This Friday we are going to be rolling out several additional updates to our analytics dashboard including the following:

Hovers for ‘impressions breakdown’ – We will be adding hover menus with help text over the various fields in the breakdown table for impressions to better explain what those different values mean.
Table with exact counts for impressions, [...]

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On January 8, we rolled out a batch of fixes to the release editing tool and analytics dashboard, including the following:
Release editing tool

Increased the lag on pop-up help menus – Although many users (particularly those newer to the release creation process) liked the pop-up help menus, the velocity with which they appeared was fast so [...]

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Today we are announcing the launch of our updated news release creation tool.  I wanted to take this opportunity to provide background into the thinking and effort that went into this update, which is probably one of our most significant user experience enhancements we have made in the past several years.
Planning for this revision [...]

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Last night we rolled out our new client console.  The overall functionality behind the console remains largely unchanged however you will see significant enhancements to its overall architecture as well as the visual design.
We undertook this project with the underlying goal of making it easier for our customers to use PRWeb by focusing on the [...]

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PRWeb has made an ongoing commitment to ensure our service is usable by everyone – regardless of their technical background. From the Fortune-500 PR person to the local business owner, we want to make sure that everyone who has something worth saying has the ability to say it through PRWeb. Our new [...]

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Over the years the volume of news releases distributed over PRWeb has increased dramatically. As the volume of content on our site has risen, we have made a variety of structural and technical changes to better accommodate the millions of bloggers, journalists and consumers (and search engine crawlers) who visit our site every month.
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We are rolling out a number of great new feature enhancements designed to provide you with an improved user experience, more scheduling options, and increased visibility for your images. Here are the new features now available through PRWeb:
Draft Mode
All PRWeb news releases are hand-reviewed by our dedicated editorial team to ensure each release [...]

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Based on numerous customer requests we are rolling out several new industry categories that you can now add your news release to including Executives, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Private Equity. These categories are also now available to our e-mail subscribers as well as via RSS.

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Many first-time users come to PRWeb with a press release in hand, ready for distribution. Other first-time users come to PRWeb with some experience in PR or marketing but not in press release writing. Finally, there are first-time users who are experts in writing press releases but are still new to things like search engine [...]

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Starting in November, we will be sending out analytics updates via e-mail, two weeks after their release is published through PRWeb.  These e-mails will simply recap. the total number of impressions and reads that the release has received up to that point in time, with a link to your news management console so you can [...]

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