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Stop covering your a... with emails!

Let's be honest, every time we need to cover our ass at work, we all jump on our email client, click frenetically on "reply all", add couple of important people in cc and spam the planet! If you are lucky enough, the email will end up buried in others' mailboxes and when the shit hits the fan, you will be able to push the responsibility on someone else just by referring to this single email. 

So, why do we behave that way even though we know it's not the best thing to do? Why don't we just pick up the phone and fix the mess in a first place? Well, there are tons of reasons, but here is a big ugly simple one: "we are allowed to do so".  

As a matter of fact, top management should make it clear that the behaviour "Hey I sent an email, hence this is not my problem anymore." is not acceptable. 99% of the time, when you send this "cover your ass email", you effectively just pass the hot potato to someone else... 

Ceepage can greatly help to change this behavior. When one single topic could have generated 20 different trails of emails (and a lot of confusion), Ceepage would leave one single page (accessible by those who really need to) containing notes that can be updated or commented at any time. Since the information is in one place, easily accessible and most importantly up-to-date, you and your colleagues can't play the "hot potato" game anymore.

So, no more excuses to not do the right thing: be courageous by engaging with your colleagues to fix the problem.  

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Quelle importance devrait-on accorder aux messages que l'on reçoit?

La plupart d'entre nous possèdent un compte Twitter, Whatsapp, Facebook, Line, ou Weibo (pour les plus asiatiques) - en plus d'une ou plusieurs adresses emails.

Sur nos smartphones, tablettes, ou laptop, nous recevons ainsi quasi chaque minute un nouveau message: nouvelle question, nouvelle information, nouveau spam? Comment le savoir?

Peu de choix: il nous faut lire au minimum l'intitulé, les premières phrases, ou voire souvent la totalité du poste, du mail, ou ouvrir le Tweet pour savoir si le contenu a de l'importance.

Quelque soit l'intérêt du message, il y a donc ce qu'on peut appeler un "temps minimum" consacré à chaque message reçu.

  L'étape suivante constitue l'action - ou l'inaction: 

Doit-t-on répondre? Tout de suite? Plus tard? Garder, effacer, ignorer, déplacer dans un sous-dossier spécifique, "flagger"? Le fait même de se poser la question constitue une action, et donc représente pour chaque message encore un peu plus de temps passé.

A cela, on peut ajouter un facteur "contexte": le contenu de chaque message est-il lié à un contexte particulier: un email reçu la veille? 2 semaines plus tôt? Est-ce une réponse à une question posée par quelqu'un d'autre? Par nous même?

Ce "processus d'analyse" ajoute aux efforts ou en tout cas au temps consacré au "screening" de chaque message.

Multipliez ce temps par X messages, tweets, ou posts par jour, vous obtiendrez le temps que vous consacrez au simple fait de recevoir des messages, sans même les avoir traités...

Résultat? Trop d'infos tuent l'info. Beaucoup de messages, et donc d'informations, sont ignorés, oubliés, ou stockés sans suivi. 

Infos "one-shot" VS "infos long terme".

Admettons-le: beaucoup de ces messages ne sont pas de grande importance, ou peuvent en tout cas être traités instantanément. Le fait de lire immédiatement, ou de ne pas avoir le temps de les traiter n'a pas de conséquence majeure...

Mais d'autres messages au contraire, qu'on pourrait qualifier d'avantage "d'informations long terme", ont une réelle importance dans notre vie, sans que l'on ait pour autant le besoin ou l'envie de les traiter instantanément: informations concernant l'organisation d'un voyage, un projet, un investissement, une bonne adresse, un vin à goûter absolument,...

  Comment permettre une meilleure gestion de ces informations de long terme?

Un moyen efficace d'améliorer notre "productivité" vis à vis de ces messages serait d'avoir un maximum d'informations en amont, sans avoir à lire leur contenu: contexte, interlocuteur, sujet, problématique, urgence seraient déjà fixés et connus.

Or malgré la diversité des supports d'infos ou des outils de communications en ligne, paradoxalement dans les faits aucun service ne permet ce tri en amont. Mailbox, fils de tweets, messages Whatsapp, timeline ou groupes Facebook, la priorité est toujours donnée à l'instantanéité et à la réception des messages de manière chronologique. 

N'est-il pas temps de repenser notre manière de traiter certaines informations plus importantes, et de bousculer un peu nos habitudes?

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ARE EMAILS STILL WORTH USING?

When Ray Tomlinson sent the very first email in 1971, his idea is just to find a better way to communicate with his colleagues. Could he imagine at that time that his program will change for decades the way everyone communicates?

In 2013, email is more than ever a compulsory communication tool for everybody: is that a good thing?

Why sending emails nowadays and to whom?

News to the family about daily life, inquiries to our bank advisor, answers to existential questions to a cousin, train schedules to a friend, the address of a restaurant for the next weekend to a group of friends ... 

Emails can potentially be used to deliver any kind of information from our daily lives.

Although today's instant messaging or microblogging applications such as Whatsapp, Facebook, Skype or Twitter have captured a significant part of the information exchanged online - leveraging significantly the amount of information received daily - emails are still alive. Why that?

Emails can not satisfy three basic expectations from today's internet users:

1 / reach as many people as possible or at least within our network with limited effort (Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter)

2 / provide instantaneous exchange of information (Skype, Whatsapp)

3 / develop personal branding, which is almost mandatory in today's digital society (Facebook, LinkedIn).

