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

JCNC Chicago Boston M emphis JAINA Mix Marriage Non-Indians Jain Scholars JAINS Education Jain College Students 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. 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 s 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, 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

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  s, group mgm.  Surveys / Quizzes  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 s, 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 , 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.

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 to us: Send us: Your mailing list with s 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 Project 1.Fundraising Services Required FUNDING COLLATORAL/ 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  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 JAINA Infrastructure Local Fundraising Support Publications Support Jain Projects Management Communi- cations Management Web Management Surveying Capabilities Mail-list management JAINA Hotline Execute services for 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, , calling, follow-ups Mail list refresh and segmentation initiative Brochure development, , 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