January 20th 2021
December 18th 2020
New features
Relative publication time: Now you can assign a relative publication time for the content based on the time you upload your exercise. For example: 2 hours before uploading.
Default channel for first login: You can now set up the first channel you want players to see when they enter the exercise.
Link to content: Get the URL to a specific content item from the MEL.
Facebook posts on pages: Now you can publish Facebook posts to organisations' pages from the Scenario Editor.
Quote tweets: Now your players are able to retweet with a comment.
Schedule tweets: Now your players can schedule tweets, edit them and delete them if wanted.
Facebook drill down: Now players can see personas’ friends in Facebook, and navigate through their profiles.
Fixed
Several minor bug fixes.
November 26th 2020
- Social channels: We have added a list of new social channels: Reddit, 4Chan, VK Streams and Weibo.
- Video and documents: Now players can upload video files and MS Office documents to any channel (dependent on licence permissions - requires Hawk or Osprey)
- Twitter pagination: We have added pagination in Twitter channel for improved user experience for clients with multi-day and multi-week exercises that generate large volumes of traffic.
- Styling: Now you can change all channel icons and activate or deactivate Social Map and TeamChat Plus in the scenario editor.
- MEL: Now you can search personas by their handle.
- Several minor bug fixes.
November 10th 2020
- Fix on personas' spreadsheet export: column name corrected.
November 9th 2020
- Social Map: This new channel shows the location of all social posts. The persona or player needs to have a GPS location, and every time they post on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, a pin will appear in the map showing the location and the message. GPS locations can be changed based on permissions.
- Impersonation on Facebook: Now players can impersonate personas on Facebook, write and like posts on their behalf.
- Comments for Twitter posts: Now you can create tweets with past comments.
- Serials: Now the MEL is organised by serials that have injects. You can give serials a description, discussion points, tasks to complete, and see all assets that are used in it. You can export all the injects in a serial and generate a serial report.
- "Bulk replace" for multi-selection of personas: Now you can replace several personas in one go based on the personas handle.
- Teams: Now you will only see the teams you have for a scenario and will get an alert in the audience members that haven't been uploaded to the selected space.
- Several minor bug fixes.
October 19th 2020
- 2-factor authentication with SMS: now you can require players to register verifying both their email and mobile phone.
- Ability to activate or deactivate personas' social media accounts.
- TeamChat Plus and Social Watch configuration via the AirApp: configure whether you want to show or hide these channels for your players.
- Export messaging data: Now you can export all the messages that have been sent by players during the exercise in a convenient Excel format.
- Export PDF with decisions pie charts from the facilitator dashboard.
- Date and time stamp for emails: now you can change the publication date of email messages sent by personas.
- The facilitator now can add multiple video conferencing rooms.
- Several minor bug fixes.
September 11th 2020
- Automatic handles generated for personas.
- Prevent saving personas without social handles.
September 3rd 2020
- Fixes issue with MEL import.
September 2nd 2020
- Facebook groups: now players with
specific permissions can create private Facebook groups.
- Change smartword data during
exercise: facilitators can now
edit the custom data table live to
make exercises even more dynamic.
- Reveal personas and players who
liked social media posts and
who retweeted messages.
- Ability to add website link in
social media profile: Now you
can add a website to the persona's
social media profile.
- Ability for exercise control to
manipulate social media
engagement on individual
social media posts and to modify the
underlying ranking data which defines
the order of how messages appear in
the feed.
- Several minor bug fixes.
August 24th 2020
- Zoom integration to allow video
conferencing between team members
during exercises.
- New section in facilitator
dashboard to assign specific
permission to players: create
video conference rooms, edit
social engagement (see
below).
- Social engagement: Now players
(with the respective permission)
can change the social engagement
of messages (edit the number of
likes, re-posts, views,
etc).
- Historic content for websites: now
you can create historic news
articles for organisations.
- Share news article via link.
- Copy and paste images directly
into news articles.
- Generic bug fixes.
August 3rd 2020
- Facebook search and personas
profiles.
- Instagram personas profiles.
- Timestamps: being able to edit
messages timestamps.
- Players are able to impersonate
personas on Twitter (based on
permissions).
- Web search for website channel.
- Personas Social graph: Create social
networks and indicate followers in
social channels for personas.
- Youtube channel.
- Social watch.
- Teamchat Plus.
- Sentiment analysis in message and
Stax.
- Activate and deactivate accounts in
social channels for personas.
- Image or video are now mandatory on
InstaMedia past posts.
- Fixes in team table and team
import/export.
June 1st 2020
- Inject Grid/Facilitator Action can now
trigger single content as well as inject
sequence
- Issue with emojis in external email
- Issue with Move to Role
May 25th 2020
- Issue with Persona MEL
- External email header not showing in Style
tool
May 22nd 2020
- Ability to edit news articles (given right
permissions)
- Ability to send content to "variable"
(advanced feature for flowchart
users)
- Ability to traverse following and
followers on Twitter
- Ability to pair MEL and Pattern of Life
library
- About 50 minor tweaks and snags.
May 17th 2020
- Persona smartwords
- Media library now have additional filters
and classifications
- Ability to peak at password
- Issue with linking to News websites
- Uploading issues for content with
smartwords and emojis
- team role encoding issue
5th May 2020
Facilitator
- Events List and Excon merged: The
injects timers will be available in
both views.
- New dashboard look and feel.
- New personas
configuration in scenario editor:
Handle for author, bio
notes, factions and tags,
location, personal details
and accounts
configuration
- Ability to mark
personas as organisation allowing to create a
website design for
them.
- Personas content
history: Check and edit
all messages for a
personas.
- New generic
channel name:
MicroBlog.
- Twitter retweets
and
likes.
- Verified Twitter
accounts.
- Pin tweets to
top.
Other New
functionality
Websites combined with news articles into one channel
News ticker and image overlay available in media pop-up
Publish MicroBlog (twitter) message with likes, comments and retweets.
Add images to inject in the MEL view
Send content to variable
Send content to partner
Injects grid configuration
Persona smartwords: Ability to reference personas in content using persona handle
News articles: Players ability to create and edit news articles
Pairing Stax and Scenario: Ability to pair scenario with a Stax and check for personas duplicates
Styling
GoSocial (Facebook): Ability to edit number of followers and community
InstaMedia (Instagram): new icon and channel name
New default virtual desktop icons
New colour schemes for menu and back buttons
Virtual Desktop
Icons fixed on the left side panel for all channels
Multiple attachments in Mail
Back button removed: now use the browser back button.