Introduction:
We shall discuss here some of the leading discussion groups related to IT-BHU community. People can learn a lot by joining these groups. They can know more about news and activities related to our college; about students, alumni and faculty; and develop contacts with other members for enhancement of their careers.
The oldest and biggest of the groups is IT-BHU Yahoo group. The group was started about 9 years ago, when the internet concept was just started. Then there is BHU_USA Yahoo group to cater to specific demand of overseas alumni. A volunteer group was started last year to bring all volunteers under one group to exchange the ideas about volunteering.
Recently, an IT-BHU group is established in LinkedIn.
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subject related to IT-BHU and its community. This is the largest and common group for discussion about our college and its activities. The group is a closed one. On an average, about 40-50 messages are posted each month.
The group was founded in September 1998. There are over 1,500 members in the group. The group discusses any The group moderators are:
- Pradeep Sanyal (Electrical 1995) pradeeps@yahoo.com
- Saurabh Gaur (Mechanical 2001) chiklu_gaur@yahoo.com
- Kumar Gangwani (Mechanical 1995) kumar_gangwani@yahoo.com
- Kumar Gangwani (Mechanical 1995) kumar_gangwani@yahoo.com
- Sandeep Gupta (Chemical 2002) Sandeep.gupta@gmail.com
- Alok Chauhan (Ceramic 2002) mrapsc@yahoo.com
- Sanjeev Kumar Roy (Electrical 1987) sanjeevkumarroy@yahoo.com
Anyone related to IT-BHU (students/alumni/faculty/administration) can join this group. To join the group, please send your request to: itbhu-subscribe@yahoogroups.comAccording to Pradeep Sanyal,
“The group was started in Sept 1998. Along the way some more people have kindly volunteered to moderate the list. Getting people to join the list was a challenge in the early days - people didn't have emails and many did not know what an e-group was!”
The group members are mostly from USA or those who are visiting USA temporarily (for study, job assignment, etc.). The group is a closed one. On an average, about 10 messages are posted each month.The group moderators are:The group was founded in October 2002. There are over 300 members in the group. The group discusses any subject related to IT-BHU and its community. - Vaibhav Gupta (Mechanical 2002). Email: metalblue_2000@yahoo.com
- Gopi Krishna (Civil 2002) envygopi@gmail.com
- Sharad Oberoi (Civil 2005) svoberoi11@yahoo.co.in
According to Vaibhav Gupta
“BHU_USA is a moderated group and there is no membership criterion except that the person has to be associated with IT-BHU in some direct capacity such as a student or faculty etc. We do ask that those whoever wants to join this group send us an email and give some information such as branch and year of graduation, and roll number if possible. This is purely to make sure that we approve genuine people only. In general, BHU_USA is a fairly low volume list intended to facilitate professional and social networking within ITBHU community in the US.”
- ITBHU Volunteers Group
The group was founded in 2006. It has most of the people volunteering for alumni activities on it. The senior most person is from the 1963 batch while the youngest is from 2007. The group discusses about volunteer services related to IT BHU and its community. On average, about 5 messages are posted each month. Anyone (student / alumni / faculty) interested in volunteering can join this group.The alumni volunteers are a group of self driven and highly motivated people working together to ensure that the IT BHU community can come together and work for the benefit of the Institute and the community. If the existing volunteers come across any alumni who has been involved in any activity related to the IT BHU community, they just go ahead and invite them to join this common forum for the volunteers. Many people have joined directly by volunteering their services via the online form
They can also do so by sending a mail directly to the moderator.
The Group Moderator is: Anshuman Singh (Electrical1998) singh.anshuman@gmail.com
- ITBHU group on Linked In Recently, Annamalai Lakshmanan (Metallurgy 1996) has taken the lead to establish an IT-BHU group in LinkedIn. The group was established in September 2007.
It was covered in chronicleTo join the group, click on: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/27228/6019F1075B71There are around 900+ people on LinkedIn from IT BHU and around 300 have joined IT-BHU group. It would be an interesting exercise to get all them into the IT-BHU Alumni Group on LinkedIn.
Annamalai can be contacted at: lannamalai@gmail.com