When organising a meeting you often want to share certain files with the attendees. These documents can be the agenda of the meeting, a report of the previous meeting, a paper that needs to be discussed. It is now possible to attach such documents to an event or meeting in your calendar. Here’s how to [...]

In the last months we signed several new references in the education market. The formally called ‘Université de la Méditerranée‘ (presently part of Aix Marseille Université) joined our already important user basis in the PACA region in the south of France. The ‘Université de Cergy Pontoise‘ selected the ContactOffice cloud offering for its personnel. They [...]

We will be presenting ContactOffice at the next ‘Les Ateliers Numériques‘ in Paris on 02/05/2012 at 18:00. The theme of the presentation is ‘Project Management tools for Architects. More and more architects are discovering the advantages of Cloud Solutions and more specifically of ContactOffice in order to organise their work and share data with their [...]

Upload of files through drag and drop from Operating System is now possible! This allows you to upload documents efficiently into ContactOffice documents just by drag and drop. It also works for upload of attachments to mails. In order to upload a document to ContactOffice: 1. Open ContactOffice in your browser and go to the [...]

Issue fixed. Dear CO aficionados, Since a couple of days, some of you might have experienced a slow connection to ContactOffice. Since Friday 23 March, two major routers of Belgacom (BGC) are under maintenance. They may impact the speed and the quality of your personal connectivity to ContactOffice and to many other websites. Once again, [...]

Issue fixed. On the night of saturday 17 to sunday 18 March, our access provider (Level3.com) made a major update to the routers that we use. During this intervention, the internet routes used to access our machines were not taken into account for a reason that we still ignore at this point. We worked a [...]

One of the main reasons why people and organizations choose SaaS applications is cost reductions. Another reason certainly is time saving. Here are a few tips and tricks that will save you some precious time: Mail Filters and rules allow you to create automatic answers to emails with a precise subject, classify emails from a [...]

Save mail in Documents You can now archive your mails in the ContactOffice Documents tool. Right-click on the mail you want to save in the Documents and choose ‘Save in Documents’. The mail will be saved in the Documents as a .eml file. This function allows you to save and share your mail communication with [...]

The JRES conference (French academic Networking Days) is a conference aimed at every player of the education and research community in France contributing to the deployment and expansion of the information and communication technologies. It is organized under the aegis of the French Ministère de l’Education Nationale and takes place every two years. This years [...]

Following a common feature request, we have added the expand/collapse feature on all document and email folders, allowing an easier navigation through the folders. Enjoy! Arnaud

Today, we’re going to focus on an important problem: the high amount of incoming emails. Next to spams and ad’s there is supplier’s communication, prospect’s commercial offers, internal communication etc. Some days, your mailbox can reach more than 100 incoming emails so the question is: how to pre classify them by priority, department or task. [...]

Return to the last used tool To return to the last used tool and mode (Private or a group) after having logged out of ContactOffice, go to “Account” in the horizontal toolbar, select “Preferences” and check the box “Display the last used tool at next login”.

Nice article about ContactOffice in Voipweb, an Italian site about Voice over IP. Check it out! It’s in Italian though.

ContactOffice – IT Security and Privacy Strategy As provider of a web-based application ContactOffice has been working for years on its security and privacy issues to guarantee maximum safety and availability for ContactOffice users when working on the application and storing information and documents in it. Core Competency Safety and Security – You better Ask [...]

Check this out. A recent article in ‘Le Vif‘ sites us among the 5 most succesful belgian webstartups.

You’ve always dreamed to have a ContactOffice shortcut on your iPhone/iPad? ContactOffice did it and offers it for free for Christmas! Here is a small “how to” in order to have a shortcut icon on your device. Launch your iPhone/iPad and go to www.contactoffice.com. You’ll see that the login page is somewhat different from the [...]

Communication technologies changed very rapidly these last years. This is why higher educational institutions and the French government have joined forces in order to stimulate the usage of these tools within education and that’s why the C2I was created (IT and Internet Certificate). To help students pass the examination of the C2I, the international publishing [...]

CloudStorm is a new style event launched in 2009 where visitors receive in 100 minutes, an update of the latest trends and products in Cloud Computing by innovating cloud companies, followed by a small expo and networking opportunities. Each event covers different topics like: Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Cloud Platform as a Service and [...]

You can now search for all e-mails involving an e-mail address from the message window. Right-click on a person to display all e-mails with this e-mail address as sender or recipient. Direct access to group members details In several tools such as Documents, the name of the data author is now displayed as an hyperlink. [...]

ContactOffice is proud to present its new “pocket” interface specially designed for SmartPhones and mobile phones. The screen’s size has been adapted and the tool presentation has been optimized. This new pocket interface will be activated on detection of your mobile browser. Below you’ll find a few screenshots. Login page: Please note that this interface [...]

Since 18th of October, ContactOffice moved to its new offices in leafy Boitsfort, close to several other exciting webstartups: Middelbourg Street, 64b B-1170 Brussels View Larger Map For our curious blog followers, here are a few pictures of our new offices: The building is an old industrial warehouse: Our little kitchen: Our sales & marketing [...]

Since 1899, Unizo (Trade federation of independant workers and entrepreneurs) represents about 85.000 entrepreneurs, professionals, and SMEs from all sectors in Flanders and Brussels. Unizo represents their business interests with government, media, public opinion and other social partners. They give advice to their members, organize trainings and networking events. One of UNIZO’s aims is to [...]

The “jesuisfantasTIC” (iamfantasTIC) project falls within the action plan of the Walloon government to develop advanced uses of ICT in SMEs and SOHO’s. An event will be organised on 25 november 2010 at Technofutur, Gosselies. As part of this event, ContactOffice will introduce its collaborative suite. Today more than ever, companies face significant challenges. They [...]

Brussels, October 5th, 2010 – With a comprehensive re-resign of its German-language version ContactOffice today announced the official product launch to the German-language market. The German-language version of ContactOffice will be available from today at www.contactoffice.de. With the ContactOffice virtual office the end-user has the opportunity to access his data, anytime at any place. All [...]

ContactOffice is a single application comprising interconnected tools; in that respect, we thought that the search feature, which was tool-specific, could be fully redesigned, and we’ve just done it: Search available in all tools: you could already perform searches in Messages, Documents and Contacts. We added Calendars, Forums, Wikis, Notes and Bookmarks. In addition, a [...]

The group administrator, along with the group co-administrators, decide who may add content in the group: group Calendar, group Documents folders, group Bookmarks, etc. The places within groups where you can add content now appear with a special icon. In the example below, you can add content in Folder B only. This release also contains [...]

More and more people pay attention to new technologies, that’s why Belgian media regularly highlight new media pioneers. Cloud computing is one of these new technologies: it’s Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid (wikipedia). ContactOffice and especially Mr. Arnaud Huret [...]

Sometimes you need to create an event which is very similar to an existing one. Instead of creating this event from scratch, you can duplicate the existing one, using its contextual menu. All properties will be identical: schedule, colors, availability, etc. but also reminders, periodicity, participants, access rights and attachments. You can make the necessary [...]

One of our customers, Alliance Française at Rio de Janero (Brasil) created three great videos explaining “how to access the virtual office”, “how to create a group” and “how to join a group”. It is a pleasure to share these videos with you: How to access the virtual office: Access the virtual office’s website (www.contactoffice.com [...]