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Monitoring Conflict Zones Without Relying on the Wandering Media Focus
It’s increasingly difficult to monitor risk in conflict zones that are losing western media attention. Social media is a decentralised source of on the ground information - consistent despite shifting media focus.
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It’s increasingly difficult to monitor risk in conflict zones that are losing western media attention. Social media is a decentralised source of on the ground information - consistent despite shifting media focus.
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Analyzing A Week of Catastrophic Aviation Failures
The Real-Time Knowledge Engine has now been up and running for about a month and we’re starting to see some amazing progress in not only detecting events, but in understanding the entities involved in each incident. A great example of when this type of analysis becomes crucial is during the detec...
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The Real-Time Knowledge Engine has now been up and running for about a month and we’re starting to see some amazing progress in not only detecting events, but in understanding the entities involved in each incident. A great example of when this type of analysis becomes crucial is during the detec...
Published at SAM Blog
Using Our Real-Time Knowledge Engine to Alert on Earthquakes Faster Than Government Sources
Two weeks ago, we unveiled the public beta of our real-time knowledge engine. Here is one example of how we help our users know what is happening, when it happens. At 14:03 GMT, on Saturday Feb. 17th, a 4.6 magnitude earthquake was registered 20 km northeast of Swansea, Wales, UK. The first publi...
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Two weeks ago, we unveiled the public beta of our real-time knowledge engine. Here is one example of how we help our users know what is happening, when it happens. At 14:03 GMT, on Saturday Feb. 17th, a 4.6 magnitude earthquake was registered 20 km northeast of Swansea, Wales, UK. The first publi...
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Building a Realtime Knowledge Engine
There was once a time when a nightly report was the best way to get up-to-date weather information. Now, we check a live-updating app on our phone (or make an API call) to plan, prepare, and react as the conditions change around us. We can’t imagine going back to a static weather report. Yet, the...
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There was once a time when a nightly report was the best way to get up-to-date weather information. Now, we check a live-updating app on our phone (or make an API call) to plan, prepare, and react as the conditions change around us. We can’t imagine going back to a static weather report. Yet, the...
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Dr. Osmar R. Zaiane Joins SAM Board as First Technical Appointment
The worldwide AI race is on. Governments around the globe are doubling down on investments in AI research and their ecosystems in hopes of fostering the next tech revolution. Canada is no exception. In fact, in the words of Eric Schmidt: we have not only doubled down, we have quadrupled down. (fu...
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The worldwide AI race is on. Governments around the globe are doubling down on investments in AI research and their ecosystems in hopes of fostering the next tech revolution. Canada is no exception. In fact, in the words of Eric Schmidt: we have not only doubled down, we have quadrupled down. (fu...
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Introducing SAM Lists: The First Ever Social Rolodex
Social media has become essential to finding eye-witness content from anywhere in the world. Increasingly, it’s also become a source of government communication, emergency response, and other forms of official updates. These official and known accounts are equally, if not more so, important to tr...
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Social media has become essential to finding eye-witness content from anywhere in the world. Increasingly, it’s also become a source of government communication, emergency response, and other forms of official updates. These official and known accounts are equally, if not more so, important to tr...
Published at SAM Blog
Introducing SAM Lists: The First Ever Social Rolodex
Social media has become essential to finding eye-witness content from anywhere in the world. Increasingly, it’s also become a source of government communication, emergency response, and other forms of official updates. These official and known accounts are equally, if not more so, important to tr...
Published at SAM Blog
Social media has become essential to finding eye-witness content from anywhere in the world. Increasingly, it’s also become a source of government communication, emergency response, and other forms of official updates. These official and known accounts are equally, if not more so, important to tr...
Published at SAM Blog
3 Ways to Use SAM for the UK General Election
We’re one week away from the next UK General Election and newsrooms are in high gear. With so much going on in the news cycle it’s crucial that news organizations operate with efficiency and prepare their coverage strategies. With elections we have a somewhat set and predictable calendar of event...
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We’re one week away from the next UK General Election and newsrooms are in high gear. With so much going on in the news cycle it’s crucial that news organizations operate with efficiency and prepare their coverage strategies. With elections we have a somewhat set and predictable calendar of event...
