dirty ethel rackham Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Anyone here moderate an online group? Our local homeschooling community has an online group through Yahoo groups. Since this group was started nearly 10 years ago, there have been many changes to Yahoo causing lots of glitches and headaches. We are looking to migrate to another platform. We would like this to allow passive participation (notifications come to you rather than you having to check it all the time), allow for digest mode, have a calendar, places for links, folders for information, etc. Oh, and it needs to be free. What do your groups use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 A lot of people like homeschool-life. It costs money, though. Our group uses Shutterfly Share. It's made for sports teams but works fine for a homeschool group. We switched three years ago when Yahoo stopped being reliable. It does everything you are asking for. (You are able to put pics on the site for members to download; you are not locked into using Shutterfly to print them.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellydon Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Our co-op used google groups, it works really well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted August 18, 2016 Author Share Posted August 18, 2016 A lot of people like homeschool-life. It costs money, though. Our group uses Shutterfly Share. It's made for sports teams but works fine for a homeschool group. We switched three years ago when Yahoo stopped being reliable. It does everything you are asking for. (You are able to put pics on the site for members to download; you are not locked into using Shutterfly to print them.) Well, the first requirement is Free! Dd's climbing team just switched from Facebook to Shutterfly Share. It looks like it will be a good platform for a team application (went live a couple of weeks ago,) but I don't have enough experience with it to see if it would work for a large, online group. We are accustomed to a bit of anonymity with Yahoo. Looks like it would be ideal for a smaller, more intimate group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted August 18, 2016 Author Share Posted August 18, 2016 Our co-op used google groups, it works really well. We had heard that google groups had similar administrative issues that Yahoo has. I'll check it out. Has anyone used Groups.io? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornblower Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 I'm still a member of a bunch of yahoo groups & own one. Nothing comes close imo. (don't get me started on how much I hate fb groups...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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