Jogajog Is Now Live in Turkish
We keep seeing the same problem across association boardrooms, hometown association WhatsApp groups, and alumni network spreadsheets: information is scattered, nobody is quite sure who is where, and the announcement that matters most often never reaches the person who needs it. As of today, the complete Jogajog experience — interface, search, broadcasts, and more — is available in Turkish. That matters for associations (dernekler), hometown associations (hemşehri dernekleri), alumni networks (mezunlar dernekleri), mosque communities, chambers and professional associations, and sports clubs across Turkey and the large Turkish diaspora in Germany, the Netherlands, and beyond. Most of these organizations run entirely on volunteers, without a paid tech team, so the tool they use has to be easy to set up and genuinely useful in daily life.
The Secretary’s Excel Problem
Every association has someone — a secretary, a board member — who holds the member list: who paid their dues, whose phone number changed, who moved to another city. That list usually lives in an Excel file, gets lost among email attachments, and has to be rebuilt from scratch whenever the secretary changes; the new person often can’t even tell which version is current. With Jogajog, that list is imported from Excel once and becomes a searchable, updatable, living directory from that point on, with transliteration-tolerant search so a member’s name is found whether it was typed in Latin letters or spelled a different way. When the secretary changes, the only thing lost is an old email password — the member list stays exactly where it was.
The Notice Nobody Saw
A familiar scene in hometown associations: the board wants to announce the monthly meeting, an iftar invitation, or an urgent general assembly. The notice goes into a WhatsApp group, a few people see it, most don’t, and nobody is quite sure who actually knows — meeting day arrives and the hall is half empty. Jogajog’s broadcasts and notices reach the relevant member group with a push notification and track who has read them, so the board moves from “we announced it but nobody showed up” uncertainty to “this many members haven’t seen it yet, let’s follow up” clarity. Important notices also stay in a fixed place a member can check back on days later.
The Reunion Chaos
For alumni networks, the biggest challenge is usually bringing back together graduates who scattered over the years. Who lives in which city, who graduated in which year, who is still reachable at a working number — that information typically survives only in a few people’s memory or an old spreadsheet, and every reunion starts the same search over again from scratch. The smart member directory makes it possible to search, filter, and organize those alumni in seconds, whether by graduation year or by city. A reunion announcement then reaches the right group at the right time, and the organizing committee sees real answers instead of guessing who might show up.
The Same Benefit for Mosque Communities, Chambers, and Sports Clubs
The same scenario applies to mosque communities: a donation drive announced after Friday prayers, or an invitation to a special night prayer, is no longer limited to a flyer pinned to the board outside the mosque. Chambers and professional associations can find and reach members directly by specialty or by branch. A sports club coach can look up which player is in which age category and at which phone number with a single search, instead of digging through paper forms or an old phone book.
What the Turkish Experience Covers
This update is not just a handful of translated screens. Jogajog is now available in a total of 25 languages, including full right-to-left (RTL) support for languages like Arabic, Urdu, and Persian. With Turkish added, Turkish-speaking board members, secretaries, and members across Turkey and Europe can use the interface in their own language. On the payment side, organizations in Bangladesh can pay with bKash and Nagad, while international organizations pay with cards and PayPal — a directly usable option for associations in Turkey and across Europe. Every association can get its own branded app, so members access the directory and broadcasts under a name and logo they recognize, a small detail that builds real trust.
How to Get Started
Setting up is not complicated. You send us your existing member list — usually an Excel file — we prepare a branded demo for your association, you approve it, and we launch it. The Turkish interface, transliteration-tolerant search, and read-tracked broadcasts are ready from day one, and neither the secretary nor the board needs any extra technical knowledge.
Send us your association’s, hometown community’s, or alumni network’s member list today at our contact page and request your free branded demo.