• Qlubb Press Release

    JOIN THE QLUBB: FOR THE FIRST TIME, A NEW SOCIAL NETWORKING PROVIDER ORGANIZES GROUPS BOTH ONLINE AND OFFLINE.
    Easy-to-use service helps real-life social networks socialize and collaborate.

    BURLINGAME, CA, 26 AUG 2008 - Qlubb Inc. announced the launch of its flagship service, Qlubb.com, that enables real-life groups to quickly and easily get online and get organized. Whether it's a playgroup, classroom, PTA, book club, sports team, political action group, hobby group or even family, Qlubb enables groups of people to communicate and share online as well as build stronger ties offline. Qlubb provides the tools and resources to help groups accomplish their mission and goals.


    "While most of the buzz has been around social networks for virtual groups, Qlubb provides the tools and support to enhance the communication and collaboration in the most original of social networks - the ones in our own physical lives", said Sophia Chiang, CEO of Qlubb. "Most real-life groups not only need to socialize and share but also need to accomplish real things like holding events, planning a fund-raiser, doing weekly runs to Costco or organizing a field trip. Qlubb was designed to also help these real-life groups increase participation and get stuff done a lot easier."


    Qlubb provides a number of fully integrated features to enhance these groups, including:

    • Private, secure central bulletin board
    • Central online calendar
    • Photo sharing
    • Group email and newsposting
    • Signup sheets/shared to do lists
    • Task management
    • Reminders
    • Member roster management
    • Automatically generated public Web page

    Given the varying levels of technical expertise found in most groups, Qlubb is designed to be as intuitive and as easy-to-use as possible. Qlubbs can be created in just a few clicks and users need only their email address and a secret password to get in without having to fill a user registration. No customization or configuration is required.


    Qlubb has benefited a number of groups who have participated in the company's Beta launch. Becky Frost who formed a Qlubb for moms and dads of her son's playgroup noted, "Qlubb has changed the way I interact with the parents in my son's playgroup. We're organized, we meet more regularly and the focus of the playgroup is really on the kids, not on the time we spend organizing it. It's a great way to just get everyone on the same page."


    Marcus Louie formed a group on Qlubb to organize gatherings for a group of friends from college that connect over everything from dinners and movies to quilting. "Qlubb helps us keep track of how many people plan to attend our weekly get-togethers. We use to use group e-mails to do all of this, but found that it was very cumbersome. Too many e-mails would go back and forth, e-mails would cross causing confusion, and it was a pain having to find and re-read a collection of old e-mails to figure out when the event was and who was attending," said Louie. "We like the fact that Qlubb gives us a common place to view our photos and lets us put up links to photo albums of our vacations, videos and websites that we all enjoying viewing."


    "Having been a board member of several schools, a playgroup organizer, a veteran room parent and a participant to many sports teams and clubs, I've seen the need first-hand for an easy-to-use solution that gets our nonvirtual lives in order," said Sophia Chiang. "I founded Qlubb to address the need for groups to take advantage of the Internet so that they can get everyone on the same page, get everyone working towards whatever common goal they may have and to have fun at the same time."


    Qlubb is free and available at http://www.qlubb.com. As part of its launch, Qlubb is running a back-to-school special. Qlubb will be automatically entering new Qlubbs (with 10 or more members) into a weekly drawing to win a $100 gift certificate. To find out more about the weekly drawing, please go to www.qlubb.com/back_to_school.


    About Qlubb

    Qlubb is a Burlingame, CA based provider of Web solutions for real-life groups to get online. Whether it is a playgroup, classroom parent group, sports team, family, club or hobby group, Qlubb helps most any group of people to connect, share and get things done. Qlubb strengthens ties within the group while also helping groups increase participation, be better organized and be more efficient.


    Qlubb is very easy-to-use and takes just a few seconds to start a fully-functioning site that includes a fully integrated private collaboration site, group email, shared calendar, signup sheets, automated reminders, photo sharing, public web page and much more. Users don't require any registration, just their email address and a secret password set by the Qlubb creator. Qlubb is available for free at http://www.qlubb.com.


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    Andrew Yang
    Email: andy@qlubb.com