The final leg of the DECISIONS [D4H] tour was The Emergency Services Show 2011 at Stoneleigh Park in Coventry.

The Emergency Services Show is the key event for anyone involved in planning, response or recovery, both in the UK and abroad and with over 4000 visitors, this year was the biggest year yet! With four exhibition halls and and outdoor display visitors were spoilt for choice!

It was a busy two days for us but we still managed to capture some snaps for you!



















No more trade shows for us in 2011. If we didn't meet you this year, I'm sure we will next year as 2012 has many more trade shows we will be attending!

You can now convert Exercises to Events and vice-versa. To convert an activity make sure it is in draft form and press [Update Details] on the top right. If the activity has already been approved you must convert it back to draft.



Now press [Convert] at the very bottom below the delete bar.



Your activity will be immediately converted. You can now publish and approve to add the activity in its new form to your statistics.

There is a discussion in our support forum on this topic.

On Monday, the [D4H] crew got to visit CHC in Dublin to run a workshop and training on requirements for tracking Sar equipment usage and medical supplies. While we were there, they very kindly gave us a tour of the offices and of course the helicopter!

Our luck didn't run out there though because we got a short flight in the helicopter and got to practice our winching skills!









A huge thank you to everyone in CHC for having us!

We've added Email Deliverability feedback to your D4H account. Once you send an email to other members of your team, you'll start to see realtime deliverability reports as they arrive at the other end. If the user has an invalid email address, or the message bounces, we'll let you know on your dashboard.

If you go to Logistics->Email->Email Status you can see a real-time view of the current status of each members email. If if's delivering, bouncing, invalid, or messages are going to spam.

We want to make email more reliable for you when in emergency response situations and deliverability reports are our start on that.

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.

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!

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.