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: chandra.vora@gmail.com;

yokjain@yahoo.com; 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