Green Tips badge at your blog

How to add Green Tips Badge on your Blog hosted at blogspot.

1. Visit www.commonfloor.com/green-living
2. Click at "Add Green Tips at my Blog" just below the Green Badge at Left Hand Side
3. Select Blog Platform as "Blogger"
4. Click at the Blogger icon in the popup.
5. Click at Add Widget
6. Save the settings.

Done.

First season of IRL- Bangalore Successfully Completed

IndiaKhelo, in association with Common Floor conducted tournament for Basketball and Volleyball for teams from schools, colleges and apartment complexes of Bangalore. First season of IRL Bangalore was successfully conducted on December 12,2009 at Jayanagar Stadium. Manay (Brigade Millenium) became most promising player in women's basketball and Varun Ranjit (Rainbow Drive) was most promising player in under 18 Men's basketball.

Indiakhelo, in association with Common Floor India’s biggest online apartment community organized the knock-out tournament for apartment complexes. In the final held at Jayanagar Stadium on December 12, 2009 Rainbow Drive won in Under 18 Men's basket ball. In Men's above 18 basket ball, Spring Fields won the match and Praveen Kumar (Spring Fields) became most promising player. For Volleyball Above 18, PFS Slammers (Purva Fountain Square) won the tournament. Suman (PFS) was ,most promising player for Volleyball Above 18. Results are as follows:

Society

Basketball
Men Under 18
Most Promising Player: Varun Ranjit (Rainbow Drive)
Winners: Rainbow Drive

Men Above 18
Spring Fields Vs NGV
Most Promising Player: Praveen Kumar (Spring Fields)
Winners: Spring Fields

Basketball - Women
Mantri Elegence Vs Brigade Millenium
Most Promising Player : Manay (Brigade Millenium)
Winners: Brigade Millenium

Volleyball
Above 18
Most Promising Player : Suman (PFS)
Winners: PFS Slammers (Purva Fountain Square)

The Results for schools and colleges are as follows:

School

Basket Ball
New Horizon School V/S DPS South
Winner: New Horizon School
Most Promising player: Farhaan, New Horizon School Won

Volleyball
Shanthiniketan (BTM) V/S AV Education School
Winner: Shanthiniketan (BTM)
Most Promising player:Sharat,Shanthiniketan (BTM)

College

Basket Ball
Christ University V/S Jain Degree College
Winners: Christ University
Most Promising Player: Adeel (Christ University)

Volleyball
Surana College V/S Al-Ameen College
Winners: Surana College
Most Promising Player: Vishal (Al-Ameen College)

SDM Magistrate thrashed at Windsor Park in Indirapuram

A sub-divisional magistrate was allegedly beaten up by an assistant senior engineer of Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) and his friends when he objected to loud music they were playing in a club. The incident took place on Wednesday night (November 18) at Windsor Park in Indirapuram.

According to Akhil Kumar, SSP (Ghaziabad), the incident took place when SDM Vishal Singh went to the club at Wincer Palace and requested the club management not to play loud music at night. "He was trying to help his children in their studies but the loud music from the club located inside the residential complex distracted them. He then went down to the club around 11.30pm to request the organizers to turn down the music,'' said Kumar.

"We have registered a case of hurt. As the SDM was not on duty when the incident took place, we have not slapped a case of stopping a government servant from discharging his duty. We will question a few other people, including the DJ. The victim and his PSO were taken to the hospital for treatment. Doctors said both the victim were out of danger,'' said a senior police officer.

According to Rajesh Tripathi, station officer, Indirapuram, “when SDM Vishal Singh and his PSO requested Chowdhry to turn down the music, the latter protested, the verbal duel soon turned ugly and the accused and his friends beat up the SDM and his PSO. The SDM then called police who soon arrived at the spot and arrested Chowdhry and three of his associates,''.

