BlogSummarizer – your blog knowledge base companion

Blogs are invaluable information resources and great communication tools. They allow you to share and learn as you go and reach out to interested people outside your regular circles. 

As useful as blogs are, a great deal of accumulated information is lost in the growing archives. 

Blogs are structured to provide only the most recent information. It is far less convenient to find what you need when you have to dig back for information from older posts. This is especially significant when you have authored hundreds of posts over a period of time. In this case, having a tool to organize your information into a handy knowledge base will give you easy access to all of your blog posts in the context of your search.

This is exactly what BlogSummarizer provides.

All your blog post are summarized and indexed and the summaries and keywords are organized  into powerful and easy-to-use knowledge bases. 

To display the content of a knowledge base, BlogSummarizer uses a powerful visualization engine. This engine generates on-demand visual summaries and visual knowledge maps. The visual summaries display the most relevant keywords with summaries, and the visual knowledge maps  provide you with a comprehensive network of related blog posts based on the entire content of your knowledge base.

All visual summaries and visual knowledge maps are exportable to browsers, word editors, and mind mapping applications. You can publish your visual summaries and visual maps simply by embedding them in your blog and web pages. 

Most importantly,  the visual summaries and visual knowledge maps run on all computers and devices: PCs, Macs, Linux, tablets and smart phones. 

What do you need to do to create your blog knowledge base? 

To create your blog companion knowledge base, you just need to provide your blog information to BlogSummarizer. 

After you submit your blog, the BlogSummarizer will read and analyze all your posts, will automatically create a companion knowledge base, and create a widget for you to include in your blog. The widget will allow all your readers to easily access, navigate, and benefit from your knowledge base.

Here is how the BlogSummarizer widget looks when you place it in your blog:

BlogSummarizer widget - based on the Communities and Collaboration blog 

Let’s review the widget functions since this is your key to unlocking the hidden knowledge in your blog.

In the drop-down list, users can select topics of interest. The system will then suggest the top 10 keywords from your blog:

10 top blog keywords drop-down list suggestions - based on the Communities and Collaboration blog 

The Knowledge Map button

The Knowledge Map button displays a visual knowledge map based on the entire body of writing in your blog. This map is interactive and sharable in any browser. Here is an example: 

Visual Knowledge Map - based on the Communities and Collaboration blog

Blog Keyword Knowledge Index

The Show All Keywords link -- instantly displays the list of all keywords in the blog. There is an alphabetical listing and a frequency listing by the blog's most important keywords. This way, it’s easy for you to see what the predominant topics discussed in the blog are and you can also find any topic alphabetically.

Here is an example of Official Google Blog Knowledge base:

Showing All Keywords Index - Official Google Blog example

As you can see, the BlogSummarizer Index provides Alphabetical and Frequency listing of keywords. The Frequency listing groups the keywords into 3 categories:

1. Strong - The most important topics discussed in the blog
2. Normal - Common topics addressed in the blog
3. Weak - Less frequently discussed topic

Blog Knowledge Base Keyword Search

The Keyword Search button - - allows you to search your knowledge base and instantly display the most important blog posts with summaries related to your search term. Here is an example of a visual summary:

BlogSummarizer Knowledge Base Search Results - based on the Official Google Blog

How BlogSummarizer makes your knowledge easy to publish and share

BlogSummarizer provides powerful and easy-to-use publishing and export tools so that  you can share your knowledge with the entire world.

To publish your visual summaries and visual knowledge maps in blogs and web pages, use the Get HTML Code button: 

                          

To export your visual summaries and visual knowledge maps to browsers, word editors, and mind mapping applications, use these export buttons: 

               

Here is an example of  using the HTML code to publish the Visual Summary and Visual Knowledge Map in your blog: 

Get HTML Code - example for publishing Visual Summaries and Visual  Knowledge Maps in your blog

In short, BlogSummarizer creates knowledge bases from all your blog posts that are immediately ready for research, learning, discovery and, of course, publishing so that you can share your knowledge with your readers. 

