More than two years ago, Grouply introduced advanced administration features, premium services, and the ability for Yahoo Groups owners to give their groups an “extreme makeover” through Grouply. Grouply relies on some group owners paying for premium services in order to cover the cost of running Grouply. We are now at the point where we See more...

Grouply will be down for scheduled maintenance tonight for two hours from 10:30pm to 12:30am PDT. During this time, we will be making system adjustments to address recent issues around detecting Yahoo/Google Group memberships and sending Smart Digests. We are planning additional improvements over the coming weeks to address issues that have resulted in blank pages See more...

Grouply will be down for system maintenance on Tuesday, March 15 from 8am until 6pm PDT. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please return to this blog posting for progress updates. Thanks for using Grouply!

We are very excited to share that Grouply is now part of Oodle! Oodle -- based in San Mateo, CA, just a few miles up Highway 101 from the Grouply office -- is a pioneer in social commerce. With over 14 million monthly users, the Oodle Marketplace lets users easily buy, sell, lend and give with See more...

Grouply has long been a favorite tool in the education community.  Teachers, parents, and students use Grouply social groups to collaborate and share information with each other.  Today we are pleased to announce Grouply for Education, a bundle of premium services offered for free to qualifying education groups such as schools, classrooms, and parent-teacher associations.  See more...

When Ning announced two weeks ago that they would no longer support free networks, we immediately got to work on a tool to help you move your Ning Network to Grouply as quickly and painlessly as possible.  Today we are excited to announce that the Ning-to-Grouply migration tool is ready to go!  The Ning-to-Grouply migration See more...

In case you missed the news out of last week’s F8 conference, Facebook’s new universal 'Like' button is coming soon to a website near you – and brings with it some "special powers".  When you click the Like button on any of the tens of thousands of sites where it appears, Facebook automatically updates your Facebook See more...

See also: Ning-to-Grouply Migration With Ning’s recent announcement that they will no longer offer free networks, Ning Network Creators are feverishly evaluating alternatives.  It’s an exercise that Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups owners are familiar with, as many continue to seek a more modern platform with the latest social features. Grouply and a few others provide all See more...

In earlier posts here and here we discussed some of the frustrations that group owners have felt in using Yahoo! Groups, Facebook, and other systems to help run their mothers clubs, alumni associations, elementary schools, book clubs, and discussion groups.  Turns out these group systems aren’t optimal for group members, either.  In this post we See more...

Ning announced today that they will be eliminating their free offering. Existing Ning networks will have to either start paying or move elsewhere. Grouply offers a free alternative to Ning. A “social group” on Grouply provides much of the same functionality as a Ning network, including a customizable community website, event management, discussion forums, See more...