I’m not sure, good question! That is what AI had suggested, but it’s a good thought/question to consider 

Great feedback, ​@MeganJMF - I would just call out that you’ll want to make sure that full phrases are placed in quotation marks, so this example would become:

("Fellowship of Christian Athletes" OR "FCA") NOT ("Financial Conduct Authority" OR "Fiat Chrysler Automobiles")

Although in this particular case, it might not be a bad idea to exclude some of those words individually as well:

("Fellowship of Christian Athletes" OR "FCA") NOT ("Financial Conduct Authority" OR caseSensitive:(Fiat) OR Chrysler OR "Fiat Chrysler Automobiles")

I included the caseSensitive operator for Fiat, since it’s possible that the word itself might show up in valid results, but when capitalized it’s likely to refer to the brand name. 

("Fellowship of Christian Athletes" OR "FCA") NOT ("Financial Conduct Authority" OR "Fiat Chrysler Automobiles")

("Fellowship of Christian Athletes" OR "FCA") NOT ("Financial Conduct Authority" OR caseSensitive:(Fiat) OR Chrysler OR "Fiat Chrysler Automobiles")

Thanks! ​@MeganJMF & ​@Jacinda Espinosa 

​@Jacinda Espinosa - I have a question about the timing of this program. This Mcommunity post mentions it starts at Noon EST. However, a reminder email I got since I signed up (from ​@Zach_Lepard ) , says it starts at 11:00 am EST. Is someone able to confirm what time it starts in eastern? I think with daylight saving just happening in my area, I’m not positive what time it starts - not sure if I should tune in at 11am or noon EST. Thanks! 

Hi Maria!! 

Thank you for flagging this, the workshop will begin at 11:00am EST, there may have been some confusion with daylight savings happening this week but 11:00 EST am will be our kick off :) 

Great, thanks ​@Zach_Lepard! 

Great work on this! I would also add or specify the location in the search or the specific name of the campaign that Active Minds is currently running.

First off, I want to say a big thank you for the workshops this week and a special thank you to the Boolean doctors for the lesson today. I feel it was the best hour of Boolean education I’ve had with Meltwater and the Brand Search Checklist is already bookmarked!

The charity I picked for the Race to the Summit is one I wanted to track based on some connections with my organization over the past month. After building my boolean this afternoon, I realized there is a developing mini-crisis for that organization, so it should work out well for the rest of the assignments in the race this month. 

• Organization: American Heart Association

• Boolean: ("The American Heart Association" OR "La Asociación Americana del Corazón" OR AHA) AND (("American Heart Month") OR ("Heart-Check Mark") OR ("American Heath Association certified") OR ("food and mood") OR ("health" OR "salud") OR ("heart disease" OR "enfermedad del corazón") OR ("cardiovascular") OR ("stroke") OR ("blood pressure") OR ("cholesterol") OR ("heart health" OR "salud del corazón") OR ("wellness") OR ("Go Red for Women" OR "Vístete de Rojo por las Mujeres") OR ("Heart Walk") OR ("Life's Simple 7") OR ("CPR training") OR ("box breathing" OR "boxbreathing") OR ("Healthy for Good" OR "Saludable para Siempre") OR ("Heart Ball") OR ("Research funding") OR ("Advocacy" OR "defensa") OR (hashtag:"walkingday") OR (hashtag:"wellbeingworksbetter") OR (hashtag:"nationoflifesavers") OR (site:"https://www.facebook.com/AmericanHeart") OR (authorVerifiedType:"American_Heart") OR ("Nancy Brown" OR "Marsha Jones" OR "Keith Churchwell" OR "@KChurchwellMD" OR "Raymond Vara" OR "Joseph Wu" OR "Lee Shapiro" OR "Stacey Rosen" OR "Linda Gooden" OR "Suzie Upton" OR "Rose Marie Robertson" OR "Mariell Jessup" OR "Larry Cannon" OR "Gerald Johnson" OR "John Meiners" OR "Eduardo Sanchez" OR "Mitchell Elkind" OR "Laura Sol" OR "Katrina McGhee" OR "Jennifer Hall")) NOT ("American Hospital Association" OR "American Historical Association" OR "Aha!" OR "Aha Sparking Water" OR "American Humanist Association") NOT nsfw:true NOT contentCategory:market_research_reports NOT contentCategory:aggregator NOT contentCategory:stock_market_news

