Praja.in Best Social Media Initiative 2010

Prajagale,

Indeed this is a proud moment for Praja and the whole Praja community deserves a hearty congratulations. Once again another reason to celebrate the idea of "PRAJA" - Citizen Engagement.

Let us continue the Praja journey by taking up more issues that concerns each one of us, our city, our state and our nation. Let us discuss, argue, counter argue all in the Praja spirit. More work to do.

 getting the award logo and make a display on the landing page..

 Congratulations!  Very thrilled to read about this award.  Here is to more awards in the future.

Congratulations  to all Prajagalu

This is  great recognition for  Praja on the Citizen moment. Special congrats to Admin  to Admin Team for improvemnets on the site. 

Indeed this recogination for Praja in bringing changes to Society  thru  e-governance in differnet fileds.  Long way to go

 Great News. Congrats SB. Also congrats to Shastri and other Prajas behind the scenes.

A special word of encouragment is also due to the faithful few who put a face to the organization. Great job!

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Wonderful news! Congrats to all the people who worked so hard on this task. Hope many good things will result from the pursuit of accountability, and that Praja.in will become an even greater force to reckon with. I'm already so happy with the respect the site has got from the authorities, and the recognition of the good will, energy and resources volunteered by its supporters.

Under Social Media Usgae ( Jurry Award ) you can see the Praja.in   in this link 

http://www.egovonline.net/news-list/34/8558-elets-announces-india-egov-20-awards-for-year-2010.html

With this,  Praja  can move ahead on the public issues and make great impact on public policies for better society.

Keep the momentum.

When Pranav shared the news from Delhi that Praja.in has won in the category of "Best Social media Initiative", after recovering from the great achievment moments, I started to look for the exact meaning of social media. Came accross a very good written blog by a Georgetown University Research Scholar Mr. Gaurav Mishra. I hope you all will like this blog.

Courtsey - Georgetown University Blogs

Author - Mr. Gaurav Mishra

Weblink - https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/blogs/isdyahoofellow/

Gaurav writes "...The 4Cs Social Media Framework

My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic. So, I use the term social media to encompass all the tools and all the practices that are described by the terms I mentioned above.

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. So, let’s look at these 4Cs in some detail...".

On behalf of many who have contributed in various ways towards coming this far (award is for all of them - praja!), want to thank all the well wishers for your encouraging words. Its just a small milestone, there is lots to do, and lot more distance to go.

As Syed pointed out via that very relevant image from Gaurav, it really is about those 4 Cs. And on this Praja ecosystem, built around the website, we have the range covered:

• Content, aka Discussions. Talk is encouraged here, just come and say your thing, as long as you talk some sense about your city. Talk is never belittled on Praja, it is of prime importance as citizen's preferences are understood that way.
• Community (I place this 2nd, slight difference from Gaurav's picture) - gets built here around ideologies, ideas, or causes.
• Collaboration - Group think, to evolve suggestions, criticism, or ideas
• Collective Wisdom, aka output of all of above - Now that we have discussed and understood some issues for over 2 years, more and more projects would show up, where few project members, would knowingly or unknowingly, carry the filtered and summarized wisdom created by the larger community.

To end this lecture-mode comment with an appeal - just get in please, pick your favorite "C", and contribute. Every little contribution matters. A lot many people read this site than write here. Change that ratio please, do what you like, talk, connect, think or do, anything is okay.

Congratulations to the Praja community on this wonderful recognition!! Keep doing the good work even though the rewards may not be timely or enough. I hope I can contribute equally well.