Blogcamp Bengaluru

Blogcamp Bengaluru has concluded successfully. Many thanks to all the participants, presenters and supporters of Blogcamp Bengaluru and special thanks to sponsors - Seagate.

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What

BlogCamp Bengaluru is proposed to be a camp where we get together and discuss/rant/brain-storm/share opinions about about blogging technologies & trends, micro blogging, photo-blogging, video blogging, Social Media, ... everything about the world of blogs & new media that interests us.

This is the first edition of BlogCamp in Bengaluru. Attendees are strongly encouraged to give a demo, a session, or help with one. You can help by taking notes on the wiki, blogging the event, helping to promote the event, or helping with logistics.

When

Saturday March 14, 2009 (Might extend for a second day to March 15)

Where

St. Joseph's Boys High School
Museum Road

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Schedule for the Day (subject to change)

Registration: 9:00 - 10:00 am

Log On - 10:00 am

Lunch Break - 1.30 pm (1 hour)

Log Off - 5:00 pm

Bring

Laptop (if you have one)
Memory Stick/thumb drive (if you have one: for transferring presentations, demo code, etc)
Ideas and demos
Feel free to get along and distribute T-Shirts, corporate pens, Trial softwares, free accounts (for the cool web app you just launched)- this is a good place to let the community know about your stuff

Provided

We'll do our best to provide:

Wiki, Wifi (Network Configuration) and Power
Lunch, Coffee/Tea, and snacks
Tables and chairs
Projector, White Boards
T-shirts - sponsored by Seagate

Planners

Ajay Jain (ajay AT ibnms DOT com)
Ashish Chopra (ashish AT ibnms DOT com)
Amit Gupta (amit AT ibnms DOT com)
Abhishek Kant (abhishek AT ibnms DOT com)

Volunteers

We need volunteers for:

Making graphical badges for BlogCamp Bengaluru (for websites/blogs etc.)
Manning the registration desk at BlogCamp to register all campers & hand out name cards etc. I can probably do the registration thingy if it means that I get to see the events too - Apoorva, Tanuj ,Vallabh (No 76 on the list), Would love to help if I wont miss out on any action (Prasoon Joshi No. 95)
Shooting photos & video of the blogcamp and uploading Live to media sharing websites like Flickr, YouTube etc.(Nagendra here..(No.129)...I would be more than happy to cover the event and post still images on the web..)
Live blogging the event on blogs & on Twitter - I can probably tweet. - Nikhil Nulkar - (do we have a # leaner hash tag for twitter? or are we gonna use #blogcampbengaluru)

Campers/Attendees (add your name, email and blog/website address)

Please add your name at the bottom of the list. Put in your name, email & blog/website.

Please do not put your name before anyone else's name, its not prudent. There will be plenty of space, so do not worry that you will be left out.

