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The Delhi Bloggers community completes 6 years!

twilight — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:06:13 +0000

It’s been another glorious year in the history of this group of Delhi’s bloggers! It seems like just yesterday when we were celebrating the 5th year anniversary of our group which is still growing, spreading further and hopefully adding value to the lives of all who are a part of it! . From my end, it sure has been one hell of an experience which has provided me not just an opportunity to interact with so many bloggers and indulge in so many events/activities with them, but has also directed me towards a new profession altogether!

The Delhi Bloggers Bloc completes 6 years on 13th Jan! (It was created after the first ever Delhi Bloggers meet on 13th Jan 2004).

In the past year we have organised some spectacular meets like India’s first ever WordPress camp where Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress & Om Malik, the founder of the Gigaom network, joined us along with a lot of bloggers from all remote corners for India! This was the first such pan India bloggers/social media enthusiasts event to be organised. It was also the first such event where global attention was upon what was happening in the Indian capital, thanks to it being a WordPress Camp being fairly popular events. Such was the excitement generated during this meet that the hashtag of our event (#wci) top trended for the entire 2 days that the event was held for!

Another wonderful meet organised in the past year was the first ever meetup with a politician in India – and who else but the savviest one – a meet with Dr. Shashi Tharoor himself! It wouldn’t be entirely incorrect to state that the entire country’s twitterati and bloggerati was watching our event hashtag to see what was transpiring in this one of a kind unique interaction between a politician & users of new media.

Apart from these exciting events, we of course also had a lot of the regular fun meets, heritage walks, photography walks, food meets/tw-eatups.

We would love your suggestions on what all you want to do in the coming year (both online/offline) .

A big thanks to everyone who’s been a part of this journey whether it was by helping organise meets, participating in meets or even being a silent spectator of the goings on.

If you aren’t a part of this community and want to join us, here’s how to join us on the Mailing List, Flickr, Linkedin, Orkut, Facebook, Twitter. You can also stay tuned in to our website by subscribing to the rss feed here.

Let the drums roll!

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Delhi Bloggers Bloc presents – WordCamp India featuring Matt, the founder of WP

twilight — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:26:21 +0000

The much awaited event!

On occasion of the 5th anniversary of The Delhi Bloggers group,

presents to you, India’s first WordCamp!

Sponsors :

Agenda : A two-day conference which brings together stakeholders and audiences of social media and blogging, centred around WordPress. Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress is joining us. So is a very special surprise guest, a very popular blogger residing in the US.

Date : 21st, 22nd Feb’09 (Saturday, Sunday), 9:00am – 6:00pm

Venue : I-1A, Sector 25A
   Noida, U.P. 201301
   India
   Tel: +91 120 244 4711

Lunch/tea/coffee/snacks would be provided by our prime sponsor – Adobe.

Registration Fees (early bird, valid till 18th): Individual day ticket : INR 250, Full event ticket : INR 400.
Registration Fees (walk-in regn at venue) : Individual day ticket : INR 300, Full event ticket : INR 500.

Parking : this will be provided inside Adobe office.

Map:
http://is.gd/j1h5

Target audience/speaker profiles :
Experts/executives from social media related platforms or blog platforms, Journalists who know how blogs have become an alternative to mainstream media, Professionals who have used social media to connect and build communities, Marketers (clients or agencies) who are using social media/blog strategies, Techies/application developers in these fields, Entrepreneurs who have ideas around social media and blogging platforms, bloggers (corporate, professional and otherwise), blogreaders who want to know a bit more, PR professionals looking to develop/enhance their blogger relationship programs, Marketers who want to look at case studies on how others are using the same. It is presumed that you are a WordPress user.

HURRY! REGISTER NOW AS A SPEAKER OR DELEGATE. Click on the registration link on this page.

Some exciting sessions already lined up:

Keynote : by Surprise guest – one of the top 100 influential bloggers by CNET
Talk : State of the word : by Matt Mullenweg
How to get started after installing WordPress : Abhijeet Mukherjee, Jeetblog
Using WP to implement a radio site - Shreyas, from RadioVerve
Optimising ads on your WP blog : Amit Agarwal, Digital Inspiration
Implementing SEO in your WP blog : Mani Karthik
Intellectual property rights/copyrights : Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme court of India
WordPress as CMS for business sites : Ravish Ahuja, justskins.com
WordPress, a lifestyle – Praval Singh
WordPress.TV – by Matt Mullenweg
Best Feature suggestion for WordPress - Matt Mullenweg, with moderator
Panel discussion – the amended India IT act 2000 - Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme court of India
Writing WordPress plugins - Speaker required
WordPress Quiz
Adobe’s new AIR apps – Adobe representative
Blogging vs Journalism - Panel debate

For any info please contact

Twilight Fairy (Priyanka) at 9811511719

Mayank Gupta at 9910786431

Sanjay Srivastava at 9873707071

Your ticket entitles you to lunch/tea/coffee/snack, Welcome kit, WordCamp souvenir.

