Our Philosophy
the name copole™ is derived from collaboration and people
Communication and collaboration are important activities for the success of groups and individuals. The most common tool for communication in today's Internet age is e-mail. However e-mail has outgrown its design. The problem users are facing today is cluttered Inboxes. Even if technology companies succeed in completely stopping e-mail Spam, which is unlikely, the number of e-mails from known users is becoming unmanageable.
The real problem with e-mail is not just Spam, that's only one kind. There are a growing number of users that "live" in their Inboxes.
Users check e-mail as often as they can. They are worried about missing an important e-mail that needs their immediate attention. However, most messages do not require immediate attention or action. Looking at what people receive via e-mail today shows that Spam e-mail is only part of the communication problem. The bigger issue deals with the chaos of too many e-mails. Users want to focus their time and attention on e-mails that are critical to the project, provide answers to their questions and contribute to the overhaul progress of their activities. Those e-mails are important and require their attention or their immediate action. The problem is that the important communication is lost among the rest. Simple flags like "High Importance" are either not used or overused and are not enough to solve the problem.
Copole addresses communication and collaboration problems with a simple user interaction model.
What is "Contextual Collaboration"?
It simply means you can communicate with others without switching to other applications/programs.Email, Chat, Calendar and other communication tools were developed as separate applications. They require users to switch from the application they are using to these tools in order to communicate or collaborate with others, this is the old model.
The new model which falls under "Contextual Collaboration" or Mash-up or Web 2.0, allows applications to be mixed or intergraded which is called Mashups.
For example,
tagit allows the user to send emails from any web page without leaving the page or switching to other applications. This eliminate a possible distraction of going into your email applications and derailing into another task or thread of communication and losing the focus of what you were doing originally.