According to residents and RWA of Windsor Park, Subash Chowdhry is one of the apartment owners in Windsor Park. He has bought more than half a dozen of apartments and the club in Windsor Park which was residential purpose was used for commercial purpose by Chowdhry. Chowdhry and his friends used to have party and DJ music was played loud in late night which often distracts the residents of apartment. According to them who ever objected to loud music was beaten by Chowdhry and his friends. According to them, instead of police taking action against Chowdhry and his friends, police takes action against those who objects Chowdhry. When SDM Vishal Singh was allegedly beaten up by Chowdhry and his friends, residents of Windsor Park gathered at house of Akhil Kumar, SSP Ghaziabad demanding to the arrest of Chowdhry and his friends.

Police said they had arrested four of the attackers Narendra Chaudhary, Mahesh Verma, Sandeep Nagar and Pradeep Singh and were hunting for several more people. The engineer, identified as one N K Chowdhry, claimed that he was the personal assistant of Uttar Pradesh minister Naimuddin Siddique. Owners, residents and RWA of Windsor Park says that police has arrested Subash Chowdhry and released SDM Vishal Singh’s attackers on bail without taking the incident seriously.

Reference:
Times Of India
Jagran

Apartment residents connecting online at CommonFloor

November 17th 2009, Liffy Thomas, CHENNAI: For over a couple of months, the Shankars only knew a few neighbours in their new, 194-odd apartment complex on Rajiv Gandhi Salai. Blame it on today’s fast-paced world in which one finds little time to mingle. But, many often hope that an understanding neighbour would give a helping hand during a contingency...

Associations with not-so-tech-savvy members are taking help to design the online platform. Bangalore-based start-up www.CommonFloor.com claims to have its presence in 22 cities.

In Chennai, the company has designed the online apartment management tool for around 1,500 communities, where services like maintenance fee tracker, issue tracker, SMS reminders for active residents and owners’ association members come installed. Online communities help address issues effectively, particularly when members have no time to attend association meetings......

Ceebros Mayfair Owners and Residents, Velachery, and YS Enclave Owners and Residents, Virugambakkam, are among those using technology to stay connected.

CF Blog
The Hindu

IRL - Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball

Indiakhelo, in association with CommonFloor, announces Bengaluru’s first ever Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball for teams from schools, colleges and apartment complexes. The tournament will host more than 150 teams across 35 colleges, 35 schools and 20 apartment complexes. Some of the apartments who have confirmed their participation are IDEB Springfields, Ferns Rainbow Drive, Sobha Jasmine, Purva Fountainsquare, Suncity Corporate Leisure, L&T Southcity Apartments, etc. The teams will play their matches on Dec 5th and Dec 12th at Jayanagar stadium to announce the final winners across various categories.

Useful Links:
Register a team
IndiaKhelo
Press Release

Green Diwali at CommonFloor

At CommonFloor, we believe it is our resposibility to contribute to the environment and society. We have been promoting green-living in Home, College/Schools and Offices.

This year, we are asking to celebrate eco-sensitive, green Diwali.

How to celebrate eco-sensitive diwali?

• Share food, sweets and clothes with the lesser privileged.
• Donate for relief operations in Karnataka.
• Instead of individual celebration prefer community celebration in a open ground.
• Instead of electric illumination for long hours go for traditional lightening of earthen lamps or diyas.
• Reduce the amount of things we use.
• Reuse the things we have in different forms until we have absolutely no use for them
• Recycle items that are no longer functional.
• Rethink the choices we make when deciding to buy something
• Refuse things that we do not need at all.

You can contribute your own suggestions about green-living or Green-Diwali at http://www.commonfloor.com/green-living


How did you celebrate your diwali this year?
Send your stories and supporting pictures of Green-Diwali-2009 by 27-October on green-diwali[@]pledgeforgreen.com and win upto 5 t-shirts for your community from Scopial!

If you live in apartment communities in Bangalore, Delhi-NCR; you can also upload your pictures to your apartment gallery on CommonFloor

Wishing you and your family a very happy and prosperous Diwali!

