We're pleased to announce a slew of new and exciting features coming to FirefighterNation.com in just a few weeks. I thought I'd give you a preview so you know what's coming!

Please look for these features and more around February 10th:

Mass Uploader for Photos, Videos, and Music/Podcasts
You'll be able to upload up to 100 photos, videos, and songs/podcasts in one fell swoop.

Blog Improvements
We've replaced the fancy yet buggy rich text editor with our standard text editor. We also added blog tags and previous/next links. We'll have additional changes to the blog in our next release as well.

A Music Player Facelift
Improvements include the ability to have a pop up the player in a new window, loop playback and shuffle tracks. The player is also now semi-transparent so that the entire player changes color rather than just the border. It's sweet.

Featured Members on the Home Page
We'll showcase the best profiles, newest members and more!

Higher Video Quality
We're updating the video player to set on a fixed size which will result in better-looking videos.

Photo Randomization
Members will be able to now randomize their photo slideshows on profile pages.

If you haven't already done so, feel free to check out some recent additions to the platform, including:

Start a Group for Your Fire Department
You can quickly start a group for your fire department, adding messaging functionality, forums and more to help improve communication within your department

Refer a Friend & Win
There is still a week left in this month's Refer a Friend a Friend promotion.

Live Chat
Chat now in real time with other Firefighter Nation members in our new and improved chat room.

Seach the Web for Firefighting Everything
FFN's new Web Search enables you to search and browse the entire web quickly for fire/EMS related web sites, videos, FFN itself and more!

We'll repost this message with a bigger update once they are live in February.

Thanks for continuing to invite so many members of your department, friends and co-workers to Firefighter Nation. We're fast approaching 12,000 members ... that's 2,000 just this month and the volume of new members is increasing every day!