One of the questions (and frustrations) we regularly hear is “How do I find…?” The volume of material published online continues to grow at an incredible rate. People have to cobble together tools and spend a lot of time monitoring, researching, and keeping up with personal and professional interests.
We need a single resource that enables folks to:
- discover the most timely, relevant, and engaging content online
- search and segment content by specific topic areas
- find and follow the most interesting and influential publishers
- create and share reading lists of your favourite feeds
- subscribe to others’ lists to enjoy automatically updated, topic-specific content.
The PostRank Discovery engine delivers it all.
I want to learn about digital photography.
Who are the most influential publishers writing about the credit crisis?
What are are my mentors reading?
I want to share my reading list with my network, but what’s the best way?
These are a few examples of questions that PostRank Discovery helps you answer and the activities it helps you accomplish. And, as we discussed yesterday, we have a greater need for good curation online than ever before.
Community members have also expressed concerns about how to balance using technology to manage information overload, while at the same time not missing the hidden gems that are out there.
We’ve solved that problem by using the PostRank technology to better enable you to connect with great content AND the expand the power of your network. (After all, we automatically gravitate towards those we know and trust to glean info and get recommendations.)
View and subscribe to dynamically analyzed and updated lists by specific topic area, streamlining your monitoring, research, and personal development efforts.
Individuals and companies can find out which influencers and subject matter experts have been most engaging their audiences with their content. And readers and publishers like you can share reading lists, creating and curating resources on topics of interest. (Online there are communities around everything.)
Best of all, PostRank Discovery’s automation means that the lists are always up to date. Audience engagement metrics are gathered and analyzed in real-time, so ranked and filtered lists always show whose content is the most engaging right now. Find out who the up-and-coming voices are to harness the latest news and freshest ideas.
Additionally, ranking trends are displayed, so users can see how publishers have been doing with engagement over time — are they ambitious movers who’ve jumped from 10th to 1st? Or have they not been publishing much and have slipped from 2nd to 13th?
Users who subscribe to others’ lists enjoy timely, relevant, and engaging resources that require no manual maintenance. Reap the value of others’ passionate interest in topics — the user who creates the list curates it, customizing the settings and adding or pruning content. So unlike your RSS reader, you don’t have to go through your feeds from time to time to remove dead sites.
We’re members of the online community ourselves, and voracious information consumers. So we get how hard it can be to keep up sometimes, and how much work it is to find the best content. We also know how helpful our friends and colleagues can be for answering questions, sharing information, and keeping us entertained.
PostRank Discovery is the obvious evolution in how we find and consume information online. We’ve combined web technology and passionately curious people to provide the best of both worlds. Find the information and authors you’re interested in quickly and easily, share your great finds, AND have access to the resources other people value, too.
We think it’s a great step forward in how people discover, consume, and share content online, and we hope you’ll be as excited about it as we are!
Head on over and take a look, or check out our Introduction to PostRank Discovery page for a quick start overview.