Dear Kaustav,

Designindia has been present on facebook and has 323 members. You can look for
group Designindia or this link should work.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10964576994

Designindia has a pretty robust presence on linkdIn. look for Group Designindia.
It has 1122 members.

Designindia is also on coroflot
http://www.coroflot.com/groups/group_details.asp?group_id=1242

with 72 portfolios

All of the above groups are open and anyone (including students) are welcome to
join. Needless to say I find LinkIn very good for professional networking,
Facebook is great to have social networking and Coroflot is super to put up your
portfolios.

As a list we will continue to be on Yahoo for some more time. Yahoo has been
promising a lot of changes and development on the community side for sometime.

As for the quality of discussions, i guess it does depend on issues, I know many
of our members have been busy surviving the tough times, I am sure ppl are
seeing a light now and the discussions may change.

regards

Sudhir Sharma
www.sudhirsharma.wordpress.com



--- In designindia@..., kaustav sen <kaustavsengupta@...> wrote:
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> Dear Modarator / team [of designindia],
>  
> what I have understood that many members of designindia is not frequent in
yahoo now a days as other mailing services are more efficient (ie. gmail)...so
its a humble request if u can explore any other option of open source group
(virtual)...for example Facebook or any other forum...I can see the frequency of
exchanging ideas in this yahoo group is gone down (as, many, now a days not even
bothers to chk thr yahoo mail account)...
>  
> looking forward,
>  
> best regards,
>  
> Kaustav
>