Next month IGLOO will be updating all communities with several exciting new features.  This release focuses on providing usability enhancements, improvements and an overall better experience using your community - for both administrators and end-users.  We have distributed our new features and updates across our key product areas: content management, collaboration, social networking and web publishing.  In this way, there is something that will benefit everyone  - whether you mainly use your…

Members of participating IGLOO communities our latest Desktop Client is now available for download. Version 1.3 holds some important improvements, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users will now be able to upload and manage community documents with our Desktop Client. Additionally the Desktop Client can now be used to manage your group space files, allowing you complete access over your community documents.

*Note - Windows 7 users please read our known issues and workarounds before proceeding with…

Group Spaces. Our new Group Space functionality makes it easier and more productive to collaborate with others in your community.  Group Spaces will provide dedicated, segmented areas of the community which can be used for projects, work groups, departments, teams, special interest groups and more.

Each Group Space will have a flexible homepage which you can fully customize with any of our drag-and-drop widgets.  This can help you create a Group Space dashboard so that you can quickly and easily…

Group Spaces are here!

Congregate in teams with the new Group Spaces functionality from IGLOO. It's a community within a community - areas that can be used to organize projects, work groups, research topics or departments (just to name a few).

 Here's a sneak peek at some of the Group Space features:

• Group Specific Applications: use your own set of self-contained applications, including Blogs, Calendar, Documents, Forums, Gallery and Wiki.
• Group Specific Navigation: customize each Group Spaces'…

Here in the IGLOO, March may have come in like a Lion, but it is going out with some great new features for every community!  This morning all communities were updated to bring you new features and enhancements to improve the way your use your IGLOO community.

A full list of all of the changes in this release can be found in our Release Notes, so head over there soon to read all about it.

A few of the awesome things that are worth mentioning again:

Attachments.  We are pleased to begin providing…

Within the next few weeks IGLOO will be updating communities with some new features the should enhance the way you collaborate and use your community applications.  Here's a sneak peek at some of the enhancements coming soon:

• Attachments. Not just for email any more!  We are pleased to begin providing attachments in four application areas: wiki, blogs, calendar and forums.
• Better Search Engine Optimization. Showing up on search engines is one of most critical ways to increase web traffic and…

IGLOO Software's latest release was successfully applied to all of our customers this morning!  When you log into your community next you may notice a few new features and enhancements.  We hope these upgrades continue to improve the way that you use your communities.

There's not enough space here to outline all of the great changes with this release, so check out the Release Notes for all the detailed goodness!

A couple of points to draw your attention to:

Instant Messaging & VoIP Integration.…

Since the beginning of the New Year, the team here at IGLOO has been working hard on a new wave of features requested by you - our customers. Here's a sneak peak at some of the enhancements coming soon:

• Instant Messaging & VoIP. Find, reach and communicate with others in your community quickly and cost effectively. With our new real-time communication module, you can integrate with Skype™, Windows Live™ Messenger, Google Talk™ and Yahoo!® Messenger to make it easier to connect with those…