Import.io vs. Scoop.it Content Director

We used Connotate as a data mining tool for web research as a teaching assistant for the College of Information Sciences and Technology. You could train agents to automatically gather data in a variety of ways, which I used in my own research. Connotate's analysis was not as useful to me as the data itself, because we were using it to inform us of trends rather than make decisions.

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Scoop.it does have collaboration features so you can have more than one admin add content to a topic, but there is no platform for collaboration or drafting of content. It is easy to try out the free version and get a good idea of what the application does, and then add on features from there

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• Scrapes specific parts of webpages
• Crawls pages and scrapes based on patterns you specify via examples
• Very effective and accurate when it comes to scraping data of large URL lists

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• Provides suggestions daily for each of your topics depending on keywords you choose. There is no guesswork about what to share.
• Allows sharing of your content to various social media outlets with the touch of a button. Your content gets spread quickly.
• Your own beautiful front page functions as your website. It shows the curator profile, and all your topics.

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• Stability. software frequently crashed previously.
• Training. Students had a had time understanding how to use the tool, and then where to use it.

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• When we first implemented the usage of Scoop.it the topics of search were very limited, but as the popularity grows, so does the number of searchable topics.

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I do not think I would have the budget to use it currently. When using it previously, was working with the developers to improve the product and was given accounts at no cost

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Right now, it does not cost me anything. I am extremely happy with the service and product. It serves my needs for research.

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Well thought out UI

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The search engine housed within Scoop it delivers the most up to date articles based on the criteria I have provided it.

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[We selected Import.io because] They were top ranking in SEO. I will never work with them again though.

We used both social sites and as a personal preference, I liked Scoop.it considerably more because of the layout of the site and the ease of the user experience. It was also much easier to share content. I like to think of Scoop.it as the "short, sweet and to the point" website that gives me exactly what we need, when we need it and the manner in which it easiest to use.

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• It really helped to collect large chunks of data from the web.
• When compared to writing a script from scratch, it is very simple to use for creating a web agent.

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• I'm afraid we haven't been able to measure ROI, but we definitely have a stronger, more graphic impact in social media

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