As I've been saying since the first day that I tried Mote, the thing that I like the best about it is ability to give students feedback in your own voice. There's a comfort in hearing feedback instead of just reading it that a lot of students benefit from. That's especially true when the feedback is being provided to students who might struggle to understand your feedback when they're just reading it instead of hearing it. 

Online PD you can start today! Learn more here!

Besides being helpful when answering help requests from students or colleagues, Loom's Chrome extension could be useful in having students explain exactly what they need help with when they send you an email. Sometimes students don't know exactly how to phrase their requests in writing so giving them the Loom option could be a good way to get a better understanding of what they're asking. 

Online PD you can start today! Learn more here!

Tracking the ever-changing nature of protests is a daunting task.

Today, we are excited to release two new Feedly AI models:  Protests and Violent Protests.

They help security analysts track riots, strikes, and rallies that pose a risk to a company’s assets and employees.

With these AI models, tracking protests related to specific geographies, socio-political events, or corporations becomes more streamlined and efficient.

Curious about how it works? Here is a quick tour:

Are you afraid of missing out on crucial leadership changes?

Feedly AI is here to help. We’ve just released a new “Leadership Changes” AI Model that you can use to monitor C-suite changes.

This solution offers marketing and sales teams a more efficient (7x) and comprehensive (140 million sources) way to track leadership change announcements.

It can be used to track leadership changes related to specific companies and industries.

Here is a quick tour:

: How to speed up your leadership changes research with Feedly AI

Know when your competitors are expanding to new locations so you are aware of when they’re making big moves.

We created a new ‘Location Expansions’ AI Model so you can monitor these automatically.

Learn more about what you can track with this AI Model here:

We heard from our market intelligence teams that it’s hard to track the conferences their competitors attend.

We are excited to announce our new AI Model: ‘Participation in an Event’, a machine learning model that flags a company, or expert participating in an event

Curious how it works? Here is a quick tour:

We heard from our market intelligence teams that staying on top of innovations in their industries is challenging and time consuming.

We are excited to announce our new AI Model: ‘Tech & Scientific Innovation’, a machine learning model that allows you to keep up with the technological and scientific breakthrough innovations of your competitors.

Curious how it works? Here is a quick tour:

We heard from our market intelligence customers that it is extremely time consuming to collect market data.

We are excited to announce our new AI Model: ‘Market Data’, A machine learning model that tracks metrics related to a company, category or market.

You can either track market data in general, or search for specific types of market data such as a company’s market share and revenue, market size, price variations, etc.

Curious how it works? Here is a quick tour :

We heard from our market intelligence customers that it is extremely time consuming to keep up with latest patents in their industry.

We are excited to announce our new AI Model: ‘New Patents’, a machine learning model that allows you to keep up with the innovation strategies of your competitors by tracking recent patents filed on your market.

Curious how it works? Here is a quick tour:

We heard from a lot of innovation and strategy teams that it is increasingly harder to keep up with regulatory changes.

We are excited to announce our new AI Model that flags new and changing regulations and helps you:

• Track the new laws that are affecting your market
• Monitor the regulations that are affecting new technologies
• Keep up with any regulatory and clinical trial developments in the biopharma industry

Curious how it works? Here is a quick tour:

Keeping up with the big announcements that your competitors, partners or customers make in their press releases can be tedious and overwhelming.

This is why we manually curated hundreds of Press Releases that we organized into a Press Releases Bundle that you can now add to all your Leo Web Alerts.

To help you only get relevant press release articles about the companies you selected, we automatically improve your Web Alert when you select the “press release” topic in your search. This automatic improvement helps you save time and consists in 3 main changes:

1. We add the Press Releases Bundle to your Leo Web Alert (see the Refine Sources block on the right)
2. We remove the other source bundles from your Web Alerts so your search is focused on press release feeds exclusively. You can always add more feeds and bundles if you want to
3. We remove the “press release” topic that would otherwise narrow down your search only to articles that mention “press release” in their content.

Feel free to reach out to enterprise@feedly.com if you have any questions!

One Feedly Enterprise customer had come up with a clever trick to automatically email articles to a predefined group of 6 emails. It worked, but it was a little hacky. 

