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Am the only one who failed to notice the rebirth of a potentially very, very important Joomla component?

GroupJive.org is a Community Builder add-on that gives:

registered users the capability to create and moderate their own groups. There are currently three types of groups which can be created: Open, Private, and Invite only.

After GroupJive.com slowly faded away last year, the project looked dormant. However, GroupJive.org launched very quietly on December 30th, 2006, and it has the potential to make a huge splash in the Joomla world. Why is this component so useful?

• It allows users to form and moderate their own groups is an indispsensble part of social networking that has been missing in Joomla up until now. For several of our clients, this has led them to choose Drupal (which has this functionality) over Joomla (which doesn't).
  
• Around two-thirds of the projects we deal with involve some form of social networking. I'd venture to say that figure is similar for most designers working with Joomla. I can't imagine one of those sites that wouldn't be improved by the ability for people to freely socialize and form groups.
  
• Its 100% free and continues the great work of the folks over at Joomlapolis.com.

The project is still in an Alpha version, but the work so far is promising. You can register and see a demo of the groups by clicking here.

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Groupjive final pushes to RC1
written by Jason Berry, November 15, 2007

Thank you for your kind words about Groupjive... The component has come a LONG way since December and the previous ALPHA versions. We are continously updating the SVN over at Joomlacode and hope to hit RC1 VERY SHORTLY. Groupjive now has Fireboard integration and Eventlist integration. We are also testing on Joomla 1.5 for compatibility. The framework in the template files have been changed to implement table'LESS styling and a PAT system has been put into place to make it easier for webmasters/designers to create their own work of art with Groupjive. We also just released the latest template "HEMI" for those who just want to plug / play / go with more graphics and clean layout.

Keep an eye out on Joomlacode and Groupjive.org for all the latest updates...

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