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

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.

h.c.parekh

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