Researchers’ Choice Release Notes 2.11.10

February 11th, 2010 by Melanie Feyerherm

Three requested functionalities of the system have been released today! We hope these additions enhance your experience in using the DataJoe system.

Project-Specific Privilege Settings

Within the Identity Module, you can now create (or edit) users and assign specific projects or products to their accounts. By default, users will still have access to all projects or products. But now, users can be created to have access to only certain projects or products. If a user does not have access to a certain project or product, they will not be able to access that data when they log in.

You’ll find this setting within each User’s Details page underneath the Modules privilege. Click the Projects arrow and assign specific projects using the Project Manager.

Project-Specific Prospects

In addition to being able to set project-specific privileges, you can also assign project-specific prospects to records.

To do so, go to that record’s Basic Details page.

Under the Survey Contacts Association area, highlight the prospect you would like to set as a “preferred contact” for a specific project. From the Project Manager, choose the Ranked List or Directory and load it into the “Preferred contact for specific project(s)” box.

When you view the record in Advanced Details, all survey contacts (Prospects) will still show up to be accessed and edited. However, when you go to survey the record, only the “preferred contact” for the project you are surveying will be selected by default.

Additionally, in Survey Setup of any project, you can add in a field in the survey contact association zone for, “project-specific contact.”

With this field inserted into the survey contact zone, you can toggle a survey contact as the “project-specific contact” for that project.

When you export the project to Excel, this will put an additional field in the “Survey Contact” file for “project-specific contact.” Anyone who is a project-specific contact will have “Y” in the data for the field.

The best way to use this file is to sort in Excel by the “project-specific contact” field to bring all the project-specific contacts together and use for follow-up contacting.

Out of Business Companies

For those clients who do not use the “In Business” condition on your company projects, you’ll be happy to know that any company that has a status toggled as “no” for “currently operating” will show as “OUT OF BUSINESS” on the survey blast page and will indefinitely not receive a survey. This allows you to keep them flagged for projects, but you’ll never run the risk of sending out a survey to them.

To view a record’s status, go to the Basic Details of a record.

If the record’s “Currently Operating” status is “No,” on Step 1 of the survey process you will see red text reading “Out of Business,” and no option to check off survey contacts.


Researchers’ Choice Webinar

DataJoe will be hosting a Webinar on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 12:30 Mountain Time to go over Project-Specific Privileges and Prospects in more detail. Those interested in attending this Webinar should e-mail “I’m interested in attending the Researchers’ Choice Webinar” to support@datajoe.com.

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DataJoe launches National Marketplace data portal

February 2nd, 2010 by Brittany Simon

NEWS RELEASE

For immediate release

Contact: Brittany Simon
DataJoe, LLC
303-989-1300
contact@datajoe.com

DataJoe launches National Marketplace data portal
Research software company expands services to online data sales

LAKEWOOD, Colo. Feb 2, 2010 –– DataJoe, LLC, a leading provider of ranked list software and research consulting services to data publishers is embarking on a major new research project of its own: an online listing of business lists and rankings published throughout North America. Consumers visiting the site can purchase local business rankings and directories for sales leads, industry research, mail merges and key personnel contact lists.

DataJoe’s National Marketplace (www.datajoe.com), launched February 1, 2010, warehouses thousands of high quality, continuously updated data products. DataJoe clients with products already available on the Marketplace include: Crain Communications Inc., Dolan Media Company, Florida Trend and Journal Publications Inc.

“We have wanted to create a portal like this for a long time,” said Dan Feiveson, DataJoe co-founder and president. “Our business has always been to help data publishers make the most of their research products. It’s high time we assisted our clients more directly on the monetization side, not just the research side, of their business.”

Prior to the launch of the Marketplace, consumers exclusively purchased DataJoe’s clients’ data products through individual publications’ sites. The Marketplace allows visitors to locate products across markets by region, category or type and purchase multiple lists in a single transaction.

