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 [...]

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 [...]

UNIZO is an organization that represents self-employed independants in Belgium. One of its goals is to inform Belgian self-employed independants about new and interesting concepts available in multiple domains : networks, informatics, law, etc. One of the main characteristics of a self-employed independant is that he doesn’t have the time and money to invest into complex [...]

Search in Messages and Documents has been redesigned. This is a first step to a series of new features that will be available in a near future. The “contains” criterion replaces the “all text fields” option. If you want to narrow your search, you can use other criteria such as document name or last modification [...]

ContactOffice is always present at every good CloudComputing or collaborative solutions event in Europe. Once again, ContactOffice will be present at one of the largest Collaboration events in France on 5 and 6 mai 2010: “Salon Intranet” in Paris. Working remotely, share, collaborate, federate employees, inform, promote learning and innovate… Intranet becomes a necessary business [...]

The “Paul-Henri Spaak” higher school has selected ContactOffice as messaging and collaborative solution. Leader on the French higher education market, ContactOffice now enters the Belgian market with this first higher school located in Brussels. Administrative staff and teachers have been using their new collaboration platform for a few weeks. Thanks to their customized virtual office, [...]

Here are the release notes for Advanced interface version 1.8.003, currently available on ContactOffice servers. This is a minor version, containing only bug fixes: Wiki: Pages were not displayed immediately anymore; you needed to refresh them. Groups: Search had disappeared in the Groups tool. Groups: In the member list, you could not display the details [...]

All French-speaking ContactOffice Education customers were invited to participate to the 2010 edition of the ContactOffice Education Days, on March 24th and 25th in Paris. The meeting gathered representatives from 16 education entities (universities, high schools, secondary schools) at the Belgian Embassy, just a few steps away from the famous Arc de Triomphe. This annual [...]