Lean Coffee table was first conceptualised by Bazil Arden a couple of years ago. He had been using the format for about a year before he started having conversations with Rory Street about potentially making an app. The conversations started becoming a little more serious when we started to use Lean Coffee in our own internal meetings. With everyone being all over the country and only the usual collaboration tools to use, which we thought were lacking.

Rory started to have a think about how we could build this and then one day Rory suddenly popped up with an app, and we loved it! That was the first beta version of Lean Coffee table. We loved it so much, we wanted to share it with the community. Today we have just over 6000 users and as I type we have people logged in all over the UK and the United States. On a great day, we have people all over the world logged on.

Our little tool has pretty much remained unchanged until July this year when we decided that now was the time for a facelift and some new functionality. We are keen at Ripplerock to reward our loyal customers, get rid of some small defects and make a few of the most requested changes to enhance your enjoyment of it.

If you have not the chance to check out our earlier blog about the new user interface, I recommend that you do. We think its looking awesome! But we want your feedback also. Take a look.

In the meantime, here is a list of some of the changes we have been making. We will keep you posted as we release new ones.

• New – We are now a secure website
• New – Upgraded our email server
• New – The ability to move the facilitator to another person in the meeting
• Fix – Text will now fit into cards
• Fix – Clicking the logo will no longer take you to a blank page
• Fix – Improved reset password wordings
• Fix – Limit the board length
• Fix – You can now see the ‘About’ page on all screens
• Fix – Changed User name to email address on registration page
• Fix – Board can no longer to changed after you log off
• Fix – Votes are persisted when opening and closing the Brower on the same board
• Fix – The remember me function now works (yay!)

As always, we are keen for feedback and suggestions. You can contact us here with new awesome ideas.

Keep that coffee flowing!