Uses For Vyew

Vyew has a broad range of applications and uses for small to medium-sized businesses and education providers. Here are a few ways Vyew is empowering users:

Marketing

• Drive sales leads by conducting webinars to targeted audiences.
• Collaborate on marketing plans.
• Conduct reviews of advertising campaign materials with your ad agency – save money by not having to handle review cycles face-to-face.
• Post new marketing content for review and comments by your manager and executives – use Vyew’s filtering capability to easily see who added what.

Customer Service

• Load support content and go over it with customers having trouble with your product.
  
• Use Desktop Sharing to show customers how to solve a problem, or see what their problem is.
• Bring in an off-site expert or a manager to assist with technical problems or quality concerns.

Engineering, Research & Development

• Outsource and collaborate with developers or designers located across the globe.
• Overcome cultural and language differences by using visual communication.
• Review product iterations and leave detailed annotations regarding desired changes.
• Keep a historical record of change requests or production status over time.
• Load floor plans, 3D renderings, blue prints and pictures of progress made over time for review and comments

Finance

• Share spreadsheets and financial data, models, and discuss “what if" scenarios.
• Share financial results with executives and your investor relations team in advance of quarterly earnings releases.
• Host a Web meeting with financial analysts covering your company’s financial performance.
• Show accounts payable or receivable reports to help regional managers manage cash flow.
• Post contracts or customer invoices and add comments to resolve payment disputes.
• Educate employees regarding expense reports.

Human Resources 

• Train new hires on corporate policies and laws that must be complied with.
• Educate employees about employee stock purchase plans or changes to corporate policy.
• Invite financial service providers to give your employees ‘lunch briefs’ about their products and services.
• Ask recruiters to post resumes in for your review and ratings all in one place.

Vertical Business Uses 

• Real Estate - put together rich property listings using a variety of content from different sources; hold virtual open houses; host first-time home buyer seminars; put together a portfolio of options for buyers to choose for viewings; ask home owners to post photos or screen captures from the web showing what they like
• Insurance – upload pictures of damaged property, mark affected areas, and insert annotations for review by adjusters.
• Medical/Dental – upload x-rays or scans for review by other specialists to help make a diagnosis; show patients having surgery anatomical diagrams of what’s wrong and what’s going to happen during surgery; insert diagrams of physical or occupational therapy exercises for patients to do at home
• Property Managers – give guided tours to prospective tenants; annotate move-in/move-out pictures to explain why you are retaining a portion of their damage deposit
• Programmers – load database diagrams and clearly mark column relationships; post code that won’t compile for assistance by peers; propose new architecture changes to make programs more scalable or perform faster
• Electrical Engineers – load circuit board diagrams for review; post designs and component lists for vendors to bid on
• Textiles – load proposed fashion designs for review and comment; host an online fashion show where you preview your wares to retailers; post outfits for customer or peer feedback on colors, fit and more
• Transportation – load routes, directions, bills of lading, and invoices for review with suppliers or customers

General

• Have impromptu meetings with teammates while working on team projects.
• Add visual communication to your daily instant message strings with teammates – get quick answers to questions and speed-up sharing of information.
• Post iterations and solicit team feedback and keep a record of who contributed what.
• Keep track of progress against task lists – post to-do lists and have teammates check-off what’s completed and post their completed work to integrate into the final project.

Educational Uses

Educators

• Host online classroom sessions for correspondence courses with real-time interaction.
• Be available to students online during office hours, not just in-person at your office.
• Post course syllabuses and reading material in Vyew’s File Storage for easy access by students.
• Collaborate with peers at other colleges or universities on research, papers, and projects.
• Use Vyew as a way to solicit anonymous feedback from your students –
  
  • grant them guest access to a VyewBook where they can annotate or use text-chat to post suggestions or concerns. 

Tutors

• Tutor students remotely – use Vyew as a tool to generate more income from your experience and expertise.
• Allow students to review their tutor sessions and post questions when you're not available

Students

• Work on group projects together – outline responsibilities, plan milestones, post your contributions for review, and comment on others’ work.
• Post group project files in Vyew’s File Storage to ensure everyone has access to the latest version.
• Tutor, share answers to homework, prep for exams, and share class notes with your peers.
• Plan social activities.

 

 

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Page last updated: Jan 2008