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Here is an easter egg on Injoos. You can create groups where members can communicate comfortably in their regional languages. This means that you can not say pickup a regional news content but also comment and discuss in your language. This happens as Injoos supports unicode technology. Please install Barahawhich supports major Indian languages on your machine. For e.g. checkout dasara.injoos.com which has posts in Kannada language.

There were more than 2,59,452 visitors from 76 countries like USA, UK, Australia, Canada, France, UAE, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore who visited the website. There are replies and appreciation from Singapore Kannada Koota and Kentucky Kannada Koota, showing that the Kannadigas outside are as enthusiastic in being part of Mysore Dasara as the people here. The web visitors spent an average of 5 minutes in the website, before the webcast. This went up during and after the webcast.

Perhaps, for the first time, a live public festivity of such magnitude has been webcast in India

Dasara webcast live

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Injoos has always strived to create a online home for the real world groups and communities. The Showcase feature which was released last week is an endeavor towards that goal. With the release of this feature groups can now showcase their activities to the world. This could mean more participation for their cause or just more awareness of the kind of things they do.

One of the key design goals we had undertaken was to ensure that the groups not just decide wether they like to have a showcase page or not, but also decide what content goes out on the page. This is their showcase to the world and we felt that the groups need to have control of what they want to show. The moderator of the group  has full control on picking the news items or discussions he/she wants to be showcased. But if the groups is say public and moderator is not so particular about which item is on the showcase he/she also has the option not to put any filter and get everything out as it happens. 

So now you could create a dynamic webpage for your group instantly. The page has Pictures, Announcements, Upcoming events, News, Discussions, Links and Details and Statistics about the group. The group members could now use this as their landing page and login to Injoos. The URL for this page could be Groupname.injoos.com.

Checkout some of the showcase pages:

Cricket on Injoos http://cricket.injoos.com/

Mysore Dasara event on Injoos http://dasara.injoos.com/

To turn on the showcase for your group goto Community Settings on the moderator menu. Click the showcase tab and choose the desired subdomain. One your have successfully created your subdomain you can goto the showcase tab again and configure your showcase page in a WYSIWYG format.

Share a News Story
Members can post news or information stories to the group. News stories can have text, multiple pictures, and multiple web links to external sites.

Organize an Event
Members can add an event to the Group Calendar, giving details of date, location of event, with text and picture descriptions, and track those members who are attending the event.
Add a picture of the map, routes or venues, pictures of activities or sponsors, or photos of the last event to provide more information.

Share rich media from other sites
News items can have embedded content that members can see on the same page, without moving to another website - such as videos from Youtube, picture albums from Flickr, slide presentations from Slideshare, and many more, making the news story more powerful.

Add a Poll
Injoos offers flexible polls (multiple choice answers, upto four answers) that members can add to any news or event item, to survey the group’s opinion on any topic, as poll statistics.

Start a Discussion
Members can start discussions on new topics, or reply to an ongoing discussion. Each discussions can have many threads or sub topics. The Moderator can create multiple forums or discussion rooms to organize the discussions on different subjects.

Build/Browse a Group Library
The Group Library can hold documents, media like pictures, videos and music, or one of the many supported file types, shared by members for the benefit of the whole group. All members can browse through the library folders, or search for a document name or type. They can create their own folders, or upload new files and documents.
Members can also add web links to each document, pointing where more information is available.

Member Feedback
Members can comment on all news, events, and library items to provide their views, ideas, questions and suggestions to the member who posted it, or requests for more information.

Ratings
Members can also rate News or Library items up or down, indicating their recommendation. This allows other members to see recommended information in the Group.

Messaging Center
Members can send private messages to other members through the messaging center, which is full featured with private member Inbox, message reply and forwarding, New message composition and Group address book. Moderators can send Announcements to the whole group through the Messaging Center.

Email Updates
Members can receive updates on new information in their groups through emails. Members have control over how many updates they get, and can also turn off this option.

Tagging and Searching
Members can add topic labels called ‘tags’ to all content in Injoos to make them easily searchable for themselves or others. Tagging allows members to browse all news, events, library documents etc on a single topic, and also to see what topics are popular in the group.
A member can also search through all content posted to the group using the Search feature, using keywords, which may appear in any item’s title or text.

Manage Spam or Abuse
All members can report an item to the Moderator as spam, copyright violation or abuse, including the news items, events, discussions and library documents. The Moderator reserves the right to delete or cleanup such items, and warn or suspend a member for such activities.

Multiple Moderators for a large or active group
A Group Moderator can invite other members to become additional Moderators and share the work of managing a large or very active group.

Moderator Tools
Moderators can change settings for the group such as Auto approval of members. They can provide community information for new members such as description, location and charter, set up Joining forms for new members to fill, approve new memberships. They can send announcements to the entire group. Moderators can suspend membership for abuse, and cleanup spam items. They can also see a history log of their activities.