With 2017 well underway it's a great time to take stock of what a huge year 2016 was and thank you for your continued use of Hail. Thanks also for the brilliant feedback that's lead to two handy new features: Password-Protected Publications and Hail Help Guides.

Wow, what a huge 2016 we had here at Hail labs and we couldn't have done it without you! 2017 is looking to be even bigger with many more features, partnerships and other exciting updates in the pipeline.

In case you missed some, read on for the list of major features we shipped in 2016 and a sneak peek at this year's plans.

Just Shipped!

Over the holidays our worker pigeons were busy pecking away on two smaller features which are bound to have a big impact:

• Hail Help Guides — got stuck in any of Hail's sections? Just hit the new help button top-right and get step-by-step inline help for all the features.
  
• Password-Protected Publications — have Board of Trustees minutes, business reports or other sensitive content that you don't want accessible by the whole world? Now you can publish to a select group by protecting a publication with a password.

Just reload Hail in your browser to try out these two new features now!

2016 Year in Review

New Feature: Vimeo

Right on time for the new school year in the southern hemisphere we've launched support for Vimeo videos! Read more »

New Features: Accessibility Mode & Print-friendly Content

At Hail we love pushing the (digital) envelope and extending our multi-channel publishing. However, it's important to be future-focussed without bypassing users with accessibility issues such as sight impairment or limited internet access. It's this thinking and your feedback that's motivated our latest features. Read more »

NEW Feature From Hail — Blogs!

Hail labs are on a roll! Our publication offering has just been rounded out with a fourth style which we know you’ll love and find really useful in your content marketing. So now there’s a layout and feature set for every purpose. Read more »

New Hail Feature: Article Ordering

You all asked for it and we’ve delivered — you can now choose between having the articles in publications and the homepage sorted by date or rearrange them into any order you like! Read more »

New, Easier, Shinier Homepage Feature

We're very pleased to announce our latest update to the Hail Homepage, our mobile-friendly website feature — available to all new and existing customers now! Read more »

Hail Adds Creative Commons Licenses

Now you can license your content in Hail with Creative Commons. Read more »

New Feature in Hail: Bulk Image Editing

We're extremely pleased to bring you our most requested feature yet — bulk image editing! Read more »

New Feature in Hail: Scheduled Posts

Ever wanted to publish to social media and send out your email campaign at a later date and time? Now you can! ☺︎ Read more »

New Feature: Content Sharing with Trusted Connections

Hail changes the game again with our latest inter-organisation content sharing feature through Trusted Connections. Read more »

2017's Looking BIG!

We're planning plenty of awesome new features for Hail in 2017! There'll be fantastic upgrades to the current publication styles and our mobile-friendly website feature the Hail Homepage. We're also exploring some serious artificial intelligence to make content creation ever easier, plus many, many more innovative enhancements.

Thanks again for being the brilliant, engaged Hail users you are! If you're enjoying using Hail as much as we do bringing it to you, then please help spread the word by introducing us to anyone you think might benefit from our one-stop communications platform.

Thanks again,
Team Hail