Conficio Press Releases

Plan-B for OpenOffice.org surpasses 250 screencasts and 180 glossary entries

30 Jul 2007 09:00 EST

Plan-B for OpenOffice.org adds constantly new help topics supported by short videos (screencasts) to its technical support site for OpenOffice.org. Melrose, MA - Jul. 30, 2007, Conficio (http://www.conficio.com), has announced that its technical support website Plan-B for OpenOffice.org (http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org) surpassed 250 screencasts (short videos) this week. Each screencast demonstrates a help topic for OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite. In addition to new screencasts the service also added many new glossary entries, explaining terminology and concepts. Users of OpenOffice.org can explore the growing number of videos at http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/index Kaj Kandler, the man behind this revolutionary service offerings, is proud to say "Plan-B for OpenOffice.org adds new screencasts on a rate of 15 or more a week." He adds "Our authors work hard to choose new topics based on queries observed on the website and questions posted to our e-mail based technical support. This ensures that the additional help topics are relevant for non techncial users"

Plan-B for OpenOffice.org moves its website to the namesake domain http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org

30 Mar 2007 09:00 EST

Plan-B for OpenOffice.org - A unique technical support service adopts memorable doamin Melrose, MA - Mar. 30, 2007 Conficio (http://www.conficio.com), has announced the new domain for the Plan-B for OpenOffice.org echnical support service is http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org. This move makes it easier for users to find the service as they can type the name into a search engine as well as into a browser directly. For backward compatibility the old URL's at http://openoffice.screencast-tutorials.com/* will be redirected to the new site. All bookmarks and links will function as before. New users should access the technical support service at http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/index

Plan-B(TM) for OpenOffice.org - The innovative support service for non-technichal users - starts public beta test

14 Nov 2006 09:00 EST

OpenOffice.org is the first application, supported by Plan-B(TM) technology. Melrose, MA - Nov. 14, 2006, Conficio (http://www.conficio.com/), has announced the public beta phase of its Plan-B(TM) for OpenOffice.org support service. This service allows anyone, especially non technical users, to find answers to their questions quickly and to understand the documentation effortless. Plan-B(TM) is a new technology that documents software with short videos (screencasts) and offers smart search technology for improved indexing. The new service is demonstrated at http://openoffice.screencast-tutorials.com/index To sign up for the public beta test go to: http://openoffice.screencast-tutorials.com/auth/register

Second Presentation at Network@The Library Winchester, MA

08 May 2006 09:00 EST

Melrose, June 9th, 2006, Kaj Kandler, the founder of Conficio will present in June at the Network@TheLibrary in Winchester, MA. His topic will be "Using the Web to Generate Interest in Your Business: Part II, Blogs and Forums"

Presentation at Network@The Library Winchester, MA"

02 Oct 2005 09:00 EST

Melrose, November 2nd, 2005, Kaj Kandler, the founder of Conficio will present in November at the Network@TheLibrary in Winchester, MA. His topic will be "Using the Web to Generate Interest in Your Business"

Plan-B Player 2.2 Released

08 Nov 2004 09:00 EST

Melrose, November 8th, 2004, Conficio released today a new version of its Plan-B player. Conficio's Plan-B offers visual help for software. It replaces lists of frequently asked questions and written answers by screencast technology, optimized for delivery over the Internet. The new player, release 2.2, includes a list of bug fixes.

Plan-B Player 2.1 Released

21 Jun 2004 09:00 EST

Melrose, June 21th, 2004, Conficio released today version 2.1 of its Plan-B player. Conficio's Plan-B is the next generation of knowledge transfer tools for tech-support organizations. It replaces lists of frequently asked questions and written answers by screencast technology, optimized for delivery over the Internet. The new player, release 2.1, has improved readability, increased performance and a list of smaller bug fixes.

Plan-B mentioned in SmallBizTechnology.com

19 Mar 2004 09:00 EST

Raymon Ray, a technology evangelist at SmallBizTechnology.com, recently interviewed Kaj Kandler. On March 18th, 2004, his report appeared in his news column. Ramon did focus on our Plan-B screencasts and how they can help accountants to concentrate on accounting, instead of being technical support for their clients using QuickBooks(R), etc.

Plan-B Player 2.0 Released

20 Feb 2004 09:00 EST

Melrose, Feb. 20th, 2004, Conficio released the second generation of its Plan-B player and Plan-B technology. This technology, allows the demonstration of PC software anywhere, anytime. It records the use of a PC application into an optimized highly compressed screencast format. The screencast can be edited and annotated with callout bubbles. The screencasts are served using standard web-servers and played using any Java enabled web browser.

Plan-B Provides Help with Software Questions

15 Dec 2003 09:00 EST

Melrose, Dec. 15th, 2003, Conficio announces today Plan-B, the new name for its screencast format. The technology was previewed in June 2003 under the name "ShowMe Technology." At the same time the company announces the release of the second generation Plan-B Player for production use. Plan-B technology is a screencast format optimized for delivering visual demonstrations of software applications in action to any desktop.

ShowMe Technology Preview Released

27 Jun 2003 09:00 EST

Melrose, Jun. 27th, 2003, Conficio released today the new ShowMe player as technology preview. ShowMe technology is a screencast format optimized for delivering visual demonstrations of software application in action to any desktop.

Conficio has a Home Page

7 Feb 2003 09:00 EST

Melrose, Feb. 7th, 2003, Conficio has registered the "conficio.com" and posted its home page today at http://www.conficio.com/.