MoxMe! was founded by five kids tired of classroom scheduling confusion and missing soccer games due to poorly communicated schedules and changes in plans. They figured there had to be a better way of sharing contacts, communications and calendars at the community level. What resulted was MoxMe!, a web-based group alerting and notification infrastructure that supports a range of portals built into Facebook, Google, Moodle (soon), LinkedIn (soon), and other user views (eg, widgets, cell phones). As a collective group, these portals enable group organizers such as teachers, coaches, administrators, or civic and government organizations to communicate more effectively at the community level by allowing member-driven permission-based communications in the social networking tools they use.
The problem with today’s social network and collaboration solutions is that they focus too much on the “me” and not enough on the “we”. MoxMe! is all about providing a new group paradigm that serves as a foundation for community-level sharing of contacts, calendars, and communications. It does so by combining native applications with API-driven access among the leading platforms – such as Facebook, Google, MySpace, LinkedIn, Skype, and other key Web destinations – creating a consistent yet best-of-breed experience for groups to get their jobs done.
Have you ever tried using Facebook or Google to do anything as a group beyond commenting to each other, sending pictures or files, or posting an event? You’ll find the experience frustrating for all the things you cannot do. Imagine the plight of a Boy Scout Troop Leader who has to communicate calendar, contact, and message info with multiple patrol leaders, scouts, parents, merit badge counselors, district officials, and others; who has to help kids to coordinate merit badge advancement, Eagle Scout projects with the community, and camping trips on expected-to-be-rainy weekends; who has to track and report on troop-level activities “up the ladder”. Today’s platforms just don’t support a supergroup like the Boy Scouts, or the Girl Scouts, Little League or Soccer Clubs either. Today’s school systems likewise don’t extend well into social networking, where 98% of their students live online. And towns, cities, and governments don’t have a compelling yet self-maintaining path towards routine and emergency communications, including those for homeland defense applications like pandemic alerts.
MoxMe! groups co-exist in Google, Facebook, MySpace…even in widgets placed inside websites. Members work where they are comfortable (they don’t have to learn “yet another” new portal); technology-averse members can use more simplistic portals while Facebook users can immerse themselves in the Facebook app. MoxMe! supports proper group dynamics, like supergroup/group/subgroup relationships, and roles like co-leaders, parent proxies, and supergroup admin. It supports topic-specific applications, like Study Halls for classes and on-line food courts for students, via an embedded app store, soon to be open for third party developers. It supports information flows to Outlook, cell phones, iPads, and more.
MoxMe! takes social networking to its next logical level – full group relationships.
The company earns revenues by a combination of annual subscription fees per portal, per module, and/or per app, and through sponsorship, commission, and advertising revenues through hyperlocal targeting. The firm is privately-funded and is located in Mansfield, Connecticut. The MoxMe! service is currently in public beta across multiple platforms.
MoxMe, Inc.
Mansfield, CT
Co-Presidents: Nick & Emily Briere
moxme.com
