About Denis Zaff

I am the founder of Rukuku.com - Training Cloud. My interests are diverse and changing all the time; things that are at the core of my everyday life are my family, books & road cycling. I almost never watch TV, constantly remain pretty clueless about competitive sports, and I don't own a microwave oven.

Five Cool Rukuku Features That Everybody Loves

Our users often email us about features they find most useful in Rukuku so we decided to summarize the fan mail in this post. I will highlight five free features that contest the top position in the “What I love about Rukuku” list.

1. Unlimited participants

Whether you have 1 active customer or a thousand, we are happy to accommodate your needs. We do not impose any limitations on the number of participants in your courses, webinars, or conference calls. Compare this offer to various competing offers out there, and it will become clear that unlimited is hard to find.

2. Free conference calls

Our web conferencing solution is free. Speak for as long as you need, as often as you want – it is free regardless.

3. Free course composer

Create your courses and course materials using our Composer. The tool is absolutely free.

4. Free private classes

If you need a virtual meeting space for an impromptu private class, Rukuku offers that functionality for free. Go to Auditorium, click on Private Classes, and Start New Private Class. Invite other participants by sending them a unique access link using the green “Invite” button. Combined with point #1 above, this is a total winner.

5. Free Storefront

If you want to monetize your courses, we offer you an amazing tool – Storefront. It is a subset of the general Marketplace that resides on your website. You control what items you want to display in your Storefront via a management dashboard. See how it works here: http://malcolmedmonstone.com/online-courses-with-malcolm/

That’s all folks! Don’t be shy to drop us a line about your favorite Rukuku features.

French food

BON APPÉTIT

Learn to cook six French dishes with Chef Matthieu Baron for $99.99: from the heavenly Cheese & Mustard Soufflé to the awesome French fish pie, this course will make you a legend amongst your friends and family.

You would need to register an account with Rukuku in order to enroll.
http://www.rukuku.com/desktop/#/marketplace/course/297/courseline

UPD: From Nov 1, 2014 our French Cuisine course is $99.99 – a price of a nice meal at our favorite French restaurant in Almaden, CA.

Amazing! Rukuku CDO’s Art Returns From International Space Station

Rukuku’s co-founder and Chief Design Officer, Oleg Tischenkov – also known in the art and design world as olegti, has just shared some heavenly news! His art has flown to space and come back to Earth after six months on the ISS. Here goes the story:

IMGP5484a Oleg draws a series of comics called “Cat”. He started the strip while he was working in Moscow, Russia. The “Cat” is amazingly popular in Russia: several heavy volumes of “Cat” comics have been published and invariably sold out. The English version of the strip is available as an iPad app “iCat”.

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Exactly a year ago Oleg drew a strip about flying to space and mailed it to one of his fan friends in Moscow who liked it a lot. In fact, the friend passed the strip on to Sergey Ryazansky, a Russian cosmonaut who flew to the ISS last year, and served as a Flight Engineer on Expedition 37 and Expedition 38 before returning to Earth aboard the Soyuz on March 11, 2014. Sergey took the strip with him to space, and then brought it back with him in the Soyuz TMA-10M on March 11.

Oleg has received his strip back in the mail today! As far as everyone involved is concerned, this is the first hand-drawn original comic strip in the history of human kind that flew to space, resided on the International Space Station for six months, and returned back to Earth.  Congratulations, Oleg!

That officially makes Rukuku visual design truly heavenly and super highly technological. Sky is no longer the limit.

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A truly amazing achievement!

Rukuku, Inc. and Richard Lewis Communications Ltd. Announce Partnership

Richard Lewis Communications Ltd. has selected Rukuku as a development partner to host and deliver RLCs award winning language and culture training online. This is the first time their language programs are delivered to RLC’s customers via the Internet, and the cultural courses will complement their award-winning online cultural resource, CultureActive. The companies will also collaborate on interactive course design, as well as production and delivery of high-quality training content.

Rukuku’s interactive collaboration tool for online training will enable RLC to capitalize on its extensive training expertise and engage with its existing customers with greater frequency. Rukuku Marketplace will allow RLC training modules to be marketed to, bought and accessed by a vast pool of new potential customers around the world.

“We are happy that collaboration with Rukuku will allow us to expand our reach for synchronous and asynchronous training courses beyond the traditional classroom. Our customers come from all corners of the globe, and today we are responding to their preference for an excellent and flexible remote training environment,” said Michael Gates, Vice Chairman, Richard Lewis Communications. “Here are some of the advantages of Rukuku that we have considered:

  • The technology removes physical and logistical constraints for our trainers to engage with the customers online
  • Full control over recorded courses allowing for flexible customization, review and ongoing monetization
  • Integrated training environment which brings together for the first time the training materials, audio and video conferencing, electronic drawing board, and other interactive features.
  • Finally, we believe Rukuku Marketplace will be a great place for learners all around the world to come and shop for their training and education, and when they do, they will be able to buy RLC’s world-class training content on Cultural Communication and Language Learning.”

“I am honored that Rukuku has been selected by Richard Lewis Communications as an online training and course delivery partner,” said Denis Zaff, CEO of Rukuku, Inc. “This cooperation marks an important milestone in our development as we are executing on our business-to-business SaaS development strategy.  Richard Lewis Communications Ltd is an outstanding company that delivers world-class training to customers around the world. We are excited about working with the amazing team at RLC, whose satisfaction is our highest priority: to ensure things go smoothly, we have formed a dedicated management and engineering team to drive and support the RLC-Rukuku platform integration project from beginning to end. I am looking forward to expanding our cooperation in the future.”

About Richard Lewis Communications Ltd.

  • Richard Lewis has been in the field of communication since 1955, and in cross-culture since 1988
  • RLC has trained around 70,000 people in cross-cultural competence. Profiled more than 50,000 people from 200+ countries
  • When Cultures Collide, by Richard Lewis, has sold over 1 million copies and is in a dozen languages
  • The CultureActive cultural assessment and knowledge resource was the world’s first online tool in the field and goes wider and deeper than any other on the market
  • RLC works with dozens of blue chip companies world-wide, such as Rolls-Royce, Nokia, Maersk and Telefonica, as well as governments and other international organizations such as the World Bank, the UN and with business schools such as Said, at the University of Oxford.

About Rukuku, Inc.

Rukuku, Inc, a Delaware Corporation, offers interactive courses and training powered by its user-friendly Learning Management System (LMS). The company specializes in providing instructional design and interactive course production services to training organizations, corporate training divisions, corporate trainers and instructors. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA
http://launch.it/launch/rukuku-inc-and-richard-lewis-communications-ltd-announce-partnership

SXSW Day 1

Wow!  SXSW2014 is an amazing experience through and through. Our booth at the trade show was very well attended. We have started conversations with many potential partners and customers: training businesses and organizations,  corporate trainers and HR departments in large corporations. The press is also very active at the trade show. All in all, it has been 14 hours of non-stop action today! We already know we will be back for next year’s SXSW – the event is that good!