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| Harilaththake |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 05:03 AM
Visit the following site for Muktak/poem and academic articles.
http://www.nesaj.org/nesajpatra
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| ashu |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 05:58 AM
I have noticed that quite a few other Nepal-related sites have started to sort of 'advertize' themselves here in this sajha space. Though this bodes well for sajha.com's future [I mean that's like Himal patrika advertizing in Kantipur :-)],
I just want to make a few GENERAL comments.
First, yes, I can't speak for others; so I'll speak for myself.
As a visitor, I really don't see the point of visiting and posting in too many Nepal-related Web sites. I mean, visiting and sticking to one Web site (this one, in my case) on a regular basis is fine and good for me. And so, unless I am doing heavy-duty research and scouring the Net to find useful stuff, I am happy being a mere visitor who just manages to get just enough time to visit and stick to a few Web sites that sort of delivers (so to speak) the highest returns (again, so to speak)
on my time.
All Web sites, after all, are competing for our attention, and our attention is a scarce commodity.
There was this McKinsey report (I don't know where exactly I read it, but it made a big impression on me) that said that successfully sticky Web sites seem to
have 3 C's going for them:
a) great CONTENT (which this site has)
b) great COMMUNITY (which, again, this site has, even as a spin-off of gbnc.org --and thank god that this is no longer just a Greater Boston Web site, though admittedly postings at times seem heavy on subtle references to the good
old Cambridge, Mass days :-)
c) CUSTOMERS or visitors who are loyal to or who stick to this site to get more
of (a) and (b) above.
In addition to the above:
There are also, I have been thinking -- building upon various stuff I have read here and there -- other ways that have ended up making this Web site better.
That is this site seems to have done a good job over all by informally UNBUNDLING the work required, and getting each of these three major
functions right. Yes, but what does that mean?
I) First, San manages -- and so wonderfully at that -- the programming INFRASTRUCTURE that underpins this site.
II) Second, visitors here -- by contributing ideas, postings and responses -- are collectively on the cutting-edge (for a Nepal-related site, anyway!) of PRODUCT (er, posting) INNOVATION.
This product innovation is the most crucial part. Without a constant SUPPLY of new and innovative and thought-provoking and amusing postings from all of us in our various capacities, this site can easily lose its edge. In fact, I have noticed that whenever there's a lull in kurakani here, some people get impatient enough to start demanding for "things to read". So, product innovation is crucial to make
this site humming.
And third, managing customer or visitor relations. This site has grown to this present stage through bundles of (II) and (I) above, to be sure; but it also has has the benefit of many informal and deliberately informal word-of-mouth advertising by us among our friends and acquaintances. We should KEEP on
doing such word-of-mouth and email advertising of this site all the time regardless of whether people actually visit the site or not.
So far, the general forum has been good for, well, general discussions. General discussions are great to whet one's intelectual/social appetites, and that, our discussions seem to have done really well. Now, general discussions may not be everyone's cup of tea (it certainly isn't Siwalik's cup of tea, for one!), and over time, through various existing and future usergroups, we may start moving into SPECIALIZED domains, and that's a great way to evolve!!
After all, hey, most of all professionals read both our trade magazines or journals AS WELL AS general-interest magazines and newspapers. I think that we are seeing the beginning of such a pattern in our Web behaviours too, and that's just great.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| GP |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 08:21 AM
Hi! Ashu ji,
Yaar, ek choti gayera NESAJ Patra ta Hernus, you will
like it being it a different taste, not less that Magh
ko jado ma Kathmandu ko ghar mathi ko chhat
mathi gham tapi sadhe ko bhogate. I am not kidding.
Well, you can call this piece of mine as advertisement,
but, its one of the best thing that got initiated by
...... [GP]. At least, GP is happy with the contents
of the NESAJ Patra and it surely has the 3Cs in the
contexts of Nepali Students in Japan, and
as you might know 3Cs : color, clarity and cut
are prime yard stick in measuring the quality of
a diamond piece, similarly, NP qualifies Mc. Kins...'s 3Cs.
I can understand we SAJHA.com visitors are tired
of many website ads. here, and NP got the blow,
but, once you see it, Harilaththake'S invitation will
be worth to take you to the one of best voluntary
publication by Nepali student's org. around the world.
If you have any comments or improvements, please,
forward it the editorial board and they will surely
appreciate your feedback to contributions.
Harilaththake, thank you.
GP
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| GP |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 08:31 AM
To all interested visitors to Nesaj Patra, its better you open the page
on a new browser window (full window). You can find following click
link just above the page opened page. ...
The webpage is opening below. If you'd like to open in a new browser, click here.
GP
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| GP |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 08:35 AM
For all visitors from Japan, Sajha.com has provided a link
to Nesaj.org at Customize section where if you locate
it as "SET MY LOCATION". Its probably a long term plan of
making SAJHA.com to be really a Hami sabko sajha
SAJHA.COM. Once you find it, its easy to get to nesaj.org
website by just one click. San should be appreciated
and supported for his dream come true.
GP
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| Who me? (Not Me) |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 09:03 AM
I must confess. I am addicted to this site. Even when I have time I just dont' go to other sites at all. I just click on this. Besides this, I go to suskera. Thank God, it is a monthly magazine. Just click once and print what you think might be interesting and read, then forget about it for a month. Then I tried Charkrapath. But they keep on changing themselves so often I just don't know what I am looking for even when I click on it!
GP, the other site that is advertised here might be really good (see i don't even remeber the name), but I guess I am just a slave of habit. Have not looked at it yet.
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| GP |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 09:27 AM
Bro, like you, I am also addicted to Sajha.com
(instead of gbnc.org, I would prefer to part of SAJHA.com .
