The Cision Communications Cloud not only allows you to search for and view the news pick up you may be getting as a result of your PR efforts but also report on and analyze your coverage in a variety of ways!
To Search My Coverage
To make the Options toolbar available for Reporting, you will first need to search for and find the news coverage on which you want to report using the News Search page.
To Report on Search Results
1. Apply any desired Filters to further define by category the coverage that should be included in the report or analysis.
2. Select the coverage that should be included in the report by clicking the appropriate checkboxes. The top checkbox can be used to select all of the coverage in a search result set. The individual checkboxes next to each article can be used to include or exclude a specific article in the report.
You must select all, some, or one article in order to proceed with reporting or analysis from News Results.
3. Once you have selected the coverage that you want to include in the report or analysis, the Options toolbar becomes active enabling you to choose how you want to report on or analyze the coverage.
Export – Create an Export (CSV/Excel file) describing the selected coverage. When creating an Export, you have the option to choose which data you want to use in describing the coverage. You also have the ordering the data according to your preference.
Share – Send the news items via email to recipients using a template. This option allows you to send a summary of the selected coverage to recipients. Within the summary, you have a variety of formatting options to share additional data about each article if you prefer.
Add To Clipbook- Either Add a clip to an existing clipbook summary or Create, customize, and format a clipbook summary of the selected coverage that can be delivered as a PDF, DOC, email, or all three options at once.
Edit-Edit or modify all selected news items. Options from this menu include: Add News Items to Campaign, Add Tags, Modify Tone, or Modify Custom Fields.
Delete– This button will delete all selected news. NOTE: If you have multiple users within your Cision account, the other users will no longer be able to see new clips that have been deleted.
More/Three Ellipses – Analyze the Clips using the Analytics Dashboard, Send selected news items to an RSS Feed, or Delete news items from this menu.
4. The Analysis option can also be accessed using the button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
5. From the Analytics Dashboard, you can create a file-based report containing charts.
