Check out Hail's latest publication revamp — just in time for Yearbook season! 📗🎉

As we fly into a brand new year it's time for our annual review of major features shipped over the last 12 months, plus details of our latest enhancements and what to look forward to this year.

Its super easy to set up and keep your readers informed on your latest news by using Hail and Twitter. This article explains how to set up free text notifications.

Why do Schools love using Hail? Who better to ask that Westmere School who have been an early adopter of Hail.

Good imagery makes all the difference to your stories, but if you don't have anything on hand it's been a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating experience to search for and add high-quality imagery to your articles and newsletters. Not any more thanks to our brand new Pixabay integration!

The hits keep on coming! Hail labs have been on a roll lately with lots of great new innovations being shipped. This month we literally are counting hits with our brand new statistics feature.

Who better to ask than our customers! So we interviewed Daniel Wilson from Nayland College all about their use Hail and how it's being received.

This is BIG. Read on for a sneak peek of the Newsletter design 2.0 and get ready to WOW your community all over again.

We’ve all seen it. So many times there are crumpled-up paper newsletters in the bottom of school bags that never reach parents or caregivers. We spend hours preparing school newsletters in a PDF format that we hope every parent or caregiver reads.

Quick-links are a handy way to highlight specific content on your Hail Homepage, Newsletters, Blogs, Yearbooks and Articles. You can add quick-links to Hail articles, publications and any external websites or pages.

Social media platforms are amazing distribution channels that can drive serious engagement for your content, but when are you giving them too much?

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.

Hail changes the game with the Trusted Connections option.

The longer you use Hail the better it gets! If your team's been creating and sharing stories with Hail during the year you'll now have a nice archive of everything that’s happened this year — ready to be published as an incredible digital yearbook in no time.

Thanks for making the awesome decision to sign up to Hail! You obviously have impeccable taste and are in great company. We are excited to have you onboard with us. Now let's get you started!

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

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

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

Good imagery makes all the difference to your content, but what if you haven't got the right photo? Discover our favourite free photography sites.

"The problem with work-life balance is that it traps us in a career or job-oriented mindset, working for either a paycheck or purely to climb the latter." Find purpose instead, says Dan Pontefract.

Register for our first Hail Webinar in a series that will explore and provide expert tips and tricks on Hail's features, as well as Content Marketing and Social Media best practices amongst others.

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!

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!

The Content Marketing Institute has created this fascinating documentary about the history and recent resurgence of content marketing.

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.

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.

It was a pleasure introducing Hail at the Regional Conference last week. A great opportunity to talk about the service and how it was helping schools increase their engagement with international students and agents.  

With it being harder and harder to secure the .com you're after you might be tempted by the new TLDs available, but will it affect your Google ranking?

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

As we kick into gear for 2016 it's a great time to take stock of what a huge year 2015 was and thank you for your continued use of Hail. Thanks also for the brilliant feedback that has lead to all the following fab features we shipped over the last year.

MailChimp, the world's most popular email marketing service, sends over 10 billion emails per month from over 10 million users. Now with Hail, making the most of the Chimp has never been easier.

Christmas has come early for all you Hail users — we've just shipped a pile of new features to provide faster, easier and better ways to keep your community notified and up-to-date.

Your Hail Homepage now provides easy access to static content with pinned articles and publications, while maintaining a dynamic content-focus with new search and tag filtering of the constantly updated rich site resources.

Being your most awesome self takes work and in order to be at our best we all need to take stock every now and then to ensure we are taking the best care of ourselves. 

Now you can not only tag your articles for easy organization in the Hail backend and categorization in published formats, you can also apply private tags to help you manage your content more effectively.

The death of the PDF newsletter is firmly in our sights... but not only that, schools and organizations are moving away from a stagnant and static information exchange in favour of engaging content based strategies and digital experiences. 

A few weeks back we had some pretty cool media coverage ...

You know when you're using a cool product and some of the features just blow your mind... and you're like... how'd they do that?

Getting to grips with new software can be tricky, even when it's been carefully crafted to be super friendly and intuitive, so we have created a help section to soften the landing.

Get the inside scoop from these well known content creators on how to hone in on your inner productivity goddess. 

It's not just about designing and creating your website based on artificial intelligence (AI). It's also about basing what makes up your website around intelligent content (IC). 

We are terribly excited to be hitting the road this month in a series of events up and down the country, showcasing Hail to the masses. 

We aim to please and we think our new feature will do just that :) 

Great developers are born, not made. And when Hail made the decision to "not steal" (#totallydidsteal) Ben away from his day job that's when the magic started happening. 

Communicating with your audience is made easy with our Hail Publications feature. Create and curate your content into beautiful publications with our clever, simple to use platform, then share with those that matter most with the click of a button. 

Here at Hail we're very excited to announce another powerful new feature — support for custom domains.

Another often requested feature; the ability to attach various standard file types to your content.

Content is your biggest differentiator and asset. As web technologies continue to become more and more accessible and commoditized it’s your unique content that stands you apart from the rest.

A Hail website is a website that creates itself.

Storytelling predates writing. Stories have been carved, etched, scratched and painted for millions of years and today a story can be created in digital form and shared for all to read.

It's no longer news to anyone that technology has and continues to transform our lives. It seems that as one great device or piece of software is launched into our worlds, another falls off into the abyss of non-popularity.

And now we have the stats to prove it.

Today we are introducing OAuth 2 support for the Hail API, paving the way for third-party developers to build great applications on our platform.

With it's rich, tag-based structure, the Hail Yearbook can handle hundreds of articles in a vibrant, easily-browsed and searchable publication.

An overwhelmingly positive response to another school's transition from PDF newsletters to brilliant storytelling with Hail.

Hail now integrates with the big three platforms of the blogging world — Tumblr, Blogger and Wordpress. 

It's unlimitedly deep without blowing the budget, and it's infinitely sharable to anyone on any device. It's about as far away from the dusty, old, printed yearbook as you can get.

Did you know that worldwide over 50% of emails are now opened on mobile devices? It's a simple little data point that has far reaching implications for your email newsletters.

Merrin School recently started creating, collaborating and communicating via Hail and are excited by the positive feedback from their community.

As an early adopter of Hail, Logan Park have seen engagement from families, students and the community skyrocket — all while saving time, money and the environment.

When it comes to content marketing, imagery is key and a great hero shot or drawing can be the difference between clicks or skips.

As one of the first web, design and marketing agencies to use Hail, Firebrand are excited to be at the forefront of a new way of creating, curating and publishing content.  

If this was a typical content marketing article it would be titled something like "17 Top Content Marketing Secrets For Guaranteed Overnight Success Online", but the truth is there's no secret recipe for success online—just writing and lots of it.

You asked for it and we listened — in-app and email notifications have just landed.

Take control of your photography and optimize its output with the focal point feature.

We recently released an updated flow for creating, reviewing and publishing content in Hail, alongside third-party connections to publish to.

Publish your content in a completely new way. Ideal for weekly, monthly and short-term periodicals, the Newsletter style is perfect for scannable content with prominent notices.

Tags have a very important dual purpose; they organise your content within Hail and categorise your content in published formats.

Learn all about creating Drafts, Readying for feedback and Publishing articles online.

As our content creation tools get smarter they can take on more and more of the manual tasks, letting us concentrate on the hardest part; storytelling.

Structured content APIs are fundamental to flexible and future-proofed content. But what are they, and how do they work?

Thanks to the increasingly ubiquitous and affordable range of internet capable devices our content has never been so instantly accessible in so many places.

A 'Content Strategist' is a fancy job description for someone who plans, curates and publishes content for a business or organization, and most likely does a little writing themselves.