Registration process:

1. First Register at this site. You’ll receive an e-ticket with a unique order number. Store the order number.

2. Make payment.

Payment options:

a) Pay through online banking

Transfer funds online to :
a/c number; 01872090001245 (current account)
a/c holder : “MOJO 360 DEGREE CREATIVE CONSULTANTS” (you can enter a shorter name if needed)
Bank : Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
Branch: Malviya Nagar Extn., Saket, New Delhi – 110017.
IFSC: KKBK0000187

Note: Email us separately at [me at mayank dot info] with transaction id that your bank provides as well as eventbrite order number & your contact info in order for us to track your registration.

b) Pay by DD

Send DD in the name of “MOJO 360 DEGREE CREATIVE CONSULTANTS”, payable at New Delhi, to the following address:

A-61, Florence Super, Sushant Lok 3, Sec 57, Gurgaon, Haryana- 122003, India

Accompany DD with covering letter, mentioning Name, contact info, unique eventbrite registration order number.

c) Pay by Cash (Delhi/NCR only)

You can pay personally by contacting the following for following locations:

Gurgaon : Mayank (9910786431)
South Delhi : Priyanka/Twilight Fairy (9811511719)
Central/East Delhi : Sanjay (9873707071)
Noida : Praval (9911792520)
North Delhi : Abhishek (9910227665)

d) Pay by Paypal (no credit cards supported, only user to user)

You can now pay using paypal (no credit cards accepted though). Please visit the following link to do so:

http://india.wordcamp.org/2009/02/14/paypal-option-is-on/

And thanks to Web Hosting Search for donating two hosting accounts to attendees. Let the blogging begin!

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The Delhi Bloggers community completes 5 years today!

twilight — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:08:20 +0000

It’s a great feeling to be able to see a network one started 5 years back, still growing, spreading further and hopefully adding some value in the lives of all who are a part of it! . It sure has added a lot to mine and provided me an opportunity to interact with so many bloggers and indulge in so many activities with them.

The Delhi Bloggers Bloc completes 5 years on 13th Jan! (It was created after the first ever Delhi Bloggers meet on 13th Jan 2004).

We would love your suggestions on what all you want to do on this occasion (both online/offline) .

Here’s what we are planning – a month long series of activites

So starting this week onwards, we can have

1. A heritage walk (during the last meet the group wanted to do another one pretty quick) – proposed location – Nizammudin dargah, hear the qawwalis too, proposed date – 18th Jan (sunday)

2. Call it what u want, An Eat Meet, a “tw-eat up” or a foodie meet - you get the idea – we all go and gorge on FOOD - proposed location – chandni chowk, proposed date -1st feb (sunday)

3. Both above locations double up as photography walks too.

4. Someone suggested a nature walk at Yamuna Bio diversity park. One needs binocs for such a thing and some knowledge on ornithology as well . But if all are game, we can surely visit one of the areas in NCR where we catch up with nature – proposed location yamuna bio-diversity park, delhi zoo, Sultanpur bird sanctuary (near gurgaon)

5. And the grand finale – we are organising India’s first wordpress camp (called wordcamp) on feb 21st, feb 22nd. Matt Mulenwag, the founder ofwordpress has kindly agreed to grace us with his presence for the event . I am quite excited about this event and we would definitely need help from all of you to make it a grand success.

Suggestions are welcome so that we can quickly finalise the activities with their corresponding coordinators/ volunteers. Feel free to invite your other blogger/flickr/ twitter friends to these events.

Let the drums roll!

Update : Here is the actual post of the First ever WordCamp in India!

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Social Media & Blog camp! – a description

twilight — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:28:52 +0000

I have been organising Delhi Blogger Meets and events around Delhi Bloggers, since many years now. Recently we did something quite differently. On 7th June’08, we managed to present a Social Media & blog camp for Delhi Bloggers Bloc – an online community of Delhi Bloggers. Blogging has come a long way and is one of the most powerful tools that are a part of “Social Media”. This post has been long pending since I was in the process of changing jobs during that time, and was also waiting for some of the speakers to provide me with their presentations. I still haven’t received all, but well, better late than never!