• Any tips or tricks you discovered/learned from creating this search? Any specific feedback you’re looking for?
  The Brand Search Checklist helped me remember to look for translations, product names and organization leaders. We run into that when a partner organization has a crisis situation and the checklist is a helpful reminder to take care of some of those details in the initial search. Today’s discussion in the workshop on acronyms was also really helpful and this exercise gave me a chance to work on that and find some tools that will help with my own organization’s searches. We have a separate social media team, but there is overlap when it comes to monitoring social media beyond our accounts. I’m curious going forward to learn more about specific social monitoring of another organization and comments within their accounts in a crisis. I noticed a very close connection in something so far in this exercise to something I deal with quite often and this is going to a great learning opportunity!

Thank you for the incredibly informative workshop! In light of the recent wildfires that impacted Los Angeles, I have decided to support the California Wildfire Foundation

• Organization: California Wildfire Foundation
• Boolean: ("California Fire Foundation" OR "Cal Fire Foundation" OR "CA Fire Foundation" OR "California Firefighters Benevolent Fund" OR "California Firefighters Memorial" OR "California Firefighters Scholarship" OR "California Firefighters Assistance" OR "California Firefighters Support" OR "Greater Los Angeles Wildfires") AND (donation OR support OR charity OR fundraiser OR memorial OR scholarship OR assistance OR relief)
• Any tips or tricks you discovered/learned from creating this search? Any specific feedback you’re looking for? It is advisable to browse the website’s about or how to help section to identify unique keywords and phrases. Let me know if you have further suggestions! :) 

• Organization: vzw Kinderkankerfonds
• Boolean:
  "Kinderkankerfonds" AND ("fondsenwerving" OR "donaties" OR "kinderziekenhuis" OR "ondersteuning" OR "zorg" OR "vrijwilligerswerk" OR "hulpverlening" OR "bewustwording" OR "evenementen" OR "campagnes" OR "sponsoring" OR "partners" OR "projecten" OR "initiatieven" OR "samenwerkingen" OR "activiteiten")
• Any tips or tricks you discovered/learned from creating this search? Any specific feedback you’re looking for?
  The AI search assistant is very useful for making searches. It thinks of keywords I wouldn't think of on my own. Yesterday's boolean workshop also taught me some new, useful tips!

100% to all of this! 

Thanks, Maria! That’s a great tip. 

Thanks Clarke! Will try that. The advanced Boolean workshop yesterday also gave me some good tips, so I think I’m on track. Cheers! 

Thank you, Megan! I will try that and that is a fantastic tip about including social handles. 

We actually work closely with another FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) - maybe include some “NOT” statements like “NOT “Financial Conduct Authority” or “NOT “Regulator”. 

Totally agreed with your point on using the AI assistant! I haven’t really used it in that way before, but it’s a great idea. 

Ooh good tip to browse their website for keywords! That’s great advice. 

Sorry, so late to the game because we had such a busy week.

Organization: Archway Community Services

Boolean Search:

