However, we will contunue to add features that help small and large, social and professional, public and private groups to share, communicate and network without loosing control over their brand identity, privacy or members — nothing more, nothing less. We listen to our users as it relates to fulfilling that mission. We work dilligently to quickly add the features that our users want… but only when we can do it in a way that doesn’t degrade the user experience.

Feel free to judge and compare us after you have tried us. We won’t meet everyone’s needs… but we will continue to strive to meet the needs of groups that fall under our mission — and that’s good enough for us. Stay tuned

Clarence Wooten
Founder & CEO
CollectiveX.com

CollectiveX is the best I’ve found anywhere for a small-medium sized group or club to collaborate, coordinate, and communicate. It has proven handy both for a fairly savvy distributed group, and a local group with wide ranges of skills and schedules.

To steal a phrase from the open source community, “it just works”, and does it in a pretty smooth package.

Only gripe is that in the free version 25 m is a seriously small file cabinet, even for doc files.

There is no doubt that there are multiple competitors in this market and I imagine it would be virtually impossible for someone to comprehensively compare the features/usability of the different services. I can say however that my use of Cx has been very positive and I intend on remaining with Cx.

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In keeping a watchful eye on the development process I can say that Clarence and the entire CollectiveX team is responsive to issues and open to ideas, suggestions and feature requests. They are focusing on providing a usable product that is very value packed and think many would appreciate the power and simplicity of the product.

Members the group as a tool to gain better regional contacts, new business leads, market intelligence, access to resources, and generally help them navigate and take advantage of opportunities in each others’ respective markets. (Essentially market development, business intelligence, and professional networking). Represented are outsourcing and partnership firms, financiers of startups, heads of sales and marketing, business owners, lawyers, business owners, entrepreneurs, consultants, executives, etc.

I handpicked the initial members and CollectiveX allows me to maintain a high level of quality with regards to members. The site has been invaluable.

I am constantly pushing Clarence and his team to add new features that facilitate business, and the platform has developed into a very useful mechanism for tying people together across distances. If things go the way I hope they will soon need more collaboration/project management features, and they will need to allow the creation of custom pages (like @ goingon.com). I have also suggested that Clarence should do everything possible to offer the ability to develop the network for free but take a piece of any ecommerce or ad-revenue etc.

It’s one of the most similar products I’ve seen to Microsoft Sharepoint on a pure feature basis- which is a great product but suffers from usability issues.

Thanks for the positive words. Domain mapping and complete control of your own ads are coming next week. We do support widgets. You can add widgets to your profile, the summary page of your Groupsite, within discussions and (believe it or not) email blasts.

Enterprise and premium feature upgrades are the primary revenue sources at this time.

Clarence
CollectiveX

The social aspect is more like yahoo groups in a sense. CollectiveX has done a great job of making this simple for the average user to get going so I think they will attract a market segment – but not sure where I see the revenues coming from, other then their enterprise portion.

The downside (at least from the FAQ) is that you cannot map your own domain to it like you can on Ning, KickApps, and others. The customization level is also not that deep, there is no API, nor ability to add widgets.

Since they have created more of a cookie cutter app then a social network platform, I would say they should not be lumped into the same market that Ning, KickApps, etc. are targeting. I do agree with Michael that they have done quite a bit in a short period of time and have done it well.