JAINA Jain Link Portal By JAINA Portal www
JAINA – Jain. Link Portal By: JAINA – Portal (www. jaina. org) JAINA Website, Membership, Jain Digest, YJA, Resources, Blogs, JNF, MIS, Media, Education, News, Events, Registration, Projects, Donate, Store, On-Line Community and Networking & Full resources to all Jain Centers & Org.
Recent Successes Washington DC registration and n YJA Trip registration n Committee information n Director information n Donation n Content / Resources n Benefits and Successes n
JAINA-JL Team (Now part of Technology Committee – Under Girish Shah) n n n Chandrakant Vora – Project Lead, Past JCGBoston President, Head of NA Jain Directory Yogendra Jain – Project Lead, VP-JAINA North. East and Chairman of JAINA/Long Range Planning Committee Paulomi Gudka – Project Leader Naman Jain - YJA Pooja Jain – Coordinator Jigar Vora – Coordinator Girish Shah - Head of JAINA Technology Team Manish Mehta - VP-JAINA Mid. West Sunil Jain - Chicago Jain Center (JNF coordinator) Chintan Shah – Past Co-Chair of YJA Prem Jain – Past president of JCNC and Director of JAINA
Many current projects are stalled due to inadequate infrastructure required to push project to completion – Jain. Link can accelerate these projects = Project bottlenecks Services Required Project FUNDING COLLATORAL/ PRINTING/WEB MARKETING/ COMMUNICATION TECHNICAL SUPPORT DISTRIBUTION 1. Fundraising 2. Jain Way Of Life 3. Calendar 4. Education Comm. 5. Membership Mgm. 6. Mangalam
Problem: NORTH AMERICAN JAINs, JAIN CENTERS, COMMITTEES, DIRECTORS HAVE BEEN SILOED – NOW WE NEED TO BE LOCAL AND GLOBAL!; Need to Strengthen our organizational infrastructure Jain College Students Memphis JAINS JAINA JCNC Chicago Mix Marriage Non-Indians Boston Jain Scholars Education Solution: Need to “touch” our membership, volunteers, Jain Centers and offer them “fresh” content and services Need to Connect –Communicate - Collaborate
Synergy with JAINA’s and Local Tools n n Official JAINA website n n Information on JAINA committees, activities, events, n people, etc. 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 WWW. LOCAL JAINCENTER. ORG JAINA-JL Portal n n n Local center website Local activities, events, people, etc. Local Pathshala content
JAINA-JL and Local Jain Center Collaboration n Jain Center Responsibility: Promotes Jain. Link (sends Jain. Link information and places a link on their local website) ¨ Appoints an individual or a team to work be admin for the Jain. Link-Jain Center Group ¨ (optional) Shares emails of its members ¨ n 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 ¨
Jain. Link – For individual Users Content: ¨Share, generate, archive ¨On-Line resources ¨News, events, blogs n Form many active groups n Get targeted information (for youths, mothers, leaders) n Share best practices in Jain Centers n Highly secure and managed n
Benefits to Centers, Groups, Committees n Instant groups ¨ Blogs, photos, content, custom pages, news, events, etc. ¨ Multiple group only administrators ¨ Easy to add and share content n Member management ¨ ¨ n What Centers can do ¨ ¨ ¨ n Indiviual users manage their own membership Users decide what information to share 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
Membership Management Vision and Opportunities (110, 000 Jains in NA) n Membership database Direct communication on topics of THEIR interest n News, events n Networking n n Continuity during transitioning ¨ Local n and JAINA Gather data ¨ Demographic and trend analysis
On-Board JAINA-JL n Jain Centers who are interested in integrating with JAINA-JLL Jain Center of Greater Boston Jain Society of Metropolitan Chicago (JSMC) ¨ Jain Society of Memphis ¨ Jain Society of Washington DC ¨ Jain Society of Wisconsin n ¨ ¨ n Organizations: n YJA n Jain Scholars n Jain College Students (Campus Outreach Program) Committee: n Long Range Planning n JNF n MIS n Diaspora n Calendar
Who has rights to data? n Who is responsible for JAINA/Jain. Link: JAINA – Long Range Planning Committee ¨ Partners in Jain. Link include: other centers, organizations, groups, etc. ¨ n Who owns the data: ¨ n If JAINA decides to not support this, what happens to the data ¨ n JAINA. Individual centers that have shared their mailing list jointly own the data for their Jain Center Data can be exported to Excel spread sheet. There will be no loss of data. Who will Jain. Link information be shared with JAINA ¨ Local Jain Centers for only their members ¨ n Will the members be bombarded with emails, solicitations, etc. No. Plan is for a newsletter 1 x 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 n Jain. Link has a high degree on security and privacy features ¨ n 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 ¨ n Individual “GROUP” controls it’s own privacy policy n Jain. Link 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
Solution – Need to “touch” our membership, volunteers, Jain Centers and offer them “fresh” content and services
Connect – Communicate - Collaborate n Connect With family, friends, people of similar interest ¨ Example: Physicians, Cisco, from Surat, India, mix marriage groups ¨ n Communicate ¨ ¨ n 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.
Next Steps n 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: chandra. vora@gmail. com; yokjain@yahoo. com; n Send us: n n Your mailing list with emails of your members Name, address, telephone number for your center Give us three names for your center’s Jain. Link admin Schedule training (we will train your admins)
Value Proposition n 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 ¨ ¨ ¨ n Individual Groups ¨ ¨ ¨ n 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 … • Donation follow-up, general inquiry, welcome calls to new immigrants • Brochure development, email, calling, follow-ups JAINA Hotline • Mail list refresh and Mail-list management Local Fundraising Support • Brochure development, email, calling, follow-ups Publications Support segmentation initiative Execute services for members New JAINA Infrastructure Jain Projects Management • Coordination and tracking of current Jain projects (e. g. Calendar project) Communications Management Surveying Capabilities Web Management • Administrative assistance such as setting up conference, web meetings, etc. • Collateral material development (brochure, flyers, cards, etc. ) • Web site refreshing and maintenance • Web site development for special projects (e. g. Online Pathshala), local institutions, etc. • Surveys via online telephone to better understand needs and characteristics of Jains
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