"Archway Community Services" AND ("Abbotsford Addictions Centre" OR "Abbotsford Mission Recycling" OR "Abby Dads" OR "Access2English" OR "Advanced English for Health Care & ECE" OR "Archway Foodbank" OR "Autumn House" OR "Basic Live Skills Training" OR "Best for Babies" OR "Better At Home" OR "Bulk Buy Collective" OR "Career Paths For Skilled Immigrants" OR "Caregiver (Foster Parent) Support Program" OR "Child & Youth Committee" OR "Child Care Resource and Referral" OR "Community Connections" OR "Community Legal Advocacy Centre" OR "Community Van Service" OR "Courtyard For Men" OR "Delish Catering" OR "Dental Clinic" OR "Discovery" OR "Diversity Education" OR "Eagle’s Nest Early Learning Centre" OR "Employing People in Community" OR "Employment Mentors" OR "Family Centre" OR "Family Connections" OR "Family Education" OR "Family Legal Advocacy" OR "Flood Resiliency" OR "Food Justice" OR "Foundry Abbotsford" OR "Fraser Valley Human Dignity Coalition" OR "Homeless Prevention Program" OR "Immigrant Settlement" OR "Immigrant Youth Services" OR "In It Together" OR "Interpretation & Translation Services" OR "Language Assessment: CLBPT" OR "Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC)" OR "Legal Advocacy for Agricultural Workers" OR "Lunch with the Bunch" OR "Meals on Wheels" OR "Medical Transportation" OR "Men's Trauma Counselling" OR "Mental Wellness Parenting" OR "Migrant Workers Program" OR "Moving Ahead Program" OR "New Beginnings Daycare" OR "New Beginnings Young Parent Program" OR "One Line Referral" OR "Parenting Life Skills for Immigrants" OR "Relationship Violence Prevention" OR "SAFE HAVEN Refugee Claimants Support Services" OR "Schools Out for Newcomer Immigrant Children (SONIC)" OR "Seniors Income Tax & Benefit Applications" OR "Seniors Information, Referral and Resource Services" OR "Settlement Workers in Schools" OR "sexual Abuse Intervention Program" OR "Sexual Assault Response Program (SARP)" OR "Short-Term Counselling Program" OR "Social Prescribing Program" OR "Socialization, Teaching and Recreation Club" OR "South Asian Community Resource Office" OR "South Asian Day Program for Older Adults" OR "Specialized Victim Assistance Program" OR "Starfish Pack" OR "Stop Exploiting Youth" OR "Stopping the Violence" OR "Stride for Older Workers" OR "Supportive Housing - Hearthstone Place" OR "Talia's Closet" OR "Third Party Reporting of Sexual Assault" OR "Urban Farm" OR "World Education Services (WES) Credential Evaluation" OR "YESS: Immigrant Youth Employment and Skills Strategy" OR "Youth Education Support Program" OR "Youth Health Centre" OR "Youth Resource Centre" OR "Donna Lo" OR "Kelly Neufeld" OR "Laura Midan" OR "Manpreet Grewal" OR "Maria Cargnelli" OR "Megan Capp" OR "Neil Stark" OR "Paula Mannington" OR "Richard Aikema" OR "Rod Santiago" OR "Rosalyn Walls" OR "Shairose Jinnah" OR "Simone Maassen" OR "Tina Poudrier-Beck" OR "Valerie Papp") NOT nsfw:true

Tips/Tricks: Boolean doesn’t include location limits, but you can definitely limit your search in the filters section so that you only include results that are relevant to your charity!

It’s actually recommended to limit location via the filter section and not directly in the search box. 

Great callout, ​@mon2.liu - there’s a tiny bit of nuance between using location filters vs. using location names as keywords in boolean - I just want to clarify here what the difference is. Let’s take a look at ​@Maria Dehne’s search as our example. Specifically, the search parameters set in the first parenthetical:

(“Aubrey Rose Foundation” AND “Cincinnati” AND “Ohio”)

Leaving the rest of the query aside for now, let’s look at just this single snippet. In this instance, we are querying the search to find any mentions of the full name “Aubrey Rose Foundation” when it appears with both the word “Cincinnati” and “Ohio.” This means that no matter where a mention is coming from in the world, if it includes all three keywords (Aubrey Rose Foundation, Cincinnati, and Ohio), it will show up in the search. 

I ran a search with the query ("Aubrey Rose Foundation" AND "Cincinnati" AND "Ohio") and set the time frame to the past year and selected the All Sources | News filter set. Here is what my search results looked like:

So only 4 mentions across all news sources over the past year containing all three of my required terms, and these mentions mainly referred to scholarship awards. 

Let’s see what happens when I remove Cincinnati and Ohio as keywords, and instead add them as a location filter:

Interesting! So there is only one additional mention (5 total instead of 4), but now we see a different story. These mentions originate from sources local to Cincinnati (the Cincinnati Enquirer, WKRC-TV-Local-12), and instead highlight the Let’s Dance for the Heart of It event that the Aubrey Rose Foundation hosted in Cincinnati back in November. So as you can see, treating Cincinnati, OH as a keyword yielded a different focus from using it as a location filter. 

Just for funsies, I tried running a simple search using just “Aubrey Rose Foundation” without any mention of Cincinnati, either as a search term or a location filter, so let’s take a look at those results as well:

Now we have 8 mentions, and as you can see by the AI-Powered Insight, the story has been further broadened to include the scholarship awards we saw in the first search, as well as the dance event from the second search. We also see references to some of the Foundation’s other events and projects like British Car Day and a golf outing.

Of course, this isn’t what I would call an exhaustive or even particularly useful search - I did only hone in on one specific segment of Maria’s boolean, after all! However, I hope this helps to clarify how using location names as search terms differs from using location filters. I think ultimately both applications have important uses, and the art here lies in deciding which (if either!) of these approaches works best for your needs.

