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How to leverage the Social Groups feature to create custom social media lists that consist of specific communities or user accounts

Social Groups

How to leverage Primer's Semantic Search engine to search on news data

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Pulse User Guide

A step-by-step guide to creating a real-time social media and news monitor within Pulse

How to Create a Monitor in Pulse

How to share a social media monitor across accounts within your organization

Sharing Monitors in Primer Pulse

A breakdown of all the social media and news data sources available in Pulse

Data Sources in Pulse

What languages are available in Pulse social media monitors

Languages in Pulse

Learn how to execute a News Search on historical news data, using date ranges, source lists, and event types

How to Conduct a News Search

Guide for crafting a Boolean query for a News Search

Using Boolean Operators in  News Search

Description of the data set offered in News Search

Data Sources in News Search

How to manage your news search queries, tag favorites, and create labels

News Search Query Management

Easily create a custom source list from historical news sources for your News Search.

How to Create & Utilize a Custom News Source List

How to exclude social media accounts and communities from appearing in Pulse monitors.

How To Exclude Social Media Accounts and Communities from a Pulse Monitor

How to use the Situation Report (SITREP) feature in Primer Pulse

SITREPs in Pulse

Learn all about the Social Summary feature within Pulse

Social Media Summaries in Pulse

How to change the design of what information is shown within your monitor.

Customizable Dashboards

What are factions? An explanation of factions and how to interact with factions within Primer

Factions

Navigating Social Narrative Features in Pulse

Social Media Narratives in Pulse

Primer's Digest Feature: Receive summaries of top events for a query directly to your email inbox

News Digests

Easily add events, event details, themes and more to your saved items to create a custom briefing

How to Create a Custom Briefing

Discover Events within the News Search application

Events in News Search

Discover news themes and how to interact with the Themes feature.

News Themes

Key features and insights available on the Overview page within News Search

Overview Page within News Search

Understanding the documents section in News Search

Documents Page in News Search

Find important locations and view events on an interactive map

Locations in a News Search

How to customize, annotate, and export a map within News Search

Maps Customization and Export

Discover People and their relationships in Primer

People Within a News Search

Discover Organizations and their associated information in News Search

Organizations within News Search

What is a Tracked Organization in Primer?

Tracked Organizations

Discover all of the quotes and their associated information within News Search

Quotes within News Search

Primer News Search API

Descriptions of Event Types and how they are created

What is an Event Type?

How to create an Excluded Sources list to exclude select sources from your News Search results

Excluded News Lists

How to download tables of data within News Search

Downloading Tabular Data from News Search

How to access saved items to create and export a custom briefing

Accessing Saved Items

Definitions for key terms such as deduplication, sentiment, and significance

Key Terms Glossary

How to access your settings and user profile page, where you can reset your password and update user preferences.

Settings and User Profile

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Jan 2025 Release Notes - Updated User Interface!

Jan 2025 - Release Notes

Release Notes

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