Promoting through community on orkut!

[mayurpathak]

We WILL NOT advertise our selves officially on Orkut.

But having said that, Devesh I appreciate your efforts and desire to promote CE. There is no restriction on you or any one else creating a community on Orkut about CE. You can privately ask people to join as well. However CE will be unable to officially promte it.

I'm sorry if I'm disappointing you, I only want you to think differently.

[The_Big_K]

Let me extend this a bit further.

CE can be promoted in various ways and promotion is more effective if CEans promote CE by word of mouth. However, I'd personally encourage putting a link to us in your email signatures or orkut scraps.

What say?

-The Big K-

[crook]

I did not see any such community on Orkut . I include a link to www.crazyengineers.com in my personal email. Its very effective way of advertising

Has anyone tried yahoo groups? there are other social networking websites too. we can target them!

[Mahesh]

Hi Biggie,

I think instead of thinking about promoting our forum through social network communities,its better we does something special different from others .Activities like doing projects by our CEans,Writing articles as we have already started and some other innovative stuff which will bring name and fame to us and implicitly promote our forum without any advertising...
What is ur opinion CEans???

[The_Big_K]

Originally Posted by Mahesh

Hi Biggie,

I think instead of thinking about promoting our forum through social network communities,its better we does something special different from others .Activities like doing projects by our CEans,Writing articles as we have already started and some other innovative stuff which will bring name and fame to us and implicitly promote our forum without any advertising...
What is ur opinion CEans???

Hi Mahesh,

You'll be glad to know that we have already started most of the activities that you have suggested. Recently one of the CEans approached for a research project with us. We need a team of mentors (CEans who are already working or have spent some time in the industry) for the CEans who are students. Let's see how things go

How about forming local clubs? Do we have CEans who can take lead and form CE clubs in their colleges?

-The Big K-

[ash]

I wonder if there's a social networking site JUST for engineers. Possible idea for CE Labs?

[The_Big_K]

Ash, please tell us more about your idea. Are you suggesting that we develop a social networking software?

Turning CE into a social network isn't a big deal (actually!) , but we don't want to do that. There is no point in forming communities for the heck of it Our dream is to unite engineers across the world so that we can help each other, exchange ideas, innovate & make the world a better place to live ( that's crazy, eh? )

Very soon, we'll need to setup a core team that handles various activities. Brace yourself for the action!

-The Big K-

[ash]

Hm.. well, I wouldn't want CE to end up like the existing social networking sites, or else it'll lose it's professionalism!

More like an engineering networking place, like you said, to share ideas and all. This forum is sufficient enough, but remember you wanted a place to host our projects and all too? Why not make it an all in one place without relying on external websites?

It's a tuesday morning and I've got a lab to run off to now I would like to clarify what I mean sooner or later. Hopefully the rest of CE can add in their ideas too!