Connect Your Teams, Communities and the Public
Free Your Groups from Email Overload
Make it easy for your groups to hold conversations and share files using email and the web. Create public and private groups on a site of your own, with no ads.
Unlimited Free Public Groups on a Free Site with No Ads
1 Sign Up and Start a Free Site
2 Customize your Site and Start Groups
3 Invite People and Start Posting
Make Collaboration Easy
- Make email manageable
- Share conversations and files
- Use email and the web
- Create public or private groups
- Connect multiple organizations
- Keep records in a searchable archive
- Manage multiple document versions
- Chat in groups in real time
Case Studies
- Ski Club Committee Meets Online
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Why was this site not around years ago?
— Thomas Stevens of Mt Olympus Ski Club. - Professional Association Builds Online Community
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This is a company that gets it
— Walter Logeman of the NZ Association of Psychotherapists. - Horse Trek Guides Coordinate Activities Online
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The online group can get information out to others easily and efficiently
— Kate Tapley of Kate Tapley Horse Treks.
Example Sites
- OnlineGroups.Net Demo Site
- Join a group and try out participating in an online group, for yourself.
- Kiwi Online Groups
- Featuring the Kiwi Intranets online group.
- Banks Peninsula Biodiversity Online Groups
- Featuring public and private groups related to biodiversity in Canterbury, New Zealand.
- GroupServer.Org
- Website and online groups for GroupServer, the open source software that powers OnlineGroups.Net.
Websites for Collaboration
- A free website with discussion forums
- Hosted message boards for communities
- Private workspaces for virtual teams
- Community of practice sites
- Web forums for customer engagement
- Public consultation sites
- Inter-agency collaboration spaces
- A hosted extranet for your organization
Questions
News
- Custom Domains Now Available on Free Sites Jul 04 01:00 UTC
- Software that Powers OnlineGroups.Net Released as Open Source Jun 17 00:00 UTC
- Limited Offer: All Online Groups Sites Free Until September 2008! Apr 23 03:22 UTC
- Help Section Updated Mar 27 01:00 UTC
- Service Reinstated Mar 19 03:00 UTC
Blog
- Why We Release GroupServer as Open Source
- Why We Built GroupServer
- GroupServer: The Open Source Software Behind OnlineGroups.Net
- Email: Consider Your Audience
- Why Fight Email?
Latest Sites
How It Works
Online groups are like a list server and a message board with file-sharing and chat. Your groups live on a free website with no ads. Premium sites can have secure private groups.
OnlineGroups.Net uses the open source collaboration server GroupServer.
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System Status
The system is currently ok.