Communote will be presented at Cebit fair in Hannover from March 3rd to 8th 2009. We choose the brand new Webciety area for this years presentation of products & services from Communardo. You will find us in Hall 6, G60 (T1.04). One of our main exhibits will be Communote and its applications within enterprises.

Communote will also be part of a presentation of Dirk Röhrborn on “Microsharing im Unternehmen: Wie Dokumentieren und Lernen Teil der täglichen Arbeit wird” at the “Learning & Knowledge Solutions” forum on wednesday, March 4th at 1 pm in hall 6 / B 34.

If you would like to meet us at Cebit please get in touch with us via e-mail or twitter.

Do you need a free ticket? Please let us know. We have a limited number of tickets available for you. We look forward to meeting you in Hannover.

The first european conference on microblogging took place in Hamburg/Germany on January 23-24, 2009. MBC09 was a mashup format of conference and barcamp. Many interesting people from the german microblogging scene gathered there together with a number of internation guests, such as Evan Prodomou the inventor of the open source service identi.ca.

Main topics at the event were corporate twittering, internal enterprise microblogging, business models, microblogging clients for microblogging and also some technical aspects.

MBC09 was a great opprotunitiy for us to present the enterprise version of Communote to the public. The slides are available on slideshare, the video will follow.

Martin & Dirk had two great days in Hamburg filled with lots of interesting talks. Some of the people we met even started their enterprise Communote account during the session already. Thank you all very much for your interest and also the valueable feedback given to us. Further development of our service will benefit a lot from that.

We are going to launch the beta of Communote’s enterprise version for use in companies and institutions at the Microblogging conference MBC09 on Friday.

The enterprise account allows companies to set up their own microblogging universe: invite and activate your collegues to your Communote. Create and share an unlimited number of microblogs: e.g. for each topic/project/unit one microblog with its own rights management settings.

The enterprise version comes with LDAP support, user management and all the useful functions from the personal version: tagging, filtering and secure RSS.

You will need an activation code to access the beta. You can grab one at mbc09 and start trying enterprise microblogging with Communote immediately after verification. We will need to use these codes to control the server load in the early phases of operations.

If your are going to Hamburg for MBC09 watch out for Martin & Dirk from the team and for the Communote minicards. If you cannot be there just ask us for your personal activation code or register at www.communote.com.

Please give feedback or ask for help: you can reach us via Twitter (@communote) and Email (martin@communote.com).

The main features of Communote have been implemented for quite some time now. We are excited about the improvements in our own communication behaviour because of our internal use of Communote for the last 3.5 months now. And there is a successful beta test running. Naturally, all this activity has  brought up quite a number of issues, bugs and new ideas. Thank you all so much for your helpful comments. Our development team “kenmei” has been busy working on these issues during recent weeks. There is this stage in every software development process and now we are right into it. As we want to present a robust and well-tested final product to our costumers it will take a few weeks more.

Furthermore, we are about to finish a major development step for Communote. Very soon, you will be able to register for an enterprise account of communote that provides your company or team with your very own, totally separated installation of Communote. Also, development of the Communote mobile client and XMPP interface implementation is making good progress. Please stay tuned for more news about this topic.

As the technical development goes on we are going to increase our community activities. For this reason there will be more blog postings and twitter updates. You can reach me as your community manager also via email to martin(at)communote.com.

There was a valuable feedback last week via Twitter that our beta testers feel lonely. The background for this is the deactivation of public (visible/writable to all) postings by default for security reasons. Now we have at least one public microblog with introductions and hints in the beta testing zone. Beside of that we are working on a demo version with real-life use cases inside.

Finally we are working on website improvements. Very soon, registering with Communote will become easier and there will be a convenient way to send feedback to the team.

This is how Communote looks like:

On Friday, December 5th 2008, we launched our enterprise microblogging service Communote. During the next weeks interested users will be able to try Communote for free. The recordings of the online event can be viewed here.



The presentations of this webinar give an overview of the reasoning behind communote, a live demonstrations of Communote’s key features and some information about future plans.

Free registration for new users is now available here.