North America Jain On-Line Community and
Networking
By: JAINA/Long Range Planning in Partnership
with North American Jain Centers, Sanghs, and Organizations
JCNC ChicagoBostonMemphis
JAINAMix MarriageNon-Indians
JainScholars
JAINS
Education
Jain CollegeStudents
Solution: Need to “touch” our membership, volunteers, Jain Centers and offer them “fresh” content and services
Need to Connect –Communicate - Collaborate
Problem: NORTH AMERICAN JAINs HAVE BEEN SILOED – NOW WE NEED TO BE LOCAL AND GLOBAL!;
Need to Strengthen our organizational infrastructure
Synergy with JAINA’s and Local Tools
Official JAINA website Information on JAINA
committees, activities, events, people, etc.
WWW.LOCAL JAINCENTER.ORG
Local center website Local activities, events,
people, etc. Local Pathshala content
On-Line portal for all North American Jains
Dynamically form new groups Project / volunteer mgm. Share best practices Allow connection and
collaboration for all NA Jains
JainLink Team (and expanding…)
Chandrakant Vora – Project Lead, Past JCGB (Boston) President, Past team leader of North America Jain Directory
Yogendra Jain – Chairman JAINA/LRP Prem Jain – JAINA/LRP, Past president of JCNC Hemant Shah – Chicago Jain Center – Executive Committee Sudhanshu Jain – Northern Calif. Jain Center – Executive Committee Jitendra Vora – Jain Center of Greater Boston Manoj Jain – JAINA/LRP, Past President of JC of Memphis Chintan Shah – Co-Chair JAINA/LRP; Past YJA President Soha Shah – JAINA/LRP, Co-Chair of JAINA convention Dr. Sulekh Jain -
(JAINA founder, first President, Chairman of Jain Studies program) Sonia Ghelani - YJA Co-Chair Ashok Domadia – Chairman – Campus Outreach Program
JainLink and Local Jain Center Collaboration
Jain Center Responsibility: Promotes JainLink (sends JainLink information and places a link
on their local website) Appoints an individual or a team to work be admin for the
JainLink-Jain Center Group (optional) Shares emails of its members
Jain Center Benefits: Free Full on-line secure access to all updated members database for
the Center Be able to form subgroups, blogs, etc. Insure accurate membership information for publication in next
North American Directory
JainLink – For individual Users
Content: Share, generate, archiveOn-Line resourcesNews, events, blogs
Form many active groups Get targeted information (for youths,
mothers, leaders) Share best practices in Jain Centers Highly secure and managed
Benefits to Centers, Groups, Committees
Instant groups Blogs, photos, content, custom pages,
news, events, etc. Multiple group only administrators Easy to add and share content
Member management Indiviual users manage their own membership Users decide what information to share
What Centers can do Emails, group mgm. Surveys / Quizzes Email high quality newsletters Have their websites linked to this Highlight all committee members
Secure Individual log in and control
Who has rights to data?
Who is responsible for JainLink: JAINA – Long Range Planning Committee Partners in JainLink include: other centers, organizations, groups, etc.
Who owns the data: JAINA. Individual centers that have shared their mailing list jointly own the data for their
Jain Center
If JainLink / JAINA decides to not support this, what happens to the data Data can be exported to Excel spread sheet. There will be no loss of data.
Who will JainLink information be shared with JAINA Local Jain Centers for only their members
Will the members be bombarded with emails, solicitations, etc. No. Plan is for a newsletter 1x per month and any current/urgent relevant information. Individuals can control if they want Group administrators will manage their own groups
Security, Privacy – key to mass adoption
JainLink has a high degree on security and privacy features It’s up to us to establish policies which everyone buys into
Individuals control his/her own profile, “visibility” to others Other than name and e-mail, all other profile items can be hidden by
individuals Only approved centers/organizations can access other information
Individual “GROUP” controls it’s own privacy policy
JainLink will establish strict policy for administrators – work in progress Initial policy must be blessed by legal and participating organizations Multiple layers of approval required for any change in access rights Propose to recruit a team of technical expert in this area from our
community
On-Board JainLink
Jain Centers who are sharing JainLink with their members: Jain Center of Greater Boston Jain Society of Metropolitan
Chicago (JSMC) Jain Society of Northern
California Jain Society of Memphis Jain Society of Washington
DC Jain Society of Wisconsin
Organizations: YJA Jain Scholars Jain College Students
(Campus Outreach Program)
Committee: Long Range Planning JAINA Education
Solution – Need to “touch” our membership, volunteers, Jain Centers and offer them “fresh” content and services
Connect – Communicate - Collaborate
Connect With family, friends, people of
similar interest Example: Physicians, Cisco, from
Surat, India, mix marriage groups Communicate
Form groups Generate and consume content
(news, events, audio, video, updates, etc.)
Collaborate Work on projects Get volunteers Example: High school
presentation, develop Jain material, etc.
JCNCChicago
Boston
Memphis
JAINAMix MarriageNon-Indians
JainScholars
JAINS
Education
Next Steps
Is your community / Jain Center interested in participating? Identify your IT technology / membership Identify couple of volunteers who are IT savvy Send an email to us: [email protected];
[email protected]; Send us:
Your mailing list with emails of your members Name, address, telephone number for your center Give us three names for your center’s JainLink admin
Schedule training (we will train your admins)
Many current projects are stalled due to inadequate infrastructure required to push project to completion – JainLink can accelerate these projects
ProjectProject
1.Fundraising
Services RequiredServices Required
FUNDINGCOLLATORAL/ PRINTING/WEB
MARKETING/COMMUNICATION
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
DISTRIBUTION
2.Jain Way Of Life
3.Calendar
4.Education Comm.
5.Membership Mgm.
= Project bottlenecks
6.Mangalam
Value Proposition
Individual On-line access to fellow Jains Access to Newsletter, Education and other material Easy to get to all Jain Organization websites, including a powerful
JAINA website (under development) Ability to control security, privacy Sense of belonging to our community Ability to maintain profile on their own – fast, accurate, timely
Individual Groups Web-based, professionally maintained membership database Communicate with group member by e-mail Common system across USA
Jain Community Organization Offer this service to your membership No cost Your membership connected to all Jains in North America Unites us all
JAIN COMMUNITY ON-LINE WILL ALLOW …
New JAINANew JAINAInfrastructureInfrastructure
Local Fundraising
Support
Publications Support
Jain Projects Management
Communi-cations
Management Web Management
Surveying Capabilities
Mail-list management
JAINA Hotline
Execute services Execute services for membersfor members
• Web site refreshing and maintenance
• Web site development for special projects (e.g. Online Pathshala), local institutions, etc.
• Donation follow-up, general inquiry, welcome calls to new immigrants• Brochure
development, email, calling, follow-ups • Mail list refresh and
segmentation initiative
• Brochure development, email, calling, follow-ups
• Coordination and tracking of current Jain projects (e.g. Calendar project)
• Administrative assistance such as setting up conference, web meetings, etc.
• Collateral material development (brochure, flyers, cards, etc.)
• Surveys via online telephone to better understand needs and characteristics of Jains