Mumbai, March 20, 2001 : 123India.com, India's Premier Portal, presents its latest innovation – Clubs (http://clubs.123india.com) Clubs is a new community builder service that offers users the tools to create a personal Web community. The service provides a unique Web address to develop relationships and interact on a regular basis with friends, relatives and other people who share similar interest. Clubs is an ideal community platform for groups of families, associations, fan clubs and alumni organizations.

"The need to communicate is great. People want to share their feelings, to speak up on issues, discuss matters of interest; seek advice on topics that are personal, and clear doubts. Users just want to keep in touch. Build bonds of friendship. That is why 123 India.com has launched Clubs”, explains Arvind Kajaria, Director, 123India.com.

Creating a club is simple. It does not require any special software, HTML or other technical skills. A user can browse various clubs developed and choose the Club which best suits their needs.

A user can either start a new club or join an existing one. 123India.com provides a club founder with easy to use tools that gives the founder an administrative right to moderate and modify their individual club and can opt to share this right with other members.

Clubs provides groups and individuals with a new way to meet, work and communicate with each other. Clubs brings together content, communications and community features, which allow individuals or groups to create and participate in a central meeting place on the Web.

Clubs offers a perfect way for relatives and friends to keep in touch and updated. Family members can write messages, post reminders of important dates, send messages, chat in real-time, keep in touch with school and college buddies and just exchange notes on various important days and dates in their lives.

Users can create their own Clubs around specific areas or hobbies. Clubs is a useful tool for fan clubs and alumni associations. They allow users keep abreast with the latest developments and events. Clubs will thus be a community board for all activities from annual days to sharing of general interest information.

Clubs is an ideal way to pose questions, share thoughts and resources, stay current on progress, provide updates – all at one point, accessible anytime, anyplace from a web-connected computer. The club founder can post the latest updates and send group e-mail to every person in the club. Thus every member in the Club can be kept informed and posted.  

About 123India.com:
123India.com, India's Premier Portal, is an India dedicated Internet media site that offers branded web content, serving Indians worldwide. As the leading Indian online navigational guide to the web, 123India.com is one of the largest guides in terms of users, database and reach amongst the Indian community on the Internet. Visit us at www.123india.com.