---------- Forwarded message --------- From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 21:11 Subject: Re: [itpmods:14167] Any use?- Posting on efloraofindia page in Facebook To: itpmods <[email protected]>
Linking and adding our official Fb page account and mail to the bottom of the website home page of our group-> what to write and how to link ? On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 21:09, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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'. -- 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. 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