For teams that need to send critical information as quickly as possible (like the cyber threat intelligence teams that use Feedly, for example), instant communication about threats, data breaches, or vulnerabilities is important. And copying and pasting content at scale can really slow you down.

Remi, Customer Success & Operations lead at Feedly, helped one team find an even simpler way for instantly sending articles to external recipients.

They needed to send news immediately to external customers, but the customers weren’t members of their Feedly account. 

To avoid manually sending emails to customers each time a relevant article popped up, the team set up an IFTTT automation. It worked, but it was a little clunky:

• They created an email address specifically for this purpose: ourteam123@gmail.com
• If an article was saved to a designated Board, then it would be sent to this predefined Gmail address via IFTTT
• Then, from that Gmail, IFTTT will trigger sending the email to a predetermined list of six recipients

And since the articles were sent from Feedly → Gmail → each recipient’s inbox, they weren’t the most visually pleasing.

A better (easier) way to immediately send articles to external recipients

Remi spotted an opportunity to make their lives easier, and helped simplify the workaround. It’s simple:

• Highlight a section of the article you want to share
• Then, leave a Note on the article with the person’s email address: +coworker@email.com

When you tag someone in the Notes section of an article, Feedly automatically sends an email to the recipient, and include the highlighted section in the body of the email. The look and feel of the email is a bit more polished than the Gmail workaround, and they don’t even have to click through to read the highlighted section of the article.

Instantly send articles from Feedly to lists of recipients 

Easy enough so far, right? But what happens when you want to send articles to the same list of six or seven people? You definitely don’t want to have to type their email addresses every single time.

Here’s the fun part: you can use tools like TextExpander to create keyboard shortcuts for your predetermined lists of email addresses, and paste that directly into Feedly. For example, if I often send articles to the same 7 external clients, I can create a snippet to avoid typing out those 7 email addresses every time I want to share something with a group.

Then, if someone replies to the email, it will automatically get sent to the original sender’s inbox (and not some noreply address). 

Try it out the next time you need to share a timely, relevant article. Happy reading!

The best way to get inspiration to create your own Leo Web Alerts and optimize the signal-to-noise ratio for your intelligence purposes is to look at examples that other researchers and analysts have created in Feedly. Here, we’ll show you examples of Leo Web Alerts that real Feedly users across industries use to track relevant trends and topics across the web. 

Track emerging trends

Analysts at a gaming company combine the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) concept with Video Games to track NFTs in their space.

Keep up with innovation

Track innovation by your competitors or companies of interest, whether they’ve filed a new patent or created an existing technology.

Research the strategic moves of your competitors

An analyst at a retail company tracks the strategic moves their competitors are making: Are they launching new products? Raising funds? Signing partnerships? Combine the company with the various strategic moves you’re interested in to track these happenings.

Research consumer behavior

​​Analysts in the finance space combine the Consumer Insights concept with the Finance Industry” topic to surface insights on changes in consumers’ behavior in their space.

Find inspiration for your content marketing 

Content Type concepts look for specific types of content (tutorials, listicles, expert insights, interviews, etc). Content creators and content strategists find inspiration for specific types of content by combining a content type with a social media platform, industry, or topic. For example, if you’re a social media strategist, you can track TikTok AND Tutorials to find examples of existing tutorials about TikTok.

Keep up with business leaders

This one’s simple. Salespeople targeting leads interested in specific leaders in the space just ask Leo to track that specific person.

Discover and research critical vulnerabilities and zero-days

Cyber threat intelligence analysts use the Vulnerability concept to track vulnerabilities and filter them based on their CVSS score (actual or predicted). They combine the Vulnerability concept with a specific company, whether one of their customers or in their supply chain, to keep an eye out for critical vulnerabilities affecting the company.

Research threat actors

Analysts research specific threat actors and their corresponding tactics and techniques according to the MITRE ATT&CK framework by combining Threat Actor names with the Tactics and Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) concept.

Track cyber attacks

Analysts use the Cyber Attacks concept combined with companies of interest (their own company, vendors, customers, or competitors) to track cyber attacks affecting these companies.  

Track scientific breakthroughs

Researchers at biopharma companies combine their disease of interest (like Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2) with the Scientific Breakthroughs concept to stay on top of the latest breakthroughs and innovations made by companies, startups, and research teams around this disease.

