Social networking site providing powerful tools for collective action
Founded: 2007
Status: Commercial
Processing Fee: PayPal transaction fee only
Website: http://www.amazee.com
In their words:
Amazee is a more evolved social networking site devoted to the joy of collective action and designed to empower individuals and small groups to launch global initiatives. Activism is part of the culture of the Internet and is fueling the rapid growth of social networking. Amazee was built to channel this activism and provides powerful tools to help project initiators organize, collaborate on, track, promote, and fund projects of any size with participants from anywhere around the world. Whether you'd like to assemble a multinational football team or set up a massive number of broadband connections in remote towns in Africa, Amazee is easy to use for any kind of project!
So, what exactly can you do on Amazee?
Amazee provides you with some important tools to promote your project and collaborate with your project buddies. For example, you can decide upon the degree of openness of your project, choose who can do what on your project and keep your visitors informed through a project magazine. You can bring together ideas in the discussion section and jointly edit text in the project's writeboard area. You can upload pictures as well as other files and organize events and to dos in a calendar. Project funding is an important and unique part of Amazee, providing three built-in mechanisms for projects to raise money and get further help.
