Group Collaboration Tool
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 8:42AM 
In this review, we look at Grou.ps, a free service that allows you to create your own social network, or more simply can be used as a tool to facilitate collaboration amongst group members. The service is available open source, or you can use the hosted version available from Grou.ps. This platform offers allot of potential, as you can customize the entire design (look and feel). This can be a really handy tool to know about, as it only takes less 5 minutes to create & promote your new group to colleagues, for easy collaboration.
Group Collaboration Features
After creating a group, you have the following modules available, you can easily show or hide each, depending on your requirements:
Talks
Forum + mailing lists; for all communication needs of your group.
Wiki
Create web pages easily, share documents and collaborate.
Blogs
Aggregation of blogs that group members own and/or may be interested.
Calendar
Share your agenda. Organize your events.
Video
Your very own YouTube!
Files
Share files, your own Downloads section.
Photo
Share photos; aggregate Flickr accounts or enter them separately.
Links
Share links, bookmarks; aggregate Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit accounts.
Sub Groups
Let your users play with sub groups and engage even more.
Map
A real world map showing members' current location and souvenirs (w. photos).
Chat
Real time chat with group members.
People
Customizable profiles of group members.
As you can see from the features included this can be a really handy tool to initiate workgroup collaboration with clients & business partners where they may not have access to your network.
Create Custom Design
One impressive feature of Grou.ps collaboration tool, is the ability to fully customize the entire application. Moreover, you could potentially customize the design layout to look like an extension of your company website.
Feel free to contact us at Batipi, to see if Grou.ps can work with your companies collaboration requirements.
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