Track regulatory changes

Researchers at top pharma companies combine the concept of their disease of interest (Neoplasms, in this case) with the Regulatory Changes concept to track new laws and regulations, high-court rulings, bans, FDA and EMA approvals concerning this disease.

There’s a fine balance between reducing noise and never missing out on important information. Leo Web Alerts let you cast a wide net: Just tell Leo to track your chosen concept (like companies, trends, technologies, malware families…) across the web, and you’ll get the results in Feedly. Then, refine your Web Alerts based on your specific requirements. In this tutorial, we’ll show you a few advanced tips and tricks that can help you optimize the signal-to-noise ratio based on your area of interest.

Ask Leo to search through ‘Titles’ only, instead of ‘Everything’

When you’re setting up a Web Alert, Leo can track your topic across “Everything” — this means he will read article titles and the full text, searching for the concepts you’re interested in. 

This is a great way to make sure you’re never missing out, but can sometimes result in noise in your feed. For example, if your topic is mentioned in a long article, but is not the subject of the entire piece.

To avoid this noise, you can switch to “Title” matching mode, and Leo will surface articles that mention your topic or concept in the title only.

Track Leo Concepts instead of keywords

When tracking a concept with keywords, you have to manually list out possible keywords. We’ve pre-trained Leo to recognize hundreds of concepts, so you can replace a long list of keywords with a single concept. Leo Concepts are machine learning models that replace large sets of keywords, remove blind spots, and reduce noise. 

For example, if you want to track product launches with keywords, many articles might mention the phrase “product launch” rather than actually provide news about a launch. You can leverage Leo Concepts, as Leo has been trained to recognize and flag launches — even if they don’t contain the phrase “product launch” at all — in articles like this one, for example.

Then, combine concepts (like adding your industry or a specific company you want to keep an eye on) to improve the signal-to-noise ratio even more.

Adjust the velocity slider to control the volume

You can specify how many articles per week you want to see related to this topic. Think of this like telling Leo how picky you would like him to be when he chooses which articles to show you.

In the first step in the slider, Leo reads manually curated top-notch industry publications, blogs, business and strategy magazines, and research journals. As you move the slider to the right, Leo will browse through sources that are less and less popular.  Adjusting the velocity slider can drastically reduce noise in your feed.

Refine your bundles: Specify the types of publications you want Leo to draw from

Leo knows the difference between a research journal or a news article, and between a news article and a blog post, etc. This is incredibly helpful when you want to keep up with everything related to your topic of interest, but you only want to hear from experts. 

Under the “Sources” tab, you can select from a variety of bundles of sources.

Exclude irrelevant companies, products, topics, or sources

To exclude a noisy source or topic in your preview results, you can click the Less Like This button.

You can also exclude topics when you’re creating a Web Alert with the ‘NOT’ section. 

Our recommendation: start with a wide net, refine as you go 

For the best results, we recommend starting with a wide net (Leo recommends the best settings for you by default), and using the preview screen to refine more. Web Alerts become a “source” for your specified Feed, and you can always go back and refine them further.

To recap, here are the basic steps to translating your intelligence needs into Leo Web Alerts:

1. Tell Leo what concepts you want to track 
2. Use AND, OR, and NOT to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio
3. If needed, refine sources with your own trusted sources

To refine an existing Web Alert, click on the Web Alert inside your Feed, and you’ll see a “Refine” button — this returns you to the screen where you originally set up this alert and allows you to update it as and when necessary.

Leo gets smarter as you give him more feedback. You can give Leo feedback by selecting “Less like this” on articles that aren’t quite right. Leo will adapt based on your feedback and become even more helpful over time.

More of a visual person? Start with this short video

Asking Leo to monitor topics, trends and concepts you care about with a Web Alert  is a great way to make sure you never miss what’s important to you. Leo’s advanced knowledge graph allows him to recognize topics and concepts like a human research assistant that never sleeps, saving you countless hours.

When you set up a Leo Web Alert, he will read hundreds of millions of sources across the web, even sources you aren’t already following. We’ve previously talked about refining your searches to reduce noise, but in some cases you may prefer to widen the net.

If this is the case, this article is for you! Below are our best tips for making Leo Web Alerts as broad as possible. This is especially helpful if your topic is very niche, or your job requires you to keep on top of even small mentions. 

