User guide

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Your Brand. Your Personal Dashboard
Millions of users around the world use Netvibes as their entryway to the web. Now Netvibes’
award-winning start page technology can be used to power personal environments directly within
your website, allowing your brand to become users’ daily entryway to the Web. Imagine your brand
integrated together with your users’ favorite search, weather, email, news, blogs and all the other
popular services they use everyday, including MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Digg.
Ecosystem For Your Brand
Branded dashboards are the key to long-term success for your widgets because they create a daily
environment for user engagement. Netvibes Premium Dashboard can combine all of a brand’s
content—including RSS, videos, photos, podcasts and other custom widgets— all on a single,
personalized page that makes it easy for users to find, customize and consume your content
everyday. Moreover, Netvibes Premium Dashboard integrates your brand with thousands of other
popular services and feeds that people use everyday—from Gmail to CNN, The Wall Street Journal
and New York Times, building a thriving ecosystem around your widgets and content that reinforces
daily recurring engagement.
Complete Control
Netvibes gives you 100% control over the branding, design and content of your dashboards.
Netvibes Premium Dashboard are presented seamlessly within your brand’s existing Web domain.
Best of all, you can embed ads as easily as you would on any Web site and retain 100% of the
advertising revenues you generate on your branded dashboard.
Push Publishing
“Push-and-Pick” publishing tools offer the best of both worlds for publishers and users. Publishers
can instantly push and send new updates, themes, widgets and media content directly to user
dashboards, while users are empowered to pick and choose which new updates they like the best.
Easy Content Management
Netvibes Premium Dashboards are as easy to customize and set up as a regular Netvibes.com start
page. There’s zero programming required and our simple, drag-and-drop interface makes Netvibes
simply the fastest and easiest content management system on the market for publishers both large
and small. Also, any changes you make to your Dashboards are automatically notified live to the user,
so you never have to republish or re-post.
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