Gooruze – powered by online marketers is LIVE

Gooruze is live. After months of keeping this under wraps I have been able to talk about this new Vibe “social-pedia network” just for online marketers. This billion, gazillon dollar industry is fueling more and more mainstream companies to jump in and try and learn all they need to know about online marketing. Gooruze provides the one-stop place to meet the “Guru’s” of industry and read crucial content about online marketing straight from the horses mouth. This community is like an online marketing conference on steroids, but at your own pace.

The things you can do at Gooruze;

- subscribe and watch just about any type of content within the community through a simple to use “watchlist” RSS fead reader that also facilitates external feeds.

- hyper interactive experts in many areas and fields in online marketing.

- Connect on a personal level by being able to read the online marketers blog and learn everything they are passionate about, sign up and you can comment and talk to them directly. People like Andy Beal from Marketing Pilgrim, Duncan Riley from Techcrunch, see the list of ‘Founding Gooruze” here…

- Talk and engage directly with experts, ask questions and get answers quick.

- Quick news section keeps you informed about the activity in this space.

- The exciting thing is that articles are written by the very people you can get to know and learn from, feel comfortable to contact and possibly be confident enough to engage in their services or delve deeper into the experts field to see just how much online marketing fits into your business.

- Search across all content types: comments, articles, blogs, group blogging, Q+A for a particular search term, which gives you a breadth of social information on the search term.

- sort through the ever overwhelming content on online marketing and find all you need in one place.

As co-founder of Gooruze (and of *Vibe whom provides the “vibEngine” platform that powers Gooruze off an API), Gooruze was able to raise a small round of Angel funding raised in good old Perth, as well as having been able to launch with an additional “news” feature relatively efficiently. Like any beta Web 2.0 site, we still have navigational and UI bugs or things to review, but relatively less in comparison to verticals launched in the past.

Maybe Gooruze could look at VC funding now as the next step. Or even *Vibe looking at VC funding to pump more funds now into the strategy of growing these micro-communities and start building depth in the portfolio, now that Vibe has many web properties in it’s network.

Vibe: *Vibe Capital is the parent company (wholly owned: Minti, refurber), (interests in: BuildingInLondon, Gooruze) and licensing client Greatschools.net

Vibe Capital is a leading edge social media and venture capital company providing global solutions, based in Perth, Australia.

Bloggers: A great review by Andy Beard “Gooruze Preview“