her tryst with social media began nine years ago when she joined twitter today sukhada chaudhary who holds an engineering and mba degree has learnt the art of using the tools constructively to connect and build communities and to raise funds for social causes in the news for being able to raise rs63 lakhs in a week for the ailing 80yearold inventor of hmt rice dadaji ramaji khobragade through crowd funding sukhada told toi the way people opened up their purses to pitch in has been a very happy yet humbling experience for meq social media has been your callinga it was incidental when twitter had started nine years back i joined it and was very excited about reaching out to new people i also went for a twitter meet up in 2010 and it was a mindblowing experience to actually meet so many new people we formed a movie group and it turned out to be big funq you have also formed numerous groups on facebook and whatsapp and have brought likeminded people together how did this begina my attempt is to create a new culture in nagpur by building meaningful communities by bringing together small things i am trying to make niche the main big thing in this city people were not planning their weekends i want them to get enthused and excited about meetups in ahmedabad i chanced upon a foodoholics group on returning to nagpur i decided to form a similar one here and added 50 friends from my contact list to create napgur foodies fortunately they were interested in this activity and today we have 70000 members and some 1000 requests are pending i started the swapbook nagpur group as i wanted to get back to reading for the first meet 21 people turned up of which i knew only one i realized that people here were waiting for such platforms and were willing to give new ideas a moveq do you think you have been able to tap the full potential of these social media platformsa no it is just the beginning a lot more can be done this is the right time to build niche and refined groups in his bestselling book tribes seth godin says for the first time everyone has an opportunity to start a movement to bring together a tribe of likeminded people and do amazing things so much can be done when likeminded people come together and i am encouraging people to do this on their own there are so many new groups like those of poetry citizen activism and technology which have emerged from the existing ones this growth is organic and revolutionary as people are doing what they likeq are the bulk of the members of various groups formed by you from nagpur or outsidea the bulk are local and around 25 are the extremely committed ones who join the activities whenever they are visiting nagpur i was not expecting such numbers initially i was not