Thanks to hard work by Pavel Tkachev and Ilshat Shavaliev, Flowr now speaks Russian! You can enable the translation in your personal profile.
If you would like to contribute translation of Flowr in your language – let us know (and we’ll throw in a premium package as a thank you).
We’re big fans of modern browsers and the way they’re changing how we use modern web services. To make it easier to access your Flowr network, we’ve created ‘a web app’ that you can install into your Google Chrome. Benefit of installing Flowr it into your Google Chrome is that you’re going to have easier time accessing your network and that we can integrate better with the browser since things like desktop notifications are already part of the app.
Give Flowr for Google Chrome a try and let us know how you like it.
It has been an incredible adventure building Flowr and seeing it grow from an idea to a full service that changes the way teams work together. With our recent additions of new features and stability of service we feel it’s time to graduate Flowr Premium from a free beta into a subscription service.
With 1st of February 2010, Flowr Premium will become a subscription service. To keep all features of your current network, ensure that you purchase subscription before 1st of February.
Pricing for Flowr Premium is: 49 USD/month, which includes all features, unlimited groups and 10 users. Each additional user is 3 USD/month extra.
Flowr Basic is and will stay free. Existing Premium networks that won’t subscribe to Flowr Premium will be automatically converted to a free network on 1st of February.
Special offer for existing networks:
if you purchase subscription by the end of the month, we’ll double the number of months as a thank you for using Flowr beta from the beginning.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Flowr networks tend to grow and evolve through time. First a small group inside your company tries it out, you start sharing and with time more of your colleagues join. You create more groups and invite managers into the network so they get a hang of what’s the chatter and to see how much better you can work without the constant e-mails that seem to CC half of the office.
With growth of your network, the volume of messages also increases and while you can create optimized flows and follow your groups, it’s always useful to get a broader overview of what’s going on. This is why we’re introducing weekly and monthly summary e-mails of activity inside your network.
Summaries are sent out every Friday at 6PM and on the last of the month. You can set your delivery preferences in your personal profile.
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.”
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.
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