The new year brings a lot of changes. For Communote we are exicited to announce: Since 01.01.2012 our department “Online Services” is spin-out to the Communote GmbH. The previous team and therefore all known contacts remain the same.

The new independence allows us to focus on the development of our product and Online Service (SaaS). From now on we will publish at least every 3 months a new release of Communote. The steady improvement in usability, internationalization, and the implementation of new and user centered features for personal information management are the focus for 2012. Soon we will inform you in detail how Communote will develop further and improve your team and project communication.

The Communote GmbH is as an subsidiary still closely related to the Communardo Software GmbH. The separation of Communardo is a logical and necessary step for the further development and future of our product. In this context Communardo continues the role as one important partner  for customer-specific projects.

What does this mean for you as a customer?
As a customer you will benefit directly from new features and improved services thus the increased focus on product development and online service.
All existing contracts have been transferred from 01.01.2012 to the Communote GmbH, Kleiststrasse 10a, 01129 Dresden. Contacts remains, but our e-mail addresses end  from now on ‘@communote.com‘ and no longer ‘@communardo.de’. For a limited time the old e-mail addresses are still active.

If you have further questions please feel free to contact me jens.osthues  [at] communote.com ( responsible for marketing & sales), and  Dirk Röhrborn dirk.roehrborn [at] communote.com as CEO of Communote GmbH.

We look forward to continuing our good cooperation with our customers and partners.

2012 will be an exciting year for us. In the next few days we make an offsite to set up actions for 2012.

Companies are becoming aware of the continued success of Web 2.0 services such as Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter and discover these tools to improve communication with their customers. In the enterprise context the term Enterprise 2.0 has established for the current change itself, this is not only for the use of Web 2.0 tools to communicate externally, but also for internal use within the enterprise. As an example for this is to break old communication patterns and structures, as well as a simplified information access for better information and knowledge sharing. The potential is beyond rigid hierarchies and inflexible processes.

A possible answer to these challenges are Enterprise Microblogging solutions, such as Communote, for open communication about topics and projects. However, verifiably benefits and the Return on Investment (RoI) of the so-called Social Software such as Enterprise Microblogging is still missing. In cooperation with the TU Chemnitz and the Communardo Software GmbH a convergence to the solution is made within a thesis by Alrik Degenkolb.

In this blog post about the current state and approaches of the thesis, a model has already been presented, which can assist in the calculation of the RoI and showing the success factors of Enterprise Microblogging.

Help us with the identification of particularly valuable applications of Enterprise Microblogging and make a contribution to a first approximation of the Return on Investment. By participating in the survey, you help to make the value of Enterprise Microblogging visible.

[https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NQNSYC7]

The answers are carefully evaluated and after the completion of the survey the results of the thesis and of the survey will be published on the Communote blog.

We look forward to your active participation and feedback to the survey.