It’s actually recommended to limit location via the filter section and not directly in the search box. 

 

Great callout, ​@mon2.liu - there’s a tiny bit of nuance between using location filters vs. using location names as keywords in boolean - I just want to clarify here what the difference is. Let’s take a look at ​@Maria Dehne’s search as our example. Specifically, the search parameters set in the first parenthetical:

(“Aubrey Rose Foundation” AND “Cincinnati” AND “Ohio”)

Leaving the rest of the query aside for now, let’s look at just this single snippet. In this instance, we are querying the search to find any mentions of the full name “Aubrey Rose Foundation” when it appears with both the word “Cincinnati” and “Ohio.” This means that no matter where a mention is coming from in the world, if it includes all three terms (Aubrey Rose Foundation, Cincinnati, and Ohio), it will show up in the search. 

 

I ran a search with the query ("Aubrey Rose Foundation" AND "Cincinnati" AND "Ohio") and set the time frame to the past year and selected the All Sources | News filter set. Here is what my search results looked like:

 

So only 4 mentions across all news sources over the past year containing all three of my required terms, and these mentions mainly referred to scholarship awards. 

Let’s see what happens when I remove Cincinnati and Ohio as keywords, and instead add them as a location filter:

 

 

Interesting! So there is only one additional mention (5 total instead of 4), but now we see a different story. These mentions originate from sources local to Cincinnati (the Cincinnati Enquirer, WKRC-TV-Local-12), and instead highlight the Let’s Dance for the Heart of It event that the Aubrey Rose Foundation hosted in Cincinnati back in November. So as you can see, treating Cincinnati, OH as a keyword yielded a different focus from using it as a location filter. 

 

Just for funsies, I tried running a simple search using just “Aubrey Rose Foundation” without any mention of Cincinnati, either as a search term or a location filter, so let’s take a look at those results as well:

 

Now we have 8 mentions, and as you can see by the AI-Powered Insight, the story has been further broadened to include the scholarship awards we saw in the first search, as well as the dance event from the second search. We also see references to some of the Foundation’s other events and projects like British Car Day and a golf outing.

 

Of course, this isn’t what I would call an exhaustive or even particularly useful search - I did only hone in on one specific segment of Maria’s boolean, after all! However, I hope this helps to clarify how using location names as search terms differs from using location filters. I think ultimately both applications have important uses, and the art here lies in deciding which (if either!) of these approaches works best for your needs.

Wow - what a detailed analysis. Thanks so much for sharing. In particular, I use location to filter out my searches because our brands are only relevant to a Canadian context. There are locations in the USA that also share the same name as our city. Even though limiting location reduces the search results, I would yield a higher quality outcome. 

Exactly, ​@mon2.liu! I think you’re using the location filter exactly as intended, and it’s definitely what I would recommend for you to do in your use case. I just wanted to make sure to share as much detail as possible to illustrate the difference between locations as keywords and locations as actual  locations  

Great job on this! Active Minds is more relevant than ever due to its significant impact on mental health awareness  among young people. Regarding your question about press releases: While the example format might suggest excluding them, you do have the option to include some of it press releases in your queries. Press releases can provide unique keywords about the organization or its initiatives.

Wow, thanks so much for this follow up, ​@Jacinda Espinosa - very helpful and really appreciate it! 

Organization:

Protectora de Animales La Bienvenida de Ciudad Real 

Boolean:

(("Protectora de animales la bienvenida de Ciudad Real" OR "http://protectoralabienvenida.es/" or "la bienvenida de ciudad real" or "protectora la bienvenida") AND ("protectora de animales" OR "protectora de ciudad real" OR "la bienvenida" OR "centro de acogida" or "abandono de animales" or "animales abandonados" or "adopción de animales" or "adopción de perros" or "adopción de gatos" or "adopción de mascotas" or "asociación" or "protectora" or "voluntarios" or "adopción" or "donación" or "apadrina" or "acogida" or "refugio de animales" or "rescate de animales" or "campañas de adopción"))

OR (from:LaBienvenidaCR OR (to:LaBienvenidaCR AND postType:rp))

NOT contentCategory:job_portal

Any tips or tricks you discovered/learned from creating this search? Any specific feedback you’re looking for? 

I used the AI assistant to suggest more related keywords that I included. I also asked for a complete list of all available content categories in Meltwater so I could exclude one of them. I also included the X account of this organisation to make sure all content published by them was gathered.