Techrigy lets you keep an eye on your employees’ blogs
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As we know by now, blogging can be a good way to get fired.
Now, thanks to Techrigy, it can be a great way. The company’s new Social Media Monitoring (SM2) service helps companies identify and track employees’ wikis and blogs.
With the explosion of message boards, blogs, e-mail services and instant messagers, a company ’s ability to control privileged or damaging information is a significant challenge, and a number of companies have emerged to help. Orchestria and Inboxer use sophisticated algorithms to mine e-mails and IM for compromising language. Orbius makes small changes in the text of confidential e-mails to help identify the source of a leak. (See TechCrunch coverage here). Techrigy’s SM2 is just the latest addition to the growing arsenal of tools that help companies monitor their employees’ online activity.
To get started, you create a list of employees, organizations and competitors you wish to monitor, and run a search to find any relevant blogs. Once a list of blogs and wikis has been complied , you select which ones you want to follow. From that point on, the system captures every new post and adds it to the inventory — though you can crawl the entire archives, as well.
Once you are collecting entries, you can run “policy” checks to mine the inventory for violations. Among other things, you can look for evidence of discontent employees, references to illegal drugs, racial slurs, sexual harassment, comments on management, even political and religious sentiments. Offending posts get flagged and the system generates a report. It all sounds a bit too much like 1984.
Techrigy has not yet nailed down its pricing model, but says that it will be subscription-based, with prices ranging from $300 to $2000 per month, depending on the size of the company and the number of users.
The company is currently self-funded, and hopes to raise $2-5 million in the next few months.
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About the Author, Dan Kaplan
Once upon a time, Dan considered himself a magazine journalist with dreams of "The New Yorker" and a couple of well-reviewed but only mildly successful books. Then one day, life, as it is known to do, decided it was time for rebirth. Like so many things before it, this rebirth was conceived on a mostly-empty plane to Reno. Now, instead of magazine writing, Dan would plunge into the world of New Media and write for Matt Marshall's blog.
It's funny how it goes.
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