Testimonials recieved by Moderators about Moderators Union in Mumbai on June 7, 2008

From Cyrus Malaowala - Moderator of Have-a-Heart
THREE CHEERS..!! and my HEARTY APPRECIATIONS for SHEFALI GAUR,Community Manger, for wonderfully organising, presenting and conducting theYahoo India Moderators’ Union in Mumbai.It was a great event ,informative, interactive and enjoyable.CONGATULATIONS to Yahoo India, and SHEFALI.for making this event so interesting and allowing us group Moderators to express ourselves, and showcase our aims and objectives in forming our groups.Its indeed heartening to see Yahoo India recognising the value and role played by small groups like my Have-A-Heart Group.I will cherish these moments of being together with many larger groups.and wish that Yahoo India and SHEFALI ( she gets BEST MANAGER Award from me ) will remember me and my Have-A-Heart Group for the next event .
Regards, —CYRUS—

From GG Dalal - Moderator of IAEMP
Dear Madam,
It was a very exalting & memorable experience to be with you & the executives of Yahoo on June, 7 ,2008 in Moderator's Union at Mumbai.
Our IAEMP Indian Association of Energy Management Professionals took birth in 2006 with the on-line networking platform provided by Yahoo to IAEMP President Mr. S.K.Sood who pioneered the cause of "conscience keeping to the Nation on energy matters".
You really brought dynamism to the whole gathering in Moderator's Union throughout the meeting.
In order to interact with various groups who participated in the Moderator's Union, I request you to send the list of E-mail addresses for integrating human skill to produce refreshing creations for social welfare.
Best Regards,
G.G.Dalal
Vice-President
IAEMP, Mumbai

From Amar Gutta - Moderator of alumni94
Hi Shefali,
I would want to take a moment of your time and appreciate you and Yahoo team for putting up such a great event in Mumbai. My associate with Yahoo groups has been since I had started the "Alumni94" group and my primary reason for using the group was to keep in touch in with my batch mates but I was amazed to see how people use the Yahoo group for various things like spreading awareness (Whistle Blowers) , answering queries (Accounting & Shares) and also pursuing their hobbies like (Bike Nomads). Infact I am so inspired by the event that I am planning to start a new group for public which can use skills of people like me (into technical background of IT networking). Though the event was delayed due to the incessant rains in Mumbai still you have covered all the moderator introductions and let them speak on stage. I was also fortunate to share the stage time with other moderators and introduce my group to others. I would like to be invited to such events in future and in case you have a mailer group where such announcements are made then please add my email id to that group. Thanks and Congrats once again for hosting such a great event. Regards,Amar Gutta

From Bilquis - Moderator of Dil Maange More
Dear Shefali I am very much thankful of being a part of moderator union which was held on 7th june 2008 in mumbai.I heartily thank the yahoo groups once more for promoting new talents and giving recognition.I thought i was confined to the four walls and be only a homemaker but yesterday event boosted me a lot. Is it possible that you can send pictures taken during the events. Thanking You Bilquis Take Care

From Melvin Dalmeida - Moderator of sharetrading
Hi Shefali and the others at Yahoo team,The moderators union at mumbai was really good and exceeded my expectations. It was nice interacting with moderators and moreso with the yahoo team at least we knew what was the plan of the yahoo team. Most of the groups were quite impressive each one dedicated to their own cause. It was quite nice to know about yahoo locals. Do let your staff who was presenting know that I am trying my best to promote yahoo locals between my friends also I have written about 10-15 different reviews on restuarant and plan to write many more as I come across them. If at all he wants he may feel free to mail me. I have a lot of suggestions and tips to improve the quality at yahoo locals. Do let me know if I could be of any help to you guys in anyway. All the best and keep up the good work!!!Regards,Melvin...

From P. Shrinivasan - Moderator of ANSH2007
Dear Ms. Shefali,Thank you and every team member of YAHOO who has put in a great effort in making the Moderators Meet a grand event. As a moderator if you feel you would need my help at any point of time please do not hesitate to let me know.
I would like to inform that being in Internal Audit field my nature of job is touring almost 15-20 days a month. So whenever you mark any mail to me I shall kindly request you to mark the mail at both my Official mail ID as well as my personal Yahoo ID.
At any point of time if you feel that I can be of any help to you please do not hesitate to contact me.
I can also be contacted at any of the numbers given below.
With Best Regards,P. Shrinivasan

From Vibhu Rishi - Moderator of bikenomads
hi Shefali,
Thanks for giving me the wonderful opportunity of meeting you folks and other moderators whom I do not think I would have met if not for the moderator's union. I have written a short writeup on my blog at :
http://vibhurishi.blogspot.com/2008/06/yahoo-moderators-conference.html
I did not get much time to talk about the Yahoo group features on stage, as time was running out. However, here are a few things I would like to share with the Yahoo Groups team.
1. Please remove alternate yahoo ids if possible. We have had trouble makers whom we had moderated create alternate ids and slip in and again create issues on the group.
2. Can they provide a way of allowing 'n' number of moderated posts (setting depending on the moderators) after which the members posts follows the group rules ? e.g. on BikeNomads, we have the first posts moderated. We use this to check the first few mails of people and see if they are posting proper stuff, after which we have to manually go and change the settings. This is a pain, would be good if Ygroup had a setting for this.
3. Can we lock email threads ? e.g. if mods lock a thread , anyone replying to that gets the mail bounced. ?
4. better threading. its slow and clunky. would be good to have threading on the ygroup page like on slashdot.
i was quite excited about the demos shown.
in.maps.yahoo.com -> we have been using that for finding distances. We got to know about it 2 weeks back by a post on the group.
in.glue.yahoo.com -> looks very neat.
Ygroups 2.0
I was blown away with what you guys are doing, as I was myself wishing for those things. Let me know if you guys want any help from me. I would love to sign up for a pre-alpha if available :D
- I am not sure if there is a provision for adding a blog to it or not. if you check http://www.blogger.com/www.bikenomads.com , we have a blog and a wiki. We would love to have something like that on yahoo group.
Vibhu..