Ask Leo to read ‘Everything’ instead of just ‘Titles’

If you never want to miss a mention of your topic, you can ask him to look for ‘Everything’ across the web, not just article ‘Titles’. This ensures Leo will find even small mentions in long articles. This is a great way to ensure you’re never missing relevant commentary across the web.

Tell Leo to be less picky by increasing the number of articles he should show you

You can further expand your feed by requesting more articles per week related to this topic. Think of this like telling Leo not to leave anything out of your feed, even small mentions. This is especially important if your job involves close tracking of niche concepts. 

Layer Web Alerts and Google Alerts to compare the differences

Generally speaking, Leo Web Alerts will be more relevant than Google News Alerts or keyword alerts. This is because Google News Alerts limit your search only to top news and trade publications, and keyword alerts track exact keyword matches, rather than smart concepts. 

When comparing a similar Google Alert and Leo Web Alert inside Feedly, you can see that there is some overlap, but Leo surfaces even more relevant articles, and Leo gives you the ability to refine your search as needed to decrease noise. 

If you’re not ready to convert your Google Alerts, you can have both in a feed! Google Alerts are indicated by the magnifying glass icon, while Leo Web Alerts are indicated by the bullseye icon. If you want to compare results between your two alerts, set them both up as sources for the same Feed, and you’ll be able to compare results side-by-side daily. 

When you’re ready, you can delete one of the alerts or refine your Leo Web Alert anytime by hitting ‘Refine’ in the upper right corner of your Web Alert.

When in doubt, we can help

We’ve been working hard on Leo Web Alerts behind the scenes, and helping you be successful is our top priority. If you’re still struggling to get your Feeds just right, we can help. Click below to schedule a short call with one of our experts, and we’ll have you up and running in no time. We can’t wait to meet you!

Where do you go when you’re hungry for curated insights in a specific industry? Newsletters! 

Newsletters are the best place to get curated insights and in-depth analysis from experts. You get the best industry-specific news, without having to slog through social media to find insights on trends and competitors. 

Plus, now that you can get newsletters delivered to Feedly, we want to help you find quality industry newsletters that you can add to your feeds. We’re sharing 5 major industry newsletters with quality content and deep analysis, so you can find your next great read. 

Robinhood Snacks (Finance)

“Your daily dose of financial news: The 3-minute newsletter with fresh takes on the financial news you need to start your day.” 

Robinhood Snacks is a mix of financial, business, and market news with a smart, punny tone.

Each piece of news includes an in-depth story and a key takeaway that helps you get the highlights. We especially appreciate how the plentiful emojis, GIFs, and snack puns make the newsletter easy to scan and keep things light in an industry that’s not always considered “fun.”

Petr, Customer Success Manager at Feedly, says “Robinhood Snacks helps me get the bigger picture about what to invest in. The other day, I liked how they analyzed the strategies behind two up-and-coming startups and gave a valuable takeaway.”

Axios Vitals (Health care)

“Keep up with health care politics, policy and business, by health care reporter Caitlin Owens.”

The daily Axios Vitals newsletter starts with “1 big thing” that goes deep on a timely piece of health care news. The rest of the newsletter includes a variety of topics that intersect with different sub-sectors in health care: the impact of the economic environment on people’s health, scientific research, and drug discovery. You’ll find background knowledge and analysis so you can take away plenty of talking points. 

Especially during the overwhelming news cycle of the pandemic, Axios Vitals is a great place to look for quality coronavirus-related news.

Idea 57 (Media and entertainment)

“Atlantic Media’s weekly newsletter on the business of media.” 

Settle in with a cup of coffee and (or tea): this is a long one. Written by Atlantic Media’s strategy research team, Idea 57 covers a wide range of areas in the media and entertainment industry, including digital media, publishers, social media, traditional media. 

Each story includes a well-researched explanation and snapshots for easy consumption. You’ll find plenty of links to external content and videos so you can fall down a rabbit hole on a specific topic.

Retail Brew (Retail)

“Stay up to date on the retail industry. All the news and insights retail pros need to know, all in one newsletter.”

“There’s so much happening in retail, but there isn’t a single source that curates retail news with a sense of humor.” said journalist Halie LeSavage to MediaPost when Retail Brew launched earlier in 2020.

