Method for providing alias folders in a document management system

A method for interactively collaborating within a secure, server-based social networking community, comprising:

• a plurality of members, each of such members owning at least one member profile;
• at least one network of member profiles that excludes at least one member of the social networking community, whereby members of said network share access to a set of documents in a secured remote environment, such that members not belonging to said network do not have access to said set of documents, and wherein members of said network share a plurality of social network functionalities among themselves;
• a document management tool for managing documents comprised of a document filing tool and at least one software application chosen from a group consisting of a message application, an email application, word processor application, a spreadsheet application, a presentations application and an images application, whereby the document management tool enables said members of said network to remotely manage documents of said set of documents, wherein:
• the document filing tool is comprised of at least one shared folder shared by said members of said network, and at least one alias folder accessible to a first member of said network and not accessible to at least one other member of said network, wherein the at least one alias folder is a subfolder of the at least one shared folder, and wherein a first member moving a document from the at least one shared folder to the at least one alias folder causes the document to appear in the at least one alias folder for the first member but to appear in the at least one shared folder for the at least one other member.