With our New Year's Eve parties behind us, now is a good time to reflect on the past year! 2011 was a year of major system improvements for Dialawg as well as the release of several fantastic features.

The biggest refinement this year was the breakthrough concept of starting a Dialawg, which made our platform easier to use and much more powerful. Before this update, users could had to share messages and files separately—but afterward, users could simply start a Dialawg—allowing you to add participants, messages, and files, start a real-time chat, all in a unified conversation!

It's also hard to believe Front Desk is only a year old--it's such a nice feature that it's hard to imagine living without it. When you enable your Front Desk, you get a public link through which anyone can send messages and large files to you privately. You can even host custom forms to collect specific information. We further simplified the platform by discontinuing our D-Drive feature so we could focus on more widely useful features such as bulk downloading of files as a ZIP file, real-time chatting, and the ability to start a conference call with any of your Dialawg participants.

This year we also introduced electronic signatures for all files within Dialawg. In addition to tracking these signatures, our refined authenticity reports also shore up the details of each signature. Another important new feature found within the platform is our drag-and-drop form designer, which allows you to design a form to collect structured data more securely. Since our platform infrastructure also addresses HIPAA standards, the the impact of this feature is far-reaching. 

Our audit reports have been upgraded and renamed "Authenticity Reports," and are truly at the heart of what Dialawg is all about: providing your professional conversations with a detailed history of who said what, and when. Each report comes with a tamper-detection link so you can check the legitimacy of the copy you’re viewing.  With free basic accounts, there's no reason not to receive this kind of protection for your professional correspondence!

In addition to these exciting new features, we also continue to make improvements to our infrastructure to keep it resilient and robust for all of our users. We also have some amazing new improvements coming your way soon, so please stay tuned.  Here's wishing everyone a great 2012!