Retail Brew now gives readers direct access to retail news—with a dose of humor. It was created by the team behind the popular Morning Brew newsletter.

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, LeSavage writes stories that are both entertaining and informative for a variety of readers: from grocers to direct-to-consumer companies and small businesses. Stories are about everything from Black Friday and Cyber Monday news to pet subscription boxes.

Airline Economics Online (Travel and hospitality)

“Airline Economics is the leading and largest finance & leasing global publication for the aviation sector, reaching industry professionals from lessors, investors, banks, airlines, law firms & MROs.”

The daily Airline Economics newsletter gets granular. In a time when airline news is moving so fast, it’s the place to keep up with everything from financials and acquisition news to regulatory news and changes in airline leadership. You’ll find deep analysis on new routes, schedule changes, and airport plans, and innovation trends, like General Motors’ recent investment in flying cars.

Other lists we like 

There are so many quality newsletters out there. There’s also a lot of noise. To help you find even more newsletters where you can keep up with the topics and trends in your industry, check out 15 Newsletters That Will Make You Smarter and More Successful in 2020. 

For tech newsletters, we like CodeinWP’s list of  12 of the Best Tech Newsletters to Subscribe to in 2020.

The amount of information published every day in the biopharma space is overwhelming and hard to skim through.

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of Biopharma Search Mode, a tool that allows you to save time in your research flow. You can drill down into the specific content you want, beyond your existing feeds and sources.

With Biopharma Search Mode, you can find articles you would have not found otherwise, discover new sources and save the pieces of content you find interesting. This feature is available to all Biopharma Enterprise users.

Let’s walk through an example of how you could use Biopharma Search Mode to find articles you need. Imagine you lead an R&D team at a biotech company and you want to learn about the latest breakthroughs related to cell therapies.

Create your search query

First, click on the search icon in the left navigation bar, and select ‘Search Across the Web’.

Type in a topic you want to research and select Biopharma Mode. When you search in Biopharma Mode, you’re searching across sources we’ve preselected based on biopharma users’ favorite industry-specific sources, and you’ll get less noise.

You’re in control

Ask Leo to search for “cell therapy” in any of the biopharma sources we curated for you. Create a search query and select “cell therapy” as the topic.

You can refine your query and combine topics with +AND and +OR.

You can create even more targeted queries by selecting the types of publications you want on the left-hand side: pick from 300 science journals, 800 biopharma trade publications, 80 regulatory sources, or 350 healthtech blogs.

For example, use +AND to focus on news related to cell therapies and biopharma companies, and select the Biopharma Business type of publications only.

Go further and refine your search by excluding certain topics, or by selecting ‘Title Only’ vs ‘Entire Content’. Find more information about how to do this here.

Break down silos

Team Boards are the private spaces where you and your team can save the best content you discover in Feedly or on the web. You can bookmark, organize, and annotate content to share insights across your team and organization.

Once you’ve discovered a great new article, you can save it to a board and share it with the rest of your team via daily newsletters, Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications, or push it to other apps using our API.

You can also click on the source name and see the other articles that the source has published. This is a powerful way to find new sources for niche topics. If the content is highly relevant, you can use the ‘Follow’ button to add that new source to one of your Team Feeds and receive the next articles published by that source.

Streamline your biopharma intelligence

We’re excited to see how your team will declutter your feeds and dig deeper into the biopharma news that matters to you. Sign up today and discover Feedly for Biopharma.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Feedly for Biopharma roadmap, you can book a demo call by clicking on the button above.

Clinical trial updates produce overwhelming amounts of information every day. But a small portion of these articles refers to the diseases and studies you want to monitor.

Cut through the noise and build custom RSS feeds on ClinicalTrials.gov with the information you need.

Go to ClinicalTrials.gov

You are the head of an AIDS research program in a large pharma company. You can create a query on ClinicalTrials.gov to look into clinical trial news coming from other research labs.

Create your query

ClinicalTrials.gov covers a wide range of clinical trials that occur every day. You can either search a single keyword or create an advanced query with certain study types, locations, ages…

You can find more information about how to use the ClinicalTrials.gov search.

Subscribe to your custom CT.gov RSS feed

You can look into the results of your query and add additional filters if needed. When you are satisfied with the entries, click ‘Subscribe to RSS’.