How the blog knowledge base can used

Using BlogSummarizer for creating companion knowledge bases is not limited to a single blog. A powerful way of leveraging a community knowledge is to aggregate personal blogs from several authors into a group’s knowledge base to give the benefit of shared and aggregated knowledge to all users. There are many associations and groups where several bloggers passionately share their views, work, and experiences.

Aggregating multiple blogs into a single knowledge base provides the added benefit of having easy access to rich and valuable points of view. 

Examples of such blogs are professional association blogs, community of practice blogs, academic blogs, and consumer blogs. These and many other types of blogs represent tremendous sources for creating collective knowledge bases.

How can you create your blog knowledge base?

Signing up is really easy. Just go to the BlogSummarizer site: http://websummarizer.com/blogsummarizer,  register and enter your blog credentials. Then sit back while the system creates the companion knowledge base, provides you with an widget to insert it into your blog...and you’re all set!

About BlogSummarizer:

BlogSummarizer is a powerful knowledge base companions for Blogger and WordPress blogs. It rapidly creates blog companion knowledge bases to allow users easy access to all blog posts in a visual map format. 

The results are displayed as interactive and easy to navigate:

1. Visual Summaries
2. Visual Knowledge maps

The Visual Summaries and Visual Knowledge Maps can be exported to HTML, word editors and mind mapping applications: Mindjet MindManager, XMind Pro, MindGenius, iThoughtsHD

BlogSummarizer, WebSummarizer and WikiSummarizer are products of Context Discovery Inc.

Visual Knowledge Map - graphical discovery search tool

Visual Knowledge Map is a graphical search tool that visually outlines related keywords and summaries.

Visual Knowledge Map is a part of the WebSummarizer, BlogSummarizer and WikiSummarizer family of products.

When you enter keywords into the Visual Knowledge Map tool, it gives you a set of topics related to your search terms and displays them as a visual interactive map. Then, for each of the discovered keywords, the tool provides ten additional keywords to broaden your discovery context.

The visual nature of the Visual Knowledge Map makes it interactive, easy to use and share.

As you click on a keyword, related topics appear next to your keyword. When you click on the keyword, you get an instant visual summary, based on a relevant Wikipedia article.

Here is an example of the Visual Knowledge Map tool using the Wikipedia knowledge base for text mining and generating visual summaries of the keywords. Let's look at the keyword "Internet" as a Visual Knowledge Map.

To explore the power of the knowledge map, please click on the Expand All and Collapse All plus and minus signs directly in the blog to see how the knowledge map works.

 

Visual Knowledge Map of the keyword "Internet" derived from the Wikipedia knowledge base

It is also possible to add different content sources for creating knowledge bases; you are not limited to Wikipedia. BlogSummarizer  also supports the rapid creation of knowledge bases from blogs hosted on WordPress and Blogger platforms. Corporate, government, professional, and academic digital libraries can also be used to create customized knowledge bases.

In short, the Visual Knowledge Map tool offers practical and interactive ways of finding related keywords, seeing essential summaries, and building your own knowledge maps in an interactive and visual manner.

Visual, Valuable and Easy to Use

As soon as you try the Visual Knowledge Map tool, you will see how valuable it is and just how easy it is to increase your productivity, your ability to brainstorm and to communicate clearly.

Let’s face it: identifying every single keyword related to the subject of your analysis and research can be overwhelming. That’s why having instant access to the Wikipedia knowledge base and other specialized knowledge bases is essential; the accumulated knowledge buried in millions of documents is instantly at your disposal.

And if you add the ease of publishing in your blogs and webpages so everyone with a browser can benefit from your visual knowledge map it makes it a great tool for research, learning, collaboration and brainstorming. 

How smart is the Visual Knowledge Map tool?

It allows you to leverage Wikipedia and blog knowledge bases to build themed keyword knowledge networks and comes with many powerful and user-friendly features.

