Some of the techniques employed by bankers and managers are not as bad as they might currently look like: Managing one single address book on your computer, regularly synchronizing it with your handheld device, helps you to stay in touch with your colleagues effortlessly from wherever you are. In order to make your communication more efficient, we added a tool to ResearchGATE allowing you to export contact details of your network as a vCard file (VCF), readable by most desktop and mobile applications. The same is true regarding appointments made on ResearchGATE: Export your calendar entries into your personal software solution and stop missing important dates. Please try out these new features and give us your feedback!

We happily announce the introduction of a new tool to our platform: ReVote. You already know ReMeet as a feature for scheduling meetings and ReStory as a system for sharing and safely storing papers online. ReVote fits right into this small group of smart applications: As an administrator of a certain group, you are now able to create surveys and polls on whatever topic you might be interested in, based on multiple or single choice answers to the questions you ask. This tool should help you to get opinions from your peers on relevant issues, products or research methods. It might also simplify the internal organization of your group. Please try it out and send us your feedback!