The Sweeper User Guide

Sweeper has been around for just over a year now and although the code is still changing quite rapidly. However, the core platform is now stable enough that we're releasing this User's Guide. It's certainly long overdue. Sweeper is the a free and opensource multimedia curation platform that we've been developing over the past few months. It's a quick and easy way to create a social media monitoring dashboard. You can find the User Manual embedded below or at http://swiftly.org/userguide So what are some of the things one can do with the Sweeper application?

Combine many feeds into one: then curate, filter and translate

Count and archive Twitter mentions

Mashup content from Email, Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, News sites, RSS/ATOM etc.

Automate the addition of context to data: Location, priority, influence, reputation, tags etc.

Structure unstructured data

Buffering against an excess of crowdsourced data

Set-up pipes of conditional logic for automating data processes

Collect and manage realtime data from SMS while completely offline

Translate real-time content from social media on the fly

Datamine real-time content aggregated by you or your team

Keyword monitoring from Twitter, Posterous, Blogger, Google News and Wordpress

Native integration with Ushahidi and Crowdmap

Sweeper can be downloaded today from Swiftly.org.

Sweeper User Guide v0.3

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