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What is Groupsite.com?

Groupsite.com (formerly CollectiveX) is the Web’s premier social collaboration platform. Groupsites embody the 2010 Web's evolution into a social-collaborative medium by combining the most useful and productive features of traditional websites, discussion forums, listservs, blogs, collaboration software and social networks. In mere minutes, Groupsites allow individuals, organizations and companies to create communities that enable group members to communicate, share and network to make things happen. Today, nearly 30,000 Groupsites are in use by professional and social groups of all types and sizes.

Snapshot

  • Groupsite.com was founded in 2006 and is based in Columbia, Maryland, just minutes from both Washington, DC and Baltimore.

  • Groupsite.com pioneered social collaboration with its user-friendly, group-centric platform.

  • More than 10,000 non-profit organizations are using Groupsites to drive membership engagement.

  • More than three quarters of all Groupsites are private, rather than public networks.

  • Groupsites are powering more than 5,000 company intranets and project workgroups.

  • More than 600 large events, conferences and tradeshows rely on Groupsites.

  • Groupsites have been created for more than 6,000 membership groups, more than 5,800 social networks, and more than 1,000 alumni groups.

Principles of Who We Are

  • We Empower Groups to Make Things Happen
    We enable groups to communicate, share and network.

  • We Value A Variety of Group Types
    We are a multi-purpose social collaboration platform for groups of different types and sizes.

  • We Obsess Over User Experience
    Our 90% Goal: 90% of our users using 90% of our features, without needing a manual

  • We Convert Users Into Evangelists
    Engaged users are our sales force. Through every touchpoint, we inspire users to become Groupsite creators, champions and evangelists.

  • We Listen
    To our colleagues, our users, our champions, our marketplace, our principles. They help drive our direction.

  • We Are a Platform
    We encourage partners and developers to customize and build upon our social collaboration functionality.

  • We Believe in Balanced Growth
    User growth is critical to our company's value; Revenue growth is critical to our company's success.

  • We Create Our Future
    We must move as fast as or faster than the marketplace, with the resources that we have, or our future will be defined for us.

Resources


Groupsite.com’s Management Team

Clarence Wooten, Founder and CEO

Clarence has more than 20 years of experience in launching and operating successful companies including Envision Designs, Metamorphosis Interactive Studios (acquired by Metasolv in 1998) and ImageCafe.com (acquired by Network Solutions/Verisign in 1999). Clarence was coined a "serial entrepreneur" by Entrepreneur Magazine (February 2000), has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Forbes ASAP and is the subject of a Babson College case study. In each of his entrepreneurial endeavors, Clarence has been focused on user experience design, which served as the catalyst behind the development of the Groupsite platform. Clarence has a B.S. in Business Management from John Hopkins University and currently serves on the Deans Alumni Advisory Board for its Carey Business School.

Shaun Callahan, Chief Involvement Officer

Shaun has more than 25 years of business development, sales, sales management and sales training experience. Prior to Groupsite.com, Shaun led sales efforts at companies such as Digex, CheckFree, USinternetworking, Client Development Institute, High Performance Group and EntreQuest. As the head of Groupsite Pro sales and channel partner business development efforts, Shaun is focused on helping customers achieve a stronger return on involvement. He is highly engaged in the Groupsite.com Champions community, fostering users’ and advocates’ enthusiasm for powerful collaboration tools. Shaun’s energy and leadership can be traced back to his days at the US Naval Academy were he indoctrinated new academy plebes.

Bryan Liles, Director of Software Development

Bryan has more than 15 years of systems and software development experience, maintaining his focus on writing more productive software the first time. Prior to joining Groupsite.com, Brian led the software development efforts at Sourcefire in his role as Principal Web Developer. A staunch Rubiest, Bryan is a noted speaker at Ruby on Rails technology conferences and serves as a mentor to many Maryland-area Ruby on Rails (RoR) software developers. Bryan’s strong communication skills, deep system administration and software development experience enables him to lead the development efforts of the Groupsite.com platform. Under Bryan’s leadership, Groupsite.com has built a solid foundation positioning the Company to scale its development team and platform development efforts.

Headquarters

Groupsite.com
7226 Lee Deforest Drive
Suite 206
Columbia, MD 21046
Telephone: 410-715-1400

Media/Blogger Contact

Carissa B. Caramanis O’Brien
Red Box Communications for Groupsite.com
Phone: 978-875-2020
Email: carissao@redboxcommunications.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/carissao
http://www.groupsite.com/media

Press Contact:
410.715.1400
press(at)groupsite.com