North America Jain

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• North America Jain
• On-Line Community and Networking
• By JAINA/Long Range Planning in Partnership
  with North American Jain Centers, Sanghs, and
  Organizations

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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
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Synergy with JAINAs 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Security, Privacy key to mass adoption

• JainLink has a high degree on security and
  privacy features
• Its 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 its 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

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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

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

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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_at_gmail.com
  yokjain_at_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 centers JainLink
  admin
• Schedule training (we will train your admins)

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Many current projects are stalled due to
inadequate infrastructure required to push
project to completion JainLink can accelerate
these projects
Project bottlenecks
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Project
Services Required
FUNDING
COLLATORAL/ PRINTING/WEB
MARKETING/COMMUNICATION
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
DISTRIBUTION
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2. Jain Way Of Life
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3. Calendar
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4. Education Comm.
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5. Membership Mgm.
6. Mangalam
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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

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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.