Apartment Owners Association Powers and Duties

Apartment Owners Association or RWA or Management Committee of any society plays a vital role to ensure hassle free and happy community living. Owners association is the group of all owners of the apartment.

Owners Association maintains facilities or amenities available in apartment community. Apartment Association works for the welfare of residents in their apartment, conduct events or awareness program and protects the right of apartment owners and residents. Apartment owners association may or may not be registered but registered association can sue or defend any legal action and enjoy legal benefits on behalf of the owners.

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Meet your Neighbors online at your CommonFloor

It's just not about meeting your neighbors online. It's actually Your Apartment Online. CommonFloor claims to simplify your apartment living experience by providing you easy to use (and free of cost) Apartment Management & Communication Tools. See the latest coverage by Livemint about CF here.

CommonFloor e-enabled 15000 Apartment Communities across 22 cities in India

CF announces launch of its services in 14 new Cities in India. Following are the cities:

Bangalore Apartments
Delhi Apartments
Mumbai Apartments
Chennai Apartments
Hyderabad Apartments
Pune Apartments
Kolkata Apartments
Ahmedabad Apartments
Goa Apartments
Kochi Apartments
Bhopal Apartments
Chandigarh Apartments
Mysore Apartments
Mangalore Apartments
Coimbatore Apartments
Dehradun Apartments
Indore Apartments
Jaipur Apartments
Lucknow Apartments
Ludhiana Apartments
Surat Apartments
Nagpur Apartments

Sobha Dahlia Fiesta 2009

Sobha Dahlia, a luxury apartment community, is celebrating a Grand Fiesta Event and inviting residents from near by apartments in Sarjapur Road to become part of the celebrations.



Here is the link for Sobha Dahlia Fiesta Invitation.

Yahoo Groups Vs Google Groups Vs CommonFloor Community

A definitive Comparison of Yahoo Groups Vs Google Groups Vs CommonFloor for Apartment Communication & Management

Yahoo Groups Vs Google Groups Vs Common Floor

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Celebrating Second Bday of maxHeap Tech

maxHeap Tech is now 2 years old. After facing all the up & downs, we are now fully charged and prepared to run in the last gear. Get Set Go.


Visit maxHeap Blog.

PS: CommonFloor is a flagship product by maxHeap Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.

Start discussion through email at CF

Discussion at CF has become a lot more simpler. Residents of an apartment community can now simply send an email to to start a discussion and likewise residents can reply to it through email.

Go ahead and use the feature. More on email interface..

Khata Transfer and Registration Process

Khata Transfer and Registration Process explained in easy steps.

Khata Transfer and Registaration Process

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Important Links:
Bangalore Khata Transfer
Hariprakash Blog
Anuradha Blog

Startup Morning in Bangalore by Xtreme Startup

“Startup Morning” in Bangalore:

“Start-up Morning/Evening” events are organized with the support and help from a lot of friends in the startup community. Previous editions of the event have been held Mumbai, Bangalore, Chandigarh and Pune. In all events we were more than houseful on the capacity, participation was intense and interesting discussions took place. Read coverage here.

Recently, these events are organized under the Xtreme Startups banner. Xtreme Startups is a Non-Profit initiative to support /promote entrepreneurship. This edition of Xtreme Startups is supported by NSCREL, Chitkara University , Morpheus Venture Partners (MVP) and Startupnews.in.

The first Xtreme Startup event was organized in Chandigarh a couple of weeks back, details

Date: 24 May, 2009 (Sunday)

Time: 10:00 am - 01:00 pm

Venue: North Pergola, NSCREL, IIMB, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560076

Contact: Indus: +91 94490 10891 / indusATmorpheusventureDOTcom, Vikas: +91 98451 83887 / infoATstartupnewsDOTin

Speakers: Three start-up founders will share their experiences of starting a venture, sustaining it and taking it to the next level.

