Every group gets a public profile
Creating a profile at http://groupspaces.com/your-group-name helps more people find out about your group.
- Attract new members by uploading a logo or picture and a description of your group.
- Link to your group's website to drive more traffic to it - rank better in Google.
- Potential members can contact you via the profile.
- Join your local network so people can find your group in the directory.
- Don't have a website? Join the growing number of groups who use GroupSpaces as their home on the Internet!
Remove the pain from managing your mailing list
Send out professional-looking newsletters. Subscribe and unsubscribe requests are processed automatically.
- Easy to get started - copy and paste your list of e-mail addresses or import from Excel.
- Customize the look and feel of your newsletter to match your group's colors or brand.
- Automatic formatting and generated table of contents.
- Monitor bouncing address easily - error messages from invalid e-mail addresses are kept out of your inbox.
- Manage multiple lists, allowing you to e-mail subsets of your members e.g. committee, alumni.
- E-mail newsletters can be archived online for members to refer to later.
Keep your membership database securely in one place
Never worry about people having the latest version of an Excel spreadsheet again - store your member database securely online, share management between committee members, accessible to the right people at any time.
- Create lists for different member types to manage e-mail lists and access to content.
- Learn more about your members - choose what columns you want and require members to fill out their information when they join online.
- Invalid/bouncing e-mail addresses are highlighted in red so you can keep your records current.
- Import from and export to Excel at any time.
- Handing over to new committee members becomes ridiculously easy.
Organize and promote events
Create and organize events, with Facebook integration, the ability to invite members, take payments, and display in a calendar online.
- Promote your event from one place - import or export to Facebook and export event details to Outlook, Google calendar, iCal or Yahoo calendar.
- Choose who to send invites to and let people RSVP from their email account - they don't need a GroupSpaces account
- Take payments online using PayPal, tracking who has paid and how many tickets they bought.
- Promote your event through networks on GroupSpaces and automatically update a calendar on your own website.
- Save time by automatically creating event listings when sending out an e-mail newsletter.
Integrate GroupSpaces with your group's own website
Integrate content and forms from GroupSpaces on your group's own website.
- Let people to join your mailing list from your own site.
- Avoid typing up handwritten membership forms - collect member details online.
- Maintain an events calendar on your website - no technical knowledge required.
Store and share files with your members and officers or committee
Store your constitution, meeting minutes, logos, poster designs or any files, all in one place.
- Store up to 250MB of files in your group for free.
- See who uploaded each file and when it was uploaded.
- Allow anyone to access files, or restrict access to chosen group members.
- E-mail attachments sent to your group are automatically stored as well!
Create a social network for members with browsable profiles
Instantly turn your mailing list into a social network - help your members connect with each other.
- Include your entire mailing list - members don't need to create a GroupSpaces account before other members can see and contact them.
- Privacy is preserved at all times - you can control who can see the members list and e-mail addresses are obscured to prevent spam.
- Members can list their social networks for other members to contact them - no need to keep yet another profile updated.
Add extra pages to your group with any information or content
Add pages to your group to display anything you want. Provide information to your members or use GroupSpaces to promote your group to the world!
- Add new tabs or arrange pages in a hierarchical menu.
- Control who can access each page - from specific members to publicly available.
- Add all the necessary information about your group to make it your home on the Internet - no technical knowledge required!
Use a wiki to share information and work together
Create a public or private Wiki - use it as a committee intranet or shared workspace with group members.
- Edit pages, attach files and organize things how you want.
- Create new pages just by linking to them.
- Keep track of changes and revert to older versions at any time - never lose information again!
- Control who has access and who can make edits - on a page-by-page basis if desired.
GroupSpaces tools and directory for networks of related groups
Organize a network of groups? GroupSpaces can help you.
- Provide GroupSpaces tools to all groups in your network.
- Access news and event information from all member groups in a centralized directory.
- Integrate with your network's website(s) - access data from all groups through APIs and embeddable widgets.
- Contact us for branding and partnership enquiries, or simply if you'd like to discuss how we could help you and your network.
