Grouply.com - Manage Your Groups

Startup Grouply is aiming to facilitate message board and forum interaction by managing your conversations across groups and topics. So far they’ve got Yahoo and Google Groups under their belt but others are soon to follow. How it works: you post messages but within a Grouply interface which is accompanied by extra management and social functions. From within your Grouply managed posts you can track your conversations across groups (Grouply uses an @grouply email address in place of yours in order to gather your updates). Posts are categorized by tags, conversation, and they can be rated and threaded. Threads are categorized into one of five groups, wanted, events, discussion, for sale, and news. Additional features include cross group event calenders, sharing, friends, and Smart Digest, a personalized daily email summarizing all your groups.

“With Grouply, you can keep up with your existing online groups in 80% less time. You receive a Grouply Smart Digest™ email each day that summarizes what’s going on across all your groups, highlighting what’s interesting to you and hiding what’s not. You can view a single cross-group event calendar, see what’s interesting to fellow group members, and quickly search or browse across all your existing groups from one place.”

This is pretty useful stuff. Perfect accompaniment for Google and Yahoo groups, as the organization on both boards could use work. Good for those who cherish their boards but crave the 2.0 management features on more modern social networks.

Is this enough to convince people to change their habits?