---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ashutosh Sharma <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 20:49 Subject: Re: [itpmods:14167] Any use?- Posting on efloraofindia page in Facebook To: itpmods <[email protected]>
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'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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