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.

Simply enter your access data for Communote as Online Service or Inhouse Installation. For the Online Service you have to enter your Company-ID, and for the Inhouse Installation your server address. If you are user of our DEMO please use as company ID ‘global’.

Communote App now available for Android. Download now at Android Market.

There is also an  iPhone App. You can download it at the  Apple App Store.

For Blackberry and other java enabled devices, we also offer a mobile application. The mobile webinterface allows reading, writing and searching Communote messages on a variety of mobile devices. Further information and instructions can be found on your Communote at “Service “.

Communote is much more than just an Enterprise “Facebook” or “Twitter.” Beyond the known functions of the social networks, Communote is the ideal means of communication in teams and distributed enterprises. Information can be shared in closed groups and provided with tags. So the message reaches the right audience and because of extensive filtering options, such as themes, tags , people and content types, such as documents, images, links and videos, it quickly found again.

The new features include:  Like-feature, new threaded discussions, auto-refresh, image/video inline preview, new content filters, blog overview , tag view, desktop client and iPhone app.

Another new feature is the bookmarklet. With the Communote Bookmarklet you can easily share web content with your co-workers. The shared bookmarks can be used as a knowledge base for yourself and also for the entire company.

The new Quick Start Guide helps you and your colleagues to quickly discover communote.

To assure a high level of quality, the development of the new release has taken more time than expected. We would like thank our customers for their trust and their patience. It has been worthwhile waiting since Communote now offers a completely revised user interface and many new features.

Until 30 September 2011 you have the chance to purchase Communote Licenses and Communote user credits at the current price at out online shop. From 01 October 2011 the new pricing for version 2.0 will apply.

We look forward to your feedback on the new Communote 2.0 as a comment, via Twitter or on our Facebook page.

People overview

In the top menu bar you can find the tab “persons”. Inside the bar all in your Communote registered people are arranged in an alphabetically order. There you can see what people you follow. You can also use the people overview in order to change this setting.

Blog overview

Similar to the people overview you can find inside the tab “blogs ” all created blogs to which you have access. There you can also choose whether you want to follow the blog. The blogs are also listed alphabetically.

Images/video inline

Images and videos can continue to append your messages. Images are now even displayed under your text. The video (e.g. youtube, vimeo) is shown, and can be directly played  from your Communote page.

Like function

Simply click with your mouse on one of your favorite posts. Under the message appears a new menu bar. Now you can show to all other users that you like this post by clicking on “Like”. After that a heart symbol appears next to the post .

Content filtering

To retrieve more information you can specify the medium, you seek, in the content filtering. Subsequently only messages with the selected media will be displayed.

Desktop client

Using the desktop client, new posts appear on the desktop. He is linked to Communote, and works cross-platform with Adobe Air.

Further improvements

With the new Communote release there are an auto-refresh the page and a bookmarklet as well. Mobile Apps for iPhone, Android (in near future) and Blackberry are also available.

For more information, on what’s new and different functions in Communote, will be available in our updated user manual soon.

Your Feedback

We look forward to your feedback. Your thoughts and wishes are important to us. So please take the opportunity via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc., to come in direct contact with us.

With our new iphone app you always have your Communote with you – in the office, on the way to the customer, and at home. Always keep imformed! With the new iphone app you get the latest information about meetings, projects, and trends. Directly download messages on your iphone. Smart, easy, and secure!

At the registration you simply enter your access data for Communote as Online Service or Inhouse Installation. For the Online Service you have to enter your Company-ID, and for the Inhouse Installation your server address. If you are user of our DEMO please use as company ID ‘global’.

Communote App now available for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Download now iTunes App Store.

An app for Android smartphones will be soon available on Android Market.

For Blackberry and other java enabled devices, we also offer a mobile application. The mobile webinterface allows reading, writing and searching Communote messages on a variety of mobile devices. Further information and instructions can be found on your Communote at “Download “.

Communote was part of this big event. This year Communote was presented by an own homebase at Webciety. We are impressed by the variety of interesting conversations and people we have met. We are looking forward to starting further activities with our newly acquired customers.

The conference program of the Webciety 2011 true to the motto “Embracing the Digital Change – den digitalen Wandel gestalten!” contained topics as Cloud-Computing, E-Learning 2.0, Open Innovation, Social Colaboration, or Sacial Games & Marketing.

Communote was represented at the panel “Microblogging goes Microsharing”. The starting speech was made by Mrs. Gebhardt, CEO Trendbüro. From the end of 2010 Trendbüro and Avantgarde with 350 employees all over the world use Communote in a customized user interface. At the subsequent panel discussion Mrs. Gebhardt (Trendbüro), Felix Schröder (Justsoftware), Jean-Michael Vergne (blueKiwi) and me took part as experts and supliers. My statement that Communardo already is a ‘zero e-mail’ company initiated a ripple of moaning in the audience. The discussion quickly showed different views on topics like Suite, or Best-of-Bread. Because many companies already use grown Wikis and other information portals, Communote has a huge advantage of integrating possibilities (e.g. Microsoft SharePoint, Atlassian Confluence). The panels stream is available at www.webciety.de (Friday, 2011-03-04).

At our booth you could see lots new features live. We already showed visitors a pre-published version of our new Communote. Beside a new user interface, Communote also has many new features as auto-refresh, inline image and clip display, like buttons, and a bookmarklet for direct sharing of information.

At the CeBIT we also introduced our new iPhone app. You can easily download Communote from the app store. You can simply read messages and share information at any place.

We thank all our customers and interested parties for visiting Communote, and for all intensive conversations at the CeBIT Webciety. We are also glad about our new facebook page to stay in contact with you!

Confluence and Communote must be able to communicate via http or https in both directions. Technically, a token of Confluence will be sent to Communote. On the basis of the token Communote turns calls to Confluence and gets, if the token is valid, the user data back. The settings are taken out of Communote via the admin interface.

With the use of the macro {communote-widget} the widget can be integrated into a Confluence page. By various parameter settings the configuration of the widget is determined, e.g. displayed blogs, filtering by tag, etc. The available configuration parameters are described in detail in the Administration Manual of Communote.

Furthermore, to use the Communote plugin a login in Communote is not longer required. The data can be queried directly from a primary LDAP protocol.

By the use of the Communote Plugin blogs can be easily and clearly illustrated in your Wiki page. This makes the communication and cooperation in your company even easier.

The download of this Plugin is available at Atlassian: https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/33174.