– Providing individuals with the opportunity to manage and organize their busy lives; R2 Business Ventures announced today that it has launched the website http://www.groupusup.com.

The website www.GroupUsUp.com. is a social networking community site focused on allowing individuals to form groups for anything or join groups such as clubs, family, friends, neighbors, neighborhoods, HOA’s, organizations, teams, co-workers, alumni, non-profit, jobs & career, business, social, charities, nightlife, sports and more.

Managing Partner Rick Erling adds; “Our early market gap analysis uncovered a need for an easy to use community social networking site that is focused on groups, rather than individuals. We wanted a way for people to organize their lives by having a place to socialize with groups that they have a common interest with.”

With the Group Us Up! concept of “groups for anything”, there is no limit to the benefits of having an outlet to organize your members. You decide if your own profile and the groups you create are public or private and you also decide who to invite. Groups can have multiple discussion forums, photo albums, file attachments and your members can also post blogs, organize events and keep track of who’s attending those events.

Mr. Erling adds; “We have neighborhood and HOA groups that are staying connected and sharing information about their groups and organizing social events. Intramural sports teams and booster clubs are also using it to organize and provide updates on when practices are, where the games take place and plan fundraising events. Businesses are getting onboard for internal corporate communications and reaching out to new customers and partners. There is no limit to the benefits of having an outlet to organize right from your home or anywhere, anytime you have web connection.”

As Mr. Erling and his team grow Group Us Up! they will be depending on their members to provide input on functionality to make Group Us Up! as user friendly as their members desire.

Membership is FREE and signing up is quick and easy at http://www.groupusup.com/.

So I was searching for different antique shops in the Dallas area and there are just SO many of them. I’ve decided to ask the best source - grandma (well, my husband’s grandma). She said they use to go to someone name Philip and that he and his wife were one of the nicest people. She wasn’t sure they were still around since it’s been awhile. So I looked for Philip and antiques in Dallas and found Philip Maia and asked if that was him. She confirmed that it was. So anyway Grandpa use to go to auctions and was into antiques and oriental rugs, so I’m sure he knew the good places to go. Well here’s their info:

Philip Maia Antiques
1209 Slocum Street Dallas, Texas 75207
(214) 939-5200

If you decide to drop by there, I’m sure you can just shop hop to all the other antique shops around Slocum Street. That’s the design disctrict and it’s where you can shop til you drop.

BTW - She just mentioned someone name Ruth and that they would buy stuff from her as well. So I found Ruth Taylor Estate Sales and that’s the company, though she thinks it’s probably the kids running it now. Don’t you just love google? Here’s their info:

Ruth Taylor Estate Sales
4521 Belclaire Ave
Dallas, TX 75205
214.704.0764