The making of Konvophilia

The most interesting and fascinating thing for me is to create something on my own. In my childhood, I used to create art works out of materials lying idle at home. I always used to make my projects look creative. That's because creativity resides in my basic nature. Everything I do, should be compulsorily with a flair of creative touch with perfection. 

I wanted to share a story of one of my most important creation and so I thought to write about it. Well, in this age of new media, most popularly known as 'social media', every person has an opportunity to create a world of their own. So, I too created my Facebook page just because I wanted to create the world of my own thoughts and passions. 

Being Leo along with creative mind, anything I do is with deep passion and strong will. Hence, for me, the Facebook page also needed to be like a perfect identity, having proper objectives and a unique place. So, at the time of page creation, I had to give it a "name" obviously. But nothing was appealing to me. I wanted to name it very differently. But it should also be relevant to my ideas and thoughts which are to be shared on it. That's when I learned the importance of naming an Idea or a Start-Up. 

For me "Konvophilia" is no less than a start-up. I treated the process of  creating Konvophilia just like a start-up. It is a serious business to me. I have to be relevant. Not because it is displayed publicly, but also because it reveals my personality, my thoughts on Social Media, my expertise, my ideas. I have to be a responsible person for what I am sharing, posting, tagging, liking, commenting or following. I think being a Page Manager gives you the feel of being an Owner of your space. And so I treated Konvophilia as my first Start-Up. 

Coming back to the Name - Konvophilia, many have asked me why this name? Konvophilia is actually a term I coined for my self. As my initials are KP (Khushbu Pandya), I wanted to name my page not anything but only by a single word having both these letters and that too 'K' being the starting alphabet. Well, the start-up is all about Social Media. The things that would be appearing on it are related to this new media, its importance, relevance of conversations, studying social relationships, impact of conversations on various businesses and professionals, importance of eWOM (e-Word Of Mouth), etc. 

Hence, keeping in mind these parameters, the first word is "Konvo" which is derived from "Conversation". The short word for 'Conversation' is Convo and as I wanted my word to start with alphabet 'K', it turned out to be "Konvo". The second adjoining word is "Philia", which is one of the four ancient greek word for Love. It is also translated as Friendship according to Aristotle. So, the combination of both words "Konvo-Philia", whose meaning turns out to be "Love for Conversations" appealed to me a lot, because it very well defines my ideas, thoughts and perspectives. 

Another important thing to be done after that was to give it a visible face. No one would like an empty profile picture space. Profiles without identity catches the least interest of people. Seoyeon Hong, a doctoral student, conducted the research along with Kevin Wise, an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and other doctoral students. This study found out many truths about the importance of Profile Image of a Facebook Profile, whether it is a page, group or a person. I had a plan of creating unique logo for my page, but as I wanted to go online as soon as possible, during initial times, the image for profile was taken from internet. Below is the image. 

This image suited quite well to the name and image of my start-up. Those times, there were no cover images for pages. The night of Feb 29 2012, there were news that Cover Pages are going to be introduced on midnight of 29th Feb and from March 1 2012, every Facebook page will have a cover page section introduced. That night, I created a Cover page for Konvophilia as well and introduced it that midnight. 

 

Again, came a time, when it felt compelling to change a customized profile image. I, then did some combinations of images in Paint and Photoshop to come out with proper icon. The below image was then created. 

Time to change has arrived again. Because creative minds never sleeps. "Konvophilia" is going under a massive change right now. and soon it will be published. The "New Konvophilia" is more organized. As soon as it is revealed, I will write more about it in detail.  

This was the Story of Konvophilia - my first start-up. And now, Konvophilia is also a new name for my blog. I think, I am completely into my this project, making it better and better every time. 

-KP.  

People behind Successful Creation of "Social Dialogue" - Series I

A Drawing becomes beautiful when it is painted with colours. Just like crayons, there are various people in out lives, who make our every success more colourful. This website is one such success of mine, which was possible because of many Awesome people in my life. I don't want to miss out any single person to be thanked because without each of them I would not be where I am today. And that is the reason I decided to write a "Thank You Series" In each series i would be introducing some important persons in my life, who made me "a wonderful person".

My existence is the fruit of my beautiful parents. Thank you Mom & Dad for everything that you have done for me. I cannot describe each and everything because whatever i will say will fall short against your Love. So just want to say a BIG THANK YOU to you both.