The DBB – social media and blog camp was held at Indiatimes, Gurgaon office on 7th June’08. The event venue, meal and snacks were sponsored by Indiatimes. We also had IBM & Wordpress as promoters for this event. Tyroo ads was the online partner as well. There was another corporate – a leading telecom giant – who was going to be one of the sponsors but backed out at the last moment. All part of the game I guess! The event tags and pens were sponsored by Puneet of Superblogsecrets.com. Getting sponsorship was a learning experience in designing pitches and preparing concept notes. The giveaways were uber cool and perhaps one of the most pleasant surprises of the day. Indiatimes provided t-shirts and stationery. IBM provided sippers. Wordpress provided some rather cute badges (which got lapped up very very quickly & I kept getting requests for them much later as well) and stickers. Indiatimes also had a lucky draw and provided all speakers as well as the lucky winners – a USB watch! How cool is that? A watch which also doubles up as a USB device.

We had released only 100 passes for this event and later had to extend them because of the high demand! I had to refuse some ppl who wanted to attend since we were already overflowing capacity. I had also been getting a lot of calls from people who wanted to speak at this event on a lot of interesting topics. However, we had to limit that too, much as we didnt like it! We had planned several talks by eminent personalities on relevant topics. The topics touched on web2.0 aspects in a lot of spheres.

The camp kicked off with N Madhavan’s talk on taxonomy of blogs – a way for newbies to identify where they are in this blogosphere. Madhavan is a senior journalist with HT with an active interest in New Media.

This was followed by a web 2.0 – travel industry perspective. Digital Marketing for the Travel Industry in the Web 2.0. Scenario was presented by Nirat Bhatnagar, co-founder of chahiye.info.

Rajesh Lalwani of blogworks.in presented two back to back sessions. Both were very well received. The first was Where are you going in your social media car? This session presented a perspective on social media – we talk so much about it but are we getting there yet? This was followed by an excellent case study Impact of social media on purchase – derived from personal expriences on purchase.

The next session was by Shyam Somanadh, Principal Architect, Network18 (Web18) who presented Participatory Media: The view from inside. He talked about some of the things that the Web18 team had done wrt social media on their own website. This was the time I learnt that “participatory” media is yet another term for social media.

This was followed by a quick talk on Twitter by Sanjukta Basu where she discussed twitter and also used it for a live demo.

We had to omit a rather interesting session on Social media – Socio cultural implications and trends – by Manav Deep Mianwal, Head Brand & Media, Airtel enterprise services since he couldnt be there due to personal reasons. We were running short of time, so this provided some getting back on track.

We quickly jumped to the session on Social media in the corporate context – presented by Natraj Akella, Brand strategy & marketing, IBM.
After this we had worked up quite an appetite and moved on to a great sumptuous lunch. The whole place was jampacked and people could be seen enjoying and of course networking.
After lunch we started with Bringing “Social” to software presented by Manish Dhingra, founder Tekriti software. This session talked about how to incoporate that social context in software.

This was followed by a “light” session – Exploiting the Internet – Riding somebody else’s Success by Jamshed V Rajan, Director products, Ibibo web pvt limited. Jammy is known for his humour blog – ouchmytoe.com and also showed us a rather interesting video on Social Media.

Then came a very debated session Protecting “New” in New Media by Prashant Singh. It presented various insights into our psyche about social media. Nikhil of Medianama.com, actually willingly gave up his session so that discussion around this topic could go on. He later presented his own take on the same topic.

A much needed session on Law & Technology was well presented by Gurpreet Singh, Internet Attorney. He discussed copyrights and trademarks.

This was followed by an interactive session on What makes mobile social networks successful? This was presented by Ekta Rohra Jafri.

The last session of the day was one that a lot of people had been waiting for. The monetary aspect of blogging (how could we not include that? ).
Blogging Superstars : How to monetize a blog effectively? was conducted by Mohit Maheshewari, Co-founder Tonic Tag Media Pvt Ltd.

This event was quite well received by both the audience as well as those who wanted to present something. It is amazing to see how social media creeps into everything – be it the corporate world, purchase, travel, traditional media etc. There were a lot of other interesting topics that I wanted to have during our session. However due to limited time we could not. I would have also personally liked to do an elaborate session on photography and how it is benefitting due to social media. Due to lack of time with me as well as a well known photographer I had approached, we could not conduct this one. Next time surely!

The participants were a very intresting mix with people from internet companies, startups, national TV channels, IT personnel, civil society, lawyers, brand managers, social workers, mainstream newspapers etc. The news about this event had reached a lot of people. A surprise entrant was Pavan Duggal, the well known lawyer who also attended this event, having heard of it from a friend.

The day ended with a closing thanks by me, followed by lucky draw and surveys/feedbacks.
It was a fruitful day full of compliments for the enormous effort behind it. All this would not have been possible without Garima and Sanjay – my co-organisers for the event. Garima worked from the Indiatimes end. Sanjay and I, designed pitches, made powerplay presentations, posters, tags, schedules, invites, concept notes etc.

