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A New Day Dawns at FMYI
February 04, 2010
Media Contact:
Joseph Martorano
415/699-4215
A New Day Dawns at FMYI
First-Ever Brand Video, Stellar 2009 Growth, Portland Climate Champion Honor Propel Company Strongly into its 6th YearPORTLAND, Ore., February 4, 2010 – FMYI [for my innovation], Inc., a leader in collaboration sites that empower teams to make a difference, today unveiled its first-ever brand video titled “A New Day” as well as 2009 performance achievements and recognition as a sustainability leader in Portland.
As people seek ways to grow during hard times, FMYI is leading the way by redefining the idea of work. Trusted by teams at non-profits, small businesses and Fortune 500 brands, FMYI is now telling its own brand story with the release of A New Day. With the backdrop of stunningly beautiful scenes of Portland filmed by Ben Garvey, words based on copy by Kimberly Harrington, inspirational music by Bruce Gibbs, and motion graphics by Derrick Yuen, narrator and FMYI President Justin Yuen calls for change agents to stop working, start innovating and keep empowering.
“We’re excited about launching our FMYI brand video,” said Justin Yuen, President, FMYI, Inc. “Over the last six years, we have wanted to create a video that tells our story. ‘A New Day‘ expresses what the heart and soul of FMYI is all about, and what we aspire to deliver to our customers. Using a FMYI collaboration site, customers can solve problems like overflowing inboxes, hard to find files and overall disorganization (‘Stop working’). That way, they can focus more time on achieving goals, generating new ideas, and putting things into action (‘Start innovating’). And we’ve embedded sustainability features so they can make a difference (‘Keep empowering’).
Dawn of A New Day
As the video starts, Justin talks over a visual of the sun rising as the analogy for the beginning to the workday. “Here it is — a new day. A new day to make it happen. A new day to kill the to-do list,“ he explains. He then asks why an hour is wasted each day by workers wading through an inbox rather than enjoying, being inspired and renewed by the beauty of the day. “You know that feeling of never quite being caught up? That’s called work,“ he says. “We’re against work.“ He goes on to add that FMYI is about one thing, but it’s a big important thing — making life easier. As an online collaboration site that empowers teams to make a difference, FMYI allows users to get to the best part, the energizing part, the innovating part, right from the very start — thinking, doing, creating. As the video ends, Justin reminds the audience of FMYI’s dedication to sustainability and that “we are all in this together…we are all change agents.“ A New Day is available for viewing at www.fmyi.com/ANewDay.“With ‘A New Day‘ we are promoting the idea that people need to stop working,“ said Seth Tayler, FMYI VP of Marketing and Sales. “Definitely not the way Tiger and Conan brought work to a screeching halt, but rather by using FMYI to communicate, collaborate, to be more productive and in the loop.“
Unprecedented Success Drives FMYI Forward
A bootstrapped company entirely built through client revenue, FMYI has hit unparalleled momentum as it enters its sixth year in business. Overall revenue in 2009 more than doubled by focusing on working closely with existing customers to indentify business needs and aggressively pursuing new business opportunities. Launching FMYI Version 6 in October garnered rave media reviews and visits to FMYI.com and usage of FMYI both increased by over 400%. In line with its revenue growth, FMYI nearly tripled the number of employees on its team from 6 in 2008 to 16 in 2009 and in July moved into a new headquarters in the Leftbank Project.“There’s no doubt that 2009 was our most successful year yet and has set the bar higher for ourselves,” added Yuen. “We’re positioned to continue our growth and expansion in 2010. With our dedication to sustainability, we’re pleased to have been chosen as a Portland Climate Champion and hope others get certified as well.“
FMYI is a Portland Climate Champion
FMYI recently earned the BEST Business Center’s new “Portland Climate Champion” recognition. To achieve this status, the company demonstrated a commitment to energy efficiency in their business operations by providing alternative transportation options for employees, and implementing a robust waste reduction, sustainable purchasing, and recycling program. The Portland Climate Champions program was created to recognize businesses in Portland that have taken comprehensive, concrete actions to reduce their carbon emissions. The Climate Champion designation is valid for two years.“Congratulations to FMYI on becoming a Portland Climate Champion,” said Portland Mayor Sam Adams. “We appreciate their leadership in taking a comprehensive approach to reducing carbon emissions. Their innovative platform helps facilitate a paperless, virtual office, which serves as a model for Portland’s business community. Their efforts support the City of Portland’s goals towards dramatically reducing carbon emissions, as outlined in the City’s Climate Action Plan.”
