North America Jain On-Line Community and Networking

1. North America Jain On-Line Community and Networking By: JAINA/Long Range Planning in Partnershipwith North American Jain Centers, Sanghs, and Organizations

2. Problem: NORTH AMERICAN JAINs HAVE BEEN SILOED – NOW WE NEED TO BE LOCAL AND GLOBAL!; Need to Strengthen our organizational infrastructure JAINS Jain College Students Mix Marriage Non-Indians JAINA Chicago Boston JCNC Jain Scholars Memphis Education Solution: Need to “touch” our membership, volunteers, Jain Centers and offer them “fresh” content and services Need to Connect –Communicate - Collaborate

3. Synergy with JAINA’s and Local Tools • 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 • Official JAINA website • Information on JAINA committees, activities, events, people, etc. • Local center website • Local activities, events, people, etc. • Local Pathshala content

4. 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

5. 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

6. JainLink – For individual Users • Content: • Share, generate, archive • On-Line resources • News, events, blogs • Form many active groups • Get targeted information (for youths, mothers, leaders) • Share best practices in Jain Centers • Highly secure and managed

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. On-Board JainLink • Organizations: • YJA • Jain Scholars • Jain College Students (Campus Outreach Program) • Committee: • Long Range Planning • JAINA Education • 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

11. Solution – Need to “touch” our membership, volunteers, Jain Centers and offer them “fresh” content and services

12. 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.

13. 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)

14. Many current projects are stalled due to inadequate infrastructure required to push project to completion – JainLink can accelerate these projects = Project bottlenecks  Project Services Required 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       

15. 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

16. 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 segmentation initiative Mail-list management Local FundraisingSupport • Brochure development, email, calling, follow-ups Publications Support Execute services for members New JAINAInfrastructure Jain Projects Management • Coordination and tracking of current Jain projects (e.g. Calendar project) Surveying Capabilities Communi-cations Management • Surveys via online telephone to better understand needs and characteristics of Jains 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.