Filtrbox now supports real-time alerts for all of our content sources. This means you can set up alerts for Twitter (as well as the millions of other sources we monitor). The system will send you an email alert as soon as a new mention is found. There are a ton of useful applications for this feature, but here are a few essentials.

• Company monitor - set up an alert for any mentions of your company on Twitter. Even when you are not being spoken to with an @reply, you still see the mention.
• Vanity Search - set up two Filtrs for this one, one for your name (use quotes!) and one for your twitterID. The problem with desktop tools or Twitter search is that they are only working for you when you are running them and interacting with them. With Filtrbox it’s set it and forget it. What I love about this is that even when I’m running around to meetings, the alerts are in my inbox and I don’t have to waste time in multiple apps looking for the mentions.
• Lead Generation - search for a phrase or a hashtag that relates to your business. Monitor the conversations in real-time and tweet back when folks are looking for solutions.

Please note that a Filtrbox G2 (paid subscription) is required to access this feature. If you have a Free account and want to upgrade, please get in touch with us.

Instructions

1. Log into your G2 account
2. Create a new Filtr, or use an existing one
3. Enter your search term in the “find articles about” box. If its a new Filtr hit save!
4. Check the “enable realtime alerts” box

5. Tune the Filtr’s sources and minimum rank. If you just want alerts for Twitter, uncheck the Mainstream and Blog options. You can also uncheck the “include in daily briefing” if you don’t want the results coming each morning in addition to the real-time alerts. Save the settings.

Click on the thumbnail to see our own company monitor:

If you have any questions on the setup let us know by leaving a comment or question here.

Filtrbox G2 has just been updated with several new features that greatly enhance the power and flexibility of the service. The major features are the availability of real time alerts, ability to customize the contents of the Daily Briefing emails, fine-grained control over sources, and FiltrRank (all on a per-filtr basis). Internally we’ve been referring to this collection of features as “the scalpel” because it enables you to get very precise control over the Filtrs and your monitoring strategy. There are now 3 dimensions of control over what you choose to receive and be notified on, and this control doesn’t impact the system’s listening and news gathering. Give the the new features a try and see if you can become a social media monitoring ninja! Keep reading to learn more…

Real time alerts
Filtrbox constantly monitors millions of sources for new mentions that match your Filtrs. Now, with real time alerts, as soon as the system detects a new mention, an email alert is sent. Using this feature in conjunction with the per-filtr content control enables you to set up alerts on a per-source basis, which means you can now enable real time Twitter alerts, or alerts JUST on mainstream, highly relevant content.

Custom Daily Briefings
An area of great interest to us at Filtrbox is that of “information overload” and “noise control” as you probably can tell. It doesn’t matter if you are monitoring the conversation on 100+ topics for a list of clients, or tracking a few personal-interest topics. When people are barraged by too much information, we tend to shut down and either ignore things or tune out. The result is that you start missing critical mentions and the tools that were supposed to help you only make things worse. We are working to address these problems for our customers, and this features is something many have asked for. You can have Filtrbox monitor and listen but not include the results in the Daily Briefings. Control what you get in your summary each day, but still sleep well knowing that the system is listening and the information is there when you want to investigate.

Custom source control
There are cases where you might want to set up a real time alert for something on Twitter (but the keyword is irrelevant or too noisy elsewhere), or you want to listen for news on a major company but don’t want to see every single mention published every day. With the per-Filtr content control this is easy to do. You can now control source type (mainstream news, blogs, Twitter), the FiltrRank, and inclusion in the Daily Briefing emails. Here’s what it looks like.

New article display
The Filtrbox dashboard has also been updated with a new article display, so that you can sort through the articles based on source type. This makes it much easier to hone in on articles per-Filtr, and gives a helpful perspective on the conversation happening for each type of content. Here is an example for mainstream news.
 

Twitter view
One of the added benefits of the new article display is a Twitter-only view we have enabled. You can leave this up as a Twitter dashboard, or use it to check in now and then and see the history of what’s been said on a particular topic or referencing anything specific like a hashtag, a user, or a conference.
 

Note: Real time alerts, and custom, per-filtr control is available only in Filtrbox G2. Users of the free version of Filtrbox can upgrade to enable them. Please email sales and request an upgrade.

Log in and give the new features a spin, and let us know what else you’d like to see in Filtrbox G2. We have an exciting product roadmap for the rest of 2009, and always listen to our customers for input.

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Information Overload and overpriced media monitoring are now a thing of the past! We are thrilled to announce that the Filtrbox media monitoring service is now available to the public. The service emerges from private beta today with an entirely new user interface and a number of new features.From the press release…

Filtrbox (www.filtrbox.com), the media monitoring service of choice for savvy professionals, today announced a disruptive new media monitoring service designed for business professionals that rely on the Internet for gaining knowledge and a competitive edge.  The beta release of the service has been embraced by thousands of users and has received worldwide acclaim across the blogosphere.  Now the service is available to anyone wanting a streamlined solution to monitor, analyze and share content with peers.  Filtrbox eliminates the need for multiple tools reducing cost while increasing productivity. (read the web release here)   

What’s New:

• Entirely new Flex user interface
• Additional sources, including twitter and FriendFeed monitoring
• Search, Sort, and Preferences
• iPhone formatted Daily Briefing emails
• Flagging of important articles
• Google Alerts import
• Drag and Drop Filtr management
• Pro and Team subscription versions
• Content widgets based on custom RSS feeds
• More…

Filtrbox has also announced three versions of the service:Filtrbox: 5 Filtrs and 15 days of article history - FREE! Filtrbox Pro: 25 Filtrs and 45 days of article history - $20/monthFiltrbox Team: 100 Filtrs and 1 year of article history, 6 users - $100/monthSign up today at http://www.filtrbox.com (no CC required!). We hope you’ll agree our easy-to-use rich web application and powerful monitoring features help address information overload and provide a compelling, cost-effective media monitoring solution for anyone who needs to stay in-the-know and on top of their business, competition, or market. Work smarter, save time, and let Filtrbox do the work of monitoring the world’s information for you.For a quick overview, just check out the updated screencasts!