The document discusses collaboration tools for a group and compares Groupcare to Ning. It notes that Groupcare lacks features like forums, document repositories, and ongoing collaboration tools that encourage communication between meetings. While Groupcare allows emailing all members, it is seldom used. The recommendation is to use Ning instead as it provides more customizable profiles for members, groups for discussions, notifications, messaging to all members, document uploading and sharing, and photo features to better facilitate ongoing collaboration.

1. Etpo group collaboration

2. What we need Features: Overview of members Notification features Something like Forums Document repository Ongoing collaboration tools

3. What we need Content: Polls/surveys Slides & presentations Photos Documents Forms

4. What we have - Groupcare + PLUS Address list Email to all - MINUS Payment mode (Counted 4 VIP members on13.09) Not much Storage Does not encourage collaboration No customisation Conclusio: Groupcare does not enhance communication between meetings It is seldom used at all Most used feature is email to all

5. recommendation: use ning Features: Overview of members Every member has his own profile Customisable profile questions Something like Forums Groups for discussions (can also be invitation only) Ongoing collaboration tools Member blogs Comments Notification feature Send message to all Group members – (per group) „ Follow Group“ feature RSS feeds Document repository Document upload in Group discussion post or blog posts Special Photo upload features