If we are going to make Sajha.com belong to each of
us whats wrong with letting us informed about the new
websites run by other fellow nepalis. There is no need
to say that Hey you keep out, type of derogatory message.
You might not like, but, some other may like. If it has to
be really Sajha.com, then, you should not write a
"KEEP OUT" type of message. If Ashu can inform us
here his best website, i.e he liked best, whats wrong
if Harilaththake gives a link to a website. Are not
we playing double standard? double role. Well, if its
from GBNC.org members, and if they dislike and consider
such invitations be waste of their money, I have nothing
to say. But, new look, the Sajha.com (which is surely
a synonym) probably can have all kinds of postings
from Ashu's favourite links to non-Ashu's links to
NP.
I am really surprised with why we have such double standards?
Whats wrong with we peoples here, who looked so generous,
but, turned out to be double faced. I feel ashamed of being
part of this website, well, since I am addicted to this site,
I can not go away, but, I would like to stick my position that
it shoudl be open for all peoples as long as their intention
is not bad or derogatory.
I drink MechiTea everyday morning, does not mean,
I can not drink coffiee. I like black, without whitener
withou milk, dark coffee, which most us will hate, but,
when I had drink a coffiee in Starbuck in Shinzuku
station or in Gifu, I put sweet vanila syrup and enjoy
once in while starbuck coffiee. I love it as unique
taste and I really enter the Starbucks stand in
shinzuku Tokyo everymonth when I go to Tokyo for
my regular meetings. I find time starting from my
home (i.e. 400km away) to drink that special coffiee
which is a rare stand in Japan, and of course its
available in every street
corner in USA, especially, NY. So, bro. don't get
too much addicted, too much. If you can switch
your mind from one stop to antoher, then, its
bad in long run.
Keep on watching here and there, and that you
will avoid you calling "kuwa ko bhyaguto".
You can flame me. No problem, but, I hate double
standard shown by some of us.
GP
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| GP |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 09:36 AM
Corrected part (last part). So, bro. don't get
addicted, too much. If you can NOT switch
your mind from one stop to antoher, then, its
bad in long run.
Keep on watching here and there, and that you
will avoid you calling "kuwa ko bhyaguto".
You can flame me. No problem, but, I hate double
standard shown by some of us.
GP
PS: Day after tomorrow, I will be going to Starbucks stand
to enjoy its vanila syrup embedded coffiee. FYI,
the taste of Japanese McDonald, KFC, Mister Donot,
PizzaHut's Pizza including Starbucks coffiee are said
to be tastier than in USA. Of course, the sizes
in USA are quite bigger, but, taste in Japan is
not comparable. I bet in certain other things too
(including some sections of websites) if you get
the taste, you will even forget your name for a while.
You get my point?
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| Who Me? (not me) |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 10:18 AM
just a small note to GP. call me 'sis.' and yes, you are right. double standard. that is the name of the game. you know mukundo, that gokul used to talk about.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 11:27 AM
Hi GP-ji,
Perhaps I was NOT as clear as I thought was.
So, let me be as clear as I can now.
You and your friends want to advertize this other site here.
That's fine by me -- a visitor.
Go ahead.
Do it 10 times, if you wish, and that's OK.
No one here, least of all me, is using any kind of double standards
re: advertisement policies.
My point -- made only for myself -- was simple.
Sure, there may well be, as there are, plenty of Nepal-related Web sites.
Not knowing about them or not regularly visiting them will be my loss.
Some of these sites may indeed be better than sajha.com, and
that's fine. Sajha.com, after all, has no monopoly on excellence, and
NO ONE here has declared that this is the best site there is . . . so
please don't put words in other people's mouth.
What I said was: For the amount of time I -- a visitor -- have for the Net, well,
I'd rather spend it on sajha.com
My reasons are, well, both pragmatic (economy of time) and emotional (I've
been with this since, as they say, God was a child :-) . . . now that's a dig,
please don't take that literally!) .
Choosing to spend my time here is strictly my choice, and I am quite comfortable with it. Others out there may allocate their time to various other sites, including that NESAJ one too, and that's their choice.
I even gave reasons as to what seem to make a given Web site sticky -- and
that was just sharing some ideas. If you agree, fine. If not, well, that's fine
too.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| GP |
Posted
on 16-Jan-02 07:02 PM
Ashu wrote:
Go ahead. Do it 10 times, if you wish, and that's OK.
----
I am not here to play "THUWA". I did not initiate
the postings on NESAJ, and I was just responding on your
posting in reply to Hari. A link to NESAJ home page
was already there in SAJHA.com. I can now understand
that if Harilaththake would have used someother words
like "it My favourite website ..." which could
have avoided nuisance on certain individuals who were
tired of ad. like postings. Probably, harilaththake would
have posted his link under the "FAVORITE WEB SITES AND
BULLETRIN BOARDS? " and he would have been appreciated
instead of ..................................
This will be my last posting on this thread.
GP
BTW: "THUWA Khelne" : do you(all readers) know it?
Its a kind of DOHORI GEET (in Pahadi Bhek), but, full of Extreme
Gali Galouse that contains extreme FOUL words. Literally, its use
is to mean, when some peoples are un-wantedly creating a series
of replies for NOTHING productive, just because of their ego,
and pride.
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Ashu wrote:
FAVORITE WEB SITES AND BULLETRIN BOARDS?
I am wondering what are some of your favorite Web sites.
Please feel free to list so sa to increase the common good.
Some of my favorites:
http://www.aldaily.com
(for a good digest of liberal artsy-types of articles)
http://www.businessreviewdaily.com
(for a goos digest of business related articles)
http://www.mcsweeney.net
(for good, quirky writings)
More later
oohi
ashu
ktm, nepal
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