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.

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.

Follow users, blogs and tags:

You can simple follow blogs, authors, tags and discussions.

With the tab “Following” you can see all notes that match your criteria “Following”. Messages that were addressed to you, are collected in the tab “@ [User]“. In the tab “Favorites ” you will find all the notes that you marked as favorites.

Send direct messages to one or more persons:

Direct messages are private messages that can be exchanged between one or more users. These messages are only visible for recipients and authors and can not be edited or deleted after sending.

Use the extended linking to e-mails:

With Communote you can communicate by e-mail as well. You can chose the e-mail notification feature in the user settings. For every ‘@’ message you will get an e-mail indicating a new message in Communote. Now this function is even more convenient.

Mail-in file attachments:
Now attachments can be sent to a Communote blog by mail as well. Simply send an e-mail with attachments to the blog e-mail address!

Attachment Link in notifications:
Notifications contain a reference to attachments followed by a list of these attachments as links. That means, you can directly open files from an e-mail.

Replies to e-mails:
If you receive a notification by e-mail, and would like to answer, then you can send by the reply function of your e-mail client (e.g. Outlook) a response to Communote. Change neither address nor the recipients of the subject. Communote receives your e-mail and converts it into a new entry. A discussion is comprehensible in this way.

LDAP user group synchronization:

In a LDAP connection you can use existing LDAP user groups in a Communote blog for rights management. To be able to rely on already existing groups, the administration of rights simplifies the management. Easily a LDAP user group can be assigned to rights in the blogs. It works as simple as permitting an individual user.

Other improvements:

updated RSS and RTF export, updated editor (TinyMCE 3.3.8), improved detection of mime types for file attachments, optimized scaling of pictures, extended date display in metadata (display weekday), performance optimization, browser optimizations.

Moreover, from now on icons for @-, direct messages and favorites will be shown below the profile picture.

Further information on improvements and different features in Communote can be found in our new user manual.

A short outlook:

Currently we are dealing with the implementation of many new ideas. You can look forward to many new Communote features soon. These include, for example Auto Refresh and the inline display of images and videos, as well as a lot more interesting functions. Concerning this we will inform you very soon.

A close dialogue with our customers is very important to us! That’s why we would like to involve you more in our product development in the next year. Your thoughts and wishes are very important. We are therefore particularly looking for your feedback.