About the BEST Business Center
The BEST Business Center provides free tools and advice to help businesses in Portland, Oregon become more profitable and sustainable. It is a partnership of city and regional government programs and energy utilities, including the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, City of Portland Water Bureau, Metro, Pacific Power, Portland Development Commission and Portland General Electric.About FMYI [for my innovation]
Founded in 2004, FMYI is a collaboration software company with headquarters in Portland, Oregon and operations in Orlando, Florida. By considering the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit, FMYI has endeavored to build an enduring business with minimum ecological impact and maximum social value because it is simply the right thing to do. FMYI is committed to sustainability internally and to injecting sustainability into the business practices of its clients. In addition to helping companies benefit from paperless work processes, FMYI also enables a team to track its sustainable commuting modes and methods and purchases renewable energy credits for clients’ FMYI power usage. Built with Web 2.0 technology, FMYI collaboration sites have been tried and tested by teams of all sizes (2- 20,000) at companies, nonprofits, government agencies, and universities around the world. FMYI provides free support as an integral part of making technology work for people in keeping with its tagline, “Powered by human energy. ®“### 
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Giving Back to the Community
January 29, 2010
This week FMYI celebrates our 6th year as a company. During that time we have grown to love and appreciate becoming part of so many different communities. Like the Leftbank Project, home to our Portland office, we are connected to each of them in a special way.
As 2009 came to an end, we reflected on ways we could give back to these communities as a company. Empowering teams to make a difference is our mission here at FMYI so ultimately, we decided to donate $1 to the Natural Step Network for every new follower of @FMYI on Twitter and $1 to The National Crittenton Foundation for all new Fans of FMYI on Facebook. It was a fun way to utilize our social networks on Facebook and Twitter to call attention to both organizations and the work they do to empower people to make a difference in the world.
The Natural Step has played an integral role building sustainable business practices at FMYI by allowing each of us to understand the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) approach to business. Supporting them over Twitter this past month, we received a 40% increase in our followers. While garnering more attention for the organization, we were able to donate funds to help spread the important message of sustainability in the workplace.
With an 80% increase in our Facebook Fans, we are extremely excited to support the great work of The National Crittenton Foundation. We’re truly grateful for the work they do supporting empowerment, self-sufficiency, and ending cycles of destructive behaviors and relationships for vulnerable girls, young women, and their families.
Thanks to all of our fans and followers for supporting the work of these two organizations.
Keep empowering,
Graeme
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FMYI’s Haiti relief efforts
January 21, 2010
Like all of you, we’ve been saddened by the tragedy going on in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. As part of our triple bottom line commitment, we’ve been talking over here at FMYI about how we can best help. Here’s what we’ve committed to:
• 25% discount for three months on FMYI Lite, Plus, and Pro as a thank you for anyone who has given to the relief effort (honor system). Just use this coupon code: haitirelief10
• 5% of FMYI Lite, Plus, and Pro sales through February will be donated to Haiti earthquake relief efforts.
• We’re donating free sites to nonprofits involved with relief efforts and are building a special template for agencies to manage the collaboration needed for relief work.Organizations we recommend you donate to:
Hope for Haiti
“Through your generous donations and the helping hands of our family of volunteers and dedicated staff, Hope for Haiti is helping to improve the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of Haitian children and their families. Our unique approach of helping the poorest of the poor in Haiti is both efficient and effective. We encourage you to look at our “Programs” section to see how over 96% of donations we raise directly reach the people who need it most. 100% of all donations received in response to the earthquake are going directly to our disaster relief effort on the ground. We thank you for your interest and support in helping us spread HOPE to the men, women, and children of Haiti.“MercyCorps
“Mercy Corps’ experienced, crisis-tested emergency team is on the ground in Port-au-Prince, responding to the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti. They need your help to speed clean water, food, shelter and other supplies to families in the aftermath of the worst disaster to strike the region in years. The needs are enormous. Mercy Corps is focusing on the immediate humanitarian needs on the ground — water, food, temporary shelter supplies and much more. As the most basic needs are met, Mercy Corps’ response team will transition from relief to long-term rebuilding and recovery efforts.“Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
“Through the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, we will work to provide immediate relief and long-term support to earthquake survivors. We will channel the collective goodwill around the globe to help the people of Haiti rebuild their cities, their neighborhoods, and their families. Also, text the word “QUAKE” to 20222 and you’ll be donating $10 to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, charged to your cell phone bill.“Living Water International
“Living Water International is mobilizing to help communities in Haiti restore clean water after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by a catastrophic earthquake on Tuesday. LWI teams are already on the ground in the midst of unimaginable devastation to do what they can, but the problems for affected communities are only beginning. The most urgent need during the coming days and weeks will be water. Homes can take months to re-build, electricity can take weeks to restore, but people can’t last long without water. In response to the Haiti earthquake, Living Water International is setting a goal to repair 500 incapacitated handpumps in Haiti during 2010, serving at least 250,000 people. In order to do this, LWI is organizing a coalition of water organizations that are partnering to multiply their effect on Haitian communities. Partners include Global Benefit, Mercy Water (working with Nspire Software), Wishing Well, Hydrate Hope Project (through I AM CHANGE), The Water Project, and Safewater Nexus. Containers of parts and equipment are already on the way to replace rapidly diminishing supplies, but even more will be needed soon.Thanks for all your help!