                        

One person who fights with me still loves me, who cares for me, who will not do anything without sharing with me, who will always stand by me, who shares my life with me - is Hiral Pandya, my sweet little sister. She encourages me in my every project, criticize my work and makes it better. Thank you so much Hiral. :)

When i was a kid, I used to hear stories from my lovely Grand Pa, and till today i can't let him go without hearing my childhood stories. He is one person in my life whom i love from the bottom of my heart. Even today at the age of above 92, he is more active than me and motivates me to the fullest. He is idol and my every work is the result of his blessings and motivation. I Love you Dada ! Thank you so much !

Stayed Single, that too being a Lady for supporting her family, leading her life with dignity and respect, strong and powerful, being a support pillar of whole family.. - That's MANJRI PANDYA - my true motivational guru, my Foi (Bua) / Teacher / Friend / Guide and Mother.. She was a true leader, worked as Principal of a School in Various parts of the state. Never ever she described her pain or anger. She lead a life full of a Hero. She is my Hero ! Thank you Foi for giving me your teachings and preaching. Miss You.

I end this part of Series 1 here. Watch out for next part in continuation.
Thank you very much
    

Its Sundayyyyyy =D/

Sundays bring lots of fun time... Its that time of the life where usually people desire to spent with their loved ones. Its the best feeling in the world where you want nothing but just the desire of being with special people in your life. Today's "konnectpeople" specially is dedicated to all most VIP and IMP people of my life. Today i want to write only for them. This Sunday special writing just clicked to my mind when i was having a morning tea with my mom. She has always been an inspiration to my every work. Only because she is very enthusiastic, i work hard to make her happy. I get very less time to actually have good conversation with her during the week. So I make sure that i spend at least Sunday mornings to have a special tea with special conversations. This makes me remind that I am so lucky to have her with me. I have seen some of my friends and far friends living without their families, just for the purpose of earning a bread for their family. They can't spend their every special Sunday with their loved ones. It becomes very important for everyone to have that special support in their life at some point of time. Be it a support of that special friend, or of a family. Human bond is one such thing in this world which describes YOU as a person. And if that human bond is missing, living is not worth. People make life very complicated thing by involving themselves into unwanted situations. If we speculate in our own lives, we will realize that more than 80% of things that we do are just to show the world and not for your own good, or not for your loved ones. Those are for other people for whom you hardly matter. Just imagine, if we start doing those "more than 80% " things for our loved ones, life would become a beautiful place to live. I am not saying one should become selfish. I am just saying one should stop " show off's " to the world and try spending time and energy for the people for whom you are the world. 

One way of spending time and staying connected to all those Important people in your life is through Social Media. Social media presents you with the world of connections, conversations, collaborations. You make new friends, stay in touch with existing ones, spend time with sharing your emotions, have real conversations, share your moments through photos, videos, blogs, etc., create your own circle of friends, and what not. Social media makes everyone lucky by being with one's life forever. My personal best feeling is to check every morning, what every one has to say today. This brings so many new thoughts and ideas to me, brings new energy to work, and makes me feel that i have so many people around me for whom i matter a lot. 

I dedicate "Today's Sunday Special" write-up to all my friends/family who are connected to me through Social Media. Stay konnected always   :)   

living up !

I went for a drive alone today in my red beat, feeling nostalgic all through the drive way.. I have many friends, still i was feeling some loneliness in my heart. Don't know the reason then. So tried to just peep in my heart and introspect what exactly is going inside my mind and heart. After coming from the drive and having my regular tea, i felt that i am missing my teenage years, where i used to have many real friends around me. I was so popular in school, among friends, among teachers. That was actually the life with real people.

But today, everybody are tied up with many responsibilities of their own and somewhere everybody have forgot to live life like before and meeting people in real. Now friends generally meet up on "wats app" or FB or twitter or any other social networking sites.

The fun that we used to have in meeting each other in real is lost today. I hardly meet my school friends or college friends. Social media sites are ways to stay in touch but its still virtual..

Hmmmm... well it's more about time and priorities. Between work and busy lives, time for loved ones should be snatched. I have snatched time for my loved ones and i feel great when i do so...

Have fun, Stay Konnected [ virtually and in real too :-) ] Live up your life like a kid