DUBLIN, IRELAND - You can now build your own query to analyze your data in a custom format. Editors can now build these reports and save them for a Member+ to run at any time. Reports can be configured with dynamic date ranges which remain relative to the date run, so for example, if you want to know what happened in the last 12 months you can specify that whereas other may choose to create a report for a specific year.

Try this video screen-cast to see how it works:



To access these features go to [Intelligence] -> [Reports] -> [+Add New Report]. We've got the engine built, and we've started off by adding attendance reports with more to come - please don't hold back on the comments in the community support area on what should be next.

D4H HQ, IRELAND - Donnchadh Mac Cobb from Adventure Training Ireland joins us for this episode to demo his HD Hero 2 camera for recording emergency response footage and we discuss the Costa Concordia including the VHF transmissions from the Captain to the Coast Guard.





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DUBLIN, IRELAND - Ever since we added email deliverability feedback that told you which email addresses weren't receiving email, people started asking to know why it wasn't receiving email. Today see's the launch of improved email response messages.

Go to Logistics -> Email -> Status within your D4H account to see the deliverability status of each of your members email. If an email is bouncing, blocked, or spam listed, you can now click it to see the reason why.

Here's a sample screenshot:

Decisions [D4H] is continuing to experience rapid growth across the globe. Our international operation has had particular success and we are firmly committed to growing our capacity and to continue expanding our team accordingly. We are now looking for another ambitious person to join our crew.

Primary accountabilities include the development and relationship of marketing channels to drive lead generation, coordination of our international sales agents, and account management of existing customers and annual subscriptions. Reporting into the Managing Director, this role will focus on the management of public service, corporate, local government, and voluntary organisation sales leads, bringing them through our pipeline process, from first outreach to signing, and further re-subscription.

The position is based in the D4H HQ, Dublin, Ireland.

More Info: http://www.decisionsforheroes.com/about/join/

DUBLIN, IRELAND - Founder Robin Blandford was live in studio on National Radio Newstalk 106-108FM last night speaking about D4H and the Arthur Guinness Fund for social entrepreneurs.

If you missed the live show, you can listen back below.

D4H HQ, IRELAND - We've prepped a nice screencast video for you today on how to add D4H to your Google Chrome Browser as a search engine. This allows you to just type 'd forest fire' into your address bar and press return to get the results from your D4H account. Tip: [Command] + [L] on a Mac or [Ctrl]+[L] on Windows will focus the location bar for you.



1/ Open Preferences.
2/ Manage Search Engines
3/ Add a new Search Engine with D4H | d | https://yoursubdomain.d4h.org/team/search/view/%s as the options.
4/ Replace 'yoursubdomain' with the subdomain of your team account.
5/ Save and exit, then test typing 'd anything' into your Location bar.

Enjoy!

WINNIPEG, CANADA - This special edition was recorded live at the 2011 SARscene Expo in Winnipeg, Canada. In this second part of the series we speak to a number of participants including Red Deer Search & Rescue, SAR Manitoba, North Avalon SAR, and CASARA.

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As we wrap up the last few hours in the D4H HQ before Christmas, we want to take time to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. On behalf of all the D4H crew, we want to thank you for all your support throughout the year.

Hope everyone is getting into the holiday spirit nicely. Hard to believe it is that time of year again! D4H has had a great year and we are heading into 2012 all hands on deck.

Although the HQ is closed December 24th - January 1st, if you need anything at all, we are monitoring the email support@decisionsforheroes.com and our voicemail at all times.

Hard to believe another year has passed for D4H! It has been a a hectic one with many changes to our team and our products. We were lucky to do a lot of travelling, meet great new people who we had interning, move into the brand new D4H HQ but most importantly we worked on improving D4H for all of our customers and making it better for you.

Take a look at 2011 for D4H in pictures:


A great way to start a great year for D4H is to move into brand new office!


Toasting to the new office in our Operation Orange party


New feature added which allows teams to bulk add exercises and events


Robin presented D4H at at the first 'Social Media in Emergency Management Camp' at the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) conference in Virginia, United States.


Our booth at SAR 2011 in Bournemouth UK.


Irish Government invests in D4H


We have many inters in D4H working on various products to research and development, analytics and market research.


In April we launched a new feature which allows teams to bulk-add members by manual entry or by uploading a spreadsheet


Claire joined the D4H team as International Coordinator.


Robin attends the first of many trade shows - NASAR in Nevada.


D4H is now in seven countries and has users on all ends of the globe.


Guinness invest €100,000 into D4H as part of The Arthur Guinness Fund.


Ex SAR pilot Roy Rodford joins the D4H team as International Business Manager.


We launch secured document and photo storage with internet sharing, and collaboration features free on all D4H accounts.


Our new marketing site goes live!


Preparing for the many trade shows ahead.


The new Equipment feature is launched!


D4H Trade show tour begins! Robin and Gary attend Hotzone in Texas.


Robin visits Houston Hazmat.


Another possible use for D4H stickers?


Irish postcards sent as invitations to come visit D4H at SARscene


We are invited to be adjudicators at SARscene 2011 games


The team at SARscene 2011


Roy and Claire meeting some customers at SARscene


D4H are awarded a Water Safety Award for our community contribution in running the Irish National Drowning Database.


D4H stickers are popping up everywhere!


We receive gifts from the lovely Toby in Canada TF2.


David Doran is the latest to join the D4H team - just in time for the Christmas party!


We went to CHC to run a workshop and training on requirements for tracking SAR equipment usage and medical supplies.


While there we got to practice our winching!


Fridays Beer Call!


We add Email Deliverability feedback to D4H accounts.

2012 is going to see D4H expand even more with many new features to come! 2011 was great to us but here's to an even more awesome 2012!

Happy New Year everyone!

They say any good company to work in as a developer has you shipping code to the production environment in the first week, well I'm pretty pleased to say David didn't only get to ship code to production, he shipped a whole new feature! Fair play - this guy is quick!

But there's more... in typical D4H style, he didn't get to just ship code in his first week, he also got to hang under one of our customers heavy lift marine rescue helicopters while out at the airport doing a workshop on how to manage equipment inspections and expiry dates within our emergency response team equipment module.

Now you're talking!

So it's with great excitement that I'm actually welcoming David Doran back to the D4H HQ as he was one of the original team who represented D4H at Seedcamp in London in 2008 when things were just ideas, and he wrote lots of the original core code for our initial prototype - much of which is still in production today. David will be undertaking a lot of the heavy lift engineering and software development you will see from now on. Welcome David!

-Robin.