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FMYI ranks in top 14 of Oregon’s Fastest Growing Private Companies for 2nd year in a row
June 24, 2011
At a reception held last night, the Portland Business Journal unveiled the 2011 Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Oregon, recognizing companies large and small for their feats. That’s what this list, “and the underlying mission of the Business Journal itself, is all about - focusing on growth and learning for those companies that are making it happen,“ said Craig Wessel, Portland Business Journal Publisher.The top 100 companies were chosen based upon their percentage of revenue growth from 2008-2010 and then ranked accordingly. FMYI remained on the list at 14th, after making our debut on the 2010 list at 13th—and the momentum is still going. More teams are learning the power of FMYI to INNOVATE NOW, as FMYI serves 135,000 profiles and 11,500 sites.
Celebrating at the reception with the Portland team, FMYI President Justin Yuen said, “Our team is honored to be in such great company and appreciative for the Portland Business Journal’s recognition of our efforts. We look forward to continually helping more people easily collaborate online in a sustainable way by creating a private social network to get work done on FMYI.“In 2010 we released version 6.16 with new features making FMYI simpler, smarter and more flexible and launched our Change Agents Unite campaign to empower others to make a difference. Additionally, FMYI expanded the company’s commitment to the triple bottom line (people, planet, and profit) as we announced our 2020 vision for zero impact at the 2010 Net Impact Conference and became a certified B Corporation.
Continuing to thrive on our growth, FMYI recently unveiled new pricing options making it even more affordable than other competitive offerings.
The FMYI team congratulates all the recipients who continue to grow Oregon’s economy during these tough times, including our fellow certified B Corporations (Bamboo Sushi and Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers) who are also guided by the triple bottom line and a new way of doing business.
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FMYI Unveils New Pricing Options Making It More Affordable Than Most Competitive Offerings
June 08, 2011
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FMYI Unveils New Pricing Options Making It More Affordable Than Most Competitive Offerings
Industry Leading Collaboration Software Delivers Even Better Value to CustomersPORTLAND, Ore., June 8, 2011 – FMYI [for my innovation], a leading provider of private social networks and collaboration software, today announced new, highly competitive pricing options to provide customers various features and price points. FMYI’s unique value proposition is the combination of social and workflow tools with ease of deployment, free support, sustainability - and now even better price options. Complete details about the new pricing are available at www.fmyi.com/pricing.
Since not all teams are created equal, FMYI developed its new prices to take into account a variety of team sizes as well as their different needs. With FMYI, every team gets its own private social network and collaboration platform. They can manage a variety of activities, such as file sharing, project management, customer relationship management (CRM), group calendaring, task management, resource library, intranet, workflow tools, and sustainability features. Each product level is designed to provide for a specific number of users and pages as well as space including:
• FMYI Pro – unlimited users and pages with 50 GB of file storage - $149 monthly
• FMYI Plus – 30 users and unlimited pages with 15 GB of file storage - $49 monthly
• FMYI Lite – 15 users and 15 pages with 3 GB of file storage - $14 monthly“With our new pricing we’re breaking through to the next level to make FMYI affordable for any team, of any size,” said Justin Yuen, President, FMYI, Inc. “
FMYI aims to provide a triple bottom line value, with a solution to help customers reduce their impact on the planet and now priced to minimally impact profits. FMYI is proud to be a certified B Corp, underscoring our commitment to being a social responsible enterprise.”
Competitively, FMYI’s new prices go the distance to offer the best all-in-one solution at the lowest price point. In fact, 37signals requires at least two purchases, Basecamp and Highrise, to be a comparable product to FMYI’s less expensive offering. Newly signed-up FMYI customers who formerly used Salesforce.com report Salesforce is far more complex and exponentially more expensive. As an alternative to Jive or Microsoft Sharepoint, FMYI is pennies to the dollar in both price and the extensive implementation required for those systems. Yammer doesn’t have the workflow tools and an I.T. executive who is now a FMYI customer, recently called it a spamming machine.
