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EngX News Update!

Hello EngX Community! You may have noticed that EngX was offline yesterday (1st November) while we performed some essential maintenance and an update. Most of the latest update contains bug fixes and enhancements to some of the admin features but there are one or two minor changes you’ll see around the community. Embedding content from your social networks It's now easier to embed content from Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and some of the general Google apps into your posts in our forum as well as into any blog posts you publish, if you’re one of our bloggers of course! From the Insert menu in the toolbar, select External Content, then the source of your choice. Then paste in the embed code you find from the source of that content and select OK. Coming soon! Sometimes…

Lisa Miles
Would you use an IET EngX app?

We'd love to get thoughts and feedback from EngX community members on whether you would be likely to make use of an IET EngX app for mobile devices and, if so, which features are most useful to you. Your answers will help us to decide whether we should prioritise building an app in our development plan for the IET EngX community. Please add your answers in the polls below. (Log in is required) If you answered 'Yes' or 'Maybe' to the last question, please continue below. If you answered 'No', thank you for your response; you can add any comments or questions in the comments below. If you have any additional comments or questions, please add them in the comments below.

Lisa Miles
Finding helpful answers in IET EngX

Hello EngX Community Nowadays many people will look and search online to find answers to their questions but finding answers that are helpful amongst all the noise can be time consuming and confusing. You may have already spotted that we’ve made a few changes in the terminology for Q&A style posts in EngX to help make it easier for everyone to find helpful answers in the forum. So, if you’ve asked a question, you can help the community by highlighting the most helpful answers, and thank the engineers who provided them, by marking their replies as being helpful. As the author of a question, you can choose any reply as a ‘helpful answer’. Beneath a reply you’ll find ‘Mark as helpful answer’. Select this and it will highlight the reply by surrounding it in green, making it easy for the…

Lisa Miles
EngX Updates! - New 'my interest' filters and an email digest from the Wiring Regs forum

One of the benefits of signing up for an account on EngX is that you’re able to personalise the content you see here and filter out content you’re not so interested in. However, feedback from the community has told us that you’re finding some areas of personalisation across EngX a little confusing, so we’ve taken some steps to address that. When you log into your account on EngX, the homepage is personalised to show you activity and content within the community aligned to the technical interests you chose when registering your account. We also personalise the list of posts in Engineering Discussions as well as the events listings to display just those relevant to your interests. The feedback we’ve received is that it’s confusing and some of you feel you’re missing out on seeing content…

Lisa Miles
Welcome to EngX News!

Welcome to our new blog, EngX News. Your go-to place for updates, announcements, news and tips on how to get the most out of the EngX community. Getting to know you. Have you completed your profile? Make sure you’ve added your technical interests to your profile so you can benefit from a personalised content feed on your homepage. Your personalised content feed will show you all articles, discussions, blogs and events all based upon your selected interests. Nice to meet you. Meet and connect with other community members! Be sure you can be found by other community members in our ‘meet and connect’ directory by enabling ‘Include in people search’ in your account settings How do I…? If you have a question about using IET EngX then add it to our EngX Q&A forum It’s been almost six…

Lisa Miles

EngX News Update!

Would you use an IET EngX app?

Finding helpful answers in IET EngX

EngX Updates! - New 'my interest' filters and an email digest from the Wiring Regs forum

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