Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2009

Website Review - Art at Work


The theme for this time is

"Art at Work - communities that promote art & artists"




Aarohan Theatre Group

Aarohan Theatre Group - Gurukul - www.aarohantheatre.org


Started in the early 90's as a private theatre group in Nepal with handful of people, Aarohan Theatre Group has come a long way today as being a creative group that promotes local art & culture. It has gained international reputation as being a great cultural institution as well as national reputaion as a revolutionary institution.


And now with its own art school Gurukul, it has produced a number of new theatre artists, some of whom have even been succesful lately as movie artists. In a way, Aarohan / Gurukul has single handedly started a theatre culture in Nepal. Not to mention other out of the box activities, such as street dramas to longest painting art from Dharahara. And a nice website too.




Photo Circle

Photo Circle - www.photocircle.com.np


Another untraditional organization in Nepal - Photo Circle. Established just a couple of years back, photo.circle have been providing amateur to professional photographers & artists a common platform to showcase their work to a larger audience.


In their words, they have been building a community of storytellers who continuously create, share and learn. And getting a lot of partners to do so as well. A great community & a simple website - well updated.


Friday, August 29, 2008

Website Review - Online Forums Nepal


The theme for this month is

"Nepali Forums / Discussion boards"




Nepalnews Forum

Nepal news Forum - mazzako forum - www.forum.mazzako.com


Nepalnews forum, also known as mazzako forum is the most popular online forum in Nepal. It is part of the mazzako.com from Mercantile Communications Pvt. Ltd, which also manages the popular news site nepalnews.com.np. The forum has frequent postings in most of the topics. There are quite a few topics to choose from - news, teen talks, culture shocks, arts, career and humor among others They have a popular chatroom as well called mazzako chat.


Pretty well managed forum I would say. Visit the mazzako forum.




Sajha Kurakani

Sajha Kurakani - Nepali talk forum - www.sajha.com


Sajha.com is a popular online community among Nepalese abroad, especially in USA. The Sajha Kurakani forum is not traditional looking discussion board, but you can post from the "Post New Subject" link at the top. The kurakani is the general topic section where you are likely to come across random topics being talked about, from immigration to Nepali community to computer troubleshooting to just junk messages.


Sajha.com has other forums as well under other discussions, such as useful websites, resources, literature, humor, immigration, lost friends and so on, that are also accessible directly from homepage. But personally I find the Sajha.com forum to be a big mess and difficult to browse. The kurakani forum is not easy to search either. Time for managing the website maybe.




There are a few other popular online forums in Nepal as well (based on the number of registered members and forum posting frequency), such as the Hits FM forum and few other private organization forum and college/university forums and alumni discussion boards.





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