Published at SAM Blog
3 Ways to Use SAM for the UK General Election
We’re one week away from the next UK General Election and newsrooms are in high gear. With so much going on in the news cycle it’s crucial that news organizations operate with efficiency and prepare their coverage strategies. With elections we have a somewhat set and predictable calendar of event...
Published at SAM Blog
We’re one week away from the next UK General Election and newsrooms are in high gear. With so much going on in the news cycle it’s crucial that news organizations operate with efficiency and prepare their coverage strategies. With elections we have a somewhat set and predictable calendar of event...
Published at SAM Blog
Mark Little joins the SAM Board of Directors
Today I’m extremely pleased to announce that Mark Little has joined the SAM board of directors. Mark’s name has become synonymous with social newsgathering and I couldn’t think of anyone so uniquely suited to help advise SAM through this exciting growth phase and beyond. Mark will be joining our ...
Published at SAM Blog
Today I’m extremely pleased to announce that Mark Little has joined the SAM board of directors. Mark’s name has become synonymous with social newsgathering and I couldn’t think of anyone so uniquely suited to help advise SAM through this exciting growth phase and beyond. Mark will be joining our ...
Published at SAM Blog
Mark Little joins the SAM Board of Directors
Today I’m extremely pleased to announce that Mark Little has joined the SAM board of directors. Mark’s name has become synonymous with social newsgathering and I couldn’t think of anyone so uniquely suited to help advise SAM through this exciting growth phase and beyond. Mark will be joining our ...
Published at SAM Blog
Today I’m extremely pleased to announce that Mark Little has joined the SAM board of directors. Mark’s name has become synonymous with social newsgathering and I couldn’t think of anyone so uniquely suited to help advise SAM through this exciting growth phase and beyond. Mark will be joining our ...
Published at SAM Blog
The Social Newswire
Here at SAM we live and breathe social and UGC workflows. More newsrooms and journalists use our platform to manage UGC than any other. This is deeply humbling, but also exciting. Exciting because it gives us a unique chance to solve some of the very large problems in the social media newsgatheri...
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Here at SAM we live and breathe social and UGC workflows. More newsrooms and journalists use our platform to manage UGC than any other. This is deeply humbling, but also exciting. Exciting because it gives us a unique chance to solve some of the very large problems in the social media newsgatheri...
Published at SAM Blog
The Social Newswire
Here at SAM we live and breathe social and UGC workflows. More newsrooms and journalists use our platform to manage UGC than any other. This is deeply humbling, but also exciting. Exciting because it gives us a unique chance to solve some of the very large problems in the social media newsgatheri...
Published at SAM Blog
Here at SAM we live and breathe social and UGC workflows. More newsrooms and journalists use our platform to manage UGC than any other. This is deeply humbling, but also exciting. Exciting because it gives us a unique chance to solve some of the very large problems in the social media newsgatheri...
Published at SAM Blog
Introducing SAM Assignments: Helping to Reduce Outreach Collision and Bring Newsroom Collaboration Full Circle
In 2017, more newsrooms will be investing in social media and UGC newsgathering tools than ever before. As social becomes increasingly important, we’re collectively experiencing growth and teething pains. One of those growth pains is how we handle outreach and permission requests. All too o...
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In 2017, more newsrooms will be investing in social media and UGC newsgathering tools than ever before. As social becomes increasingly important, we’re collectively experiencing growth and teething pains. One of those growth pains is how we handle outreach and permission requests. All too o...
Published at SAM Blog
3 Ways to Collaborate on Social Stories Using SAM
Leveraging the collaborative power of your newsroom is key when trying to tell a great story. With SAM, communicate quickly and efficiently using tags, notes, and activity feeds. 3 Ways to Collaborate on Social Stories Tags: easily categorize your social assets using tags. This quickly allows you...
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Leveraging the collaborative power of your newsroom is key when trying to tell a great story. With SAM, communicate quickly and efficiently using tags, notes, and activity feeds. 3 Ways to Collaborate on Social Stories Tags: easily categorize your social assets using tags. This quickly allows you...
Published at SAM Blog
