Dear Nelson, I agree with all your points. I had talked to Rohan and Vijay two weeks ago and Rohan had agreed to give weekend updates from Fecaebook if any interesting images had been posted there that week. Ashok and others could also post links to the blog whenever anything interesting gets posted.
With best regards, Krushnamegh. ------------------------------------------------- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD Ramanujan Fellow and Reader National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) GKVK, Bellary Road, Bengaluru 560065, India. Ph: +91 80 2366-6001/02, extension 6410 Mobile: + 91 9403-975-925 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Emails: [email protected], [email protected] From: Nelson Rodrigues <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:01:29 -0800 (PST) To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Butterfly India needs a little more support from us. And that includes me... yes friends, once upon a time we used to receive lots of images from all of us, now the numbers have come down as all of us can see. A great performance comes from the artist and the audience applause, very often nice pictures come up but the response from our end is almost missing..Very often krushnamegh and Isaac Kehimkar have some encouraging words to say, I think we all ought to emulate them. That is what will encourage the others to send more of their images. A good butterfly photographer from Mumbai told me a few months ago," I prefer to post on Facebook as there is some response from the viewers.... When i send the images to Butterfly India is as if i have posted them against some dead wall" Vijay Barve the leader of the group is trying his best with new themes but i am sure the response from the rest of us could be better, As Butterfly India has more than 1000 members We have to work on two fronts one will to get people to send pictures , the other side will be to ask members to send words of encouragement to those who have posted if you are reluctant to post your letter on the group please send a a personal message to the contributor. Almost all artists like some feedback on their work. Also most of us check the mails on weekends unfortunately sometimes there is no mail on these two vital days, could we have another moderator who will help out on these two days. Suggestion no 3 would be Could someone pick up the images from facebook and upload it on this site on a once a week basis. All the photos can come under one mail entitled...Images from Facebook this week. Of course a common consensus is required regarding this suggestion. Any other suggestions from readers how we can revitalise this group are welcome Nelson Rodrigues -- Enjoy
