Check out Hail's fully-featured publication style, which is now freely available to all.

What's in a name?

According to Wikipedia:

A gazette is an official journal, a newspaper of record, or simply a newspaper. In English- and French-speaking countries, newspaper publishers have applied the name Gazette since the 17th century; today, numerous weekly and daily newspapers bear the name The Gazette.

So, naturally the Gazette publication style we're now offering takes cues from the print world, but don't let its newspaper-like layout fool you — it's just as slick and useful for your weekly publications as the Newsletter or Magazine and boasts extra features such as Google Calendar integration.

Neato Features 🤓

Google Calendar Integration — this is one feature many of you have been asking for in a publication. Thanks to the Gazette's complete from-scratch rebuild, it's now possible. Simply add your public Google Calendar to your Hail settings and your upcoming events will be automatically pulled out and displayed on the Gazette's cover page. For those of you who already have your organisation's calendar on your Hail Website, the Gazette will display it automatically.

Instagram Feed Widget Integration — Instagram has rapidly taken over as the social media platform of choice for teens and young adults. So naturally high schools, colleges and other organisations looking to stay in touch with the youth demographic are also increasing their use of the platform. To help with your communication goals we've added Instagram feeds to Hail publications.

Direct links to search and tag filters — in addition to linking readers to the Gazette's cover page or a specific article, you can also link to a specific section of content either by tag or a search term. For example: check out all the Case Studies in this Gazette.

Reading Progress indicator — On all screens, except for mobile phones, you'll notice an index of articles to the right. This serves a couple of clever functions:

• It updates as you read through the articles to give the reader a sense of place in the article and the publication as a whole. This also has the effect of subtly rewarding your community for their attention and encourages them to read from cover to cover 😍.
• It also serves as a way for those very busy people to scan the contents and browse the articles they're most interested in without having to jump back and forth to the index on the cover page.

And of course, the Gazette includes all the other clever features you expect from Hail publications:

• Mobile-friendly design
• Google translation widget
• Quick-links
• Inline images and videos
• Seamless sharing to social media, email and printing.
• Google maps and attachments in articles...
• ... and much more

How can I get it? 🤩

The Gazette is now available to use on all Hail plans. Just be sure to refresh Hail in your browser for access.