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For first-time users during onboarding. Learn things like:
Accessing Meltwater
How to navigate Meltwater
Update your profile and preferences
Manage other users
Connect social channels
Download the mobile apps
Get started with Meltwater Fundamentals. Explore Meltwater's Product Lineup. You can dive into the specific product(s) you have access to. These products include:
Explore & Monitor
Engage
Analyze & Report
Distribute & Alert
Influence
Learn about some of the more advanced functions of Meltwater, including:
Alerts
Tags
Labels
Third-party Integrations
RSS feeds
Discover the additional ways to get assistance when using Meltwater, including:
Meltwater Academy
Live Training Webinars
Live Chat & Email Support
Step-by-step Product Tutorials
Help Center
Here are additional resources you should know about, including:
Meltwater FAQs
More from Meltwater
IT Resources
Meltwater Product Release Notes
Meltwater System Status
Meltwater Basics - First-time setup
This area is designed to assist with the first-time setup and basics of Meltwater during your onboarding journey.
To access Meltwater directly, you can either log in via app.meltwater.com or from the Meltwater website, at Meltwater.com.
Meltwater consists of several different applications, all within one platform. The navigation bar and home screen allow you to easily move around Meltwater.
View the number of users, saved searches, and dashboards for your account, which upgrades your account has access to, and more.
Update your name and change your password, as well as set your preferred language, time zone, and even start page.
Add, update, and remove users from their accounts within the Manage Users table.
Connect social channels to Meltwater for use with social listening, competitive benchmarking, paid analysis, publishing, engaging, and analyzing.
Meltwater offers two separate mobile apps, each for a different use case: Meltwater Mobile, and Meltwater Engage.
Meltwater Fundamentals - Getting started
Meltwater Advanced - Going deeper
Learn all of the available Boolean operators for use when fine-tuning your search results.
Get real-time notifications for the topics you choose, in the places you work most.
Organize relevant content for dashboards, and reports, or curate and share content with stakeholders.
Categorize and organize your saved searches for easy access and collaboration.
Integrate third-party applications directly to Meltwater, or integrate Meltwater into your Business Intelligence (BI) tools via the Meltwater API.
Add any online document to Meltwater, to be included with your monitoring results.
Third-party data can be added to Meltwater through an RSS feed, to be used as inputs to your Newsfeed, Newsletter, Digest Reports, dashboards, and Monitor.
Meltwater Learning Resources and Support - Get additional help
Video-based courses & certifications to help you get started. Learn the basics or tackle advanced use cases in 30 minutes!
@MeltwaterLearn - YouTube Channel
View Product Training Videos, Product Updates, Customer Stories, etc.
Live, interactive training with a Meltwater Product Expert. In-depth topics and overviews of specific Meltwater products with the opportunity to ask an expert.
Reach out for help 24/7 via help@meltwater.com, or chat directly with a product expert now, via live chat.
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Meltwater Additional Resources - Other things to know
Answering the most common questions users have when using Meltwater.
Other Meltwater products, such as Klear, and Radarly.
IT Resource for Email Deliverability and Application-Specific Information
Details on the latest Meltwater product enhancements and feature releases.
Displays the current status of the Meltwater platform as well as information about upcoming scheduled downtime.
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