Infoseer - Innovative Features/Tutorial:
Introduction:
Once Infoseer is launced from your desktop icon, you are presented with:
- Left Frame or Information Management Partition
- Right Frame or Process Management Partition
The middle window is the Infoseer Database Tree and everytime you select a table, it will automatically dump
the records in the Browse (Tab - Right) Area. Look at the image below, note that your left frame contains tab
selections such as; Web, Usenet, Internet Chat, etc.., and your right frame is further partition with the
Infoseer Database Tree and your Process Management such as; Category Setting for Save Records, Browse Infoseer
Database, Edit Infoseer Tables and Your Company Database Configuration.
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Click on "Keywords" and a dialog window will show, this is where you will enter all the keywords you would
like Infoseer to filter all your research activities. When finish click on "Search", Infoseer will get all
related sites utilizing several search engine including Google which is your first layer of search
efficiencies. Infoseer will pass all your keywords to the search engines and will all show up on a pull-down
box right next to "Keyword Filter" Check Box. As you choose a particular web address on a pull-down box, you
will notice that Infoseer automatically place the address between "Bookmarks" and "Go". If you wish to visit
the site, just click "Go". From there, you can highlight all the header/content pair as many as you want then
just insert them all into the database with just one click.
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Focus Partitioning:
The initial screen looks intimidating at first until we introduce you "Focus Partitioning" - which gives you
complete control on which pane you want to work on by hiding or viewing only certain area of Infoseer by
clicking the Left < or Right > Arrow located in every frame divider. As you collapse
the Infoseer Table Tree, you can now work on just the Web Browser (Left Frame) highlighting and saving content
while setting your information category on the right frame or if you wish to see the saved record you can
tab into the Browse Option.
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Database Intelligent Interface:
Consider the diagram below as Web example. First, make sure that you select the category for this data, it
means that "Is this data for Corporate or Marketing?". Make this selection on the right frame, this always
default to Corporate category
- Highlight any text area you find relevant to your research by pointing you mouse arrow at the
starting word, hold it down (drag) until you reach the end of the sentence or paragraph.
- Once highlighted, right-click your mouse and you will be presented with a menu box -> Select Heading
-> Select Content ->Save Record(s) -> Clear Area. Choose "Select Heading".
- Next, highlight the designated content for this header, right-click then choose "Selected Content".
Please note that Infoseer keeps track on multiple heading/content and will warn you if you have more
heading than content. This should match, besides, you don't want heading without any content anyway.
- Finally, right-click the choose "Save Record(s)" and all heading/content you have selected will all
saved into the database.
This powerful feature of Infoseer allows any ordinary research activities to manage database action without
the database complexities or programming. Simple highlight or tag and save is all it takes to save relevant
information. Every research tool operation is same for all, meaning even in the internet chat you can
right-click menu is always available.
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How to view and process your data:
To view your data at any time, click on the "View" menu option. There you will find several view options group
by Information Management Tools namely, "View Web Data", "View Newsfeed Data". Within each menu option are
several sub-menu options which conform to your departmental categories for your closed-loop research model.
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To process (export) your data, right-click your mouse inside the view data diagram window and from there
you can export your data into XML or plain text or simply print them. Please note that the diagram is
neatly arrange by records. To further view the data, just click inside on either right or bottom sides
and the screen will go into automatic scroll mode allowing you a much wider view of your data.
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