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Full SMS services resumed

Dec 5th, 11 / 0 Comments

Hi Friends,

We have resumed full SMS services to all our CF members.  Exempting from the previous announcement.

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So feel free to send SMS to all your CF members for important announcements.

Cheers!!

Vikas

CommonFloor awarded “Best website of the year 2011″

Nov 30th, 11 / 0 Comments

Website of the Year India 2011 announced winners of the 2011 edition of the Website of the Year India awards. CommonFloor.com bags Best website of the year 2011 in the housing and interior with highest score on content, design, navigation and recommendation likelihood.

Website of the Year India awards – India’s most important people’s choice award for websites – are revealed on www.websiteoftheyear.co.in. 264 websites were nominated for over 22 categories across India and in each categories two prizes one for Best Website for website with the highest average score on content, navigation, design and recommendation likelihood and another Most Popular Website for website with the highest number of votes.

CommonFloor.com was nominated in the housing and interior category and more than 15,000 votes were casted over 22 categories between 14th of October and the 21st of November.

Website of the Year India award is an award initiative by online research agency MetrixLab. CommonFloor.com bags Best website of the year 2011 in the housing and interior category.

Commonfloor.com thank all its users for casting their votes and encouraging them to grow.

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TRAI new SMS guidelines & Impact on CommonFloor users

Nov 1st, 11 / 0 Comments

Dear User,

As many of you may be aware, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recently issued new regulations on the SMS industry in India. These regulations are designed to significantly curb the sending of unsolicited commercial SMSes to consumers.

Consumers across the country have seen great relief from telemarketers . However, these regulations have significant impact on legitimate personal messaging services such as CommonFloor.

We are in talk with concerned department and will let you know the updated about it till then you will not be able send mass SMS.

We seek your understanding as we continue to employ our best efforts to ensure smooth functioning of the CommonFloor platform. We regret any inconvenience caused to you.

To start getting SMS from CommonFloor, please SMS ‘STOP DND’ to 1909 and deregister from the DND list.

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Property Buying in Internet Era- Best Practices & Common Mistakes: Property Buyer’s Summit ‘11

Jun 26th, 11 / 0 Comments

My talk on Property Buying in Internet Era at Property Buyer’s Summit- Bangalore, 25 June.

Property Buyer's Summit

The presentation:

Property buying in internet age

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Cheers!!

Vikas

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CF Shortlisted among 25 companies for Young Entrepreneur Award by Business World

Feb 23rd, 11 / 0 Comments

Young Entrepreneur

The Businessworld Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2011 contest has entered the final leg of the selection process. An eminent panel of 11 venture capitalists helped  screen and shortlist 25 companies.

This year the awards have been split into two categories:
Category A: Companies that are at least 2 years old and less than 5 years old
Category B: Companies that are less than 2 years old

CommonFloor has been nominated in Catergory A.

We thank all our users, patrons, friends and communities who have made us what we are.

Looking forward to continued support and patronage.

Cheers!

Vikas

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CommonFloor.com as Centerstage Sponsor for Cognizance, IIT Roorkee Tech Fest

Feb 16th, 11 / 2 Comments

Cognizance-2011, The Annual Technical Festival of IIT Roorkee, all set to be the biggest tech fest ever. CommonFloor.com, an online portal for apartment seekers, owners and association members, is sponsoring Blogomania one of the attractions of the event.

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Cognizance 2011 has over 150 events covering almost every possible aspect of technical knowledge. Blogomania is an event to exploit the face of the internet, aims to pit the top bloggers of the nation against one another. Blogomania is primarily a contest to test the blogging skills of the contestant, it is a platform to showcase one’s eloqence, wit and humour to impress the masses.

