CollectiveX.com - Centralize Your Group Activities

Are you starting a new group? Do you need better communication with your project team at work? CollectiveX aims to help you organize and coordinate communication with your group members with a centralized online meeting space, as well as allow for social networking (with personal profiles, photos,etc). Once you create a group, you can decide if its public or private and start creating your own space from there. You can share a group calendar, upload files, send messages, have group discussions, and create individual member profiles. You can also join other public groups and/or create more than one group at a time. The site is free, but if you want more advanced services (such as eliminating the ads), you have to pay a monthly fee starting at $9 a month.

CollectiveX is pioneering a new class of communications and social networking services designed explicitly for organized groups. It combines the best of group coordination and communication (a category currently occupied by Yahoo! Groups) with social networking capabilities beyond LinkedIn and other such services. It redefines social networking by allowing members to privately, securely share objectives and relevant connections within trusted group affiliations. CollectiveX's goal is to help organized groups of all types and sizes strengthen member engagement by providing a private, secure web-based service for group communication, coordination and social networking.

Communication is the key to any successful venture, and with all the mediums that exist for communication today it is probably easier to miscommunicate than ever. It is ironic, actually, but it is easy to send an email to a person's old account, or IM to a service they don't use anymore, or call an old cell phone number. This site creates a central repository for information sharing, and that is a valuable service.

After trying to create a group, the site was a tad confusing. Not sure why, but it wasn't super easy or well explained. I get that they make a profit from the advertisements, but do they need to include all of those advertisements on the private group sites, including advertising the blog for the site? Also, have they considered adding an IM feature to this site for private member communications?