How does your playgroup communicate?

[WatchingThemGrow]

We were using just email, but it was getting crazy with the reply all emails and people joining or moving. We went to a test site which pretty much served the purpose, but is now closing. We're considering Google Groups as a few of us have some experience with in our neighborhoods/ other groups.

What does your playgroup use for electronic communication and how well do you like it?

[fivi2]

yahoo groups! It is great. You can set it up to come to your e-mail or to just read the messages on line (or get a digest, but I don't do that one). I didn't set up our group, but the mom who did said it was really easy.

eta: it's funny, I belong to quite a few yahoo groups, but didn't even know google had groups! Now I feel like I am missing out... :)

[wencit]

We use Yahoo Groups, too. It's fairly easy to use, but I'm not too thrilled with the message format. It drives me crazy sometimes. I didn't know that Google had groups too, but perhaps you could check out both and see which one you like better. You can always create a dummy Yahoo Group, play around with its features, and delete it yourself if necessary. I imagine you could do the same thing in Google, too, although I haven't tried it myself.

[new_mommy25]

We used to have a yahoo group but it's such a confusing format. We've been using a free invision board for a couple of years now and it's perfect. I was able to set it up and I'm not very web savvy.

[maestramommy]

Yahoo Groups. My current playgroup is actually a town moms group, so almost 100 women are checking and leaving messages. I get the email digest so I can scroll and find the messages that are pertinent to me.

[LD92599]

We use meetup, though the group started as a meetup group vs a neighborhood group.

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