User:Milkovic/Zanby

This is a work in progress.

Overview
Zanby is a software system that provides enterprise social networking capabilities. Rather than focus on communities of exhibition (places to be seen), the Zanby team has focused on tools for communities of purpose. The Group Family architecture and tools are a unique, powerful suite for groups, and groups of groups, to self-organize.

Major users
Significant users of the Zanby platform include the Citizen Journalism project TheUptake.org and the many climate change organizations that make up the Climate Networks (climatenetworks.org)

Features

 * Member tools
 * Profiles
 * documents, photos
 * lists
 * calendars & events
 * Group tools

Zanby, like other white label social networking platforms, provides general tools for users and groups: user profiles, photos, discussions, document sharing. However, Zanby provides several unique features focused on groups of groups, including:


 * Group Family tools
 * hierarchy designer

History
Zanby began in 2005 after several political activists decided to look for a better set of group organization tools. Until this time, local organizers would use a combination of proprietary tools, listservs, google groups, and meetup to organize their teams. After meetup decided to start charging for groups, some local organizers felt they could not afford the service. One of the activists also owned a software development firm, and began the initial work that later became Zanby.

In Spring of 2009, the Zanby 3.0 platform was released.