Nikos Filippou, Thessaloniki Greece I write this letter because I just start a group about Type 1 Diabetes in Greece. Your tools will help me build a community of people that interchange information about the serious health problem we face in our everyday life.

5 needs of social groups Sharing Collaboration Communication Group Action Self-Expression

Sharing

Collaboration

Communication

Group Action

Self-Expression

Jason Harris, GigaOM Grou.ps has smartly offered these tools in such a way to capitalize on your existing assets on the web. That is, your list of links can be based off links already existent on del.icio.us, your photo gallery can be made up of pictures from Flickr, log entries can come from an exisitng blog on the web, and finally, collaborative member’s updates can come from Twitter, if they wish.

New Modules Files Videos Knowledge Base

Files

Videos

Knowledge Base

New Languages

New Languages

New Templates

New Homepage

Numbers talk: 1/5 th to 1/10 th of our $104 million funded competitor

organically

$1.1 million