Cognizance, the annual technical festival of IIT Roorkee, is ranked amongst Asia’s largest technical festivals. CommonFloor as Centerstage Sponsor, sponsors Blogomania. IIT Roorkee has always been at the fore of cutting edge technology and innovation, shaping the world as it is today and striving for a better tomorrow. With over 150 events and numerous guest lectures and workshops, Cognizance 2011 is all set to be the biggest tech fest ever

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Experience with CommonFloor has been wonderful – TOI, Pune

Nov 27th, 10 / 0 Comments

Housing societies getting tech-savvy

The Times of India

Nov 25, 2010, Prasad Kulkarni & Kalyani Sardesai, Pune

With internet technology reaching out to all spheres of life, several housing societies in the city are giving a thumbs-up to managing their affairs through online portals …..

Nitin Pandya, vice-chairman of Cloud Nine, a residential complex on NIBM Road said, “Our society is using a portal called Common Floor. With the help of this portal, the society facilitates easy online communication. Residents can register their complaints about a variety of issues, avail information and issue notices, too.”

According to Pandya, the society of around 200 households has been using the site for about a year. “The experience has been wonderful,” he said.

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Thanks Mr. Nitin for the mention and appreciation. We look forward for the continued support from all our users.

Read complete article here

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New: Vendor Connect – Vendor Management and Vendor Marketplace

Oct 20th, 10 / 1 Comment

My beloved users/moderators/Committee Members and well wishers,

I am glad to announce the launch of our latest upgraded feature “Vendor Connect”- India’s Largest Business to Community-B2Com, Marketplace of Vendors for services to Apartment Communities.

Enhancing our earlier feature “Vendor/Services” we have launched a full fledged Vendor Management along with a Marketplace(for Annual Maintenance Contracts and One time service needs).This feature in is intended to ease the pain of Handling vendor information and getting new vendors.

The objectives of the feature are:
1. To help you Manage your Vendors .

  • Who are currently Serving you, have served you in past or sent you a proposal
  • Manage the AMC(Annual Maintenance Contracts) due dates and Contracts.
  • List of communities where the vendor is serving
  • The Escalation Matrix(Service Executives at different levels)
  • Maintain Notes by outgoing committee about a vendor

2. To provide a Comprehensive Vendor list and Request for Quote

  • See the list of all vendors in your city
  • Request for quotation for services for your community
  • Know how many communities the vendor is serving

Login to your Commonfloor now to use this feature!!!

I thank all our communities from Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Delhi-NCR who have contributed their thoughts and requirements in making this feature very useful for everyone.

Do take it for a spin and let me know your thoughts, comments, testimonials and feedback.

Looking forward to an easier Vendor Management in your Community.

Cheers!!
Vikas

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CommonFloor features in Financial Express’s story on Indian Social Media

Sep 5th, 10 / 1 Comment

Goutam Das
Posted: Monday, Sep 06, 2010

financial-express “… CommonFloor is a social media platform for apartment owners, helping in local networking. Know what book your neighbour is reading; what he thinks of the swimming pool no one visits; of dog menace in the locality; is he open to car pooling? … ”

” …There are 20,000 apartment communities on the platform from 95 Indian cities. About 500 businesses—starting from banks to car makers—are either advertising on the site or paying a fee to get recommended to consumers who need a product or service…. ”

Complete news

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We will, We will, Rock You! CF turns 3

Jun 8th, 10 / 2 Comments

Its a moment of pride, satisfaction and joy for all the members of Commonfloor team as we celebrate 3rd anniversary of maxHeap Technologies pvt ltd ( Parent company of CommonFloor.com). The mantra on every team member’s lips is “We will, We will Rock You!”

Three years of making things happen,  getting our users smile and enriching community living has been a thrilling adventure. It’s been a pleasure to cater to such enthusiastic users/moderators/committee members who have made CommonFloor the must have portal for every apartment/residential society. We thank them all for this day,  for their trust and for their commitment to make their communities e-empowered.

We also thank our passionate and zealous team,  now numbering over 35 members,  for their love, commitment, hard work and single minded customer focus that makes us what we are.

This day we stand together and re-iterate our pledge of  providing the best in class technology solution to make living-in  and managing apartment easier.

The Team celebrated this day with cake, games and dance party; below are few snaps from the celebration at maxHeap office(June 5th, 2010):

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