“Our clients mine news and data within highly specific markets and offer exceptional data products tailored to their brand,” Feiveson said. “Our Marketplace offers an outlet they can’t provide for themselves and an opportunity to connect with a brand of customers entirely distinct from their own.”
Since its formation in 2002, DataJoe has offered top business journals and trade publications an intuitive online relational database to manage and sell opt-in data from their markets.

For more information on DataJoe or to explore the National Marketplace, visit www.datajoe.com or e-mail contact@datajoe.com.

About DataJoe

DataJoe, LLC develops technology products for business and trade journals, including research tools, e-commerce applications and data-to-print utilities. The company is based in Lakewood, Colorado and majority-owned by The Northern Colorado Business Report in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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DataJoe launches its National Marketplace!

February 1st, 2010 by Melanie Feyerherm

A dream has come true for us at DataJoe.

We’ve long been wanting the opportunity to truly showcase our clients’ hard work – to give their products a chance to really shine. DataJoe’s Sales Manager Johnny Levy first wrote about the great potential for regional products to be national, and now that chance is here.

To check it out for yourself, head to www.datajoe.com. Here you’ll find an online listing of the best business lists and rankings available; a mega-store of high quality data offerings produced by some of the most prestigious publishers of data products in the world. Purchase local business rankings and directories for sales leads, industry research, mail merges and key personnel contact lists on a national level.

DataJoe clients with products already available on the Marketplace include Crain Communications Inc., Dolan Media Company, Florida Trend, and Journal Publications Inc.

“We have wanted to create a portal like this for a long, long time,” said Dan Feiveson, DataJoe co-founder and president. “Our business has always been to help data publishers make the most of their research products. It’s high time we assisted our clients more directly on the monetization side, not just the research side, of their business.”

The National Marketplace’s intuitive user interface will help customers find products by region, category or list type and quickly purchase multiple products in a single transaction.

“Our clients focus on business news and data within highly specific markets and offer exceptional data products tailored to their brand,” Feiveson said. “Our National Marketplace offers an outlet they can’t provide for themselves — and an opportunity to connect with a brand of customers entirely distinct from their own.”

For more information on DataJoe or to explore the National Marketplace, visit www.datajoe.com or e-mail support@datajoe.com.

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Release Notes 1.26.09

January 26th, 2010 by Brittany Simon

Attention DataJoe Clients –

We’ve pushed a release to the system with a new functionality to the ranking feature in layout. Please see below for details on this new feature.

Rank Start Number -

You can now determine a new start rank number for your lists by going into Project Setup–>Optional–>Style Adjustments. At the bottom left of Style Adjustments you will see the option for “rank start #”.

By setting a different start number, this will force the first record on the list to automatically be ranked with the start number specified. This will help with exporting multiple pages of your lists at a time. Therefore, if you need to export records 25-50, for example, you can change the rank start number to correspond with the ranking that record 25 should be placed as and the following records will follow suit.

As always, if you have any questions on this new feature, please direct those to support@datajoe.com.

At your service,

The DataJoe Team

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Join the 2010 BOL exchange through our community forum

January 5th, 2010 by Melanie Feyerherm

Happy 2010!

With the new year comes a new chance for you to promote your publication and learn from others!

If you’d like to participate in a Book of Lists exchange with other DataJoe clients, head on over to our community forum at datajoe.com/forum and supply your name and address to participate.

To gain access to the forum, you need to be a registered user on the site. To do so, just click on the “New Member” link on the right-hand side of the screen and await your account confirmation. For existing users who may have lost or forgotten your account info, you can use the “Lost Account Info?” link or contact DataJoe at support@datajoe.com. We’re here to help!

We hope this exchange can provide valuable resources to you in planning and preparing for this year’s lists, directories, projects and next year’s Book of Lists!

Keep in mind, you can utilize this forum for interaction among your peer DataJoe researchers at any time if you’d like to learn more from them about their processes, projects they are working on or any other topics you’d like to discuss.

