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Teepin’s Interface Tweaks


Teepin’s interface may be quite easy and straightforward, but one can feel overwhelmed by the idea stream, if working in a big company or in a company with very active colleagues.

Being aware of that (we’re quite active ourselves :-) we designed the interface with small details that make it very easy to tell things apart. Due to those “signals”, you can instantly distinguish:

  • Challenges from ideas
  • Spontaneous ideas from those that were submited as a reply to a Challenge
  • Between new ideas and already seen ones
  • Ideas under your management from all the others
    • From those, between those that require an action a.s.a.p. and those which have already been taken care of
  • Those ideas you’re following
  • Those ideas with comments yet unseen by you
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View Comments by Teepin Team on March 23, 2010
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Not Only For Ideas, Aparentely

We have a lot of clients that use Teepin for other purposes too – not only to gather ideas.

Because Teepin, albeit very easy and lightning fast to configure, has so many options, it really can be used in a myriad of ways. One of those options is the ability to send an instant email to groups’ managers, whenever a new idea is submited, for immediate assessment. This option is off by default, but some clients like it turned on:

One of our clients uses Teepin exclusively to record building incidents, related to maintenance and security. Whenever someone finds a burnt light bulb, a broken coffee machine, a mysterious package lying around or even a lost object, submits the incident (= “idea”) on Teepin. Each type of incident is submited under a different category (= “group”) so the responsible for that category (= “group manager”) gets immediately an email on the incident, so it can be taken care of as quickly as possible.

And to take care of it is really simple too: just forward the incident to someone that can fix it (=”implement the idea”) and that person will have a new item on the “To-Do” tab. Once fixed, it reports the incident as such (= “implemented”) and the responsible person then acknowledges it.

If it’s something worth keeping an eye on, just choose someone to follow-up on it from time to time, and to report back each time! Teepin allows for all that.

Wouldn’t you like to have such a simple and friendly tool for that purpose in your organization?…

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View Comments by Teepin Team on March 2, 2010
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The Groups in Teepin

The “gimmick” about Teepin is its versatile ease of use.

The Groups’ settings in its initial configuration (or added throughout time) can be a key factor for companies’ employees to participate and join in the “innovation through cooperation” goal set by the employer.
Teepin enables the creation of groups that cluster people and their ideas under a specific subject.

Those groups can either be departmental ones: i.e. Sales, Production, Logistics etc. or thematic ones, whatever the criteria may be: Ecology, Products, Clients, Assorted Events etc. or even set according to company position: Sales Managers, Project Managers, CFOs (in a group of companies) etc.
This will make way for groups in Teepin to gather ideas systematically and specifically.

Bearing this in mind, when Teepin’s configuration is first set in your company, the groups which are most interesting and could be more relevant  for gathering ideas from those working with you, ought to be thought through.

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View Comments by Teepin Team on March 1, 2010
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