Does Your Group Need a Group Website?

Does Your Group Need a Group Website?
There are a lot of websites out there that represent groups
of people - companies, sports teams and leagues, non-profit
charities, clubs, event planners, collaborative efforts.
But maybe you have an idea of sharing more than just
bandwidth with your group. Maybe the members of your group
would like to have more autonomy while being a part of a
greater, supportive whole.

Who could benefit from such a group website?

Family & Friends

Sports teams and leagues - baseball teams, basketball
teams, soccer teams, football teams, softball teams,
coaches, managers and parents

Community Groups and associations - neighborhood
associations, church groups, temple groups, home owners
associations, community centers

Nonprofit organizations and boards, volunteer groups, event
organizers

School groups - class websites, teacher websites, project
websites, PTAs and PTOs

Social Clubs - book clubs, stock clubs

Work groups - project teams, intranet

Travel groups

Let me play devil's advocate here. I love collaborative
projects but there are difficulties. Maybe not all group
members have the technical savvy necessary to work with a
website. Maybe no one does! Maybe group members are so busy
they don't have the time to learn. Maybe one group member
has the knowledge and some time, but not enough to run the
site for everyone. But now you're back where you started;
just pay someone to do the webmaster work? You'd lose all
the benefits of allowing people to be more independent.

What you need is a hosting service for websites and blogs
that removes technical obstacles to publishing profitable
text content on the Web.

You need a system that makes it easy to create a website,
to invite and add members, and to maintain, as well as
being customizable and collaborative. Sharing information,
photos and YouTube videos should be fast and easy. Instead
of websites being one-person endeavors, they might easily
become social projects. This would encourage individual
creativity and responsibility as well as participation in a
greater whole.

People are such social animals. We work at home to get out
of our cubicles, make our own decisions, and set our own
priorities. But then we miss the water cooler! Can't we
have a website that serves as our water cooler, but with
some rules and safeguards?

Whether your group is a loose-knit gathering of colleagues
supporting each other's work, a group united by charitable
intentions, an online magazine, business partners, a
timeshare network, a knitting circle, babysitters club or
jogging group - you need a time-saver, not another project!
You need a convenient way to stay in touch, share knowledge
and schedules, and help each other.

Wouldn't it be cool if independent participants could take
responsibility for their own work, and colleagues could
read about each other's research, studies, and
accomplishments and benefit from the exposure to each
other's readers and mailing lists? Charities could network
fundraising, volunteer projects, activities and programs.
An online magazine could easily manage multiple editors and
topics. Business partners could delegate tasks and stay
updated easily. Social networks could share schedules,
transportation, successes and stories.

One person would own the website and manage the site as a
whole, but no one would have to do all the technical work
because there would be software in place to do all that.

As Bob Marley said, "Let's get together and feel alright!"

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