Forums on Webyantra…
Webyantra now has an accompanying forum for users to network directly. I have thought about this for quite some time and I also get emails regularly from readers asking for one. Just never got around to pull the trigger. So finally I spent a few hours during the last week putting it together. This is the link; it is housed in the main navigation as well.
The forum has the following categories to make it easier to post and browse content.
JOBS, EVENTS, PRESS RELEASES, ELEVATOR PITCHES, STARTUP MARKETPLACE, TALENT, QUESTIONS & ANSWERS, TECHNOLOGY HACKS, NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES. In case other categories make sense, just drop a comment and I’ll add it in.
You need to register on the forum to post (takes a couple of minutes).
On many an occasion, people ask me questions or have requirements that I am not equipped to answer. They might best be answered by the community itself; thats where the forum steps in. Do make use of it (and pleassse , keep it spam free).
Vikas on Aug 11, 2008
Hey Amit - this is great, but shouldn’t we try have a single forum across the few startup blogs that exist in India. We all know that traffic will be meager at best in each of these forums.
Since the agenda is to encourage discussions between startup folks, I’d think its better to try unify these tools across pluggdin, venturewoods, watblog, alootechie, etc. than having discrete forum/job tools at each of the blog sites.
Ofcourse every startup wants to build their own community, but I am assuming you are doing this more to uplift the startup ecosystem than to make a business out of it.
Just my 2p…
Amit Ranjan on Aug 13, 2008
Vikas,
I cant speak for others but I can tell you why I thought of it; I get lots of emails with people asking for help, advise, wanting to recruit, etc . Frankly I do not have the bandwidth or the ability to reply back to each one individually. Sow hy not let that happen without any interaction from my side?
thats the idea behind the forum ; off course if people do not find it useful, then it will not pick up … thats fine