Core Facts
• Palringo’s
Groups Gallery is a browsable directory that makes it easy for people to find Palringo groups they’d like to join and participate in.
• The addition of Groups Gallery means that
Palringo groups are significantly more useful than before: until today there was no way to find out about specific groups other than by word of mouth or guesswork.
• Now, the Groups Gallery enables people to meet others who share similar interests, all in the same virtual place.
• Groups are also a useful way for groups of friends or colleagues to stay in touch. Businesses are using Palringo groups as well as the location functionality to enable better communications between staff and to respond more quickly to customer needs.
• Using a Palringo group for messaging enables voice, text and photos to be shared simultaneously with everyone in the group.
• Statistics: there are more than 21,000 groups on Palringo, and 50,000 Palringo users are members of at least one group. More than 4 million group messages were sent last month. The largest group has 1,995 members.
• Group owners manage how their group is seen in the Groups Gallery by editing the description, adding a photo and selecting the most appropriate category for the group. For privacy, group owners may designate their group as ‘ex-directory’, ensuring their group is excluded from the Groups Gallery.
• Group owners also have tools to manage their community of group members, by promoting other members to help them administer the group or removing rowdy group members.
Quotes
Martin Rosinski, CTO of Palringo, said:
“The number and variety of groups in existence on Palringo is fabulous. Because it’s easy and free to create a group, if you can’t find what you’re looking for you can simply create your own group. Then you can promote your group in the gallery to attract new members.”
“The versatility of Palringo, the way it works across all sorts of mobile phones and operating systems, means it’s extremely inclusive – no-one is excluded because they’ve got the wrong handset, for example. The group functionality takes that a step further because everyone in a group can communicate with everyone else yet only needs to send one actual message. Now, by adding the Groups Gallery, Palringo has just made it a million times easier for new members to find and join any group.”
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