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It’s been two months since we launched Netvibes Premium, our powerful analytics solution for brand managers and social media professionals, and we’re constantly listening to our users remarks and suggestions to make it an even better product.

This week we’ll launch new features and improvements for both our Premium and Basic dashboards.

Social Pack Improvements (for Premium)

We listened to your feedbacks and improved our charts to make them more readable in all situations, even with large scales and extended period of analysis. We also added a color picker which allows you to choose between five different colors for every social pack widget and add clarity to your dashboard.

Highlights on charts have also been improved: relevant legend is now highlighted when you move your mouse over a particular section of a chart. And vice versa.

On widgets with sources or authors, you can now go directly to the domain by simply clicking on the favicon on the left. You can also switch to a new view that lists all unique sources, with no limitation.

Facebook Improvements (for Basic & Premium)

But we also thought about our Basic users and upgraded our Facebook widget. The widget will now allow you to drag & follow any user name or page in your timeline to start following it in a new widget. Easy!

Another thing you can now do with the Facebook widget is collapse or expand it. To gain space on your Dashboard, you can choose to only show its description and expand it back to the full widget when you need to have access to the whole timeline. Perfect for users who need to monitor a lot of Facebook timelines.

Finally we’re happy to introduce our brand new Facebook Search widget. Easily parse through your Facebook content, unveil mentions and monitor brands or topics. Add it on your dashboard and try it right away!

As you can see, there are new things for everyone, both our Basic and Premium users. And if you want to discover our Premium solution with analytics features and see how it works, why not sign up for a free trial upgrade to Netvibes Premium today and try it out?

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Netvibes Insights: Kraft Foods

Every month with Netvibes Insights we take a look at what’s really on with today’s top brands: a free live breakdown analysis to showcase our Netvibes Premium powerful analytics tools.

This month, we’ll put Kraft Foods, the American confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate, under the microscope.

A Social Snack Stragegy

Analysts call Kraft one of 2012′s worst stock picks. Yet their brand sentiment is at an all time high. Discover why. Also learn:

  • How Kraft and Nestle utilized different PR styles for highly positive company perceptions ;
  • Why “Illinois” is a top trending keyword for Kraft with nearly 100% positive sentiment ;
  • How Kraft’s user generated content contributes to its overall brand equity and visual identity.

Find out how, despite negative forecasting by business analysts and financial reports, Kraft has been able to avoid most of it by not going the traditional corporate press release route. Instead the company concentrates a lot on social media, and uses that to bolster its online brand equity and reputation.

We’ll look into that and more during our next Netvibes Insights webinar. It will take place on January 19, at 10am PST / 1pm EST.

Interested? Just sign up to attend, it’s free!

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Like last year we’ll be covering the annual CES (Consumer Electronics Show) through one of our now famous Live Dashboards. The CES is one of the biggest gathering about technology and this year, it will take place between the 10th and 13th of January in Las Vegas.

To make sure you won’t miss a thing, Netvibes is setting up a new Live Dashboard dedicated to the event:

  • news watch through the main information sites
  • events schedule
  • videos (live, media coverage, etc.)
  • mentions on various social networks
  • exhibitors panel
  • and many other tools…

And like with every Live Dashboard, we will give you access to the advanced tools only available with our Premium Dashboards: SmartTagging (to tag feelings to articles), Advanced Research in Real-Time (to cross-search different sources inside the Dashboard) and Bookmarklet (to easily add content from other sites).

This is also your chance to get a sneak peak at our powerful analytics tools through a special tab that will monitor the Who, the What, the How and the When during the event.

If you want to follow the 2012 CES without flying to Las Vegas, the best way to do it is to log on to ces2012.netvibesbusiness.com and enjoy every minute of this big event from your armchair, in your office or on your mobile phone.

Enjoy!

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Holiday Analytics From Netvibes!

This holiday season, we wanted to thank all of our users around the world for making Netvibes and Netvibes Premium such a wonderful success. What better way than by celebrating with a cool new Essential App: Google Analytics for Netvibes!

It’s a great way to track your blog or site traffic and visitor metrics – right from your Netvibes dashboard. You can even modify date ranges to customize your reports.

As we’ve said before, we believe that dashboards should be free. Free from ads, free for all, free forever. We also believe in the freedom of data and that metrics should be free as well. That’s why we’ll continue to develop apps for metric-reporting services like Google Analytics, so you can view your metrics on your dashboard — whether you are a Basic or Premium user.

