How is CollectiveX different to Clearspace
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At first glance you can join lots of groups like Facebook, so CollectiveX seems to be a massive network
This is my first discussion post, so I'm still testing out the features, but what I'm after is a social network where you can add friends, private message, IM and comment on their wall.
I also want to be able to join a group and send some of my posts to a group page or goto that group page and discuss in the forum.
I posted about this here:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/07/18/clearspace-enterprise-20-communities/
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I've just added a lengthly response to your blog post about CollectiveX. We can continue the discussion there or here. Social Networking has become a broad catch-all term. As such, CollectiveX is included in the category. Based on your blog, it's clear that you are very experienced with Social Networking. So why compare all social networks on a feature by feature basis... CollectiveX is more like a white-label Yahoo Groups that it is a MySpace. CollectiveX can also be viewed as Social Groupware depending on how your group uses it.
About Clearspace: I don't know anything about them so I can't tell you how we are different, but I can tell you that we are CollectiveX... so why not ask how Clearspace is different than us? Meanwhile, I'll go and visit Clearspace and give you my thoughts ;-)
Regards,
Clarence
I really like that Collectivex has taken a group rather than the individual centric approach. The idea that we would do social networking outside the context of a group (collective) is insane.
Most of the sites like Linkedin, Facebook, MySpace etc (you get where I'm going) only want you to get your friends to join. They want the profiles (the email addresses). They are a best enhanced contact databases....they rarely provide the tools/functionality required to truly network...in fact most do whatever they can to discourage networking..to the point of restricting or deleting accounts.
Facebook has come the furthest trying to provide tools, however, since it has been so focused on a youth/family market it does not serve the business community well. The addition of widgets is great in theory, however, there is so much crap that sites become confusing as to focus and messaging.
The other issue that makes no sense is that INDIVIDUALS spend all their time trying to build connections looking for opportunities. With no context we keep adding contacts, hoping that one of them or one of their contacts might expose an opportunity. However, we are spending 80% of our time adding contacts and with only 20% of the time available to participate in actually getting to know our contacts...then (as mentioned previously) we get reprimanded by the sites claiming they want to facilitate our networking activities.
The group centric approach ensures that people of common mind are able to quickly find each other and get on with working the opportunities.
For those that want to be islands onto themselves...you have lots of Social Networking sits to stroke your egos. For those that really want to explore, network and truly execute opportunites there is CollectiveX.
Andrew,
Nice post! I couldn't have said it better myself. You just described a new category of social networking that we are defining here at CollectiveX. We call it "Group Engagement Networking (GEN)". CollectiveX is focused on becoming a Group Engagement Network.
The CollectiveX mission is to:
Empower the World's Groups to Share, Communicate and Network - Publicly or in Private, Socially or Professionally. Enabling groups to network within... building deeper connections (not just more connections).
I understand you are going the group way rather than personal social network to keep everything in context and productive for the group.
What if in 5 of the groups I belong in I have my core friends...cannot I no add these friends.
My profile page would have friends by group...if a friend was in 2 groups, their name would appear twice...
This friends list is still in the context of groups, if a friend appeared in 2 groups, and I wanted to send a message related to group B, then I would click the friends name in group B and send a message...this would stay in my group B inbox/sent box.
I like being able to interact from my profile page.
Same goes with blogs, cannot I not have a blog for each group...each blog would be in context of the group, therefore avoided personal posts
Ning really works well as a social network within a topic community...only CollectiveX allows you to access all the communities you belong to which is great.
John,
Great feedback. We have been thinking about how to balance our mission of being Group-centric with the realities of the need for platform wide communicate between friends spread across multiple groups. We will offer blogging on a group-by-group basis in the not too distant future. At present, we have a "View All" mode which empowers you to overlay group information across multiple groups. I believe the ultimate solution will be a combination message center (w/ friends/associates) & view all area, that in tandem will enable much of what you are looking for.
These things are on our roadmap and will be implemented on or before the end of the 2nd quarter.
I hope this helps. Thanks for your suggestions. Please keep them coming
Clarence
Just my two cents: Unless my group gets to the size where I can purchase the enterprise edition, I am not for having my members have access from my site to other groupsites. I want them to focus on my site. Otherwise, they will loose focus on my sites mission.
If you do implement a feature where you can communicate with other folks outside of the enterprise edition, please permit the group manager to enable or disable this feature for their site.
Thanks,
Roque
Roque,
I hear you loud and clear. However, let me share with you what we've learned by watching and analyizing over 10,000 Groupsites.
The most successful groups have members who engage with:
Clarence,
Where can one take a look at Collective X's roadmap for planned features?
Thanks
Alejandro,
Great timing. Here is our Q1 Roadmap!
Clarence
Clarence and John, I just went to Clearspace and discovered a few basic yet profound differences between it and CollectiveX.
Clearspace is an enterprise solution for over 1000 members and has a cost to it.
While you can upgrade in CollectiveX, there is a free version.
I'm a self-employed professional and a solo-preneur who works with other self-employed professionals and a solo-preneurs. We number in the thousands, maybe millions, and social networking as empowered us to meet and greet people from around the world. We can use the 'traditional' Web 2.0 tools to get to know, like, and trust others and decide who we might want to work. This working together might be as professional-client, as customer-vendor, or as cooperative collaborator and joint venture partner.
A Groupsite powered by CollectiveX is the perfect platform to take those relationships to the next level. It's especially suited for those of us who want to move beyond the superficial. We know we've been brought together to co-create, to collaborative.
I have been so empowered by being able to a create Groupsite where people I've come to know, like, and trust can come together and collaborate in the spirit of cooperation. It's a dream come true!
People of like-mind unite and co-create what our hearts and souls need, what other people need, what our planet needs. If not us, who? If not now, when? If not with CollectiveX what?