Once upon a time three people on orkut who were crazy about music got kicked out from one of the music related communities on orkut because they were not ready to agree to the rules and regulation of that community. These three people started a new community of their own where any one can discuss music beyond any boundaries and limitations, and there came a community named Music Collective, started by Nikhil, Vats and Misha. That small community started on 13th June 2006 with little number of members has now became one of the most active music related community on orkut .
The story didn’t end here, in fact the story starts from here, that Music Collective is now father of 5 more collective communities with some of world’s most popular niches like Movies, Sports, Books ,Television and a newly started community for Gadgets and Technology.
“Collective” is a common word added in all related communities of this group of friends which made a virtual brand “Collective Franchise”
“I really can’t quantify my love for music. It’s a parallel thought process that runs continuously irrespective of what I am doing” Said Nikhil, working as an associate in a PR Firm. Nikhil owns Music Collective community on orkut. Nikhil loves music but not any particular genre, he loves to listen every kind of music but his most favorite is classic hard rock.
Music Collective is not based on any strict guidelines like most of the other orkut communities are. The members are allowed to talk anything related to music and only music. They review the latest albums and songs, they share there favorite download links and they keep on playing the sound of music by their active participation in Music Collective making it a cool place for people who love Music and want to talk about Music.
One such active member of Music Collective is Sudhang, a computer science student from Delhi and equally addicted to music like Nikhil. Sudhang use to give his maximum time on Music Collective whenever he was getting online on orkut. One fine day the Music Collective noticed that some members started topics related to movies too, which was definitely not the subject of Music Collective. But like other communities who usually warn or ban such members, Sudhang who moderates Music Collective decided to make another platform for movie freaks and named it Cine Collective.
Cine Collective is the first community linked to Music Collective, those who wish to talk about Movies independently, unboundedly and deeply than that’s the best place for them.
Just 3 days after the first birthday of Music Collective, Cine Collective was launched. The rules are almost same like its parent community but members are relatively less than Music Collective. But Sudhang has an answer for it when asked “How is the experience till now in Cine Collective? Can I say it’s a growing community or it’s simply a group of friends’ crazy about movies?”
“We really are too lazy to want world domination and 1000 members etc. In fact, I’m glad we don’t have too many members; else every thread becomes “would you like to kiss/kick, fuck/shoot the above person” said Sudhang.
Cine Collective was a revolutionary step which encouraged other active members of Music Collective to spread there branch and soon after the launch of Cine Collective on 16th June 2007, there came up another collective community for sports with the name “Sport’s Collective” . Thereafter 2 days “Books Collective” and in next 2 days came, “Telly Elective” and the latest in the year 2009 is “Geeks Collective”.
Sports Collective was started by Engel, definitely a sport’s enthusiast who made sport’s collective forums with really entertaining, informative and deep discussions related to any sports from cricket, soccer to WWE. The strength of the members in Sports Collective is not more than 150 but the activity meter is higher in compare to those orkut communities with 100,000+ members.
One by one, more communities added to the Collective Franchise owned by Nikhil, Misha , vats, Sudhang, Engel and their friends attracted me so much that I decided to review all of them in a single article but unfortunately I could manage to convince only Nikhil and Sudhang for an interview but again it was my hard luck that both guys are damn busy with their work commitments.
Well, I still couldn’t stop myself writing about these beautiful groups of communities on orkut, even though some of the friends of Sudhang took it too funny or casual being spotted by me and a small interview of Sudhang on Rated-wow! Community showcase, which is the only community on orkut created as a showcase of best orkut communities.
Coming back to the collective series and their success, you will notice that the upper 3 communities (Music, Movies and Sports) are enjoying a successful ride but the rest communities( Books, Television and Geeks) are fighting hard to survive, though geek collective is still a new born baby of collective franchise.
All over, it was a pleasant traverse for me when I hardly find time to dig those best out of best Individual community to put them in our community showcase. Nikhil and Sudhang helped me a lot in providing me information and talking to me about their superb online endeavor.
This is the first time on OrkutHeroes when I published an article for not one, two or three but 6 different communities. Let me say, it’s another revolutionary step by OrkutHeroes.com in one year to provide best information on orkut communities and people.
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Nice article, but please correct the grammar.
You have written:
The story didn’t ended here
It should be:
The story didn’t end here
And yeah, it is another revolutionarystep by OrkutHeroes[dot]com!
Yeah! a silly mistake. Thanks for correcting us Gautam, hope to see more of your “constructive” correction.
This was a nice read. Thanks!
Thanks Sudhang and thanks Gautam.
Nice article brother,But I am disappointed that I cannot oomment on Ameenur Bhaijans Interview.
that is a really nice article… thanks Zazo
Thanks for commenting Recados. Hope to see you around
Thank you Shams. I am sorry, Aminur's interview is worth reading but unfortunately because of some controversial debate, comments are not allowed.