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Music PAL (Publishing And Licensing) Forum is an online networking group for music publishers, licensing buyers and related music industry professionals to network and develop their business/career opportunities. Founded in April, 2008, by Michael Borges, Music PAL "lives" on the Groupsite.com and LinkedIN platforms and rapidly grew to represent 1,200+ members from 40 countries in their Groupsite today.
 
In founding Music PAL, Michael wanted to provide the music industry with a networking platform that offered a professional focus, and with the benefit of discussion forums and ability to make new contacts and develop relationships. The platform also needed to ..

The data in a Groupsite belongs to the group.  As a Groupsite manager, you can easily export this data at anytime.

Here's how:

1. Select the MANAGER tab

2. Select "General Settings" on the Group Settings page.

3. At the bottom of the General Settings page you will see the links to export: Discussions, Events, members, Pending Members and Membership Requests. Clinking each link will download the desired info as a XML or CSV file.

Wow! Thanks for the overwhelming response to our recent Brand Survey. We appreciate your honest feedback and it helped us make the decision to re-brand as Groupsite.com. 

Best of all, while you could have remained anonymous, most of you took the time to identify yourselves. We love getting real feedback from real people.

We heard lots of things! Here are some of the standouts:

What do you think the "CollectiveX" brand stands for?

• "No idea, and to me the is somewhat irrelevant as the product is simply soooo good I am not interested in the brand. I use and ..

Just like a newspaper (they still print those, in case you forgot), a Groupsite has a front page. In newspaper jargon the "top of the fold" is where the most important stories and headlines go. That's what people see when it's sitting on the newsstand.

When designing and updating the front page of your Groupsite (the SUMMARY page), you want to quickly highlight the most important things. However, you have limited room "above the fold" in a normal size browser window and without scrolling.

One of the best ways to do this is to create "jump buttons."

Here's how.

1. ..

With our re-brand to Groupsite.com (formerly CollectiveX), there's a significant benefit all Groupsites can take advantage of: the "groupsite.com" domain name.

Now when you create a Groupsite, its web address (URL) is "YOURGROUPNAME.groupsite.com."

Why does this matter? Consider the fact that every company has a Web site. It's an expected part of doing business. When was the last time you received a business card that didn't have a Web address on it?

Now think about groups. Why is a group any less important than a company? It's not. Groups are how things happen. So, when someone asks you if your group ..

Last month, we surveyed our customers about the CollectiveX and Groupsite brand names. Response was overwhelming (thank you!) and gave us plenty to think about. This was in addition to what we gathered from non-users, our friends, advisors, Google...our families and even my neighbor (who doesn't use a Groupsite, but does like to play golf and, apparently, answer survey questions).

Next, we took your feedback and embarked on exercises to better define our brand. I'll spare you all the details, but will share that it involved great scrutiny, input, care, concern and creativity; many lively conversations; a new subgroup on our ..

Interested in our rebrand? Fantastic. Here's the scoop:

Why did you change your name?

We researched - talked, looked, listened and broke out our monkey (SurveyMonkey, that is) -- with CollectiveX users and non-users; mentors and board members; friends, family, investors and advisors. Heck, we even asked strangers at the local bar. We queried our spouses over the dinner table -- and Google, online. We confirmed that Groupsite.com is

• easier to remember
• more user-friendly
• more descriptive of our service, and
• more likely to be found on the Internet

...than "CollectiveX."

By and large, customers told us they like "Groupsite.com" over "CollectiveX," ..

The easiest way to contact your Groupsite manager is by clicking on the "?" to the right of the MY SETTINGS tab.

Then click "Contact Manager (s) from the drop-down menu and you will be taken to a screen where you can type your message. When done, hit the SEND TO MANAGERS button.