Right in time for discuss & discover fair in munich Communardo present a brand new release of the Enterprise Microblogging Service Communote. It provides an improved webinterface and mobile access for iPhone, Java application for Blackberry and other Smartphones. Communote can now be integrated in Collaboration Portals like Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Atlassian Confluence.
Also our Communote website got a relaunch.

With the new release Communote is commercially available from now on. The Pricing is 1 € per user per month for online service and license fees for installation behind the firewall starts at 1000 €. Communote remains free for up to 10 user with full functionality.

Thank you to our Beta User for the Feedback to make Communote even better.

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).

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.

During the last months we at Communardo have experimented a lot with social software – and in fact also through the last 7 years before. Wikis, blogs & co. have played a mayor role in our customer engagements (e.g. for Intranet 2.0) but also in our internal IT-landscape. Especially, in our own practice we sense a rising demand to professionalize the use of micro-content like short messages, notes, hints & tipps, hyperlinks. E-mail, instant messaging and personal folders are just not the right place to store these bits of information with stedily growing importance.

The idea, just to use twitter or some kind of logged instant messaging is equally charming but not suitable. Whereas the strength of twitter.com lies in the building and up-keeping of social and professional networks an in PR and marketing it is – at least in our opinion – not really usable for enterprise use. Instead of following a people-centric approach (“follow”) we are focusing on topic-centric communication. We think that this suites better the needs in our business world. We need at least some amount of order and structure just as we need discretion and access control and persistent storage of content. This is what we miss at twitter.com and its accompanying services.

This is the reason why a team of software engineers at Communardo has started a project to develop an own microblogging platform. We have been inspired by first tests of project blogs based on wordpress with the Prologue Theme and by the possibilities of Ajax & Co. in the frontend as well as Java in the backend to build a company-wide communications platform that allows for topic-centric microblogging.