But on the other hand it also means emails are still today one of the only communication tool available online ensuring privacy, allowing to deal with topics such as the organization of our next holidays, a discussion about health issue within the family, etc, ...

Funny enough, 40 years after its invention emails are still trendy.

However, having a look at some of the new features developed by popular email providers such as Gmail, Hotmail (screenshot below) or Yahoo, it seems that other problems slowly arise with mailbox: automatic mailbox cleaning, cross tags to retrieve some messages, emails threads to try to follow a discussion, ...

What may seem like solutions to some fundamental problems such as tracking important information, could be in fact an attempt to hide a real problem: the concept of emails - with messages received and stored chronologically, the fact that content cannot be modified afterwards, etc - might not be suitable for all kind of private online communication. 

Is that possible?

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Creative thinking

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1 topic = 1 page. As many pages as you want. For yourself or shared only with the people you want.

Follow up easily what’s important to you with Ceepage.

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as many PAGES as you want + FOCUS on what's important to you = CEEPAGE

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Topic network

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Ceepage everyday!

Think Ceepage as your private topic plateform to store data, discussed ideas, brainstorm, and retrieve in one click all relevant information from your life.

    Store and remember anything

Keep in one single place relevant information about a specific topic.

General knowledge, administrative data, favorites, benchmarks, watchdogs...

    Projects

Start and follow up your personal or shared projects in one single page.

For everyday projects, entrepreneurs, freelancers, students, co-workers,...

    Plannings

Simplify the preparation of your coming trip or event.

Trip, bachelor party, events,...

    Brainstorming

Get relevant answers and personal advice from your friends or relatives.

Advice for your next purchase or investment, feedback, questions, ...

    Discussions / Private-forums

Promote relevant interactions about any topics through mini-forums.

Literature, politics, health issues, international or family news, ...

    Blog

Quicly start a mini-blog to share your experiences or inner thoughts with selected followers.

Your road trip in America, a new-born in the family, something happening in your life, ...

    Think Pages everyday: Ceepage will allow you to deal with much more information, and get things done, smartly!

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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list

Susan Sontag

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Stanley beach - Hongkong

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Venice - Italy

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Organize your trip with Ceepage

"It's not about the destination, it's about the journey". With Ceepage, it's also about planning.

Summer holidays are around the corner... It's time to get your sunblock, pack and relax! But great holidays usually also requires a good preparation - which is less relaxing. How about a little help, thanks to Ceepage?

Planning a trip is like working on a project: you need organization, time and involvement from everyone joining; you gather information here and there; you set a budget, and check different options. And finally you can decide: which places to visit, on which dates, how to go, where to stay, ... Once all those questions are answered, it's time to make sure you won't forget anything: hotel booking reference, flight and train schedules, maps, copy of passport, various checklist, etc..

With Ceepage, you can organize all that in PAGES, which means one single place to gather all relevant information.

In just one click, you can invite your travel mates to various pages and work on it together, in a collaborative way: discuss the itinerary, gather tips, share ideas, and keep all documents in a common workspace. 

Since you can create as many pages as you want in Ceepage, be flexible to get the best of your work: one page for each city you will visit, one page to list down the places you should not miss, one page to keep your travel documents. 

Don't spend your weekends on it anymore: access your pages whenever you have time, and get notified instantly of new feeds from your travel buddies.

And don't forget to create pages for yourself, to remember what's important to you personally!

With Ceepage, make the organization of your trip as fun as the journey!

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Why Ceepage?

This is probably the question that has been, is, and will be asked the most frequently to us as we’re building up Ceepage. This blog aims at answering it, although we hope the simplicity and usefulness of the website will make you read our posts out of curiosity and pleasure, rather than because you need further explanations.

We will share here with you what gets us motivated to make Ceepage thriving. We will tell you what’s really behind the concept of Pages. We will give you tips on how to make full use of the website. And we will make you discover how Ceepage has already become essential in the life of hundreds of Ceepagers.

We might also ask for your feedback, criticism, or support. Because we want to make Ceepage useful for you.

But because this is yet to come, and because for sure we will be asked again the question “why Ceepage" today and tomorrow, here is a first answer:

The need for Pages…

As busy citizens of the world, we do travel, meet new people, get curious and have plenty of dreams or new projects every day. And projects - be it a trip, an event, an investment, a plan to learn something, anything - requires a minimum of organization, brainstorming and follow-up.

While it’s easy to share anything with the world instantly on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or Instagram, it’s much more difficult to find online spaces, private, where you can work on your everyday projects; alone or with the people you want. Spaces to catch your ideas, to do brainstorming, to debate, or to simply keep information about specific topics, to work on it in the long term.

Emails are made to send one-shot information; Facebook Groups are convenient for simple discussions; you can keep and share documents on Google Drive; Evernote lets you store and retrieve personal notes. With Ceepage, through personal or shared pages, we want to offer the perfect tool to follow up your everyday projects. 1 topic, 1 page. Private, easy to create, easy to retrieve, easy to follow up. We simply want to help you to get more things done; and doing things is probably a good way to keep us happy, isn’t it?

So why not trying? Think of something you have always wanted to do or learn, and create your first page now to make it happen!