June 2010
2 posts
New Funding, New Features, New Pricing!
The last few months have been an incredible time for Confer. Even in the midst of a continued economic crisis, we’ve been blessed with a myriad of new opportunities, relationships, and developments. We’ve matured our flagship product offering, trimmed fat from our operational costs, and begun development of our second product line.
Funding: We’re proud to announce that...
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
New features and fixes!
Our latest release includes several major additions including email notifications of Confer network activity, and on screen indicators of new updates.
Now your menu bar includes simple numeric indicators of posts you’ve not viewed, so if you’ve got three groups that you’re a member of, and each has a new post you haven’t seen, the groups menu item will have a (3) beside...
March 2010
8 posts
C# API Wrapper for CheddarGetter
Intro
We decided to open up some of our source at Confer to help other .Net developers integrate with CheddarGetter, a plug-in subscription management and recurring billing system. This C# API wrapper is intended to handle the communication between your application and CheddarGetter. Our C# API wrapper has implemented all of CheddarGetter’s APIs as of 03/15/2010.
Assumptions
CheddarGetter...
1 tag
Groups Functionality & Other Updates!
Now you can make groups inside of your Confer network! Groups can be private or public and can be created by any user to help organize discussions by topic, department, time-frame, and more.
We’ve also released numerous other updates and fixes including multiple upgrades to chat, creating and editing posts and more! Look for news on our mobile web product in the coming days.
Please...
February 2010
4 posts
New Features and Fixes!
We just wanted to say thanks again for using Confer! We received tremendous feedback and lots of great ideas from you guys. We wanted to take a second to fill you in on a few updates that we released over the weekend:
Edit Post Function - We have given you the ability to go into a post that you created and edit the content.
Direct Messages - You can now send another user a Direct Message by...
Confer bringing contact tracking into new century
By BOBBY WARREN [Via The Daily Record: http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/4759514]
WOOSTER — East Liberty Street might be far from Silicon Valley, but don’t tell Ed Buchholz or his team of software developers at Confer.
Buchholz, 29, is president of Confer, which is both a company and a product. He started the company with Keith Kauffman, 28, and John Siladie, 31, who are...
Yes, I skipped the iPad launch for a SharePoint...
Starting a company is a lot of work. Just ask any of the seven companies that attended Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 SocialFest last week. With solutions ranging from enterprise micro-blogging to email integration to business intelligence, these companies assembled with the goal to build the next great SharePoint integrated application.
My company, Confer [http://www.getconfer.com], provides...
January 2010
25 posts
WatchQuick tour of the MS SocialFest event.
“Confer is the quintessential start up story.”
– Alpa Agarwal Group Marketing Manager Microsoft
Death and tax credits.
We’re pleased to announce that Confer has been accepted by the Ohio Department of Development into the Ohio Technology Investment Tax Credit Program. The program offers a variety of benefits to Ohio taxpayers who invest in small, research and development and technology oriented firms. We made the trip to Columbus yesterday to sit with the Committee and bumped into a fellow Wooster...
Mr. Confer goes to Mountain View
We’re pleased to announce that Confer is among seven companies selected to participate in Microsoft’s first ever SharePoint SocialFest, a one week competition meant to promote adoption and development of their industry-leading SharePoint product. Microsoft recently released the public beta of SharePoint 2010, receiving high accolades for its rapid business application development...
This new year, resolve to *really* know your...
Announcing public availability of Confer, an awesome new way to simplify communication in your workplace.
Confer combines the emerging trends of social networking, chat, micro-blogging, and cloud computing to bring an unprecedented amount of efficiency and transparency to your work day.
A Quick Visual Tour:
More to come soon, try it out at http://www.getconfer.com
December 2009
1 post
A startup and our office.
When we started working on Confer, we were the definition of bootstrappers. We worked day jobs and got together every night in someone’s basement, at Panera Bread, or Starbucks and planned, chatted, coded, etc. We knew we would need to raise capital eventually, but for the first few months, we were on a path.
A few months in, we were suddenly funded and had to make the transition from...