We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

The new version contains significant changes in the administration area, e.g. the creation of user groups and license purchase option.
Communote remains free up to 10 users. Starting from July 1st 2010 user credits will be charged if you are using Communote with more than 10 active users. For the month of July 2010, you will automatically receive free credits for each active user in your system. Credits can be easily purchased through the administration area in Communote starting at maximum 1 € per User (excl. VAT) and month or even less if you purchase larger amounts of credits.

From July 1st 2010 Communote will be available for download at www.communote.com for installation within your company (Windows/Linux).

Further information on new features as well as our licensing model will be available soon on our website.

We are happy to announce the offer of starter kits for Communote – Enterprise Microblogging for your company. Our offer consists of three parts: a workshop, a starter kit, and coaching, which can be ordered altogether or individually.

Workshop “Social Communication – modern communication with micro messages”.

In a first workshop with different target groups within your company, potentialities and fields of use of Microblogging for the internal communication will be identified. The result of the workshop is an agreement on the following process and a plan for the implementation of Microblogging. This is the base for a complete strategy and the development of an action plan for “Social Communication” in the enterprise.

The workshop can also be conducted as a management workshop. A visual and interactive workshop method will be applied.

The price includes a prior briefing as well as a documentation of the results.

1.250 €

Starter Kit “Communote – Enterprise Microblogging”.

Our starter kit contains a Communote license for 50 users (1000€ surcharge for 200 users), support for the installation of Communote behind the firewall in your company, design adjustments of the Communote interface and a workshop for the implementation of Communote into your company, on site.

2.950 €

Coaching „Implementation of Social Communication“:

We help you with the implementation of Communote – Enterprise Microblogging in your enterprise. We accompany you for 3 months and advise you individually on the implementation of Communote in your enterprise.
In particular, this contains the following services (total amount of work: 4.5 PD)

• Conceptual support for the targeted use of Microblogging
• Weekly telephone support
• 14 days of coaching/workshops
• Blog monitoring and community management

3.750 €

If you opt for the complete package, consisting of all three packages, the total price only accounts for 7.500€ (instead of 7.950 €).

Start today and improve your productivity by using Microblogging- the fast and targeted communication with micro messages – in your company!

If you have any further questions, or if you need individual advice, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would be obliged to send you an individual offer, as well as our current GTC’s.

Please contact us to arrange an appointment.

Contact:
Jens Osthues, team leader Communote
jens.osthues@communardo.de, +49.351.83382-270

All prices do not include VAT and travel expenses.

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.

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).

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.

We are excited about the results of our work an the large number of possible applications that are currently beeing discussed in the enterprise 2.0 community, e.g  here and here and here. As a consequence we decided to build an online-service based on our software – communote.com.

At present we are working intensively to build a scalable multi-client internet platform. In a couple of weeks we will make communote available to those who would like to beta-test it. In the meantime, there is the possibility to register for beta-testing at communote.com.

Please follow our weblog in English (this is where you are) as well as in German at humannetworkcompetence.de und via www.twitter.com/communote where we will regularly write posts on new features, use cases and new ideas.

Communote combines many brilliant ideas from blogging, tagging and filtering. This is a first glimpse at the user interface:

Many excellent people are engaged in building communote.com. At this place a big THANK YOU to Torsten, Martin, Stefan, Ronny, Markus, Katja, Tobias, Falk, Martin, Jens, René, Niels, Daniela, Sebastian, Ilja and all those that have been working in the background to make communote happen!