We're coming up on the end of the year, so it's that time when people start hitting their caps and checking their membership rosters, so we've had a number of questions about that in the past few weeks. I'd like to take the chance to give you answers to them, as well as announcing some nifty new changes. Let's hit those questions. 

Why is everything different!?

Everything in this case is the icons for widgets and, most recently, the Site Manager. The latest release updated the icons there to…

Vimeo sees a lot of use in digital workplaces, ranging from supplementing videos added to Igloo with external embeds, to embedding live events, or the added privacy and additional features, such as 4k video. Its interface also makes it easy to share, making it popular for embedding marketing and promotional videos in your digital workplace. 

Today I'll walk through how to use Vimeo in your Igloo, and how some of its sharing and privacy features interact with the Igloo platform. 

Embedding…

The Photos in Folder widget targets a folder in your Igloo and display only the image files (.gif, .jpg, .png) inside it in a number of different layouts. It's a powerful tool for displaying images on Pages and Spaces in your digital workplace, and it's about to get more powerful. The next release adds a new slideshow functionality to the widget, giving you even more options for creating galleries or displays in your community. 

Photo gallery

The obvious use of the widget is as a photo…

It's the day after Halloween, and with all the pictures from our office costume contest, it seems like there's no better time to talk about images. One of the questions that comes up a lot from Administrators and publishers is how best to format images to look exactly as they want in their digital workplace. 

Image sizing can be a huge challenge, between members using different screens and devices to images appearing in different areas and contexts, including in Channels, on posts directly,…