Topaz Group produces workflow and social software solutions spanning SureTech.com Get IT Anytime Anywhere business service to internally developed community and collaboration products currently serving 60,000 registered users and growing.

Over the years we feel privileged to have produced business applications for Fortune 50 companies such as American Express and Schlumberger, multiple large scale online community websites including the internationally heralded thebusinessonline.com and the leading student run nonprofit DwightHall.org and massive multiplayer games and arcade environments for Disney, ESPN and others.  

We have over 12 years experience in rich media interactive development and almost 20 years managing and collaborating with creative talent including design, performance and music professionals.  Millions of users have used technologies or played games we have developed.  Topaz has done technical and creative work on over 100 Disney games in their disney.com and disneyxd.com multiplayer environments and prior to that founded the ESPN Arcade along with producing unique immersive multiplayer game worlds for ESPN.com's premium online subscriber channel.  Topaz has a rich ...

Overview

Topaz Group currently produces interactive entertainment and social software for major media companies as well as for select niche focused communities cultivated by Topaz or Topaz clients.   We serve a clientele of Fortune 100 companies as well as select small and medium size business through Topaz Group Ventures, Inc, an independent interactive media studio which has now developed the SureTech.com business.

Topaz has done technical and creative work on over 100 web based and iPhone video games that leverage multiplayer capabilities, play environments and competitive achievement levels.

Selected Work Samples

Topaz has a rich portfolio of unique high concept properties for which we have done all the engineering as well as creative production and interaction design.

Our expertise is in understanding the social dynamics of communication and incorporating artistic expesion into online experiences that generate repeat users and participation.  We have a breadth of experience in delivering and managing complex technology development projects.

Online Games:

• ESPNArcade - Game Design and leaderboard based competition platform - check out the original Bar, Credits and Splash Page
• Disney DXD - Technical Development In Flash and Action Script and Game Design
• gocrosscampus - Community Technical Architecture and Flash game design and development

We provide safe and effective ways to promote and manage user generated content in building successful virtual communities.

• South Jersey Works
• YAAMNY
• DwightHall
• Massmind.com
• SureTech.com

Selected List of Clients

• OneClick Arcade
• TopazPort

One Click Clubs offers state of the art online community relationship management capabilities to membership  based organizations.  Requiring only a web browser with access to the internet, an organization will be able to provide the modern features expected by online users to interact with each other and the organization.

It will be possible for organizations to install a single website, and also for umbrella organizations to install networks with sub-sites for member organizations with syndication to the larger umbrella.

The beta period will include two networks:

1. YaleNet, including the initial sites Yale Alumni Association of Metroplitan New York, the Yale Latino Alumni and The Yale Club of New Haven
2. Dwight Hall, the center for public service and social justice, which includes over 100 member groups

All of the beta sites are for groups that encourage interactive websites and support member-driven contributions.

OneClickClubs comes out of 3 years of volunteer work managing a true virtual community with Yale Alumni Association of Metroplitan New York which now boasts over 10,000 visits permonth and over 30 distinct user-driven posts.
 

Topaz Group Ventures Inc. is a boutique creative studio dedicated to building interactive tools and entertainment online.  Topaz has three areas of business expertise built around our interest in games and online publishing of both editorial and user generated content.

Topaz Group Ventures Inc.

212-481-1681

support@topaz.net

575 Madison Avenue, 10th Floor

New York, NY 10001

57 Laurel Road

Princeton, NJ 08540

Topaz Group Ventures Inc. is dedicated to customer satisfaction and a desire to help groups collect, share and interact in collaborative and easy to use on-line environments.  

For our employees, we want to be the kind of place where you work hard, learn a ton, and feel welcome to bring your kids to work to visit and play.  We don't believe in staying at work and wishing you were at home.  Employees can work where they are - we practice the functional on-line collaborative work we preach and our employees are in Princeton, Fairfield and Thailand.   All our work is in an on-line environment.  This is our best approach at reducing our carbon footprint - no paper, no commuting!

1. A robust content management system
2. A community management system to promote participation of your audience with your website
3. Broadcast tools to communicate via email with your audience
4. Integration into a larger network through which we can easily promote your content, events and promotion ideas

Strategic

1. Long term commitment to engage your members/audience with online tools that compete with and supersede mass market social network online services
2. Long term strategy and commitment to push the envelope for online collaboration with affinity groups and clubs
3. Deep experience with high traffic community web applications (iTurf, ESPN, Disney)
4. Deep experience with sensitive Brand management online (Disney, high end professional services firms, YAAMNY)
5. Deep experience as a full service technology services consultancy SureTech.com
6. Unique approach of supporting membership generated bottom-up participation in organizational discussion  
   
   
    

Technical Features In Detail

1. User Driven Attractive and Easy to Use Bulletin Boards
   • Allow members and visitors to participate and contribute content (for example):
     • News announcement
     • Calendar Events
     • Rental Classifieds
     • Job Opportunities Classifieds
   • Collaborative WYSIWYG Editng and Publishing of Articles and all Site content
   • Enable topic categorization such as volunteering opportunities or upcoming event descriptions
   • User controlable categorization of all material by section
   • Easy creation of new post types
   • Dozens of built in post types with easy system for adding new fields and types of content
   • All event and classifieds have a post start and end date
   • Easy upload of photos and embedding ...

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