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Within Hail №2

Welcome to our second newsletter Within Hail, where we promise to keep you within hailing distance of all that is newly released, as well as what's brewing in our labs.

October overview

This last month has been full of new Hail releases and enhancements. There's now three major new blog connections you can publish to with one click. Plus, we've released a streamlined Sign in/ Sign up flow, to make it even easier to get into Hail and create your account.

Death of PDF: 'Best of the Web'

The Connected Educator Month ’14 wrapped up last week and was an amazing global event, with millions of educators connecting through social media and sharing their support and best practices to make our schools all they can be.

We were very proud to have our Death of the PDF newsletter article selected for the Connected Educator ‘Best of the Web’ and to feature in Principal Lisa Dillon-Roberts' blog post 'Creating Content'.

November news

Lastly, in this issue you'll learn about the upcoming Yearbook release, as well as uncover our new Hail guides to images and content marketing. We've also got some brand new case studies of Hail organisations and our new app teaser video, so stretch out with your favourite device and dive in...

Contents

Yearbook sneak peek

Pssst... wanna sneak peek of the Hail Yearbook?

by Tom Barnett

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.

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One click publishing to blogs

Hail's new blog connections

by Tom Barnett

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

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Mobile killed the print star

The death of the PDF newsletter

by Tom Barnett

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.

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Merrin School Newsletter

Merrin School delighted by community feedback

by Tom Barnett

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

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Kristan and Arnika from Logan Park High School

Case Study: Logan Park — Hail School

by Tom Barnett

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.

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Content creation and collaboration on the go

Getting started with Hail: Photos & Illustrations

by Tom Barnett

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

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Case Study: Firebrand hails marketing wins

by Tom Barnett

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.  

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Said no one, ever

Content marketing in plain language

by Tom Barnett

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.

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