From Jayesh Sampat - Moderator of HRCommunity
Hi Shefali,Thank you for the wonderful evening at the Moderators Meet. I had a great time. It was good to meet you in person.I am looking forward to these interactions with the Yahoo team.Regards,Jayesh Sampat

From Manoj Karam - Moderator of Indian Whistlers
Hi Shefali
At the onset let me thank you and your team for the wonderful event that you organised last evening. This was a first time for me and a great experience. Looking forward to many more similar events from the Yahoo team.
I wish I could have given your team and the audience few more minutes of our unique entertainment programme of whislting. May be next time I should take the liberty of exceeding the time limit that had been set for each speaker :)
Anyways you can always visit our website http://www.blogger.com/www.whistleindia.org for lots of such entertaining events.
As discussed with you I have attached a list of Suggestions, Limitations, Problems which I have come across while moderating our group. I am sure your team may have already noticed most of these and would be alread working on them.
I have made it in a format which should be convenient for all to track the issues and give feedback. Being from the IT industry I can understand how important it is to receive clear problem reports :)
For convenience I have also cc'd this emali to Swami and Prakash.
I am sure your team will do their best to look into these issues.
Regards & Thanks
Manoj Karam

From Kush Singh - Moderator of Bombaynet
Hi Shefali,Thanks for inviting me at the yahoogroups moderators union meet!I LOVED every moment of it and regret not having been able to talk to you adequately enough. There were so many INTERESTING people to meet and network with that day. Wish the momentum is maintained and you continue to play an important role in all this NETWORKING. Its good that Yahoo India is strengthened further in order to make social networking by internet/email a success for the development of the country and the world. I must also congratulate the organising Team once again for a wonderful/splendid/outstanding job that they did. All those who helped organise this event did a SUPERB job.( Don't remember everybody's names so can only mention in no particular order --Diti Shah, Shridhar, Prakash, Swaminathan, Sundeep, Abhishek, Raj and others )I have a few requests/suggestions --1 Would the unedited video of this meet be available somewhere on youtube etc? How can one get a copy of it?2 How could one remain in touch with the moderators who attended this meet? I was able to find only a few moderator groups on yahoogroups and the yahoogroup search is something which needs drastic improvement. Is there any yahoogroup for those who attended these PHYSICAL meetings at Bangalore and Mumbai?3 Who was the videographer/sound specialist contractor for this meeting? Could I have their contact details? Pls keep in touch once in a while.Thanks and regards,Kush

From Bhaskar Jyotish - Moderator of Jyotish Ganga
Dear Shefaliji and Sridharji,
I thank you for inviting me to this great event, which was very well organised, and we really felt special seated with your presence amongst us invitees. You made us feel distinguished and pampered us with your warmth , gifts and the lovely dinner.
We were working silently in our Groups. You brought us from obscurity to the limelight.
Most of all, Yahoo has proved that its not business all the time, but more than that, its about making relations and keeping eternal connections with people, for you have focused on quality within us and not the numbers, as was evident when we went through the programme of the introductions. For this Group who attended the event , Yahoo would always remain their favourites. And so would it be for me. I would always remain grateful to Yahoo and your goodselves for you warmth sharing and and giving us importance.
Yes, one more point, before I leave. All of You speak so well, it was great to hear you talking so effortlessly the flow of words putting us at ease during the function.
best wishes,
Bhaskar.

From Arun Raj - Moderator of Fun_Kingdom
Hey Shefali
It was really a Grand event that took place at sahara star hotel & it was so enchanting than the last event at bangalore, You are doing some great job in Yahoo india & i must also thank you for giving me a chance to share my experience with some older ppls & i was happy to hear from some moderators that they started their group for some noble cause like DR.abhishek having group dealing with blood banks etc & some unique group like the bike normads , illaiyaraja,The_development_cafe, i was lucky to have look at product launch of Yahoo! locals,Really i had nice time there, once Again Thanks for inviting us to such a grand event .With Regards~Arun~

From Arun Vishwanath - Moderator of trainers_forum
Dear Team Yahoo,
Let me at the outset thank you all for organising this wonderful event called the “Moderators Union”.
Yahoogroups while being easy to use and administer is connecting people worldwide!
The introductions from various groups gave us great insights and demonstrated the passion with which the Moderators are working on their pet causes.
Of course, this event personally helped me in benchmarking Trainers Forum. With the planned changes to the Yahoogroups, as presented by Raj Reddy, Yahoogroups would be a great force to reckon with!
We certainly look forward to many more events like this.......
Thanks once again..............
With Warm regards,
Arun Vishwanath
Head - Training

From Dr. Valentine J Gandhi - Moderator of the_development_cafe
Hello and how are you?I just wanted to thank you for organizing a wonderful meet and a great evening. Hats of to you and TEAM YAHOO for organizing the program as well as running a wonderful service as the yahoo groups. Keep up the good work. We are expecting the new features to be introduced soon. I would appreciate if you can show the_development_cafe groups as a featured group. You can use the existing logo. Thank you and regards, Val