Here’s to a great 2010!

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DataJoe National Marketplace: Can Local Go National?

December 8th, 2009 by Johnny Levy

National Potential.
InfoGroup (a.k.a. InfoUSA), a company with 4,771 employees, generated $738.3 million in net sales in 2008.

This is just a glance revealing the value of the industry of disseminating sales leads,  actionable information, and business intelligence in general. Can a region-specific or industry-specific publisher aspire to provide something of value for the same audience served by a national data provider?

Although DataJoe clients are often a number one source of business rankings in their sorted regions, none alone would be able to  become relevant to a national marketplace.

The question: What if all of these prestigious, regionally recognized business publishers joined forces and leveraged their data assets to become relevant to a national marketplace?

Is it possible business journals could start getting a piece of a much larger, multi-billion dollar pie?

National data providers like Hoovers, Dunn & Brad Street, and a slough of others get their data a multitude of ways. The industry is huge. And as marketers, we know that nationally harvested data often lacks LOCAL PRECISION AND ACCURACY. Herein lies the revolutionary strength of the local business journal, and the secret value of the data it provides. Business journals touch businesses in their regions on a frequent, ongoing basis, through one-to-one survey contact. The relationship is cooperative, not one-sided. The business journal needs the data in order to produce business rankings, and the businesses that participate need the prestige, recognition, and FREE exposure they get from being ranked on a list. Consider the last time you got a call from a national data aggregator call center. What value was there for you in answering their questions?

Businesses “opt in” to give business journals their data because they want to participate in the business rankings and get their proper due for their achievements. Because it’s harvested via relationship, business journal data is a completely different type and quality than what is commercially available from national data marketers, who are experts in the realm of brute force cold calling, Internet harvesting, estimating, and a variety of other techniques that have enabled them to achieve expansive coverage. Business journal data wouldn’t replace a subscription to a national data service, as business journal data lacks holistic coverage. However, for depth and a street level view of the who’s who in a competitive local market, it’s hard to beat the raw honesty you get from a business journal, who gets it straight from the horse’s mouth. If anything, you can supplement any pre-existing data base with the kind of intelligence you get from a business ranking.

I believe it’s time to explore the national potential of regional data, harvested organically as a byproduct of mutual relationship. United together in a common purpose, regional business journals can become nationally relevant as rich data providers.  That’s what I think.

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With the GREAT POWER comes great responsibility!

November 18th, 2009 by Jacob Fogg

One of my favorite things about FireFox is it’s ability to seamlessly handle all sorts of add-ons. This means that you can EASILY add features like, the ability to keep tabs on your email, ability to see the IP address of every website you visit, ability to debug HTML, CSS, and even JavaScript directly from your browser… I’ve even seen a add-on that helps you order pizza!

The very thing that makes FireFox stand head-and-shoulders above the rest, can also make it a big headache. Over the past few months, I have seen two separate circumstances in which a program or add-on has cause DataJoe to just not work. By sharing this information with our Community, I hope to help save others from the same kind of headache.

The two programs we have specifically seen cause problems with DataJoe are an Add-on called “Adblock Plus” and the Internet Firewall made by CA.

Basically, both programs were designed with measures to try and prevent JavaScript generated Pop-ups. What neither vendors considered is that the specific code they are using has the tenancy to throw JavaScript errors in some situations. When this happens, all things JavaScript stop. In both cases, while DataJoe began loading, it was abruptly stopped at some point before the Login screen was displayed.

The solution in both situations? Disable or uninstall the offending software while using DataJoe.

So, if you are having problems with DataJoe… or any site really… loading or working properly, the first thing I would suggest is disabling all of your FireFox Add-ons. You can do this by clicking “Tools” in the menu, followed by “Add-ons”. This will open the “Add-ons” window. Precede by clicking on each item listed in the content area and selecting “Disable”. Once you are finished, you will need to restart FireFox. If you are still having an issue with DataJoe after this, give us a call and we’d be happy to help you find a solution! If this fixes it, try adding your Add-ons back one or two at a time… this way you can use the process of elimination to determine which of the Add-ons are not compatible with DataJoe. If you do find an offending program or Add-on, let us know!