Ajay Jain, ajay@ajayjain.com, Kunzum.com
Amit Gupta
Nikhil Nulkar nikhilnulkar at g mail nikhilnulkar.blogspot.com
Vimal
Varghese Panicker,boneykm@gmail.com,www.boneypanicker.com
Prakash Francis , prakash.francis@ehirings.net , ( TQI )
tanveer, tan1337@gmail.com
Sadiq, sadiq(at)incture.com
Amit Khare, bangalore.amit@gmail.com, www.mobilefone.in
Abhinav Sahai , Bangalore. abhinavy2j@gmail.com
Shane Jacob, Bangalore, shane@the-practice.net
Indramani Das, Bangalore, indramani.das@gmail.com, 9886406388
Kailash.P, Bangalore, Kailash.n72@gmail.com, 9916906711
supreeth s, bangalore, hallidude@gmail.com
Shreyas J , Bangalore, shreyas@hanmermsl.com
Biju Charles, Bangalore, biju.charles@gmail.com, 9900114982
Shuaib, Bangalore shuaib.designer@gmail.com 9663605043
Anandarajeshwaran, Bangalore www.BeginWithDisbelief.com 9740252554 jarajesh(at)gmail(dot)com
Arjun Thomas, Bangalore www.pmtips.net , www.arjunthomas.com
naraynan sethurao,chennai 9840134564 naraynans16@gmail.com
Ashish Bhansali, Email, blog, website
Vikas SN, Email , www.techieblues.com
Raja K, Chennai, rajazone@in.com , rajzone.blogspot.com
Apoorva, bangalore, apoorva-feels.blogspot.com
Suhas M, Bangalore, suhas-m.blogspot.com
Prasanna | TechSagar.com
Prashanth, Tech Bangalore, Control Enter, Bangalore Pix
Arunprasad M Ram, latinsquares.blogspot.com
Ganeshprasad Puranik, bangalore, gprasadp@yahoo.com, gprasadp.blogspot.com
Abhishek Ballaney, DSP blog, piclog
Senthil Kumar , MyBlog , senthil.christcollege@gmail.com
Raveesh Kumar, Ee Prapancha
Guruprasad D N, guruve blog, guruve@gmail.com, 9886694580
Poonam Parihar blog email: mailme@poonamparihar.com
Rahul Singh Chauhan website
Abhishek Sarkar,9900143893
DilipSimha http://dilip.nijagal.com/blogging/b2evolution/index.php
Aditya Magal :adityamagal@yahoo.co.in
Suresh Kumar Kota: sureshkumar.kota@gmail.com
http://margoneem.wordpress.com : Indian Technolgy Event's Blog blog, website
Sanketh Kumar,Bangalore,tsankethika.blogspot.com
Sujay Ghosh, Bangalore, ghosh.sujay@gmail.com Blog: http://sujayghosh.wordpress.com
Rich, http://richbugger.blogspot.com and http://mastmajaa.co.cc
Ullas, Bangalore, ullasj88@gmail.com
Rahul S.R, raahul_mohan@yahoo.co.in, 9964533766
Sriharsha M S , harshasrisri@gmail.com
Rasick Gowda, rasick@the-practice.net
Avinash Ramachandra, avinash.ramachandra@amd.com
Manas Borad, manasborad@gmail.com
Jijoy ,jijoy21@gmail.com
Navin, Madison India, navin@blr.madisoninda.com
Tanuj Goyal, tangoyal@gmail.com Blog: http://tanujgoyal.blogspot.com/
AJ ( http://ramblings.ajaxed.net )
Anand Parthasarathy anandpar@gmail.com www.indiatechonline.com 91-9844247090 (Bangalore)
Amit Gupta - http://mytravail.blogspot.com/
Gupta Boda - http://guptabs.blogspot.com
Keerthi Kiran K - http://www.grassroutes.in
Raghul. J - raghuljatgmaildotcom
Rajesh K, www.destinationinfinity.co.nr
Nischal Shetty, iSimplyBlog.com and twi5.com
John Samuel, http://technology.johnsamuel.in
Broose Oommen Varghese , mail.brooseatgmaildotcom
Allahbaksh Mohammedali Asadulla a.allahbakshatgmail.com
Sagar Arlekar sagar.arlekar@gmail.com http://impulsivemind.blogspot.com/
Kiran Katti. kirankatti(at)gmail.com
Joydeep Majumder, www.joydeep4u.blogspot.com
Manjunatha HS
Renie Ravin - IndiBlogger.in, Indian Blogger Community
Balakumar Muthu, balakumar.muthuatgmail.com, SweetCircles.com : Social Weblogging Platform, LoveLogger.com :world's first pair-blogging platform
Shivraj Kumar Sarsambi - shivrajkumars@gmail.com
Rahul Jose
Manu Ullas is @mu on identi.ca
Khaja Shariff, QA Engineer
Sanjay Chitnis, Prayukti Solutions @sanchitnis sanjay dot chitnis g mail
Anas K A, Web: antzFx.com, Blog: Fullfx.antzfx.com, Microblog: Twitter@antzfx
Vallabha Rao; amcisf.webs.com; raovallab@gmail.com
Bharath P,9986488643
Manoj.M.kora, koramanojkumar@gmail.com
Anantvijay, anantvijayk@yahoo.co.in
Mohan Raju, Proteans Software Solutions, raju.mohan@hotmail.com
Nikhil N.R Tat-twam-Asi nr.nikhil@gmail.com
Sandil Srinivasan @2s
Soumya George
P.V.Sudharsan, susa1987@gmail.com, darkiron.wordpress.com
Vinayak Das, vinayak.das@gmail.com, http://vinayakdas.com/blog
Ajay Bekal Rao, bekalajayrao(at)gmail.com
Balachandar Muruganantham, http://beyondwork.wordpress.com
Pavan P,indiapavan@gmail.com, http://indiapavan.wordpress.com/
Vamshi Krishna. A, http://consumerpsyche.blogspot.com/, vamshiavk@yahoo.com
Lakshmi Narayan, http://Denovos.blogspot.com, ljnarayan@gmail.com
Sudharsan, pvsudharsan2000@yahoo.com
Venuraj - jvenuraj@gmail.com - http://jvenuraj.blogspot.com,
Prabir Ghose, http://o3.indiatimes.com/rediscoveringindia, http://prabir-ghose.sulekha.com/blog/posts.htm, prabirghose@indiatimes.com
Sharath Bhat / www.indianink.in / copydesk_india@yahoo.com
Prasoon Joshi cheap-n-chalu.blogspot.com prasoonj@gmail.com 9632488699.
Praveen The Simple TechLife Blog
Sushil Verghese www.buildingmyblog.blogspot.com sushilcherian@gmail.com
Thejesh GN
Mahesh CS, maheshcs@hotmail.com
Aviral Kumar Shukla aviral.shukla@nokia.com
Varun Giridhara - iamvarung@gmail.com - http://varun-giridhara.blogspot.com/
Arnab Chakraverty - arnab.chakraverty@gmail.com - http://arnabchakraverty.blogspot.com/
Jude Festus - jd_fes@yahoo.co.in - http://www.judefestus.com
Debtaru Basak - debtarubasak@yahoo.com
Nitesh Kumar - nitesh5617.06@bitmesra.ac.in http://www.nanovision.wordpress.com/
Vikas Sharma
Lakshman Srikanth.D - lakshman.srikanth@gmail.com - Einstasoft
Anil B Pai - anil@student-partners.com - Microsoft Student Partners
venkatesh M - venky626@gmail.com
vikas.k.jain mailvkjain@gmail.com
Nirav Shah - nirav dot nnshah at gmail dot com
Noorul Hijaz - iam100ul@gmail.com / hijaz@the-practice.net
Abhilash K.R -abhilashkrishnamurthy@gmail.com-(http://abhilashkr.blogspot.com/)
Saurabh Somani - saurabh.somani@gmail.com (www.blinkandumissit.blogspot.com)
Saurabh Minni - Control Enter
Santosh GS - Harmlessgeek
Sreedhar Ambati http://ambatisreedhar.wordpress.com
Priyanka J - PuraVida!!!
Parikshith Sankritya - sankritya@gmail.com; parikshith.sankritya@bm.com
Bhawana -bhawanasingh1984@gmail.com
Shaila - shylabhat86@gmail.com
Rasick - rasick@the-practice.net
Surabi - surabi@the-practice.net
Kunalkant Sen - kunalkantsen@gmail.com
Anuroop Iyengar - emailanuroop@gmail.com
Nishant Mohan- nishant.mohan25@gmail.com
Purnank - http://purnank.in
Sarvotham Shetty
Nithyanand - nithy1@gmail.com
Nagendra U M - umnagendra@gmail.com
Arun Vijayan - www.blog-watch.com
Amber Pawar
Ashwin Murli http://thecruisemaniac.com
Raghav SN
Dhruva Krishnan http://dkris.com && http://techmeon.wordpress.com
Manish Gupta (Healthcare Online) manish.gupta@asclepiusconsulting.com
Anwin Joselyn - IndiBlogger.in - http://www.indiblogger.in/
Nafisa Patel - IndiBlogger.in - http://www.indiblogger.in/

