DUBLIN, IRELAND - A whole bunch of new releases for you this week. The biggest shift is the Incident, Exercise, and Event pages. Their layouts have changed to reflect a structure that can hold more data for you down the road. The maps are bigger, more prominent, and the attendance list is much tidier.

We've worked down the attendance status levels to 3 traffic lights - red, amber, green. When you create an event, just 'request' the people you need and they may sign-in themselves and confirm or deny their attendance at the activity. Also, now as an editor, you can confirm people's attendance yourself if they can't do it themselves. These small changes will make a huge difference to editors.



Communication is a hugely important factor in team management, and a long requested feature was the ability to message the attendees of an event. Using the new comms icons on the activity page, you can now do just that - send a message to those 'Potential Attendees', 'Confirmed Attendees', 'Unconfirmed Attendees', 'Absent Attendees'. Go try it!



If you are in the UK or Ireland, you'll start to see more SMS icons appearing. These icons let you send an SMS message to either a group or individual. For example, you could send the text message to everyone coming to your training session tomorrow "Bring your technical gear, we're going climbing.". We'll update you live as each message is delivered, so you can see if someone didn't get it. More on our SMS capabilities soon - and hopefully news of this service launching in the United States.



All your accounts have been upgraded automatically! Enjoy.

-Robin.