Have you ever needed public opinion on anything within your APAN Group?

With just a couple of taps within your group’s content editor you can create a poll for community members to vote on questions you ask.

Suggestions on how to use Polls within your group:

With the APAN 8.0 upgrade you may need to adjust your Notification settings.

Please follow these Email Notification steps.  Following these steps may assist you to:

1. Receive Pending Member requests,
2. Identify when someone has posted content,
3. Discover when someone has asked a question or sent a status message.

Interested APAN v8.0's new features? The APAN University page is where you'll find the schedule for our Community Owner Training webinars. Links to some recordings of previous webinars are included in the schedule.

For the rest of November, the Community Owner Training webinars will include APAN v8.0 demos and live Q&A.  Webinars are scheduled for November 12, 13, 23, 24, and 25.  You may also request a custom…

The launch date is finally here!  All the exciting new features you've been looking forward to are on schedule to be delivered by the end of the day Hawaii Standard Time.

Please refer to the APAN v.8.0 Upgrade Information Page  for a better understanding of the new additions and changes in store.

The release of  APAN v8.0  will bring a few minor changes to APAN's SharePoint sites:

• APAN branding in the header will be removed.
  • Site Owners will be able to select their own themes with custom colors and fonts.
• Logo images may change size
  • Check your site's logo graphic after the launch. Resize if desired.
• The "Favorites" feature will be removed.
  • User's sites will be listed in the…

Special thanks to all the Group Owners who have kept in touch with the APAN Support Team and are using the available resources to ensure a smooth v8.0 transition.  In order to keep the integrity of your data, Group Owners must take action before 30 October.  Please use the following link for directions on how to proceed:

• Group Owners Special Notice: Includes instructions on saving Generic Content widgets, Unfiltered HTML…

Attention all APAN Group Owners!

This blog post provides you with a summary of available resources developed to help you with the upcoming transition to APAN 8.0.  Please feel free to socialize the links below with your leadership, fellow team members, and other community owners who would benefit from this information.  It is our goal to provide you with the most information possible to ensure a smooth transition on October…

APAN 8.0 is scheduled to be released in just a little over 7 weeks.
In preparation for the upgrade, the following is a high-level outline of  changes you should expect to see starting 31 October 2015.

1. Group Owners will have the ability to:

• Go to one location to enable and disable features such as Chat, SharePoint, and GIS
• Use the Group Setup Kit to quickly create group applications including blogs, forums, media…

We are announcing the kickoff of the APAN SharePoint User Group (ASPUG). The ASPUG will keep users informed about APAN SharePoint activities. The ASPUG will provide a forum for exchanging ideas and information.  The ASPUG is not meant to replace the APAN Support Desk or the Customer Engagement Specialists.

The success of ASPUG depends on the participation of the community.

Please join us online at our first meeting on…

The APAN community created to support organizations responding to the Ebola outbreak in western Africa, the Ebola Response Network community, is open to the public and can be found here: https://community.apan.org/apcn/ern/default.aspx

This community is administered by the US Africa Command, and anyone worldwide is invited to participate.  The community offers maps, file sharing space, translation services, live online…

In response to the devastating super typhoon that hit the Philippines on 8 November 2013, APAN has created the Typhoon Haiyan Response Community. Join the community to collaborate and share information with other members supporting the response effort, including members of the U.S. Department of Defense, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), other government agencies, and non-governmental organizations…

Group Owners must be vigilant on who they let into their private group area(s). Just because a person has a .gov, .mil, .state, .edu, etc. on the end of their email does NOT mean automatic access to your group.  Here are some simple rules before approving a person’s access to your group:   

• Assume anyone asking for access to your group is NOT authorized to gain access to the information.
• Don’t automatically…

APAN has recently created the response community, Japan Earthquake 2011, following the  recent earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan.  Join the community to collaborate and share information with other members supporting the response effort, including members of the US Department of Defense, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), other U.S. government agencies, and non-governmental and private organizations…