This will lead you to the RSS feed you’ll have to copy.

Add your custom CT.gov RSS feed to your Feedly

Click ‘+’ on Feedly to paste the CT.gov RSS feed you just copied. Add it to any of the feeds you’d like and start reading your selected ClinicalTrials.gov content!

Streamline your biopharma intelligence

We’re excited to see how your team will declutter your feeds and dig deeper into the biopharma news that matter to you. Sign up today and discover Feedly for Biopharma.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Feedly for Biopharma roadmap, you can demo a call by clicking on the button above. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!

Scientific journals produce overwhelming amounts of information every day. But a small portion of these articles refers to the biomedical information you need to research about.

Save time and keep up with the biomedical news you are looking for by following custom PubMed RSS feeds on Feedly.

Go to PubMed.gov

You are a scientist researching cancer and immunology. You can create an Advanced search query on PubMed and select the journals you want to research mentions of cancer in.

Build your advanced query

PubMed covers a wide range of journals, biomedical terms and authors. The more specific your search query is, the more relevant results you will get.

For more details about the various ways to create PubMed queries, you can read more information here.

Create your custom PubMed RSS feed

Once on the results page, you can further filter by article type, publication type, etc. Hit ‘Create RSS’ when you are ready to move forward. 

Add your custom PubMed RSS feed to your Feedly

Click on ‘+’ in your Feedly, paste the PubMed RSS feed you just created and add it to any of your feeds.

Prioritize with Leo

Save time and prioritize genes or any other topic in your PubMed articles.

Streamline your biopharma intelligence

We’re excited to see how your team will declutter your feeds and dig deeper into the biopharma news that matter to you. Sign up today and discover Feedly for Biopharma.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Feedly for Biopharma roadmap, you can schedule a demo call by clicking on the button above. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!

We heard from lots of biopharma users that the Drugs topic could be improved and clarified, considering the different meanings it has.

We are excited to announce that you can now prioritize either pharmaceutical drugs or recreational drugs.

We have taught Leo to understand if an article is about pharma drugs or recreational ones to improve the relevance of his prioritization.

Let me show you how it works.

Pharmaceutical Drugs

Let’s imagine that you have a Science Journals feed and want to track updates about drugs treating cancer. Let’s train Leo to read this feed and cut through the noise for you.

You can see a preview of all the articles that Leo has recognized as related to pharmaceutical drugs and cancer. These articles will be prioritized in your feed.

Recreational Drugs

Now, you can do the same with recreational drugs. Let’s say you want to prioritize articles that are at the intersection of recreational drugs and epilepsy.

Leo will continuously learn and get smarter as he prioritizes articles about pharma drugs or recreational drugs, letting you focus on the topics and trends that matter to you.

After two months of Leo utilization, I can say that he saved us two of the three hours that we needed weekly to do our job, with the same or better quality. Really performant. Good job and long life to Leo

Jessyca Duer, UnitedHealth Group

Train your Leo now

We are excited to see many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!

If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a challenging year, but by staying informed, you can respond better and remain in control. 

Coronavirus news is everywhere right now. It’s not so much a wave of information as an ocean. It’s easy to get overwhelmed or miss a crucial market development. 

Or maybe you want to cut out the COVID-19 content altogether so you can find out what else is happening around the world. 

So we’ve taught Leo, your AI research assistant, how to help.

Mute or prioritize COVID-19 in your Feedly

Leo can already learn what you like to see and refine your Feedly. Now, he can mute or prioritize COVID-19 as well. And he does it across tens of millions of trusted sources. 

It works just like Leo’s other prioritization parameters such as keywords, topics, and events. ‘Coronavirus’ and ‘COVID-19’ are just two of the terms he recognizes. Leo takes into account a variety of the virus’s other names, too, like SARS-CoV-2. 

Once you give Leo a priority, you’ll get a specific view of how your industry is reacting to the pandemic. Then just save the most interesting articles in your Feedly Board. 

You can mute or prioritize one feed, or every feed, and those feeds can be personal or spread across your team. It lets some team members focus on COVID-19 news if they need to, while others look beyond it. 

