GroupLoop: Basic Sharing for Families, Boards, Clubs

Know More: 30 Boxes, Collaboration 2.0, 30 Boxes

GroupLoop is a very simple web-based collaboration application aimed at lower-tech users such as families, boards, private clubs, non profits and chambers of commerce. It handles the basics extremely well - so well that I'm beginning to think all families should have something like this.

For free you can add up to 25 members, but you are allowed only 1 committee, 3 files and 12 calendar events, making the free option useful mainly for the messaging.

GroupLoop features include:

Message Board - this works like a blog - the intial information is posted and responses are added as comments. I actually like this better than forums, which can get confusing.

Calendar - Both a text-style list of events and a small calendar are used. When an event is added to the calendar, an email notification can be sent to all or just select members of the team.

Documents - Documents are uploaded files and GroupLoop has the option of using categories for organization.

People - Basically a contact list, with the option to add people to committees. Information can then be addressed to certain committees. It doesn't appear, however, that messages or files can be permission-based by committee.

What needs improvement: Add recurring events scheduling to the calendar and some basic permissions by committee. Even for a family this would be nice - you could have an "adult" committee that could discuss birthday presents without the kids being able to see.

Comparison:

30Boxes - I like GroupLoop somewhat more - even though limited, the interface is pretty. But like I said about GroupLoop, for free you can set up a Yahoo account and do a lot of the same things, albeit not in one bundled app.

Thanks for the comments, Diane. Just to clarify a couple of points:

File storage is measured in MB, not the number of files. We've clarified this on our pricing page. 3MB on the free plan could get you quite a few Word documents.

Committes are exclusive -- If you don't belong a committee, you can't see anything posted for that committee at all. So your scenario for adults and kids would work just fine. Only the account holder or users designated with "administrative" rights can add or remove people from committees.

Lyle Mullican
Grouploop.com

Posted by: Lyle Mullican | August 1, 2006 2:44 PM | Permalink to Comment

Thank you so much for clarifying that!

And the news about committees is fabulous - I'm thinking your product would be ideal for Scouting groups as well and plan to pass on the info to some Scout Leaders I know.

Posted by: Diane Ensey | August 1, 2006 2:53 PM | Permalink to Comment

Doesn't Google Groups provide basically the same service for free? Plus Google Groups is integrated with Calendar, Google Office, Gmail, etc...

http://groups.google.com

Posted by: Anonymous | January 23, 2007 8:49 AM | Permalink to Comment

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