Howdy Pardner

On behalf of VFW WebCOM I'd like to publicly thank HF "Rick" House III (Jarhead) and William "Knoot" Knudson for their efforts in helping me capture the 2009 National Convention in photos. Both of these great individuals was kind enough to provide me (and you) with hundreds of great photos of the convention.

To see all of our photos, I suggest you go f… Continue

There were a few network updates that went into place overnight. The two major changes are in the "Members" listing page and in the photo upload area.

The members listing page is fairly self explanatory. Instead of the grid view of members, there is now a top-down listing with more options listed on the right-hand side to allow for friend requests, etc.

The photo upload area has also undergone a major upgrade. Th… Continue

There are several upgrades for the chat system on the horizon. Here's a list of the new/improved features from our service provider:

On March 25th, we’re doing a new release of chat to deliver the most requested feature improvements we’ve heard so far from all the great feedback. Here are the highlights:

* You’ll be able to resize the chat pop out. One of the most common requests we’ve heard is to be able to resize the new pop-out view of Chat. With this release, you’ll be able to dynamically… Continue

You may notice a slight change in the chat bar controls this morning. See the illustration below for the new controls.

We've been following the progress on software updates on My VFW WebCOM. The latest word is that the new chat features have been delayed slightly to February 23rd. We will also be seeing some upgrades to the embeddable players for photos and videos at that time. Don't forget, you can create a photo album for a specific event at your post and then use the embeddable photo slideshow to embed the images in your post/district blog as well.

For more info on the new chat features,… Continue