How many of us are aware of the existence of www.livegcc.com? Are we up Hto date with the facilities the college is putting up for the benefit of the students? Or the interesting modules launched that are intended to make studies interesting? Do we go beyond books when we step in the library to surf the Internet? Well, here is an infotainment channel cut for you. www.livegcc.com allows you to read, play, chat, and watch college videos and photos posted regularly.

The library on this site provides books and Journals for reference with subscription from countries such as Denmark and Germany. Succinctly stated, this is a platform that provides web-based guidance and encouragement through synchronous and asynchronous modes of interaction.

But how does it operate? Firstly, you need to register to become a member. This is a single log entry put providing an intelligent, integrated and informative solution for the campus. It is designed to empower the user by delivering key infotainment, academic data and functionality. There are 10 different languages one can opt for- French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic and English. Radio broadcast facility is available with our own Campus Radio Online. Plans are underway to add an Alumni radio tobroadcast recorded programs from the alumni. The programs can be uploaded or emailed to LiveGCC for verification before broadcasting. There are currently 7 Indian and 28 international radio stations available for the end-user.

`Digital library named as eLibrary has nearly 3,000 books and more than a hundred of Journals available at present. Very soon the number of titles will be increased to 8,500. This Digital library hosts most of the International Books and Journals from different discipline. The books and the other indexed items can be searched through a well established and user friendly elibrary search engine. This eLibrary has periodic updating and now it will add nearly 250 new titles every week. You can find Journals such as Science, Scientific Americans, Nature to Harvard Business review here. Some of the monthly magazines available are PC Word, Digit, Animation magazine, Bio- It world, and a lot more. Eau Claire Institute U.S.A, elearning study materials can be accessed by the registered users through LiveGCC.com. A new Job site also added to livegcc and it will be functional very soon. There is a very user friendly Forum is available through which you can discuss about anything from campus news to technology review at your convenience. Even you can visit livegcc.com to know your daily horoscope. To communicate and to exchange files securely among the users livegcc has its own Private Messaging System (PMS) through which you can send emails and other data among the registered users of livegcc. All registered users can subscribe to different Newsletters which will be delivered to their email every month.

Campus TV Online is also available with latest video streaming and broadcasting technology. Video gallery is available which hosts all the videos for anytime viewing and video uploads from members. Another addition is used to observe active participation of the registered users, a voting system and commenting system for the videos is also available. MY BLOG includes filtered blog posts by users, tags or keywords, RSS feeds and much more. Then there is Live Chat that includes a set of advanced administered options so that you can easily manage rooms, users, bans, messages and much more. It functions like Yahoo, MSN messenger etc. Also there is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the chat through which you can chat with the computer and get all your questions answered by the AI module.

Are you still wondering on what should be your next step? Go ahead and register. It is time you made constructive use of this channel designed for Gardenians. But is it secure? The only developer and the administrator of this website, Mr Sunil B, HOD - Dept. of Biotechnology, Capital College, says the site promises confidentiality and total security. You can find new features and data added every time you logon to livegcc.com. If you want to witness life at GCC, then log on to .

Sonali S Desai BA (Journo, Psy and Eng) Additional inputs by Mr. Sunil, HOD, Dept. of Biotechnology.