Grouply Benefits for Group Owners

 

 

Group owners who use Grouply save time in administering their groups and learn more about what’s going on in them. Since Grouply members are more satisfied and engaged, your groups are more successful overall! With Grouply Owner Controls, you have complete control over the Grouply experience of your group members.

 

Run your group more efficiently
In addition to an email list or discussion board on Yahoo Groups, many groups struggle to maintain and synchronize additional other communication channels such as a website and newsletter. In such cases, running an online group can a maintenance nightmare! Grouply offers a number of features that help save you time as you administer your group.

  • All in one place – Grouply automatically builds a professional website for your group with messages organized into types such as events, classified ads, and announcements. With Grouply you can create and publish a newsletter automatically, too. And the newsletter and website are automatically synchronized with the messages posted to your group.
  • Event management – Have you ever struggled to collect RSVPs for an event that was announced in your Yahoo Groups? Grouply provides calendar and RSVP features for your Yahoo Groups automatically.
  • Member contact info – Do you ask your group members to enter their contact information into a database or shared spreadsheet? Understandably, group members are often reluctant to provide yet another version of their contact information to yet another group. Maintaining all these copies can be a chore! Grouply users enter their contact information once and use Grouply to selectively share it with certain groups and not others.
  • Moderator tools – Many owners spend too much time reviewing and approving members and messages for their groups. Grouply is developing moderator tools to streamline this process and help you administer all your groups in one place!
  • Best practices – Do you use Yahoo Groups to run a freecycling group, book club, mothers club, professional networking group, sports team, or a general discussion group? Grouply provides guidelines and best practices so you can learn from the experts on how to run your particular type of group.

 

Instantly take the pulse of the group
As the group owner, you are responsible for guiding the conversation among your members. It’s not always clear, though, how all group members feel about certain topics, postings, or activities. Often the discussion is dominated by just a few participants. What does everyone else think? Grouply provides a number of tools to help you determine what all your group members – even the “lurkers” – find interesting.

  • Popular conversations – Grouply highlights the conversations that have the most comments or that have been viewed or bookmarked the most or rated most highly.
  • Popular topics – The most popular topics are displayed in a convenient “tag cloud” where the size of the word or phrase reflects its importance to the group.
  • Most influential members – With Grouply you can quickly identify the most influential members of the group – those whose postings command the most attention and respect from other members.
  • Statistics and analytics – Soon Grouply will offer a weekly Newsletter just for group owners that will include useful statistics and summaries of what went on in the group that week.

 

Turn your group into a community
In every online group are real people with unique likes and dislikes, but their personalities and interests sometimes don’t come through in their postings – if they post at all! Getting to know the members of your group can be difficult, but Grouply makes it easy.

Grouply users gets their own dynamic profile pages where they can share photos, videos, and details about themselves. As they use Grouply, they have the option to allow Grouply to track the messages they find interesting and share this information with fellow group members. With Grouply’s extensive privacy controls, users have complete control over who can see what, so they tend to share more. With Grouply’s social features, your groups become communities built around your members as well as their messages.

 

Safer and more private than email
Most Yahoo Groups users access their group messages via one of hundreds of online email systems like Gmail, inbox.com, and muchomail, causing copies of your group messages to be distributed to and stored on computers around the world, each with its own security policy and controls. Users can access your group messages forever from these systems, even if they subsequently leave the group. With Grouply, your group messages are private, safe and secure.

  • Messages in Grouply are visible only to group members - Grouply is basically a “smart” email reader, specially designed for reading messages from online groups. Instead of forwarding group messages to their Gmail or Yahoo Mail accounts, group members send their messages to Grouply and read them there. In Gmail you can see all the messages associated with all the groups that you ever belonged to, but in Grouply you can see only the messages for groups you currently belong to. In this sense, Grouply is even more private and secure than email!
  • Yahoo passwords are protected - Today Grouply collects Yahoo passwords from users so that we can collect their group messages and check their group memberships. Passwords are encrypted and can be read only by the Grouply application, not directly by a human. Soon Grouply will offer an option for users to use Grouply without providing their Yahoo password.
  • Member information remains private - Grouply does not collect or expose any information about group members who are not Grouply users.
  • Grouply complies with the Yahoo Groups Terms of Service More

 

Owners are in control
Grouply respects the rights of owners to decide what’s best for their groups. That’s why Grouply provides extensive controls just for group owners so they can determine what their group members can and do in Grouply. With Grouply Owner Controls, a group owner can:

  • Enable access - Allow your group members to access your group through Grouply if they choose to do so. You can also set whether Grouply users in your group can invite others to try Grouply using the “Invite My Group” feature.
  • Disable access - Prevent your group members from accessing your group through Grouply.

Click here to access Grouply Owner Controls.

 

Find out more
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