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Friday, July 22nd, 2011Sangam India Around the World
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
A feature we worked on for the new site was Sangam India – Around the World. We thought of this idea as a way to show potential volunteers (like you, we hope!) what people are doing around the world to aid in our cause. Over the last few months, people have been involved in developing promotional materials, skits, educational curriculae, and sanitation and development research work. Volunteers have stepped forward from places like Australia, the UAE, England, and the United States. Their immense contribution helps us do our job in the most efficient and educated manner.
We hope this map will demonstrate to that regardless of where you live in the world, we’d love to have you involved in our project, and we could certainly use your help in our group.
Thanks to our numerous volunteers from different cities in India as well as around the planet; and we depend on you to run our projects!
Check out: Sangam India – Around the World.
New Website Launch!
Monday, July 20th, 2009
After almost three months in the making, we are excited to announce the launch of our new website today! Thanks so much to everyone who has been involved. The suggestion of making a new website began about 7 months ago, when Tina Ye, a designer from Boston, MA suggested to make a new site and volunteered to be the one to do it. What emerged from that idea is this website and we hope you all will enjoy it. An immense thanks goes to Tina for her tireless work, long nights, and patient responses to emails for many weeks.
The new website is more than a redesign however. We took this opportunity to write out completely new content for the website, which can be seen under the about and the initiatives sections. This was also a large task that involved many, many people:
Our Logo – written by Tina Ye, who also made us a new logo.
Mission Statement – written by Sriram Ramgopal, Nivedita Gunturi, and Navyatha Mohan.
Our History – written by Priyanka Boghani
Our Model – written by Gautam Bagga
Board Members – written by the board
Initiatives at a Glance – written by Apta Errabelli
Initiatives: Healthcare and Nutrition – written by Sriram Ramgopal
Initiatives: Education and Mentoring - by Rifa Khan, Priyanka Boghani, and Sriram Ramgopal
Initiatives: Hygiene and Sanitation – by Katie Bush
Initiatives: Women’s Issues - by Nivedita Gunturi
Ways to Help – by Priyanka Boghan
In addition, thanks to Adrienne Nobbe for meticulously editing the website for mistakes.
You will also see a new section called Join the Movement – which is about bringing the Sangam message to your city, and how to make a difference in your communities, today.
We hope you all enjoy the new website and please visit often – as you know we work hard to keep the site as up to date as possible. Of course, we’d appreciate your feedback!
Website Back Up, Updates on Survey
Thursday, July 16th, 2009We’re very sorry about the week of blog downtime! We were having technical issues from our webhosting provider. We’re going to be moving to a new provider in a few days time which will have more reliable service.
There has been a lot that has happened over the last week:
- The visit to the MGR Nagar Slum on Saturday, which was a success. We’ll share more about that in a post later today.
- The new website, which is in its final stages and should be coming out this weekend.
- The survey, which is set to go this Saturday, at 5:00 PM.
We’ll need volunteers for the survey, so if you can come, please do contact us!
More about these three will be shared in upcoming posts.
Once again, we’re very sorry for the downtime and stay tuned for more updates.
Sangam India Twitters!
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
As Priyanka wrote in her introductory post, Sangam India is now on twitter. The twitter feed will be updated whenever our blog is, and we’ll be sure to add plenty of other updates to keep it interesting. We’ll also be following organizations and people with similar focuses to tap into the network of activism around the world.
You can see our twitter feed at http://twitter.com/sangamindia. If you have a twitter account, please follow us! For those who use a newsreader, you can also connect to our twitter via RSS.
Thanks to Priyanka for her hard work in developing this.
Promotional E-Packet
Thursday, May 14th, 2009We have compiled the Promotional Packet into an e-version which allows it to be viewed easily, on the computer. A sample is included below but you can view it in full-size if you would like.
Viewing requires Adobe Flash 8 or above. This feature is powered by Issuu. These e-format pdfs are a great way to incorporate the content onto a website – and we hope that we’ll be using more of them when our new site launches.
The Promotional Packet contains the following:
- Sangam India English Flyer
- nXG: “Youngistan in Action” article
- Times of India: “Coming Together for Health”
- Times of India: “Sangam India holds health camp for kids”
- The Women’s International Perspective: “Students in India Take Social Change into Their Own Hands”
- Kumudam article, in Tamil and with English translation
- Anand Charity: “Building a better India, slum by slum”
- A selection of photographs from the last year.
It is still available as a .pdf here.
New Website in the Works
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
We’re working on a new website for Sangam India. This is being generously made by Tina Ye, a professional webdesigner from Boston, USA. She is hard at work making a new site that will be more exciting and hopefully have fewer glitches. This current design is about eight months old.
Currently, we’re working on the outline for the new website. Please let us know if you have any ideas that you have about what should be included on the new site. We’d love to know about your opinions.
Idealist.org Profile
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
We now have a profile on idealist.org, a website started by the NGO Action Without Borders, which “connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.”
Various NGOs from around the world put up profiles on this site, along with their events, promotional materials, campaigns, and activities. They put in jobs and volunteer opportunities and find other NGOs with similar projects to collaborate with.
Its a great idea and it has a lot of potential to enhance the activities of all these groups through the power of the internet.
Take a minute to check out our idealist.org profile. We hope that we’ll be able to work with other groups and find more help through this excellent resource.
Sangam India Calendar
Monday, October 20th, 2008We’ve made a calendar on Google Calendars to allow people to keep track of upcoming events. We’ll do our best to keep this as up to date as possible as we know there are people who would be interested in having an up to date schedule of events online.
Of course, if you are interested in something, its always better to inquire about it as events are liable to change.
The calendar can always be seen at its URL: http://sangamindia.org/calendar.html.
We’ll have a link to the calendar on our main page as well as on the blog so that it will always be easily accessible.
Website Launch
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Our new website is up! Check it out at http://sangamindia.org. We have also given this blog a facelift to now match the theme of the site. The blog URL has now changed to http://blog.sangamindia.org.
If you find any bugs or glitches in the site, please let me know at webmaster@sangamindia.org
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