the “like” system taking over the net.

Personally I am really looking forward to all the new technologies and startups that will be active in this field and hope that somewhere in 2011 I will have finally found the one application that I popup everyday to read my personal “manageable” web feed.