---------- Forwarded message --------- From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 21:09 Subject: Re: [itpmods:14167] Any use?- Posting on efloraofindia page in Facebook To: itpmods <[email protected]>
Thanks a lot, Ashutosh ji, for your detailed views. ..... if required I will be happy to make that ....-> Thanks, Ashutosh ji. Pl. go ahead. On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 20:49, Ashutosh Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Respected Garg ji, > > Social media is very important platform nowadays to reach great number of > people for any organisation, i am sure that posting updates on Fb > efloraofindia page is useful for group but i will say we are not able to > reach more people as there are less than 1K likes/followers on Fb page but > i feel it will reach more people in future as our group is getting more > fame being largest database of Indian Flora with number of species pages > increasing significantly every year. > > But what i observed in past that our Fb page is much restricted only to > the group members or the botanical society, we were not able to reach > common public and i will say to reach common public is equaly important as > we can make people plant conscious in today's world when people are > suffering from so called 'Plant Blindness' but for this we need to work a > little more, some of my suggestions for this are - > > 1). At present the posting on Fb page only includes addition of images of > family/genera/species pages to site but we should be adding plants that > look more interesting to common people at regular intervals say weekly > means the plants that are rarer, or specialised like > parasites/mycoheterotrophs etc. along with regular near daily posting of > beautiful images of those plants that are seen by common people almost > everyday including ornamentals and other common plants like so called weeds > in agriculture etc. that were posted on our group by any of member on to > our Fb page. See Indian Biodiversity Portal IBP Fb page for this, as far as > i remember they have very less followers about one year back but just in > last couple of months it has reached to near 10K because of their regular > postings... > > 2). We have some really rare plant images on our site which may also > includes some of the plants that are photographed for the first time with > almost no images on other sites like talking about my own post we have > Impatiens glauca images (A rare unique endemic balsam only known from > couple of localities and only from HP and Uttrakhand state) and there are > such many other species also, similarly we have images of those plants that > are recently discovered/described but their images were discussed before > publication on our group so we can just add them say on weekly basis to > reach more people and make group more popular... > > 3). Linkingb and adding of our official Fb page account and mail to the > bottom of website home page of our group, this is done by almost every > organisation/institute now so if one visit our site they can check for our > Fb page also and vice versa ultimately reaching more number of people .You > can check IBP home page for this also. > > Now just giving an example to show how fb page of our group is/may be > useful, I remember in June 2017 when this group completed ten years large > number of members mainly moderators/pillars shared that beautiful poster > and details on their personal Fb account, and it is only through the FB > efloraofindia page i came to know about this amazing group and i soon > joined this group in October after some discussion with Anil Thakur sir... > And at that time i was a novice student with hardly any knowledge but yes > with great passion towards exploring our biodiversity, i still remember > once i was not able to confirm some rarer species ids and i had no clues > that time how to proceed further but as i started posting and interacting > on our group it not only resolved all my doubts but also made my basic > understanding stronger and increase interest to go for detailed taxonomic > studies which i am currently doing. So i think we need to reach more people > and without any doubt social media platform is best way for this mainly to > reach youngsters, who knows there will be another passionate student > waiting to know about our group so as to contribute and learn through this > group... > > > Garg ji i was thinking of posting my views on use of social media for > popularising group from last one week and finally your this question gave > me opportunity to share my views. Also i want to add that it will be really > great if we can make official page just like our Fb page on Instagram also > there it is much easier to reach large number of public with similar > interest than Fb we have several pages there regarding botany mainly the > botanical garden pages like Kewgardens and more... > Also i am using Instagram for past couple of years and have many > international friends/scientist with similar interest so the group > moderators who use Instagram can make its official page there even if > required i will be happy to make that and the posting on Fb and Insta will > be near similar i think both pages may also be connected. And similarly > connecting and adding link of Instagram pages at bottom of our site home > page will be good just similar to that what i recommended for Fb page... > > I am sure by doing so it will not only make our group more popular but by > reaching large number of audiance we will be also spread knowledge and > possibly increase interest in youngsters about plants diversity around us > and make awareness about the same in common public and offcourse people > will love this ... > > Best regards > Ashutosh Sharma > > On Tue 7 Jul, 2020, 4:51 PM Dinesh Valke, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On social media, posts from organizations are often for promotion of >> their products, and keeping the audience reminded of the organization >> itself. >> Likes, reactions, views - they serve as some kind of indicators of >> popularity, following, etc. It is actually a matter of analysis. >> I too am not aware of such analysis. >> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 4:11 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> For quite some time, I have been posting updates regarding updating our >>> families and genera with comparative images. >>> Is there any use of such postings (except for getting some likes/ >>> engagements), as I am not much familiar with Facebook working ? >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J.M.Garg >>> >>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >>> >>> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >>> >>> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian >>> Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >>> world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or >>> Efloraofindia >>> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >>> database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than >>> 2,50,000 images are directly displayed on 31.1.20). >>> >>> The whole world uses my Image Resource >>> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >>> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >>> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >>> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >>> >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "ITPmods" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFDK-HbJOwp5WXeeVC-Dg%3DyZuH2q0%3DsrppE3z8KOcgYXVQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFDK-HbJOwp5WXeeVC-Dg%3DyZuH2q0%3DsrppE3z8KOcgYXVQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ITPmods" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CABSQqC2WStbmxHhoX%2BNm2wrC%2BUMdkyAQO3ssk_XuWpu9upa5oA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CABSQqC2WStbmxHhoX%2BNm2wrC%2BUMdkyAQO3ssk_XuWpu9upa5oA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ITPmods" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CADkfUKvdOxj0T%2BW35WO5ynSpda0yFSv%2BtQOtyTGAGA807DE%3DqA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CADkfUKvdOxj0T%2BW35WO5ynSpda0yFSv%2BtQOtyTGAGA807DE%3DqA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than 2,50,000 images are directly displayed on 31.1.20). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than 2,50,000 images are directly displayed on 31.1.20). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFCVnkWQfJOuBzqAmAsKT7US0Zj%2BYctFvE%3D1o7RJ27%2BqiA%40mail.gmail.com.
