ImpactWatch Blog

A while back we had a post on the Bivings Report, now cross posted here, about the RSS features built in to ImpactWatch. ImpactWatch already has filtered, categorized, and rated news and blogs about the information your company is concerned about. That’s an extremely valuable feed of information right there. But what if you’re only concerned about your department or even a specific product or issue. All you have to do is use ImpactWatch to do a search and it will build you a link to a custom RSS feed of that search.

In addition to this being one of the most powerful features of ImpactWatch it still seems to be one of the least used. I bet a lot of the reason for that ImpactWatch is password protected and most of the mainstream news readers don’t support password protected feeds. The reason I bring this up is that as of yesterday, NewsGator, one of the leaders is RSS news readers has updated and released their client products for free.

I now have FeedDemon, the standalone windows client installed and I am trying NewsGator Online, the web based newsreader. Here’s a screenshot from FeedDemon of an ImpactWatch news feed from our demo site.

Adding the ImpactWatch password protected feed was a snap. It has a username and password box ready for you to enter when you create the feed. Plus one of the best features is that the FeedDemon on my computer and the NewsGator Online are synchronized with each other. When I go home tonight and install FeedDemon on my home computer I will see all of my subscriptions the same way as I do on my work computer or the web.

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