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We would like to invite you to become a BETA customer of RoomYak.

Howard Oliver — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:08:44 +0000

We would like to invite you to become a BETA customer of RoomYak. RoomYak is three things:
1. A new social media space to build micro-communities that can collaborate in new ways to achieve significant things
2. A completely new way to look at personally and collectively developed unstructured files.
3. A radically new way to store your data in complete privacy on the Net.

Our intent is to work with you on a first project to give you the RoomYak bug that you might pass along to your friends. Me – a well-known Web2.0 and Social Media Guru and Tom Chalker the inventor of RoomYak are “on-call” help you. Our interest is creating vibrant RoomYak micro communities where real ideas get exchanged, transactions are consummated and deep ties between people bloom. To get going email Tom (tom_chalker@datasentinel.com) or myself (holiver@whatifwhatnext.com) to set aside 45 mins to plan a project work through the RoomYak start-up protocol:

First steps:
· Create a plan for an amazing, breakthrough Room Yak project with follow-on support from the RoomYak team.
· Check that RoomYak runs correctly on your computer. Just visit www.roomYak.com and press the “Go to RoomYak now” button. That will install all the software in a couple of minutes. Future visits will start immediately.
· Create your own account (it’s free!) for you to operate on your rooms from any computer.
· Navigate in the RookYak environment – use the mouse and keypad to move around. Double-click on a folder icon to visit a different room. Use the right-click menu to “Visit Furniture” rooms and zoom around there too. Use the menu to “Go Home” or just bang into a door to return to the previous room.

Once you feel comfortable with that, there’s more you can try:
· Decorate your private room by dragging files from your local file system in and dropping them on a wall.
· Double-click on these wall objects to edit them. (every wall is like a Desktop)
· Go to a furniture room, click on a piece furniture, use the menu to “Copy” the piece. Select “Go Home” from the menus and use the menu to “Paste” it back. Position it where you want.

If you want to see what everyone else is up to:
· Use the menu to “Visit” the public rooms of others
· Zoom around their room and look at their wall (double-click, too!) and floor objects
· You’ll see small, white titles as you move over these object. Click on this bar and you’ll be able to see and enter attach interactive comments for them
· Copy objects from these public rooms to take back to your own rooms.

When you ready to show the world what you can do:
· Use the “New Room/Public” menus to create a RoomYak for others to visit. You could put in a Pass Phase to control who can see your room. Alternatively, you can leave it blank and you can turn off the switch to let everyone in without asking.
· Decorate this room with drag&drop operations of 2D files from your local file system or furniture copy/pastes.
· Use the menu to “Copy Web Link”, then go to your emailer and paste in the web shortcut. They can follow that link to visit your room directly.

When can we schedule that first briefing and orientation meeting? What times next would work best for you. Tom and I will both attend the meeting on skype if that is workable for you.

Cheers!
Howard Oliver
RoomYak Evangelist
Howard Oliver
CEO What If What Next – Web2.0 PR
905-709-8582, holiver@whatifwhatnext.com, www.whatifwhatnext.com

How To Use RoomYak

Howard Oliver — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:03:58 +0000

Pitching New Business With RoomYak

In advertising, marketing and PR, winning new business hinges on delivering a convincing proposal in a timely fashion. RoomYak can help give you the edge to impress your potential clients and close more business.

Consider that multiple influencers must be engaged to produce a strong, engaging presentation. To get there, information must be gathered effectively. Some information will be highly sensitive. All this information must be managed and accessible. It must also be secure.

It is critical to understand your potential client’s needs, strategies and industry. Meetings and brilliant conversation are critical to get inside your customer’s heads. At these initial information meetings documents, examples of past work are presented.

The information that is exchanged will likely be diverse: Word documents, pictures, videos, audio files, PowerPoint’s, flash presentation and spreadsheets. The simplest way to exchange all this information is with paper, CDs or data sticks. Some information can be exchanged online in collaborative spaces or presentation environment.

There are drawbacks to all these methods. Hand-outs of material do not create a flow of information. Information can be glossed over or misinterpreted. Collaborative spaces can be problematic when highly confidential material must be exchanged. Software-as-a-Service tools can be stifling to the creativity that is at the heart of the transaction. Preprogrammed tabs and information architectures can simply get in the way.

RoomYak is a brand new 3D browser platform for securing and sharing unstructured data in information-rich interconnected rooms. You can come to your first meeting with a new client and present your entire portfolio in a custom room that can stunningly show off your company. You come with an online showroom to interact with during and after the meeting. Images, powerpoints, documents can be opened with a double-click on an preview – just like a computer desktop. More importantly, each document has a full revision history complete with notes that are visible from the icon. Brainstorming, editing and inspiration are all captured for future reference and credited to those who have contributed.

Another room can present initial research about your potential client. A third can be reserved for an industry analysis and a forth left for the clients to mount their own material. They all evolve over time, a process that is tracked in both time and sequence. Think of this all as a dynamic flow and the stimulation of creativity through interaction. You are molding the message and the medium with your client; creating a deep link and connection with them. This is all presented in a 3D visual space – an interface that maximizes the ability of the user to recall existing detail and cross-reference data to synthesize new ideas. This is the real excitement of RoomYak and its huge potential.

We are keen to work with creative shops interested in using RoomYak in new client pitches. Join our Top 50 Club and receive great swag, a deal on secure storage and free consulting expertise from the RoomYak development team. We will help you earn new business and get an edge up over your competition

Finally, a simple way to deal with information overload.

roomyak — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:53:36 +0000

RoomYak is a brand new 3D browser platform for securing and sharing unstructured data in information rich interconnected rooms. RoomYak is a fun and creative way to control and share data without the drudgery of its maintenance and backup. RoomYak is a fun, slightly addictive and viral (much like twitter®) alternative to securing and sharing unstructured data in a three dimensional environment of interconnected rooms. RoomYak allows its users to move through 3D space to organize their data and projects within a set of rooms which they decorate. Conventional files attach to the walls and 3D models sit on the floor. Each user can create as many rooms as they wish. RoomYak transforms the daily chore of data back-up into creative expression and social interaction.

RoomYak lets you design your own 3D rooms where you can:

Decorate – customize the look of your simple RoomYak 3D Environments with color, virtual furniture and art
Stash your Stuff – simply drag and drop all you unstructured files from your local file system onto your RoomYak walls to securely and portably store a lifetime of personal and business files: pictures, audio, video, documents, presentations, spreadsheets and more
Share your Stuff – put your Friends on a wall and use IM to schmooze and create
IM your Stuff – when you visit your Friends rooms you can leave a message on any object, you can also read the messages left by others
Shop and Sell – visit public rooms to buy and sell data and merchandise

Navigate naturally through your data arranged in 3D space. RoomYak offers a mixture of social networking and extremely simplified file storage. Securely store you confidential project files for your eyes only in one room; have you team share documents, pictures and spreadsheets in another; create a branded company room to engage customers in another room; and sell your boat with pictures, specs, movies and sound in another creatively decorated room. You can also visit the interconnected rooms of your friends and colleagues.

RoomYak is built upon the dataSentinel storage solution, an enterprise services platform that protects sensitive, unstructured data files from disastrous theft, loss or leak. dataSentinel provides state-of-the-art security with its new architecture, patent-pending encryption algorithms and triple-redundancy storage techniques.