About FMYI [for my innovation]
Founded in 2004, FMYI is a leading provider of private social networks and collaboration software headquartered in Portland, Oregon. FMYI collaboration networks are used by teams of all sizes (2-20,000) at companies, nonprofits, government agencies, and universities around the world. Guided by the triple bottom line (people, planet and profit), FMYI endeavors to be 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 as well as purchases renewable energy credits for clients’ FMYI power use. Keeping with its tagline “Powered by human energy ®,“ FMYI provides free support as an integral part of making technology work for people. FMYI is the only software-as-service (SaaS) company to be certified as a B Corporation.### 
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Justin Yuen Announced as one of the 2011 Pivotal Leaders
May 25, 2011
Justin Yuen, FMYI Founder & President, was just announced as a 2011 Pivotal Leader by the Pivotal Leaders Network. The Pivotal Leaders Network is comprised of leading community members in the Pacific Northwest who, through resources, collaboration and innovation, will help the region develop and generate clean technology jobs.
“I’m honored to join this list of catalysts, innovators, change agents, and friends,” said Justin Yuen. “Together, I look forward to growing our regional clean tech triple bottom line economy. It’s gratifying to see the team at FMYI being at the forefront of sustainable social collaboration.“
Pivotal Leaders Network official press release can be found here.
A full list of the 2011 Pivotal Leaders class can be found here.
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We’re hiring: Web designer change agent (UI designer and front-end developer)
May 03, 2011
Do you love creating beautiful user friendly interfaces for web apps? Do you enjoy the challenge of creating efficient front-end code? Are you excited about being on a team of change agents helping people improve how they work in a sustainable way? Yes? Then we’d love to talk with you!
FMYI [for my innovation] is a private collaboration site where you store and share information securely with your team. It combines a social networking site look and feel with tools to achieve your goals. You can create pages to manage projects, track contacts, share files, and more. Our company was founded in 2004 as the pioneer in social collaboration software. We’re headquartered in Portland and FMYI is the 13th fastest growing private company in Oregon. FMYI is a proven and tested platform that has been used by Nike, Aflac, HBO, Hyatt, Sony, Target, Office Depot, Fox, Scholastic, Macy’s, Martha Stewart, Disney, and over 10,000 other companies, government agencies, universities, and nonprofits in countries across the globe. We’re also a certified B Corporation with a commitment to the triple bottom line (people, planet, and profit). Here’s a three minute video about FMYI’s culture.
Job summary
What will you do at FMYI? You’ll be responsible for user experience design, visual design, and HTML/CSS. Products you’ll work on include our Ajax/JavaScript social collaboration web app, web apps optimized for mobile browsers, and our corporate marketing site. In addition to web stuff, you’ll work on future mobile applications (iPhone, iPad, Android, etc). You’ll collaborate with product managers, engineers, and marketing to develop innovative and user-friendly products and marketing sites that users love. And help us imagine the next big thing coming from our team!Minimum qualifications
• At least three years experience designing user interfaces for web
• At least three years experience with front-end web development, specifically HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX
• Demonstrated experience in designing outstanding Ajax/JavaScript web apps as a key member of a design team
• Experience in designing early stage/new products, as well as new versions and/or feature enhancements of existing products
• Strong, clean visual design sense
• A solid understanding of user-centered design principles
• Fluency in standards-based HTML and CSS
• Demonstrated ability to follow interface guidelines and best practices when designing for new platforms (e.g., iPhone, Android)
• Fanatical attention to detail down to the pixel
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Self-motivated, self-starterPreferred qualifications
• Design experience in mobile or desktop software
• Academic background in human-computer interaction (HCI) or related field
• JavaScript experience for rapid prototyping
• Experience leveraging HTML5 and JQuery
• Experience targeting mobile devices
• A passion for being a change agent with social collaboration
• A passion for being a change agent with sustainabilityCompany benefits
• Medical and dental plan
• 401k retirement plan
• Paid vacation days
• Collaborative and casual work environment
• TriMet mass transit pass
• Sustainability training
• Brewery in the basementCompany info
• One minute overview
• Three minute brand brand video
• Media reviews
• Team
• People, planet, and profit
• Ranked 13th fastest growing private company in Oregon by the Portland Business Journal, Oregon Entrepreneurs Network “Development Stage Company of the Year” semifinalist
• Certified B Corporation, City of Portland Climate Champion, Sustainable Business Oregon “Innovation in Sustainability” award winner, Metro Recycle at Work member, Zipcar “Wheels of Change” finalistWe are open to contract, full time, and telecommuting relationships. and include the following:
1. A little bit about yourself.
2. The name of a web app you think has awesome UI/UX, and what makes it so awesome.
3. Your portfolio (links to Ajax/JavaScript web apps where you were a key member of the design team - please describe your role).
