Group Families

What is a Zanby Group Family?
How can I design a group family?
What is an Organic Group Family?
What is a Professional Group Family?
How do I create a group family?

Simply put, a Zanby Group Family is a group of groups.

On most social media websites, you can create a group, but your group can’t connect with other groups doing the same thing. Or if you represent an organization, you can’t create groups and connect them in a way that reflects your unique business needs. Zanby is different. Zanby Group Families help you place people, content, communications and activities into a hierarchy of groups, and then lets you place groups into groups of groups.

You can design a group family with as many different groups and hierarchies of groups as you wish. For example, you can organize your groups by region, department and by less obvious qualities, like brand, activity or issue. This gives you a way to instantly map your groups – and all of their content, communication and activities – to every corner of your organization.

A Zanby Organic Group Family lets you start small and grow an organization of connected groups. The costs of growth are shared by the groups in the family in proportion to the number of people in each group. So, the more groups that join an Organic Group Family, the less each individual group will pay to belong to the family. Though the Organic Group Family is facilitated by those who started it or are appointed by the founders, each member group is run independently, joins the family voluntarily, and may resign at any time.

A Zanby Professional Group Family lets an organization tailor a system of groups to its exact needs from the beginning of the family. One person or organization “owns” all of the groups in the family and the costs of maintaining it. The owners of a Professional Group Family can create and delete groups within the family and generally have more control than do the facilitators of an Organic Group Family.

1. To create a group family, click on “My Groups” on the left side of the page.
2. Click on + Create a Group Family” on the right side of the page.
3. Click on the “Continue” button on the “Start A Group Family” page.
4. Next fill in your group family’s basic information by filling in the blanks. You’ll notice you’ll get a Zanby email address with your group family’s name, which is used as the group family’s URL or web address.
5. As you scroll down the page, you can decide who can join your group. If you select “Anyone,” that means that any user of Zanby can join. If you select “Only those I chose,” each time someone wants to join (or, you invite someone to join), you will receive an email asking you to approve that person before he or she can become a member of your group.
6. If you want, you can chose “Only those with the following code” and choose a word or number as your code. It will be included in the invitation you send to the people you invite to join your group.
7. Click on the “Continue” button.
8. Then chose your group family payment program.
9. Enter your billing and credit card information.
10. Click on the “Continue” button.
11. Check “I agree