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Here's what you need to know about the January 2021 Product Release
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Accessibility updates
In this release, we've made the following accessibility enhancements to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG):
- Updated user interface components to ensure information, structure, and relationships conveyed through presentation can be programmatically determined or is available in text
- Increased color…
Let's all agree on something obvious: planning is important. You can't change a plan if you don't have one in the first place. It's true for children's birthday parties, vacations, and your digital transformation. But in the latter case our Best Practices knowledge base is available to help you out, and provide resources to make sure that your plan covers everything that matters.
Our project managers can help you plan your a digital workplace launch end to end, to ensure that your site has…
Let's find out which types of communications are most critical for deskless workers in your organization...

Our final poll of 2020 focused on communication with employees who are not working at a desk. As we all know, these employees are vital to an organization, and finding ways to make information accessible to them is critically important. Last month we asked which types of communications were most critical for deskless workers in your organization.
Let’s take a look at the results:
- Training and onboarding 10%
- Corporate communication updates 24%
- Deliver critical, time-sensitive announcements …
The December Product Release has arrived in your digital workplace!
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For details, view the December 2020 Product Release Notes.
Product Poll: December 2020: Reaching your deskless workers
How are you communicating with your employees who are in the field vs. those that are in an office (or working from home)?
Many industries have workforces that are distributed across both the classic office environment (or these days working from home) as well as employees who are working in the field. Employees who are not in the office, often do not have access to the same tools to access corporate content, making it sometimes difficult for them to stay informed. What types of information are most important to share with those employees?
- Training and onboarding
- Corporate communication updates
- Deliver…
Here's what you need to know about the December 2020 Product Release
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New option to customize the time of Digest Notifications
In this release, Digital Workplace Administrators now have the option to create a custom time of day for the deployment of Digest Notifications. Under Localization,…
November’s Content Administration product poll was one of our most popular yet!
In addition to providing feedback by voting, there were some great conversations in the comments section of the announcement post. I think this just goes to show how important these features are to digital workplace managers everywhere!
Let’s take a look at the results (56 votes across 42 different organizations):
- Assign a content owner 17%
- Automated detection of stale or outdated content 45%
- Content update reminders to content authors 24%
- Phrase support for recommended search 5%
- Automate…
The November Product Release has arrived in your digital workplace!
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For details, view the November 2020 Product Release Notes.
Take advantage of these upcoming Igloo University Training sessions. These sessions are included (at no charge) for all Igloo customers.
Here are some upcoming virtual training opportunities that you can take advantage of (at no charge) as part of Igloo University.
- Introduction to Integrations - November 23, 11:00 am -12:30 pm ET
- Planning Your Digital Workplace Launch - November 24, 12:00-1:00pm ET
- Introduction to Widget Configuration - November 25, 11:00 am -12:30 pm ET
- Widget Configuration: Beyond the Basics - November 25, 1:00-2:30 pm ET
- Driving Engagement - November 26, 12:00-1:00pm ET
- Maximizing Mobility -…
As we near the end of 2020, we'd like to know more about the types of features you would like to see in the future to make it even easier to administer content within your digital workplace.
For this month's poll, we would like to hear from the community managers of Igloo Digital Workplaces. How can Igloo help you to manage the increasing volume of content generated by your community members? We want to enable content authors to keep content updated and ensure all users are able to find the up-to-date information they need, when they need it!
Which of the following content governance options would you most like to see introduced in the product:
- Assign a content owner
- Automated…
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