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Phoenix Forum
January 12, 2010
We’ve all heard about the tough economy and the dreary year that was 2009. But what about the success stories and optimistic thoughts for 2010? On Wednesday, January 13, join FMYI President Justin Yuen, Ken Westin of GadgetTrak, Dave Allen of Fight Digital Strategy for a Phoenix Forum interactive panel discussion. The drinks will be flowing freely, and the conversation will be fast and loose. Some of the topics we’ll cover:
• Strategies for business growth in this recession.
• A community of innovative technology professionals.
• Strong companies looking for top talent.Find out more on the Software Association of Oregon’s website >
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FMYI Celebrates 2009
December 31, 2009
FMYI PRESS RELEASE
Media Contact:
Joseph Martorano
415/699-4215
FMYI Celebrates a Monumental 2009 with Charitable Gifts, Delivers Additional Features for A New Way of Working
Demonstrates Its Commitment to the Triple Bottom Line - People, Planet, ProfitPORTLAND, Ore., December 31, 2009 – FMYI [for my innovation], Inc., a provider of Web 2.0 social workspace collaboration sites that empower teams to make a difference, today celebrated a successful 2009 by announcing additional features for FMYI 6 and unveiling its charitable contributions for the holiday season.
The success of 2009 has propelled FMYI to new heights. The company grew its team to 16 in Portland, Orlando, and now New Orleans. In July, it moved into a new headquarters in the Leftbank Project and expanded its sustainability efforts. In October, it launched FMYI 6 to rave media reviews, and best of all, visits and usage of FMYI has increased over 400%. Finally, FMYI is capping off its 2009 product development with some just released features that further strengthen FMYI 6 and enable a new way working. With such a successful year, FMYI is celebrating by giving back to local and national charitable organizations and encouraging others to take part in the effort.
“This year has exceeded our expectations,” said Justin Yuen, President, FMYI, Inc. “With the critical mass achieved in 2009, we have the momentum to take our mission of empowering teams to make a difference to the next level in 2010. To thank our customers, vendors and communities where we do business, we are celebrating these achievements by honoring the Aflac Cancer Center, Portland Parks Foundation, Northwest Earth Institute, The National Crittendon Foundation and the Natural Step Network. We encourage everyone to join us in donating to these amazing organizations.“
Development Enhances Version 6
Since unveiling FMYI 6 in October, developers have continued work to enhance the feature rich collaboration platform to deliver a new way of working. Standout features include:
• Filter by topic in Activity Manager - a great way to keep informed of posts from different pages in a central location
• Map it - quickly map a contact’s address
• VCard importer - create new pages from an address book or a card scanner
• Export contact list - get all the contact info on a page into excel to use in other formatsA Time To Give
The Aflac Cancer Center cares for children with cancer and blood disorders as well as conducting innovative research. FMYI donated $776 during Aflac’s convention in early December and will be donating 5% of January’s Aflac sales to the Cancer Center as well. More information is available at www.choa.org/cancer.The Portland Parks Foundation engages the community in support of Portland’s parks, recognizing that government agencies alone are not able to guarantee us the vibrant network of parks and park programs that are Portland’s rich heritage. If you donate $50 or more, you’ll get special discounts from FMYI. More information is available at www.portlandparksfoundation.org.
The National Crittenton Foundation supports empowerment, self-sufficiency, and the end of cycles of destructive behaviors and relationships for vulnerable girls, young women, and their families. FMYI will donate $1 for each new person who becomes our fan of FMYI on Facebook from December 15, 2009 to January 15, 2010. More information is available at www.thenationalcrittentonfoundation.org.
The Natural Step Network provides programs and services to prepare organizations to integrate sustainable business practices into their strategic design making. FMYI will donate $1 for each new person who becomes a follower of FMYI on Twitter from December 15, 2009 to January 15, 2010. More information is available at www.naturalstepusa.org.
The Northwest Earth Institute empowers individuals and organizations to transform culture toward a sustainable and enriching future. FMYI is participating in the innovative social media telethon 30 Hour Day, with the proceeds of our sponsorship going to NWEI. More information is available at www.nwei.org and www.30HourDay.org.
About FMYI [for my innovation]
Founded in 2004, FMYI is a collaboration software company with headquarters in Portland, Oregon and operations in Orlando, Florida. FMYI’s goal is simple: build an enduring business with minimum ecological impact and maximum social value because it is simply the right thing to do. FMYI is committed to sustainability internally and to injecting sustainability into the business practices of its clients. In addition to helping companies benefit from paperless work processes, FMYI also enables a team to track its sustainable commuting modes and methods and purchases renewable energy credits for clients’ FMYI power usage. Built with Web 2.0 technology, FMYI 6 online social workspaces have been tried and tested by users at companies, nonprofits, government agencies, and universities around the world. FMYI offers free support for everyone as a key part of its focus on making technology work for people in keeping with its tagline, “Powered by human energy. ®“
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