The Utterances of a Peculiar Mindset

Bloggers’ Get together: 31st May 2008

Venue: Pinstorm Café, Santacruz.

No of people attended: 13

Things discussed during the meet:
• Need for a site for bloggers from Mumbai
--> As a platform to discuss issues related to blogging
--> As a platform to arrange online and offline blogger meets
• Agenda and contents for the site
• How can we inspire people to start blogging?
• The celeb status achieved by blogging: with Aamir, Amitabh and Salman coming into blogging
• The power of blogging and twitter as a medium of information exchange

Take away from the meet:
• The existing site mumbaibloggers.net is to be redesigned n restructured.
• Promotion of the site so as to develop this community and create awareness about the word Blogging.
• Involve famous bloggers and internet marketers (blogcamp gang) so as to have a better coverage.
• Use services of colleges and few startups around to create awareness at the ground level.
• Get maximum inputs from blogosphere to promote this community.
• Bloggers should meet atleast twice a month for discussions

The bloggers' meet is happening today 6 PM at Pinstorm Cafe, Santacruz. Around 20 bloggers have registered with us so far. This is kinda casual get together of bloggers. So even 20 is a descent number, considering the fact that Team Mohali and Team Chennai are fighting in IPL semi finals on the same day.
I'm kind excited about the meet and will reach the venue @ 5:30. Btw, if you are reading this post, you are heartily invited for the event. Come, join and have fun..

PS: Expect the review of the event by tomorrow

Saturday 31st May, 6 PM

Venue: CCD, Carter Rd, Bandra (W) Pinstorm Cafe, North Avenue, Linking Road, Santa Cruz (W)

Contact: 9890774748

Kindly give a call to above number or drop a mail to blog@dineshsoni.com if you are interested in joining in. Kindly spread the message across to your blogger friends.

PS: This is an unofficial casual meet. No Sponsors.

Well, as you must have been knowing by now that I'm kinda fond of clicking things. Wherever I go, I start clicking around.
It was during Barcamp that someone clicked me while I was clicking around. Just thought to share across the same with you. Comments expected :-)

It was yesterday at BlogCamp Mumbai Style, where Tarun made a comment stating

If your blog gets 10 hits a day you will be labeled as failure. But isn't it a nice thing that you are able to share your thoughts with 10 people, 10 right people, who actually want to read what you write

His point was evidently that it doesn't matter if you have 1000 hits a day. One should rather prefer having few but loyal readers. Who will get back to your blog often and often and appreciate your good writings and at same time criticize your bad ones. Of course, the word is totally incomplete without critics. A guy from Subhiksha.com sulekha.com made an interesting point in the regard at the event. He said that we often put good comments on someone's blog with the expectation of he visiting our blog and putting a nice comment on our blog at a later stage. And so, we often fail to provide the real critical view on the post.
Another interesting point was by Rashmi Bansal who talked about why to blog? Her point was you should think of what the readers want to read in case of magazines. But why to get stuck with the prototype while blogging too? You should write about what you really want to write rather than what your readers want to read. It doesn't mean you should comepletely ignore the readers and write anything crap. But yes. That should not be the top priority..

The other sessions too went kinda well. We managed to gain something new out of each session. Rohit gave quite a good insight of Legal aspects of blogging and same with Aditya who talked about podcasting and its future aspects. Ankesh went quite long while talking about blogging tips and he could never come down to the actual point. He was more into what to do to run a successful blog, rather than exactly how..
Pankaj Tiwari illustrated the importance of Hindi blogging and the problems ahead in very much effective way. Really very impressive. His Hindi was kinda fluent and still understandable in spite of being into IT industry. Karamveer (a guy who made 53k $ in a month from his blogs) shared few tips to make online money.
Then as people started getting sleepy, Tarun came and threw the session open for public discussion by some reaction about previous speakers' words. It was indeed a smart way of throwing the session open. The last two sessions were not much impressive and if my memory goes well, one was about this site called bloozle and another about SEO. I personally feel there is lot more to SEO rather than just discussing how to do it. Moreover, people think only google when it comes to SEO. (Its obvious with the 70% + market share of google).
So.. That's it. Thats how the event went. A bunch of people, who came with al open minds to grasp the maximum knowledge, to freely discuss the ideas, to meet new people and to create a higher network.
Now I'm just waiting for next barcamp to be announced.

The BlogCamp show I mean. Its going on. And its going great. I did never thought that a blog camp can be so much of fun. I could listen to many nice contents by numerous speakers. And could manage to connect with few people, exchanged ideas and learned new things.

Am trying to upload few live images. But the wifi here isn't working too fine. Well, hopefully I will manage to upload the snaps after few minutes.

PS: I finally managed to put up few snaps. More at This link.

Am blogging live from the venue of Blogcamp Mumbai Style. Its here in IIT Powai. The event started few minutes back with a session by Rashmi Bansal, Editor of JAM Magazine. And its going great..
Will keep blogging live. Stay Tuned.

Its on.. The planning for Second edition of Blog Camp Pune has started. This time, the camp will be held in Mumbai. And thats why this name "Blog Camp Mumbai Style". You can add your name in the attenders' list at this page. You can also help us by designing logo, helping us to find sponsors etc.
Moreover, you can blog about the event in order to create awareness about the event. Your co-operation will be highly appreciated.