Announcements

Welcome Anonymous Bloggers

A new look and a new charter for TamaRachaBanda. First and foremost, we want to thank all the volunteers and supporters of TamaRachaBanda who helped us in bringing in the content and making this blog possible. We want to thank all the community members who are actively and passively supporting this blog everyday. We have registered over 70,000+ page views over the last month and are growing strong. Your support has made our resolve stronger and firmer. The community needs a blog such as this, which will adhere to certain basic principles and provide a voice for the Telugu community members and other visitors on the daily events that occur in the community.

A lot of euphoria has been generated from the local telugu community for Madhu's team for winning the 2010 TAMA elections. We congratulate and welcome the current executive team for coming forward with a great manifesto for Transparency and Accountability. We will be here watching and monitoring the progress of the 2010Executive Committee and will be the voice for all Telugu members by providing a channel for their opinions and interests on the proceedings of TAMA.

Although, we had to make some adjustments, while we are actively working on strategies to make the blog more friendly and informative. There were times we didn't have enough resources to moderate the comments section on the blog. We understand that anonymous comments are the foundation for online blogging and had to take we had to take this extreme step to stop accepting anonymous comments under the reasoning that we don't want people using this site as a forum to attack people without revealing themselves. Great news is that we have recruited several volunteers from the community who will help us with comments moderation and also bring life to the blog with new posts and activities.

We will be putting together several surveys the next few weeks on all community related issues related to telugu community and focus on filtering out the main directives from members to the executives. There are several promises that have been made during the current election and there is lot more to do than the availability of resources. Together we can address these issues and prioritize and channel resources to what the community needs and wants to see happen

We will be creating a dashboard to measure the popularity of the measures that will be taken by the executive committee for the current year and revisit the progress made every three months. This would give us a essence of how things are progressing in the community and would eliminate any last minute surprises.


To all Rachabanda supporters.

In our attempt to bring you information about everything Telugu in Atlanta we want to make better use of mass media by using richer forms of content delivered to you. We plan to deliver audio and video content to enhance the blogging experience. To achieve this goal we are seeking volunteers to conduct interviews, record short commentaries and other short programs which can then be distributed to all the bloggers and supporters. We will give you credit for the programs you submit or withhold your name as you request. We would also like your input in recommending people to interview and suggesting programs to broadcast. So please send us your e-mail contact information if you are interested in participating in this venture. If you have any suggestions please e-mail your suggestions to Rachabanda.