Here’s a few examples to show how Leo’s coronavirus topic might work for you. After all, the virus is impacting every sector, whether you’re in retail, cyberspace, automotive or pharmaceuticals…

COVID-19 and biopharma

You’re a drug development director looking for news and insight around cardiovascular disease, and how COVID-19 is affecting this research. 

Let’s imagine you have a cardiology feed in Feedly, and you’re following multiple science and medicine journals. Go to your cardiology feed and hit “Train Leo” in the right-hand corner. You can prioritize COVID-19 subjects by entering it as a topic.

The articles displayed are now all about coronavirus and cardiology. 

Refine the priority further with +AND or +OR. Here’s some more information about Leo’s topic combinations.

COVID-19 and cybersecurity

You’re part of a large tech company. Security threats may have emerged during the pandemic, buried by the noise online. 

Do the exact same thing. Click ‘Train Leo’ and enter COVID-19 as the topic.

You can see the most recent coronavirus-related articles from your sources in the preview. Choose whether to filter by Entire Content or titles that explicitly contain COVID-19 or its aliases.

New threats to your business can then be spotted and prepared for.

COVID-19 and retail

You’re a business intelligence analyst searching for COVID-19’s effects on stores and brands around the globe. Retail, one of the most disrupted sectors, is under intense scrutiny. The prioritization feature can help here too. 

With a retail feed, you’ll preview countless pieces of content that tackle this subject. 

Again, just create a Leo priority around COVID-19.

And that’s it. You have a feed at the intersection of two subjects, with plenty of room for more priorities and further refinement.

Muting COVID-19

You might want to look past COVID-19 instead, and keep it out of your feeds. 

Muting is just as easy. Click ‘Train Leo’ and scroll to ‘Mute Filters’. Type in COVID-19. You’ll see a message asking which Feedly feeds you want to remove it from.

Here’s how it looks in a tech feed. 

No more content on the topic will turn up in your Feedly, as long as the mute is active. It’s one of 1,000 pre-trained topics that Leo can mute right away.

Train Leo to prioritize or mute COVID-19 now

Whatever happens with coronavirus and your market, the trusted insights are here. Leo makes sure you’re never overwhelmed or struggling to see the big picture.

If you’re interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, join the Feedly Community Slack channel. 2020 will be a challenging year, but by staying informed, you can respond better and remain in control.

Feedly already digests and presents updates from the sources you value. But to really stay ahead of the curve, it pays to search beyond the publishers you already follow – to the blogs, articles, reports, and debates that are turning heads, but almost buried among the noise online. 

That’s why we’ve given Feedly the ability to look further with Power Search across the web. It drills down into the specific information you want to find beyond your existing feeds and sources.

In this way, you can learn something new, discover new sources for future reference and easily share reputable insights with your colleagues and social network. It intersects the exact content you’re looking for with super-specific topics and publications. 

Here’s what Power Search across the Web does, and how to use it. 

Introducing Power Search across the web

Search is a relevance game. It’s easy to lose time in the wormhole of search engines. Meanwhile, the low hit rate of typical news aggregators and alert features can leave you pulling hairs out.

Feedly gets around this with a carefully vetted database of more than 40 million trusted web sources. Collectively, they publish 110 million articles, journals, and videos. on a daily basis. 

But that’s still a crazy amount of info and analysis. So we help you refine this down with buckets – categories of publications that make a search super granular. 

You can think of each bucket as a list of trusted publications that focus on a specific industry, function or topic. They tell the search exactly what to filter. You get hyper-relevant content that can be saved to a Feedly board and shared with your team or out into the wider world. Six popular buckets are surfaced automatically yet other, more narrow buckets can be chosen – we’ll show you how to do this later in our guide.

Discover what trade publications are saying about a company. Track topics on strategy sources. Bring up the conversation around a product in business magazines. The knowledge is yours to shape and tinker with. 

How it works

Okay, let’s imagine you’re part of the Innovation Hub at Aéroports de Paris. You’re looking for ground-breaking stories and reports about the airline industry. 

First, click on the search icon to open Power Search, select the new Across the Web tab, and search for the airlines topic.

You get instant access to highly relevant articles from expert and trusted sources.

You can also search for companies, people, products, or other keywords you are interested in.

Narrow to specific publications

The initial search is performed against a set of default buckets: strategy magazines, trade publications, business magazines, and tech blogs.

