“Spandan” – my newsletter experience

I have been off my blogging space for sometime and that has been because the time I devote to write, has been clogged with my effort to start a newsletter for our campus I stay in. This is probably my first effort to conceptualize and deliver a newsletter in any form. I had my first share of experience of being a sub editor of my college magazine, long time back, but this has been special.

A community of more than 1000 flats and around 750 families, I was kicked with the idea of start a community knowledge management, and the first logical step was to start a news letter. The basic idea was to keep people informed about what is happening in the campus, not just in terms of events and classified but more to empower people as “their campus” and not believe that since we adhere to “rules” and pay their “bills”, the responsibilities end here, and thus have the right to get everything perfect.

This news letter was aimed to know each other. Networking is so important today. With a society like ours, we may have all our solutions amongst the people in the campus, and to believe that we need to know everyone and have their experiences.

Technically it was not too difficult. We hit the drawing board to conceptualize the newsletter, the section, the key concept and worked out the outline of the newsletter. We wanted to put it online, but I guess the timelines we decided to roll out the 1^st edition was too little to identify a team of web developers to do so. I tried my hands on googlesite, but finally decided to stick to good old pdf.

The launch was great and on time. Feedbacks were positive and people volunteered to help us with the following editions. It was over whelming to have a good response and hope to continue with the team we have now to go from strength to strength!!

A sneak peak to Spandan

PS: I wrote this before… but never got time to post it and then I got hit with the Rock On bug ;-) 

Rock On ~ Continues….

The end credit of the movie leaves a message “Do not download the music, Buy it!!”, and that’s what I did last evening. A long time… when I bought a CD, and head banged alone after all slept off. 

The music is superb!!! I never related it when I used to listen it on promos and radio, but its simply rocking. The title track “Rock On”, is not my favorite though. I loved the “Pichele Saat Dino” number more retained as “Mere Laundry ka Bill” and ofcourse the turning point “Tum Ho tho” number!!

As I write this I have “Humari Tumhari Baatein” which is a sweet song. The album must be special for Shankar Ehsan & Loy, especially for Ehsan & Loy, who look more rock star than music composers. Shankar, one of my fav, is a class apart with his variation on music. A person, who sings sargam with similar ease, to fusion with Shakti and now a rock album, with credits of cutting it so fine on the voice of Farhan.

Farhan, & Javed Sahib, suprises me completely, with such enthusiasm to sing and the lyrics are so good. Imagine them coming from Javed Sahad is amazing. Over all a great album to have in a long time!!! Rock On!! 

Rock On ~ Bang On!!

Rock On is Bang On; a film on those little moments of life, which we say “Cherished Moments”. A great movie, well made, well though well positioned and well performed. We see Faran Akthar is a new genre of an Actor & Singer, and believe me is great and did a fantastic movie. Read On