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FMYI President Justin Yuen Moderating Panel at Fortune’s 4th Annual Brainstorm GREEN
March 31, 2011
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FMYI President Justin Yuen Moderating Panel at Fortune’s 4th Annual Brainstorm GREEN
Industry Leaders to Discuss Strategies for Driving Employee Engagement Throughout An OrganizationPORTLAND, Ore., March 31, 2011 – FMYI [for my innovation], a leading provider of private social networks and collaboration software, today announced that Justin Yuen, company president and sustainability employee engagement pioneer, will be moderating a roundtable discussion next week at Fortune Brainstorm GREEN 2011.
With mounting pressure for continuous improvement in corporate sustainability, companies are grappling with how to increase the performance of their programs. As the only collaboration software company with a DNA level commitment to sustainability and the B Corporation certification, FMYI is uniquely qualified to provide a solution that meets these challenges. With a FMYI private social network, organizations like Hyatt Hotels and the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) are tackling this issue by increasing collaboration and cost-effectively scaling sustainability engagement. FMYI is a central platform where their stakeholders are storing news and information, sharing best practices, asking questions, collaborating on projects, and tracking progress.
“Once again, our participation in this important industry events affords us the opportunity to join CSR leaders from across the country to help effect the triple bottom line of people, planet, profit,” said Justin Yuen, President, FMYI, Inc. “By playing this small role in promoting innovations that further sustainability by enabling collaboration, we are delivering on our mission of empowering teams to make a difference and positively impacting the world.”
During the roundtable panel, CSR leaders from a diverse a cross section of industries will discuss this growing trends for continues improvement, including:
• Jib Ellison, Founder, Blu Skye Sustainability
• Tim Mohin,Director of Corporate Responsibility, AMD
• Hugh Share, Senior Global Director, Beer and Better World, Anheuser Busch InBev
• Jim Thomas, Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, JCPenney
• Ryan Whisnant, Director of Sustainability, SunGardAs a longtime leader in sustainability employee engagement with over 14 years of experience at FMYI and Nike, Justin Yuen will draw on this knowledge to guide the panelists through ideas, such as:
• Transforming an organization so that sustainability is part of everyone’s job rather than the work of a select few.
• Building a shared vision at the grass roots level, diffusing innovation, and creating a culture that integrates sustainability into the mission and brand at every level.
• Cost-effective strategies for scaling engagement to bring people together from multiple divisions and across geographies.
• Measuring success and increasing results through surveys and tracking output of projects.
• Harnessing employee ideas and energy to further integrate and diffuse innovationAbout Fortune Brainstorm: GREEN 2010
Fortune Brainstorm GREEN is a high-powered community of thought leaders and business leaders who come together to exchange innovative ideas, do deals, and build valuable relationships. The participants are diverse—CEOs and senior executives of Fortune 500 companies, government policymakers, leading thinkers, investors, and environmental activists. The 2011 program—led by key members of Fortune’s editorial brain trust including Senior Editors at Large Brian Dumaine and Adam Lashinsky, and Contributing Editor Marc Gunther—will focus on the key emerging environmental trends as well as innovative ways that companies can drive sustainability-based transformational change initiatives. For more information visit http://www.fortuneconferences.com/brainstormgreen.About FMYI [for my innovation]
Founded in 2004, FMYI is a leading provider of private social networks and collaboration software headquartered in Portland, Oregon. FMYI collaboration networks are used by teams of all sizes (2-20,000) at companies, nonprofits, government agencies, and universities around the world. Guided by the triple bottom line (people, planet and profit), FMYI endeavors to be 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 as well as purchases renewable energy credits for clients’ FMYI power use. Keeping with its tagline “Powered by human energy ®,“ FMYI provides free support as an integral part of making technology work for people.### 