But you can narrow your search to a specific slice of the web. Click on +SOURCES and lookup energy for example. This is a powerful way to find articles about airlines across a broad set of energy publications.

Refine your query with Leo topics and business events

You can refine your query by adding additional parameters (topics or business events) using the +AND operator.

For example, you can easily search for product launches related to the airline industry by combining the airlines smart topic and the product launch business event

Cut through the noise with Exclude

Okay, now let’s remove some results you 100% don’t want to find. For instance, any mention of COVID-19…

The Exclude feature allows you to filter out specific topics or keywords from the search results. Click on Exclude > +Topic and enter COVID-19.

Advanced mode

If you are a power user, you can use the Title Only knob to let Feedly know if you want to search only in the title of articles or the entire content.

The where on the web feature also includes a funnel button gives you more control over which publications should be included in the buckets. Pick leading publications if you are searching for a popular term and pick all publications if you are searching for a niche topic and you want your search to be as broad as possible.

Make your Feedly better 

Once you’ve discovered a great new article, you can click on the source name and see the other articles that the source has published. This is a powerful way to find new sources for niche topics.

If the content is highly relevant, you can use the +FOLLOW button to add that new source to one of your Feedly feeds and receive the next articles published by that source.

Your turn

15 million users are already using Feedly for their own trade and market analysis. Ready to join them? 

Cut to the heart of what matters. Set up your Feedly account today.

You may know your way around our Feedly Boards already. They’re a place to save useful insights you’ve found in Feedly or around the web, and share them as Team Newsletters with your teammates.

But insights can come from many kinds of media, including market reports, conference brochures, presentation decks, or whitepapers packed with industry knowledge. Typically, these exist in a PDF format.

Now, you can save PDFs to your Feedly Boards, so nothing is left out for a deep-dive understanding of a subject.

Run-through

Let’s suppose you’re an analyst for JP Morgan, learning about breaking developments in financial services. Here’s how to add the PDFs you find to your Boards.

Say you come across a fantastic online market report. In this case, it’s all about the technologies set to disrupt financial services in the near future.

Copy the URL from the browser URL bar.

Then, return to your Feedly Board, choose + ADD STORY, and paste the URL.

Feedly will extract the PDF’s title automatically from metadata or the name of the file. You can also shorten and change the title yourself. 

Before you can save a story to a Board, add a summary.

Summaries show your team what they’re about to read and why it matters. They’ll also show up your Team Newsletter. 

Write your own, or do as we’ve done here and copy the first paragraph of the report’s summary.

Once you’re done, click ‘Save To Board’.

The Board should now have your PDF at the top.

It’ll stay there for anyone in your team to view and comment on. Add as many PDFs as you want to populate the Board, so you can easily access all the reference points you need in one place.

If your board is configured with a team newsletter or a Slack or Microsoft Teams notification, the PDF link will be automatically included and shared with your teammates.

Your turn

Follow these steps to add slides, brochures, guides, market reports and more to your Boards. Now that you can save any insights you come across, you can be sure that crucial information never escapes you or your team when building a fuller picture of a topic.

Get more out of Feedly now with Team Newsletters with our Enterprise plan. You’ll also get additional Boards, sources and sharing functionalities.

We heard from lots of users that market reports can be a considerable source of noise when you track company updates.

We are excited to announce a new Market Reports topic.

We have taught Leo to identify market reports so that you can easily mute them from your feeds and save time. Leo recognizes market reports as any article that is either an ad for buying a market report or a sample of a market report.

Quick Demo

Let’s imagine you have keyword alerts to track updates about various health companies such as Amgen, Novartis, and 23&Me.

As you can see, a considerable amount of these articles are market reports.

Let’s train Leo to read this feed and filter out all the noisy market reports.

You can create a new Leo mute filter by click on the Train Leo button and selecting the Mute Filters skill.

In the Mute Filters editor, search and select the Market Reports smart topic.

You can see a preview of all the articles that Leo has read and recognized as Market Reports.

Leo will continuously read your feed and remove market reports, letting you focus on the topics and trends that matter to you.

The Leo Market Report mute filter helps us cut through the noise and track company updates a lot more efficiently.

Yuan Shen Yu

Train Your Leo Now

We are excited to see how many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!

If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!