We also appreciate that many of our professional users want to go beyond metrics and use our dashboards to uncover real meaning. That’s why we developed Netvibes Premium, which give you deep insights into interrelated trends and brand sentiment. We spend a lot of time and massive computing power to create this meaning from metrics, which is why it is a premium product.

(If you want to check it out, you can get a free trial of Netvibes Premium and talk with us One-to-One here.)

However, for those that just want to monitor their own metrics, we’ll continue to develop free apps to help you do so, like our Google Analytics app, because we believe metrics should be free and available to everyone. )

If you have any other suggestions, please let us know!

Again, thank you all for a wonderful year and we look forward to developing even more cool features for you in 2012!

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It’s a girl!

We’re all very happy to welcome little Albane to the Netvibes family. She was born a couple of days ago and is in perfect health, ready to take on the world. Our warmest congratulations to Baptiste from our EMEA Sales Team and, of course, to Albane’s mother.

Best of luck in life, Albane!

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LeWeb 11 Deconstructed

No doubt that by now, you know all about our Live Dashboards, a practical use of our Netvibes Premium Dashboards to cover an event and gather all relevant information in one single place. We did it again last week for LeWeb 11 and now it’s time to look behind the curtain and see what we can learn from the analytics we collected.

The reason we decided to build Netvibes Premium, even though there are many good social analytics solutions on the market, is because we wanted a solution that could deliver real meaningful insights, not just metrics.

There was a lot of reports after the conference, filled with various metrics about LeWeb 11, including mention counts and keyword analysis. But at the end of the day, does it really matter how many times LeWeb was mentioned on Twitter?

What does that tell us? Not much.

So we decided to share some of our insights and dig depeer in the analytics.

Wanna give Netvibes Premium a try? Sign up for a free 14-day trial and a One-to-One personal training session.

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LeWeb 11 may be over but our Live Dashboard is still very much alive, offering unique insights and analytics about the event, using our very own Netvibes Premium Dashboard.

Check it out at: http://leweb11.netvibesbusiness.com/#Analytics

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To ensure an ever better service, we’re gonna need to patch our databases and do some maintenance work on our servers. And to do so, we’re gonna have to shut down Netvibes.

Don’t worry though: the downtime will happen this Saturday, early morning, at 2:00am CET and shouldn’t exceed a couple of hours.

Thanks for your understanding.

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A few weeks ago, Netvibes launched Insights, a new series of webinars where you can see all the Netvibes Premium features in action, as we perform a live breakdown analysis of a new brand each month.

If you didn’t sign up for the last one, here’s what we have cooking for the next one. And remember: it’s free!

Groupon IPO Deconstructed

For our next session, we’re going to cover insights about Groupon, particularly around the time of their IPO, along with competitive insights between Groupon, Google Offers, LivingSocial, Gilt City and more…

Did you know Groupon experienced double the normal conversation level around their IPO date? Did you know it was even higher a week later?

Discover why.

Also see:

  • The degree of market penetration Groupon has on competing flash deal sites;
  • How all the major competitors stack up in terms of brand reputation and real-time customer sentiment;
  • Why LivingSocial dominates Groupon and the rest of the field when it comes to true customer interaction.

We will be sharing the insights we’ve found on Groupon. Also you’ll learn how global brands and agencies leverage Netvibes for real-time monitoring and analytics.

This next Netvibes Insights session will take place on December 15, 10am Pacific Time (PST) and 1pm Eastern time (EST).

Interested? Register today for free!

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LeWeb 2011: Live Dashboard

Once again, like we did last year, we will offer extensive coverage of LeWeb 2011:SOLOMO (SOcial-LOcal-MObile) through a dedicated Live Dashboard, to gather all the relevant info you need in one single place.

Netvibes Live Dashboard LeWeb 2011 SOLOMO

Head right now to leweb11.netvibesbusiness.com/ and take advantage of all the comprehensive information we’ve gathered for you on the conference, including:

  • social networks monitoring (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
  • blogs
  • pictures
  • agenda
  • exhibitors and sponsors profiles
  • and more…

And like with every Live Dashboard, Netvibes will give you access to the advanced tools only available with our Premium Dashboards: SmartTagging (to tag feelings to articles), Advanced Research in Real-Time (to cross-search different sources inside the Dashboard) and Bookmarklet (to easily add content from other sites).

Enjoy LeWeb 2011:SOLOMO now! Log in to the Live Dashboard

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