1. Rapid brainstorming help: the Visual Knowledge Map tool takes the guesswork out by taking your keywords and turning them into themed knowledge maps.
2. The Visual Knowledge Map tells you (with a plus sign) that there are more options for expansion with certain keyword sets.
3.  There is an editor tool that allows you to add, delete, and edit your own keywords and summaries.
4. You can generate a summary of any keyword bases in the Wikipedia knowledge base, which is a great shortcut for accessing essential facts and building your own visual knowledge maps.

It is a great shortcut for rapid access to essential facts and building your own visual knowledge maps.

A word of caution: not all results will be relevant to your topic. The Visual Map Tool is not a human brain; however, you can select and add keywords according to your needs. When you peek into Wikipedia's brain, you are going to get results that encompass the entire context of about 4 million articles. That's a lot of brainstorming power, right? 

The non-relevant results are just as valuable as those that you want to keep because they show you how Wikipedia applies your keywords within its huge content which may help you expand your views. This is why using the Visual Knowledge Map tool will help you  discover many gems that you may never have normally unearthed.

You can try the Visual Knowledge Map tool in any of these products, depending on your needs:
 WebSummarizer, BlogSummarizer and WikiSummarizer

When you can visually share and communicate your knowledge with others, everyone benefits. This is why the  Visual Knowledge Maps are easy to publish in your blogs and web pages; everyone with a browser - on any device - can benefit from your visual knowledge map. 

This makes the Visual Knowledge Map tool a great help in your research, learning, collaboration, and brainstorming endeavors.

About WebSummarizer:

WebSummarizer is a powerful text mining and visualization application. It offers rapid summarization of web pages and documents, creation of personal and corporate knowledge bases.

The summarization results are presented as:

   - Visual Summaries
   - Visual Knowledge Maps
    - Tree Views (structured text)
    - Keywords Cloud and
    - Visual Summaries and Visual Knowledge Maps can be exported to HTML, word editors and mind mapping applications.

   

Tea - Wikipedia Visual Knowledge Map

The subject of this Visual Knowledge Map is Wikipedia's article about "Tea".

The Visual Knowledge Map shows 20 related topics that are discussed in the Wikipedia's Tea article.

In addition, each of the 20 main topics is linked to 10 more related topics. This rich view provides a broad context to stimulate brainstorming and searching for creative ideas.

Overall, the Visual Knowledge Map instantly shows 200 topics giving users a powerful overview and versatile guide to knowledge exploration and visual mapping.

You can click on any topic to see the Visual Summaries for each of the topics.


 

                                        Tea - Wikipedia Visual Knowledge map

The Visual Knowledge Map is created by WebSummarizer. The Visual Knowledge Maps can be easily published in web pages and in blogs.

Also the Visual Maps can exported to word processors and mind mapping applications like  MindManager, Mindjet, Xmind, MindGenius, iTHoughts.

About WebSummarizer:

WebSummarizer is a powerful text mining and visualization application. It offers rapid summarization of web pages and documents, creation of personal and corporate knowledge bases.

The summarization results are presented as:

   -  Visual Summaries, 
    - Tree Views (structured text), 
    - Keywords Cloud and

    - Visual Knowledge Maps 

In addition the results can be exported to mind mapping applications.

XMind connects to WebSummarizer cloud

The phenomenon of information overload means that we do not have enough time and attention to read all the information that we need. Mind mapping practitioners and students need to review great deal of information to create rich mind maps.

XMind, a leading mind mapping product, and WebSummarizer, provider of summarization and text analytics solutions combined their technologies to assist mind mappers with using summarization in creation of mind maps.

In collaboration they created XMind Summarizer add-in that allows users to generate topics and summaries from web pages and Wikipedia articles. The summaries are then instantly rendered as XMind mind maps.

The process is seamless and the summarization-assisted mind map creation is very fast.

Any topic can be researched using Wikipedia summaries and any web page can be used as as source to render it as a mind map.

The summarization supports English, French, German and Spanish languages.

If you have any questions and comments please contact us.

Here you can download XMind Summarizer

Brian Friedlander of Assistive Technology created a short demo XMind Integrates WebSummarizer Technology showing how the XMind Summarizer works: