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Review meeting on 5-Feb-2007

Last Week's Plan
Phani
  • Puf & Gni bugs - Left with known 22 bugs and enhancements
  • Product Page - Completed
  • Integration of sharad and vamsi work -Completed with sharad
  • Integration of livechat with live tracker - Not started
Sharad
  • Gni Shopping cart bugs -Completed
  • Gni Checkout without login -Not Completed
Vamsi
  • DHTML Menu -Completed
  • PUF variants and Configurable products - Not Completed
  • SFMS Log error -Not Started
  • OFBIZ optimization -Not Started
This Week's Plan
Phani
  • Ofbiz optimisation
  • Intgeration of livechat
Sharad
  • Gni Checkout without login
  • PUF and GNI Bugs
Vamsi
  • PUF variants and Configurable products
  • PUF and GNI Bugs
Posted by vamsi at 3:27 PM in Review Meetings

Marketing Review - 11th Sep, 2006

Achievements - Last 2 Weeks

Apoorv Gadwal

  • Documentation & Presentations on Blogs, RSS, social networking and affiliate management
  • Making live of 2 pages and 15 gift ideas on GNI


  • Sreecharan Yadati

  • Documentation & presentations on contextual ads and affiliate management (along with Apoorv)
  • Preparing product grid for suppliers and aking 43 ads in 11 pages on TFE.
  • Preparing a format for performance of ads report and creating a database of ads placed.
  • Identifying second list of suppliers for TFE.


  • Sai Thota

  • Documentation for link building and SEO phase 1
  • XHTML corrections of the TFE pages.
  • Pages on TFE - on Wikipedia and Aboutus.org.
  • Page on Ask and Answer Flower Questions.
  • Page on Horticulture in Top unversities - 50% (US completed).
  • RSS feed sumission at 17 aggregators.
  • Sent 80 link requests - 5 responses - Got 2 links (PR 3 and 4).
  • RSS feed sumission at 17 aggregators.
  • Created 8 forums on Orkut and sumitted TFE at Stumbleupon.


  • Kakoli Mukherjee

  • 2 pages on online florists for TFE and link building for 3 backlog pages.
  • Making 2 pages and 120 gift ideas for GNI.


  • Padmini kohirkar

  • 3200 link requests - 18 response and knowingly got 1 link (PR 5).


  • Plan for Next Week

    Apoorv Gadwal

  • Discussion with Rishi on GNI cotent live - Tuesday 2pm
  • GNI graphics - 1 logo, 3 smileys, 2 icons and 3 buttons - Wednesday 2 pm
  • 3rd draft of marketing Plan for GNI - wednesday 8pm
  • Final draft of marketing Plan for GNI - Friday 8pm


  • Sreecharan Yadati

  • Amazon ads database - Monday 8pm.
  • Ad unit Review with Rishi - Thursday 8pm.
  • Draft for log file report - Thursday 8pm.
  • 3rd draft of marketing Plan for TFE - wednesday 8pm
  • Final draft of marketing Plan for TFE - Friday 8pm


  • Sai Thota

  • 10 stumbleupon sumisssions.
  • 10 orkut forum entries.
  • Linked Profile - tuesday 1 pm.
  • Padmini blog training - Tuesday 3 pm.
  • Completing Horticulture in Top unversities page and aother page on top flower sites - wednesday 2pm.
  • page on "Flower Expert" - Wednesday 8pm.
  • Sumit to reddit and Delicious - 1 per day.
  • log trackbacks on 5 blogs - Thursday 8pm.
  • Hedir code on top 20 pages - thursday 1pm.
  • Lik requests (50) - Friday 5pm.
  • Changing meta tags for 100 pages - Friday 8pm.


  • Padmini kohirkar

  • Page on Mexico national flower.
  • 15 blog entries.


  • Posted by sai at 11:40 AM in Review Meetings

    Marketing Review -3rd October, 2006

    Plan for Next Week

    Apoorv Gadwal

  • Completing Graphics - Wednesday 10 a.m. - 12 noon
  • Discussion on Log files - Next Monday 10 a.m.
  • List of Holidays (Next 6 months)- Tuesday 8 p.m.
  • List of Occasions (Next 6 months) - Wednesday 8 p.m.
  • Supplier Recruitment - Thursday 8 p.m.
  • Product Rotation - Friday 8 p.m.
  • Topics for Content - Tuesday 8 p.m.
  • SEO Phase 1 - Wednesday 8 p.m.


  • Sreecharan Yadati

  • Discussion on Log files - Next Monday 10 a.m.
  • List of Occasions (Next 6 months) - Friday 8 p.m.
  • Software for Wallpapers & Screensavers and preparing 5 each for flowers - Saturday 8 p.m.
  • Adriti Ads Revamp (Top 10 pages & 20 keywords - Total 120 ads)- Thursday 8 p.m.


  • Sai Thota

  • Discussions on Repositioning TFE, Content, Suppl. Results, Social networks - Wednesday 12 noon - 4 p.m.
  • Answering Browser Queries
  • Social networking
  • Developing a page & posting 4 blogs


  • Padmini Kohirkar

  • Developing 5 pages


  • Swamy

  • 100 e-mail requests
  • 75 Out-bound link identification
  • Posted by sai at 10:52 AM in Review Meetings

    Marketing Tasks for the week

    Apoorv:
    • Posting GNI Bugs - Tuesday 6:00 PM
    • AdWords Rollout - Thursday 8:00 PM
    • Supplier Recruitment - Thursday 8:00 PM
    • Internal linking of all the pages - Friday 8:00 PM
    • SEO PLan and Rollout - Friday 8:00 PM
    • Product Management- Saturday 2:00 PM
    • Thanksgiving Promotion - Saturday 2:00 PM
    • GNI Testing - 1 hour everyday
    SreeCharan:
    • Email on social networks - Tuesday 7:00 PM
    • Supplier for gift baskets - 7:00 PM
    • Documentation of ad space and ad quality - Wednesday 1:00 PM
    • Adriti ads for Thanksgiving - 6 hours
    • Adriti ads for Gift baskets and greeting cards - 9 hours
    • Adriti ads for Christmas - 9 hours
    • Deals and Coupons - Saturday 12:00 PM
    • Review and implementation of TFE Ads - Saturday 8:00 PM
    Sai:
    • Flower experts Email - Tuesday 8:00 PM
    • Repeat Visitors report - Monday 8:00 PM
    • POC Extended - 3 pages - Wednesday 3:00 PM
    • Editing Meta tags, interlinking, amazon ads removed and xhmtl validation for 300 pages- Saturday 8:00 PM
    • Discussion with Rishi on 3 homepages content,Wikipedia & Digitalpoint keywords - Wednesday 5:00 PM
    • Digitalpoint implementation- Thursday 2 PM
    Srinivas:
    • 370 link emails & 4 links on christmas related keywords
    Padmini:
    • Making 6 pages live
    Posted by apoorv at 5:50 AM in Review Meetings

    Marketing Tasks for the week

    Sai Tota
    • Disc on Content - Tuesday 6:30 PM
    • Occasion Plan - Wednesday 12:00 Pm
    • Change of meta tags - Thursday 12:00 PM
    • Making 2 pages live
    • 3 Blog Posts
    • Wikipedia pages and Social Network Postings
    • Page on podcasts, flash tutorialsand on association on floral designing
    • Ask TFE RSS
    • Restructuring TFE home page
    • Report on repeat visitors
    SreeCharan
    • List of occasions - tuesday 8:00 pm
    • Logging of overture keywords - tuesday 9:00PM
    • Adriti process - Friday 8:00 PM
    • Wallpapers and screensavers - MOnday 1 PM
    • Virtual host doc - Monday 8:00 PM
    Padmini
    • Making 5 pages live
    Srinivas
    • Sending 350 emails
    Shaila
    • 7 content pages and gift ideas
    Apoorv
    • Product supplier grid - Tuesday 8:00 PM
    • Disc on ocasion plan - Wed 8:00 PM
    • Making Live - Catalog and existing content - Wed 8:00 PM
    • Press release and article submission - Thursday 8:00 PM
    • Supplier Recruitment - Friday 8:00 PM
    • Work based on occasion plan
    TFE - Tasks for the Tech Team
    • Send page option
    • Print page option
    • eZ RSS Archives
    • XHTML Validation
    • eZ RSS by Email
    Posted by apoorv at 5:07 AM in Review Meetings

    Meeting on 01-OCT-2007

    Last week status:
    Sharad Bhushan:-
    • CS Task -Phase 1 - Completed
    •          -Phase 2 - Completed
    • Bugs & Enhancements - Not started
    Kumara Swamy:-
    • TFE Metatags Bug - Completed
    • Amysmiths Template - Completed
    • TFE Search Bug(Ex-3) - Not started
    • TFE - shopping.com - Not Completed
    SomDev:-
    • Reg Module - Completed
    • Design Module - Completed
    • Form Module - Completed
    Prasanna Kumar:-
    • Exercise 2 - Completed
    • Exercise 3(Starting) - Not Started
    Vasanth:-
    • Private Branding - Completed
    • Amysmiths Quote - Completed
    • Server Tasks - Completed
    • Squidoo closure - Not Completed


    This week's target:

    Sharad Bhushan :-
    • Phase 3b & tasks - Mon 11pm
    • Bugs & Enhancements - Fri 8pm
    • New System - Wed 8pm
    Kumara Swamy :-
    • TFE - shopping.com - Mon 8pm
    • TFE Search Bug(Ex-3) - Fri 8pm
    • Amysmiths Listing - Wed 8pm
    Prasanna Kumar :-
    • Exercise 3 - Thu 3pm
    • Exercise 4 - Starting
    Vasanth :-
    • PUF URL Changes - Mon 11:59pm
    • Scan Alert - Thu 8pm
    • Private Branding - Fri 8pm
    • Squidoo closure - Fri 8pm
    SomDev :-
    • Components - Thu 8pm
      • Form
      • Plot
      • Contact Mgmt.
    • Form Management - Fri 8pm
    • Misc DocCME activity - Fri 8pm
    Posted by prasanna at 7:21 AM in Review Meetings

    Minutes of meeting held on 15-08-2006

    Last week 's status

    Phani

    - new schedule:Completed

    -cross selling:80% completed

    -bullet point:completed

    -forums:20% completed

    -utiltoolbox:not completed

    -Internal links: not completed

    -sitemap:20% completed

    Tasks which are completed but not planned

    -Mysql bugs with ofbiz

    -svn commint

    Rajshekhar

    -new schedule:completed

    -product page:90% completed

    -customization of card:50% completed

    -sent mail:not completed

    -sitemap(UI design):completed

    Vasanth

    -Livetracker: 97% completed

    -server:looking for new feature

    -knowledge sharing : not completed

    This week's schedule

    Phani

    -backlog

    -testing-alpha

    Rajshekhar

    -backlog

    -start of testing

    Vasanth

    -Live tracker:17 may

    -server:on sat.(20 may)

    Training

    -training for the new employees

    Team

    -training schedule for new employees are to be decided

    Posted by rajshekhar at 12:55 AM in Review Meetings

    Next Week's Tasks

    Sai
    • Marketing PLan - Friday 9:00 PM
    • Discussion with Rishi on repositioning and planning of pages for TFE - Friday
    • Developing of 2 pages
    • Answering browser queries
    Apoorv
    • Marketing PLan Final Draft - Friday 9:00PM
    • GNI Graphics - Friday
    • Recruiting Suppliers for US - Thursday 11:00 AM
    • Holiday List for the next 6 months - Saturday
    Sreecharan
    • Marketing PLan - Friday 9:00 PM
    • Adriti Ads Revamping - Tuesday
    • Document on Virtual host and list of occasions for the 6 months - Wednesday
    • Log files - Wednesday
    • software for wallpapers and screensaver - Thursday
    Padmini
    • Developing 6 pages
    Posted by apoorv at 12:43 AM in Review Meetings

    Review Meeting 19th June

    Prevoius Week's Schedule

    Padmini

    2 New Pages (2 - Asters, Acacia Flowers)

    3 Revamps (3 - New Hampshire State Flower, Nevada State Flower, Nebraska State Flower)

    Nishi

    3 New Pages (3 - Thanksgiving Flower Gift, Send Thanksgiving Flowers, Order Thanksgiving Flowers Online)

    3 Revamps ( 3+4 - Iris, Hyacinth, Gladiolus, Statice, Sunflower, Rose, Peonies)

    Editing & Grading (2 New pages + 5 Existing Pages)

    Sai

    3 New Pages 1 - Flowers Experts page)

    3 Revamps (2 - Carnations, Freesia)

    Flower News, Flower Of the Week (Scheduled task completed)

    Pages Sent Live - 9 (backlogs remaining 8)

    Plan For the Current Week

    Padmini

    2 New Pages (2 - Stock Flower, Daisy)

    4 Revamps (New Jersey State Flower, New Mexico State Flower, New York State Flower, North CarolinaState Flower)

    1 backlog (Illinois State Flower)

    Nishi

    4 New Pages (Friendship Day Flowers, Friendship Day Flower Arrangement, Send Friendship Day Flowers, Friendship Day Flower Delivery)

    7 Revamps (sampaguita,lillies,violets, flower language, flower gifts, flowers and religion,Hydrangea)

    Editing & Grading (All submitted pages from Sai and Padmini)

    Report on Comparative Analysis of TFE Page Ranks

    Sai

    2 New Pages (Anniversary Flowers, Anniversary Flower Arrangement)

    4 Revamps (bleeding heart vine,blue jacaranda, chrysanthemum,gerberas)

    Flower News, Flower Of the Week

    Recruitment of Flower Experts

    Clearing backlogs - 8

    Report on TFE Browser Statistcs

    Posted by nishi at 11:40 PM in Review Meetings

    Review Meeting 28th August

    Last week's Status
    Khakoli
    • 1 Page Developed
    Padmini
    • 1 Page Developed
    • Sent Link emails request for 10 state flower pages
    Apoorv
    • Web store created in server GNI (Complete)
    • Reports on Blogs,Adwords,RSS Feed (Complete)
    Sai
    • corrected and implemented Supplementary Results
    • 6 quires sloved
    • Trained Khakoli on Link buliding
    sreeCharan
    • SEO check list,Tools check list (completed)
    • Identifying prospective Affiliates for USA (Completed)
    ----- This weeks schedule
    Khakoli:-
    • 6 GNI Forum entries
    • 2 TFE & 2 GNI Pages to be developed
    • 3 pages link buliding
    • 5 Quries to solve
    Padmini
    • 25 Pages link buliding
    Apoorv
    • Report on Social networks (Wed 8.pm)
    • Final draft of blogs (Tue 8 pm)
    • 20% time on GNI content
    Sai
    • Documents on Link building & Seo phase1 (Tuesday 7.pm)
    • 20 link request emails (Wed 8pm)
    • Content Development-TFE(Thu & Fri)
    sreeCharan
    • Report & Presentation on contextual ads (29th 10:00am)
    • Product grid of USA suppliers - TFE(Tue 8pm)
    • Ad units developing(Wed 3 pm)
    • log file report (Wed 8 pm)
    • updating keywords for moth of July (29th)
    • 2nd list of prospective affiliates - TFE (Fri 8pm)
    Other Task this week
    • Meeting on Price and Promotion- Marketin Plan (Sat)
    Posted by charan at 10:12 AM in Review Meetings

    Review Meeting Held on 2-07-07

    This Weeks Plan :
    Sharad
    1. Rss Optimization-Tuesday 2:00pm
    2. Grower Flowers-Tuesday 5:00pm
    3. Puf home page XHTML-validation
    4. Afilliate Shop Changes-
    5. Grandma Gillies S/C changes-
    6. GNI TEMPLATE CHANGES
    Dilip
    1. Installation -Wednesday
    2. Css-Excercise -Next Tuesday 2:00pm
    Somdev
    1. Mailing Cycle- Prototype Consistency Check
    Posted by sharad at 5:17 AM in Review Meetings

    Review Meeting Held on 26-Feb-2007

    Last week status
    • GNI (Apoorv)
      • Product Expansion (Complete)
      • Minimize the Supplementary Results (not complete)
      • Preparing Adwords Document(not complete)
      • Preparing Mother's day Plan(not complete)
    • TFE (Sreecharan)
      • 20 points to discussion (not yet start)
      • Expanding Adriti Ads(not complete)
      • Responding Link Exchange E-mails(not complete)
      • Mother's Day Action Plan (completed waiting for review by vasanth)
    • PUF (Sai)
      • Setting goal in Google Analytics (not complete)
      • Discussing and implementation of conversation factor (not complete)
      • Preparing 20 Google ad copies for adwords (15 ad copies is completed)
    • Amysmits (Praveen)
      • Competitors Analysis (Complete)
      • Preparing Marketing Plan (Complete)
      • Preparing Content Topics (Complete)
    • Supply Chain (Rupesh)
      • GNI - Recruiting 8 suppliers (1 suppliers is comfirmed)
      • GNI - Preparing Product Grid (not yet started)
    • Product Uploading (Sreeram)
      • PUF - 70 categories and 25 catalogs and each category containing 11 to 15 products
    • Link Building
      • GNI - Regional Directory Submission(Srinivas)
      • GNI - External Linking(Srinivas)
      • GNI - Aus Links 150 e-mails
      • PUF - External Linking(Sreeram)
      • TFE - Mother's Day links 700 emails (Srinivas)
    • Content Development
      • Jobin
        • GNI - 12 Gift Ideas (complete)
        • GNI - Product Descriptions for 45 products (complete)
      • Padmini
        • TFE - DA
          • This Week Plan
            • GNI (Apoorv)
              • Product Expansion upto 45
              • Identify New Products upto 60
              • Responding Link Exchange E-mails
              • Mother’s day occasion plan
            • TFE (Sreecharan)
              • 20 points to discussion
              • Expanding Adriti Ads
              • Identify the Adriti alternative
              • Responding Link Exchange E-mails
            • PUF (Sai)
              • Gap for completion
              • Setting goal in Google Analytics
              • Discussing and implementation of conversation factor
              • Preparing 20 Google ad copies for adwords
            • Amysmits (Praveen)
              • Geting FTP access from Client
              • Blog Implemenation
              • Website Layout Selection
              • Live tracter and Google analytics
            • Supply Chain (Rupesh)
              • GNI - Recritment of total 11(best case) or 8(worst case) suppliers
            • Product Uploading (Sreeram)
              • GNI - 45 products and 60 products which is idenifying this week
              • PUF - 27 Catalogs with 26 categories and each category containing 11 to 15 products
            • Link Building
              • GNI - Reminder E-Mails for External links, 1000 e-mails(Srinivas)
            • Content Development
              • Jobin
                • GNI - Product Descriptions for 60 products
                • GNI - 25 Gift Ideas
              • Padmini
                • TFE - DA
                • TFE - Getting Reciprocial Links
                • TFE - Deveoping 5 pages
    Posted by praveen at 9:28 AM in Review Meetings

