anujkumar
August 6th, 2004, 02:26 AM
Jatland has beed in existence for many years now. It has and have had member who love it, and it's doing great!
But, where does it go from here?
We have had many suggestions in the past about what sort of things can be done to improve upon what it offers now, including some very heated ones, involving funds.
http://www.jatland.com/cgi-bin/ub/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=10&TID=189&SID=48737
Many of the specific suggestions involves improving the message board. Like:
Member's directory..
business directory..
more features in post..
security.. public access
making it more eye catching
etc..
Many have been implemented..
But I think site has reached critical mass as far as member's board is concerned. 2000 members only 100's participate, i don't see more than 100's participating anyway,.. Imagine 1000's messages daily.. there won't be any regular member than..so in that sense it has touched upper critical limit as well.
but message board itself is serving some constructive purpose like offering career advice (Dr. Birbal Singh's thread etc), in addition to general purpose time pass and interection. Some members found Jat friends in far away land. Some would have improved their reasoning (winning an argument)/ writing skills :P and a few might have connected to their roots who missed a first hand experience of the same.
and free metrimonial service should be the best thing about Jatland to many members who does not participate in the message board. (if somebody got married through Jatland, they should definately give a big party to jatland members :) )
Bottleneck in all this improvement story is "money" and "time".
Some suggestions were about, how to generate funds for Jatland.. like making the membership paid (sounds an impossible idea to me), or making the metrimonial section paid etc.
Then there more general suggestion about expanding it to something more than a message board/member's forum, which doesn't seems to go anywhere, (so more suggestions invited!)
Then what the point of bringing it again?
One difference that I see is that there are more enthusiastic members now. So even though site administration does not have time and money, what can be done is just to decide what needs to be done, once the expansion if finalised, then they should ask members for "time" publicly and doners for "money" for specific purpose. I think out of 2000 menbers,.. It shoud succeed.
I recall Nitin mentioning that he has some plans ahead. I would like him and other site administrator's to detial if they have any plans about it.. including the possibility that it's doing great there is no need to do anything else.
more after responses!
But, where does it go from here?
We have had many suggestions in the past about what sort of things can be done to improve upon what it offers now, including some very heated ones, involving funds.
http://www.jatland.com/cgi-bin/ub/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=10&TID=189&SID=48737
Many of the specific suggestions involves improving the message board. Like:
Member's directory..
business directory..
more features in post..
security.. public access
making it more eye catching
etc..
Many have been implemented..
But I think site has reached critical mass as far as member's board is concerned. 2000 members only 100's participate, i don't see more than 100's participating anyway,.. Imagine 1000's messages daily.. there won't be any regular member than..so in that sense it has touched upper critical limit as well.
but message board itself is serving some constructive purpose like offering career advice (Dr. Birbal Singh's thread etc), in addition to general purpose time pass and interection. Some members found Jat friends in far away land. Some would have improved their reasoning (winning an argument)/ writing skills :P and a few might have connected to their roots who missed a first hand experience of the same.
and free metrimonial service should be the best thing about Jatland to many members who does not participate in the message board. (if somebody got married through Jatland, they should definately give a big party to jatland members :) )
Bottleneck in all this improvement story is "money" and "time".
Some suggestions were about, how to generate funds for Jatland.. like making the membership paid (sounds an impossible idea to me), or making the metrimonial section paid etc.
Then there more general suggestion about expanding it to something more than a message board/member's forum, which doesn't seems to go anywhere, (so more suggestions invited!)
Then what the point of bringing it again?
One difference that I see is that there are more enthusiastic members now. So even though site administration does not have time and money, what can be done is just to decide what needs to be done, once the expansion if finalised, then they should ask members for "time" publicly and doners for "money" for specific purpose. I think out of 2000 menbers,.. It shoud succeed.
I recall Nitin mentioning that he has some plans ahead. I would like him and other site administrator's to detial if they have any plans about it.. including the possibility that it's doing great there is no need to do anything else.
more after responses!