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New Economic Recovery section added to AP Exchange

AP has added an “Economic Recovery” section to AP Exchange. It appears in both the U.S. and Business sections of Essential AP in the left navigational bar. The section is designed to aggregate news about the global financial crisis and includes relevant corporate news, government fiscal management and commodity information.

This section provides the latest economic news your readers are looking for all in one place.

For more information on AP Exchange or the new “Economic Recovery” section, contact your local chief of bureau or visit www.ap.org/apexchange.

AP WebFeeds deliver custom searches from AP Exchange into your system

Once you have set up saved searches in AP Exchange to find the locally relevant content you want, those saved searches can become a “custom wire” delivered to your newsroom via an AP WebFeed. AP WebFeeds are secure ATOM feeds of AP content that can be captured in a production folder on your server or computer system. From there, it can be fed into your content management system. AP has been working with more than two dozen major vendors of content management systems so they can integrate these feeds into the systems used by newspapers.

AP WebFeeds can deliver multiple content formats – from JPEG files of photos to text in NITF or ANPA formats. They also can deliver the kind of customized feeds you can create through saved searches in AP Exchange that draw from a wider array of AP content than can readily be delivered via satellite.

To learn more about AP WebFeeds, please join us – and invite your IT, production or editorial systems manager -- for training sessions held every Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET or contact Maryann Mrowca at mmrowca@ap.org.

To join the training sessions, go to: www.webdialogs.com/join (Conference ID: 95552), then dial 866-206-0240 with conference ID 965 385#.

AP Exchange offers exciting new features

AP Exchange now offers new features, ranging from audio content availability to more narrowed search options. Additionally, new AP Exchange features include:

Bulk downloading: AP Exchange now allows users to download multiple files of any media type; users can select the media rendition type and review their bulk download history
Group news distribution within Member Marketplace: participating newspapers can now access and share news with members of their own newspaper group
New tools to contribute to the Member Marketplace: participating newspapers have the ability to send in feeds to the AP in order to contribute to the Member Marketplace and to schedule the publishing of a contributed story via the “Contribute Story” page
Showcases that help identify great AP stories: member newspapers will see showcases featuring content hand-picked by AP to be of greatest interest to users. With watchlists rounding up AP's best investigative stories or all of AP's hurricane coverage, for example, watchlists will help you find the best, most timely content AP has to offer.

For more information on AP Exchange, contact your local chief of bureau or visit

http://www.ap.org/apexchange/.

AP Exchange offers new features, and training on how to use them better

Many editors have started working with AP Exchange in the past few weeks. As with any new system, a learning curve is necessary and we'd like to help with this as much as possible. Searching for news is one thing, but putting AP Exchange to work for members is what we really hope to be able to do. AP offers online AP Exchange training for your newsroom to teach some of these enhanced features. Additionally, AP Channels are a powerful new source of subject-specific news from the AP. Available only in AP Exchange, AP Channels scour the entire AP report for news on specific topics. It's content beyond what members have ever had access to. The most popular AP Channel is Education. Editors who have access to this Channel receive all education stories from all AP state wires and English international wires. For education reporters, this Education Channel provides a rich source of news for print and online. Other popular Channels include Kids and Family, Environment, Health, Energy and Crime. Lastly, members are now able to search for news by concept in AP Exchange. A number of concept searches have been organized based on issues most newsrooms cover today. A concept search is a time saver. Editors can gather all news on a specific issue with one quick search in AP Exchange. To run a concept search, preface the search with subject name= and then add the concept. For example, to find all news on women’s health, type subject name=“women’s health”. If the concept name contains two or more words, enclose the concept in quotation marks (“ “). Concepts that are now live include architecture, children’s health, economy and performing arts. For more information on concept searches, visit the AP Exchange blog at http://apexchange.ning.com.

AP Exchange training every Thursday – sign up now for School of Search

AP Exchange School of Search training sessions are held every Thursday at 11 a.m. ET and 4:30 p.m. ET. These 30 minute sessions are aimed at helping you master search in AP Exchange. Knowing how to run effective searches will help you find news faster. We also cover how you can build a custom feed and get email alerts from the system.

To sign up for one of these sessions, simply RSVP to talkback@ap.org or visit http://www.ap.org/apexchange/ for more information.

Listed below are also links to more information:

AP Exchange

AP Exchange - WebFeeds and WebFeeds Manager

AP Exchange - Site Adminitrator Info

AP Channels

Local Companies

Managing Local Companies

AP Exchange Cheat Sheet

Quick Start Guide

Watchlist

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