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Get Your Filtr On

PR Pros have been paying tons of money for media clips for eons, and some still need to have a paid service to keep up with everything said about them, their organization or their clients. But, there is a new service that the smaller company can set up for free, called FiltrBox that offers many of the same features of the higher priced services. The service now is out of beta, according to the FiltrBox blog,

Information Overload and overpriced media monitoring are now a thing of the past! We are thrilled to announce that the Filtrbox media monitoring service is now available to the public. The service emerges from private beta today with an entirely new user interface and a number of new features.

Here’s what you get for free:

• Up to five separate filters and 15 days of article history
• Entirely new Flex user interface
• Additional sources, including Twitter and FriendFeed monitoring
• Search, Sort, and Preferences
• iPhone formatted Daily Briefing emails
• Flagging of important articles
• Google Alerts import
• Drag and Drop Filtr management
• Content widgets based on custom RSS feeds

Sign up for FiltrBox here.