Hi Friends,
Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013
Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013
Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically
Tuesday 31 August 2004
CREATING A “BUZZ”
Abhi
Ref: My yesterday's note re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Some more points:
May be (loud thinking) we ought to have a provision
where the SENDER can enter his/ her own birthdates in "My Detail"
block as follows.
The moment he clicks submit, the names of
celebrities (for his own birthdates) will pop - up in a window.
This is the "proof" that the software works!
Only if the sender gets convicted that software works, would he feel like entering names of his friends.
Provision for ADD additional celebrity details we
would need to provide.
This is Two (2) parts,
· A
"PRIVATE" list "Box"
This is where "sender" or the "Recipient"
could add names/ data, which belong to friends/ relatives/ sweethearts etc.,
which they do NOT wish to share with general public. They want these to be
their own personal/ private "SECRET”! This is a very common "Cliques
/ Sub - groups" amongst collegiaus.
Hence, we need to assure the sender (and / or recipient)
that any names/ details added into this PRIVATE BOX will NOT be shared with
anyone else and that we will NOT add these names to COMMON/ PUBLIC database.
· A
"COMMON/ PUBLIC" List Box
This is a box in which, sender/ Recipient could add
data/ names sports champs/ Model etc), which entire world knows. WWJ would be
free to add these into our COMMON/ PUBLIC database (Birth - date wise), so that
this database keeps growing thru contributions of all people using this
feature. Everybody benefits by everybody's contributions.
Recognition
Why would / should any sender/ Recipient take the
trouble to "Contribute" new names/ data to the "PUBLIC"
box? The "Free - riders" would what to enjoy the benefit (of this
service) without having to contribute anything!
And we can neither have any RELE which says
"You can use this service - only if you add 5
new names/ data to the PUBLIC box".
To bypass such a rule, people may enter
"JUNK" data! - And we have no one to monitor / validate any data
entered by anyone in the PUBLIC box.
So obviously, such a negative incentive will not
work.
But what might work is a positive incentive. We may
be able to motivate people (to add new data to PUBLIC box), if we give them credit for their
contribution.
eg.
PUBLIC DATABASE
Incidentally, as far as PUBLIC box is concerned, we
cannot have a field for "E - mail ID!
(Shown in my Yesterday's note).
It would be virtually impossible for anyone to get
hold of "private" email IDs of
. Shah
Rukh Khan
. Ratan
Tata
. Sachin
Tendulkar etc.!
And, in any case, they are unlikely to be looking
for jobs, so we have no use for their email ID!
.
"FREE" Service
Somewhere, we must mention that this (Happy Birthday)
Service is FREE.
h.c.parekh
Monday 30 August 2004
CREATING A BUZZ- CREATING "SMART - MOBS" – CREATING ONLINE "COMMUNITIES"
Abhi
If WWJ/ JAM has to succeed, - really take - off in
a big way - we must succeed in generating a "buzz (around WWJ), especially amongst young
generation (Age 16 - 25)
We must get them to,
. Visit
WWJ
. Use WWJ
. Talk to
friends about WWJ (on mobile)
. To give
us email IDs of friends
. To use
PULL SMS / PUSH SMS Service from WWJ
They won't do any of the above, unless they feel, it
is FUN - and then wait to share this FUN with their friends.
Most of them are not looking for a job and are not
interested in job alerts.
But someday the will. We don't have to tell them that!
In the meantime, how do we make then visit WWJ? - And
get some FUN?
As follows:
Dear Young Friend:
Amaze your friends with your knowledge.
Tell them the names of celebrities who share their birthdates
- beside wishing your friends a
VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY !
All you do is to fill - up the form below. We will
do the rest (i.e. automatically sending out birthday greetings to those friends whose email IDs you enter below
- along with the names of celebreties born on some day as your friends)
- SAMPLE
Of course, we will mark to you, a copy of each
HAPPY BIRTHDAY email that we send out on your behalf - so you can also call -
up your friend. What is more, you can ADD to the list prepared by us, details of
any other celebrity - or even common friend Have fun.
Love life
(-and keep away from DRUGS!)
SAMPLE
Dear Anju
A very happy birthday.
Do you remember that you were born on TUESDAY of course,
not !
I forgot, you could not read the calendar - then or
now !
Anyway, you had good company on your birthday.
Apart from you, the other great people who were also born on
JANUARY 1
If I missed out any lesser mortals, who are
currently masquerading as film starts / sports champs/ fashion models etc.
enter their names below and bounce back this email to me.
Hey, WHERE/ WHEN is the party ?
Love .
Priya.
Abhi
The following have to be important features of
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY"
. It has to
be FUN/ MOD
. Sender should be able to
. Edit the "message" (Every relationship
between any 2 persons, is UNIQUE and therefore sender wants his/ her own unique
message in own unique style/ language to go to other person.
. Again a person certainly does not want the SAME
message to FUN, it will become BORNING !
. Sender would also like to "VARY" the
message from person - to - person.
. Add names/ details of other celebrities would
want to "Show - off" their knowledge (of film starts/ models/ other celebrities
etc) to their friends, in order to "Impress" them.
We have to turn this "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"
feature into some kind of an "EGO TRIP”!
. Similarly, even the "Recipient" should
also be able to ADD details of Celebrities (or even common friends) born on some
day - and then bounce back the email to the "SENDER",
Of course, "Recipient" also wants to show
off his/ her CURRENT/ UP - TO - DATE Knowledge!
In this process (back & forth bouncing), we
want to capture as many NEW names & email IDs as we can! That, really, is
our goal! For this reason, we MUST automatically receive a copy of each
GREETING that gets bounced back with addition of new names! And we should
automatically UPDATE our database, so that the list of DATE - WISE celebrities,
keeps growing forever, without any effort on our part!
So, users create their database and they also
consume/ use their database! Everybody contributes his/ her own knowledge,
whereby, everybody benefits/ gains.
This feature will build powerful community.
Saturday 21 August 2004
DID THEY READ IT
21Aug 2004
DID THEY READ IT
To,
All Consultants,
(Did They Read It)
· By a copy of
this note, I am asking Reena to download the free trial version of this
software and make it available to you.
· Please give your
feedback to Reena in 10 days.
· If most of
you feel it is a useful software to use, Reena will take out a one-year
subscription (@50/-)
Hemen Parekh
Thursday 19 August 2004
Friday 13 August 2004
Monday 2 August 2004
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