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GroupieGuide, which has launched in private alpha, offers a neatly organized home for your group, complete with compartments for news, pictures, discussions, and events.
The site pretty much takes all of the hassle out of creating a fully-functional website to connect group members, promote events, facilitate discussions, and share photos. Essentially, it's a website-in-a-box tailored just for groups. Administrative users just need to add a few group details, tweak the appearance, schedule an event, and they'll have a nice looking group site they can call their own.
Right now you've got some limitations when it comes to modifying the group's appearance, though you can add a logo and banner picture, customize the color, or upload a background picture, and theme options are planned for the near future. Domain customization will also be offered in the future as a paid feature.
With GroupieGuide adding events is super simple, but if you're looking for event management, the site might disappoint. GroupieGuide does support event additions, and even adds them to the home page, but there's no clear way for group members to RSVP for events, so you'll need to rely on other sites like Eventbrite to coordinate and manage your events.
Since groups tend to be social and have at least one aspiring photog among their ranks, GroupieGuide would also be wise to beef up their pictures page. The site currently supports photo uploads, but an easy way to import group photos across popular social sites would definitely encourage more group members to add their photos to the fray.
All in all, GroupieGuide offers group a fantastic package deal and online home, and it's completely free - for now - though premium options will be made available for a fee. If your group needs a home, we can take you behind the curtains of the private alpha site. The first 50 people to sign up here will get full access to GroupieGuide.
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