At first, I figured I had just flushed $5 down the drain, because the space simply didn’t show up in my list of personal spaces. It took me a week to finally clue into using the “Clubs” tab.

It turns out that purchasing the Desert Haven space automatically gets you the Clubhouse as well. Two spaces plus a club for $5 is a great deal, no matter how you slice it. Now I just have to decorate a bit and send out invites.

And there’s NO functional upgrades? What a bummer.

Its actually a chore to keep in contact with other club members about events and meetings because we still have to manually message them through the XMB. We seriously need a built in feature within clubs that allows us to easily mass message each member with important club news, information, events, updates and meetings. Sure, a club can have a separate web site outside of Home but that doesn’t really fit well with the idea of Social Media where information is easily shared and integrated into one single source.

I’m all for new clubhouses but like I said in a response to another article, a new “skin” is just like a new release of Windows. It looks prettier but no major functionality has changed. Club owners need more tools at there disposal to better organize things. It would be nice to increase the limit of members but a bigger limit combined with the current communication system would just make things even more unmanageable. We don’t just need a facelift, we need to rewire the interface. When that happens, clubs would have made some real progress.