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Release Notes 11.10.09

November 10th, 2009 by Crystal Lucero

Hello DataJoe Clients:

We’ve pushed a release last night with a new functionality feature for Layout and BlueLines, as well as a new feature in the Reporter Module. Please see below for details regarding this update.

Sum and Count fields:

Layout now includes the ability to add a count for every association zone field as well as a sum field for every association field that is a numeric, percent, or currency field. These special fields can be placed into your layout to show a row that totals or counts the values within a particular association zone.

For example, if you had an association zone for subsidiaries and asked for the annual revenue for each subsidiary. In layout you could just show the # of subsidiaries (COUNT:: subsidiary name) and the total revenues (SUM :: subsidiary revenue).

sum_count

Archiving in Reporter:

The Reporter Module now has an independent section for housing archived submissions. As in the Researcher Module, this feature can be found under Advanced Tools, and Archived Submissions.

Please be advised that this feature is only accessible to users with the Reporter Module add on.

As always, please contact us for any questions regarding this release.

Thank you,

The DataJoe Team

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DataJoe’s 2009 MEGA Researcher Conference Resources Now Available

November 5th, 2009 by Melanie Feyerherm

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DataJoe’s third annual MEGA Researcher Conference provided our clients with the opportunity to access and share information about researching and the DataJoe system among peer researchers and DataJoe team members. Held in October, this year’s Webinar Edition allowed clients to come together without the expense of travel costs.

In the Social Network Your Data, Turning Site Metrics into Revenue and Scouting Out Data 2.0 sessions, attendees gained insight into tools and sources used by peer researchers. The ever popular Best Ideas Roundtable session allowed all attendees to share highlights from the year on great products they’ve put together or new policies and procedures they’ve implemented in the researching process. In the New Functionalities session, attendees heard about new and upcoming features to the system as well as a few “quick hits” of helpful searching tools such as wild card searching and the prospect flag search.

Two presentations – Nominations: A Researcher’s Experience and 20,000 Records in A Single Project allowed for in-depth looks into the projects of Virginia Business and Sports Business Journal, respectively. This year we also added Clarification Stations – where DataJoe team members lead instructional-based sessions on different aspects of the system such as explaining the difference between sub-projects and inner projects, detailing the different ways to associate products on e-commerce pages and how to create a search page through your e-commerce portal.

The Webinar format also provided for the opportunity to showcase the DataJoe Award winners in their own sessions and allowed them to present on the products or processes for which they received awards.

Those who attended the conference can now access videos, PowerPoint presentations, handouts and more when logged in to our Web site at http://software.datajoe.com/conference/index.php.

These resource are available for attendees to review what you learned in the sessions or to view sessions for the first time if you weren’t able to attend at certain times throughout the week of the conference.

As you obtain more information from the sessions we held a few weeks ago, please feel free to visit the DataJoe Notes community forum at www.datajoe.com/forum and add your questions or comments to the discussion board. We believe that the best ideas can come from collaboration, including sharing ideas among peer researchers, and the discussion board is the best place for you to do that.

If you have any remaining questions about the conference or the sessions that we held, please contact conference@datajoe.com.

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Release Notes 9.04.09

September 4th, 2009 by Crystal Lucero

Hello DataJoe Clients:

We’ve pushed a release this week with updates to the download for CSV files. Please see below for details regarding this update.

CSV download:

CSV files now include the project title and subtitle in the first two lines like it did in DJ3. The download also includes updated representation of footnotes both within data and project footnotes. Footnotes are represented with parenthesis to distinguish the footnote from the data.

CSV

For questions on this release please contact support@dataJoe.com.

Thanks,

The DataJoe Team

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