Phanindra Sama, Founder & CEO www.redbus.in

Prateek & Nithya Dayal, Founders www.muziboo.com

Himanshu Khurana, Co-founder & CMO www.lifemojo.com

Audience: Start-up founders / entrepreneurs

Format

• Event will be attended by 30-40 start-up founders / entrepreneurs
• The event brings together Startup Founders to share experiences and interact with other start-ups in an informal manner
• The other guests, like you, will typically be experienced entrepreneur / investor / a person from the start-up ecosystem
• Participation is “invite only”, concentrated group of Startup Founders and others in the startup ecosystem
• There is no fee for attending the event
• Refreshments will be provided at the event

What will you gain from the event?

• Opportunity to interact with others in the startup ecosystem
• Share and learn from each others experiences in running businesses
• Potential to meet a business partner, investor, employee, etc.
• Opportunity to build a strong startup community

For invites write to sameer AT morpheusventure DOT com

DNA Article on CommonFloor.com on 20th May 2009

Digital Lives on CommonFloor

Visit CommonFloor Blog for full coverage.

CommonFloor.com among Dataquest 25 Hot Indian Internet start-ups

CommonFloor.com is featured among 25 India’s Hot Web2.0 Startups, published by DataQuest Magazine in May 2009 Edition in India.

Full Coverage, visit CommonFloor Blog

CommonFloor Benefits for Apartment Association

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Watch IPL with your neighbors

So the fever of IPL has started catching the streets of, not only India, but also of South Africa. Watch this IPL with your family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors to add more fun to the IPL season.
CommonFloor brings the following contests to you.
Contest 1:
Send any of your pic watching IPL with your neighbors at ipl-pic-contest@commonfloor.com to win exciting prizes.*

Contest 2:
So who do you think will win this time? Send us the name of team to ipl-who-will-win@commonfloor.com or sms its id at 98860 41295 and win exciting prizes.*

CF-IPL1 Bangalore Royal Challengers
CF-IPL2 Chennai Super Kings
CF-IPL3 Delhi Daredevils
CF-IPL4 Hyderabad Deccan chargers
CF-IPL5 Kolkata Knight Riders
CF-IPL6 Mohali Kings XI Punjab
CF-IPL7 Mumbai Indians
CF-IPL8 Rajasthan Royals

Wish you wonderful IPL Season.

Team CommonFloor
* Terms & Conditions Apply

More Info on IPL

I support Green Community Living in my apartment

CommonFloor in association with PledgeForGreen presents Green Facts:
1. Energy-saving lightbulbs last around ten times longer than ordinary lightbulbs- over 10,000 hours.
2. Enable the power save mode on your computer. Activating it is an easy way to save energy and money.
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Happy Holi 2009

Have a colorful & happy holi

Valentines Day

Why do we celebrate?
We celebrate Valentine's Day, because until 1969, it was one of the many Saint's Days observed by the Catholic Church. It was dedicated to the patron saint of romantic causes, St. Valentine. Although it was removed from the Church's calendar in 1969, the religious meaning coupled with Valentine's Day's roots in Roman paganism have allowed it to continue as a holiday for everyone.

Learn how to celebrate this valentines day?

Happy Republic Day

CommonFloor wishes everyone Happy Republic Day.

At 60th Republic Day of India, we feel committed to provide our users our services and a better experience every time they login.

User Management Feature at CommonFloor

For Apartment Owners' Association: Block, Unblock, Activate Residents account at CommonFloor. User Management at CommonFloor

How To Manage Users

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Creating Residents' Groups at CommonFloor?

For Apartment Residents (Owners & Tenants): How to create groups at CommonFloor and carry out discussion with your apartment residents.

How To Create Private Groups

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For Owner Association: Sending SMS Notifications To Residents

Check out this tutorial:

For Owner Association: Sending SMS Notifications To Residents

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Looking for activity partners on your CommonFloor Apartment Community

Check out this Presentation:

Looking for activity partners on your CommonFloor Apartment Community

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