Here’s a mini glimpse of how Amit Ranjan of slideshare.net, saw it and enjoyed it . Here’s what Sanjukta, an oldie in our DBB group, had to say . “social media and blog camp by Delhi Bloggers Bloc ws a total hit..v v engaging, interesting sessions. m proud to b an oldie in this grp “, says Sanjukta on twitter! Thanks Sanjukta . Here’s what Shyam Somnadh says about the day. Here’s what Kreeti tweeted about the day – here and here.

Here are some of the pictures we clicked that day. It was a day very well spent after which we proceeded to sleep off the sleepless nights spent behind the organising of this mega event.

This was also crossposted here.

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DBB presents – Social Media & Blog camp

Sanjay — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:53:30 +0000

Registration Link : http://socialcamp.eventbrite.com

Sponsors:

What :

This is a one-day semi-camp style “unconference”* which brings together stakeholders and audiences of social media and blogging. The wave of social media in India (which includes Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ryze, Orkut, YouTube, Flickr and many more) has led to a huge interest in the personal and business implications of this here-to-stay form of interaction. Blogging has already been a huge platform of expression for professionals and citizens from all walks of life.

The idea is to provide an ongoing and large platform of interaction for everyone, from entrepreneurs to enthusiasts, from technology to marketing experts, and from media to PR, to enrich themselves with a whole world of learning and business opportunities.

Where :

Date : 7th June’08 (Saturday), 9:30am – 5:30pm

Venue : Indiatimes Office,
7th Floor, Times Internet Ltd.
I World , Opp. DLF Golf Course,
DLF City Phase V,
Gurgaon, Haryana – 122005
The venue is wifi enabled and has an auditorium, projectors and a board room for parallel tracks if the need arises. Lunch/tea/coffee/snacks would be provided by our prime sponsor – Indiatimes.

Parking : this will be provided inside Indiatimes office; Map: http://xrl.in/5lk

Who:

Experts/executives from social media related platforms or blog platforms, Journalists who know how blogs have become an alternative to mainstream media, Professionals who have used social media to connect and build communities, Marketers (clients or agencies) who are using social media/blog strategies, Techies/application developers in these fields, Entrepreneurs who have ideas around social media and blogging platforms, bloggers (corporate, professional and otherwise), blogreaders who want to know a bit more, PR professionals looking to develop/enhance their blogger relationship programs, Marketers who want to look at case studies on how others are using the same.

HURRY! REGISTER HERE AS A SPEAKER, DELEGATE OR EVEN AS A SPONSOR.

Some exciting sessions already lined up:

Taxonomy of Blogs: A Media Perspective : Madhavan N, senior journalist
Digital Marketing for the Travel Industry in the Web 2.0. Scenario : Nirat Bhatnagar, founder chahiye.info
Bringing “Social” to software : Manish Dhingra, founder Tekriti software
Where are you going in your social media car? : Rajesh Lalwani, Blogworks.in
Impact of social media on purchase – case study : Rajesh Lalwani, Blogworks.in
Social media – Socio cultural implications and trends : Manav Deep Mianwal, Head Brand & Media, Airtel enterprise services
Using social media in the corporate context – Natraj Akella, Brand strategy & marketing, IBM
Participatory Media: The view from inside – Shyam Somanadh, Principal Architect, Network18 (Web18)
Communities : Lessons, Challenges, Opportunities – Nikhil Pahwa
Why must you tweet: Micro-blogging v. Blogging – Sanjukta Basu, Blog and New Media evangelist
Exploiting the Internet – Riding somebody else’s Success – Jamshed V Rajan, Director products, Ibibo web pvt limited.
What makes mobile social networks successful? – Interactive session by Ekta Rohra Jafri
Blogging Superstars : How to monetize a blog effectively? – Mohit Maheshewari, Co-founder Tonic Tag Media Pvt Ltd
Law & Technology - Gurpreet Singh, Internet Attorney
Protecting “New” in New Media – Prashant Singh
Knowledge sharing: Should I use the Social platform – Aparajita Suman. Consultant-KM

#Event Details:

09:30am – 10:00am : Registration
10:00am – 11:15am : Speakers present topics
11:15am – 11:45am : Tea/coffee/snacks
11:45am – 01:15pm : Speakers present topics
01:15pm – 02:00pm : Lunch
02:00pm – 04:00pm : Speakers present topics
04:00pm – 04:15pm : Tea
04:15pm – 05:15pm : Speakers present topics
05:15pm – 05:30pm : Feedback/closing of the event

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