Archive for 2010

We’ve tweaked the way todo lists work, based on your feedback.  Now you can edit them even after there were comments and items checked off. If you’re administrator you can also edit lists from other people inside your network.

Do you have comments about this change? Let us know.

We’re honored to be recognized as Best Innovative Service of 2010 at Slovenian Innovation Forum, which chose Flowr from thousands of entries. Since Flowr is also available in Slovenian language, we see this as another important step in helping Slovenian companies improve how they share ideas and work on their projects.

Now back to innovating next Flowr update ..

Photo by Alenka Slavinec

We assembled a team of seven expert guild leaders to observe collaboration and leadership in the games and extract generalizations about why and how groups in the games succeed. Their conclusion? It’s about the environment more than the players. The places where collaboration happens and the processes by which it’s managed are more important than the innate capabilities of the people participating. When asked about the most important implication of that conclusion for serious work, a guild leader comment was: “Change the game, not the people.”

Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete

Your environment is much more then just desks and software. While they’re both important you have to ask yourself about the collaboration style in your office. Rewarding only top achievers leads into promoting information hoarding instead of fostering an open environment. Try to acknowledge good examples of open knowledge sharing and constructive debates.

Does your collaboration tool support this way of thinking?

Thanks to incredible work by Giovanni Zuccaro, you can now use Flowr in Italian language. As always, you can enable it inside your profile.

Would you like to see Flowr in your language? Let us know if you’d like to help.

As number of Flowr networks and users grew significantly, we knew it was time to step away from innovating and do some restructing and optimization of how Flowr works under the hood.

With this weeks release, we’ve done the majority of work and Flowr should feel much faster now. You’ll also start seeing new message updates much faster as well as improved e-mail delivery. We’ll be also adding new features and bugfixes in the upcoming days as we now have a great new platform to build exciting new features on.

If you notice any glitches, please lets us know at support@theflowr.com.

Flowr has just been awarded with prestige Slovenian award ‘netko’ in category of ‘best new web service’ in 2010. We’re sharing award with Refresh, web agency that’s helping us with our marketing web pages and Rok Gregorič that created the fabulous Flowr iPhone Client.

Now back to developing the future of social collaboration.

Thanks to hard work by Helena Jaeger we’re happy to announce that Flowr is now fully localized into Brazilian Portuguese! A language spoken by more than 200 million people in Brazil and our first language of South America.

You can enable it by going to your settings and choosing Brazilian Portuguese from the drop-down.

Would you like to see Flowr in your language? Let us know if you’d like to help.

Thanks to hard work over last months by Christian Bender and contributions by Werner Witte and Kleinert Robert, Flowr web interface now speaks German.

You can enable it in your network by going to Settings and changing your default Language.

Would you like to see Flowr in your language? Let us know if you’d like to help.

Next version of our native iPhone Flowr Client is now available as a free download in iTunes App Store. It brings support for new underlaying changes to Flowr such as unified login system and Google Apps accounts.

One big change is that user login is now done through our Unified Login system, which gives iPhone client access to many different supported backends (e.g Google Apps or LDAP integration).

Full list of changes:

• support for iOS4 and retina display
• improved login support for Google Apps users
• various stability and bugfix improvements
• support for new Flowr API

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