    Review Meeting Held on 26-june-2006

    Last week status
    Rajshekhar:
    alpha testing-tuesday 11 am - Pre Alpha Testing Started
    bug-fixing-friday 6pm - Not Complete
    will handle ofbiz related sessions - Not Complete
    Vasanth:
    was not discussed.
    Sharad:
    backlog-monday 6pm - Complete
    ofbiz installation-wednesday 2pm - Complete
    ofbiz excercise friday 6pm - Not Complete
    Sandhya:
    Backlog - 19th Mon 5.00 p. m - Complete
    RSS Feed Generator
    Reading & writing of xml file using jaxp - 19th 5:00 p.m to 20th 1:00p.m 90%Complete
    RSS & ATOM & Java API for RSS - 20th June
    Preparing DTD for RSS & ATOM application - 21st June
    developing the application -22nd & 23rd June
    Rama rao:
    TfeBug Fixing-Monday-Thrusday-3pm - Complete
    Understanding of Flowernews Tfe-Friday 9pm - Not Complete
    Poornima:
    css excercise-monday 8pm Complete
    tfe bug fixing:friday 7pm Complete
    Phani
    On Sick Leave
    Schedule for Next Week
    Phani
    • Forums Tuesday 8pm (27th)
    • Home Page Wednesday 2pm (28th)
    • Internal Links Wednesday 5 pm (28th)
    • Deploying for Alpha Testing Thursady 8pm (29th)
    • Starting of With bug Fixing Friday (30th)
    Rajshekar
    • Survey Management Monday 5pm (26th)
    • Session on SFMS User Interface With sharad Monday 8pm (26th)
    • GNI Sitemap Wednesday 8pm (28th)
    • GNI UtilToolbox Wednesday 8pm (28th)
    • Ofbiz GNI & SFMS Integration and deplyment process Friday 8pm (30th)
    Sharad
    • SFMS User Interface Wednesday 8pm (28th)
    • Ofbiz Excersice - 1800Flowers Friday 8pm (30th)
    Sandhya
    • RSS Feedgenerator
      • Changes in prototype Monday (26th)
      • ADD Monday (26th)
      • Design & Documentation Tuesday (3pm) (27th)
      • Test Cases and Junit Tuesday (27th)
      • Building xml Wednesday (12 Noon ) (28th)
      • Coding or Implementation
        • Primary Channel Implementation Wednesday (28th)
        • Manual Channel Implementation Thursday (29th)
        • Agregate Channel Friday (2pm) (30th)
      • Testing Friday (30th)
    Poornima
    • Alternate method for bug Fixing - Monday 8pm (26th)
    • Sitemap Xml Changes Tuesday 8pm (27th)
    • Ask TFE Question Wednesday 8pm (28th)
    • CSS Optimization Thursday 8pm (29th)
    RamaRao
    • Local Server Updation -- Wednesday 8pm(28th)
      • Rigth bar
      • Recent post tile
      • Spot 2 in Blogs
      • Testing Sitemap UI Seperation for Xml
      • Testing of Passed parameters in sitemap
    • Utiltoolbox split up Thursday 8pm (29th)
    • Flower News -- Friday 8pm (30th)
    Posted by phani at 6:14 AM in Review Meetings

    Review Meeting Held on 27-08-2007

    Sharad

    1. PUF Bugs(17) - 8:00pm Monday
    2. PUF email Templates - 3:00pm Tuesday
    3. PUF notes - 7:00pm Tuesday
    4. TFE Class Reconciliation - 3:00pm Wednesday
    5. TFE shopping.com - 3:00pm Thursday
    6. Social Network (open Source) -
    7. Product Blog Search -
    8. Server Downtime analysis -
    9. GNI bugs(19) -

    Vasanth

    1. LTI server downtime
    2. Globefunda closure
    3. Squidoo Quote
    4. Arrangements quote
    5. PUF private branding

    Somdev

    1. TFE Toolbar - 3:30pm Monday
    2. docCME - 8:00pm Monday
    3. TFE IE Toolbar - 8:00pm Tuesday
    4. HD repair - 2:00pm Wednesday
    5. Squidoo - 8:00pm Wednesday

    Kumaraswamy

    1. Exercise II - 8:00pm Thursday
    2. Exercise III - starts from Friday
    Posted by swamy at 8:43 AM in Review Meetings

    Review Meeting Held on 14-05-07

    Last Week Status :
    Vamsi
    • Amysmits-making live-not complete
    Sharad
    • 100% guarantee-complete
    • Tfe Blog upgrade-complete
    • Release Authentication-complete
    • Select Catlog bug-complete
    • Tfe Search-not complete
    • out of stock-not complete
    • Content updation-not complete
    • Sale track and Adunit delete fix-not complete
    This Week Plan :
    Vamsi
    • Amysmits template,Search-Tuesday
    • Sms Order-Wednesday
    • Amysmits Search pagination,rendering images-Thursday
    • Tfe Rss optimization-Saturday
    Sharad
    • Tfe Search Index-Monday
    • Metatag Changes-Monday
    • ServerTime-Tuesday
    • Froogle Error-Tuesday
    • Content updation-Wednesday
    • Out of stock-Thursday
    • Gni|puf PromoCode-Friday
    • Sale track and Adunit delete fix-Saturday
    Posted by sharad at 11:50 AM in Review Meetings