Proposed Sessions (add topic + name below)

Don't come as a mere spectator! Participate! Sign up for giving a session today!

Scheduled Sessions

11:00 am - 11:30 am: From Print to Web: The Push has come, Anand Parthasarathy, former senior IT Journalist with The Hindu and now a tech blogger anandpar@gmail.com www.indiatechonline.com 91-9844247090 (Bangalore)
11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Special Address and Demo by Principal Sponsors, Seagate
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm: Tea Break
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm: PR / Corporate Communications and Bloggers: Engaging with one another - By Ajay Jain, Writer / Blogger / Photographer (ajay@ajayjain.com)
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Blogging Beyond English - By Amit Gupta
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm: VC perspective on investing in the blogging and new media space and how entrepreneurs can go for any opportunities this space allows - by Dr. Ashish Gupta, Managing Director, Helion Advisors (formerly Helion Ventures)

Sessions to be scheduled

'User Generated Content Sites as Blogging Platforms and the advantages of being on them' - By Hari Nair, Founder/CEO, HolidayIQ.com
The 4Ps of Marketing Your Blog - By Ajay Jain, Writer / Blogger / Photographer (ajay@ajayjain.com)
Moblogging - blogging on the go with mobile phone! - By Amit Gupta
Change we can believe in--How Blogging and Social networking sites can cure India of its vote bank politics? by-Anandarajeshwaran.J(description)
Using new media to create a band of youth social journalists - By Keerthi Kiran (Grassroutes.in)
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Techniques for Blogs, few must use Wordpress SEO Plugins - By Prashanth
Blogging Engine, Blog Hosting, which one is good? which one is better? Wordpress? Blogger? Proposing a open discussion - By Prashanth
{How to} Live Photo Blogging! Live demo on www.bangalorepix.com - By Prashanth
WordPress: Using the right plugins for the right job - The IndiBlogger Team
Blogging by senior citizens - Prabir Ghose

Car Pool / Lift

Wish to help fellow campers reach the site, add your details and location below

Can give lift:

Gupta Boda - (Arekere, Bannerghatta Road)
Sanjay Chitnis - Cox Town/Cooke Town
add your name here if you want a lift or can give lift

Need lift:

Abhinav Sahai (Tin Factory or nearby)

Media Sharing & Tags

For blog posts and media uploaded to sites like Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare - use the tag blogcampbengaluru and provide a link here for others.

For tweeting on Twitter - use the hashtag #blogcampbengaluru

Online Blogging Partner Indiblogger.in

Who's Talking About BlogCampBengaluru (add your blog link here)

Blog posts covering the event

Bloggers' meet at St. Joseph's, Bangalore organized by IBNMS

Slides

Blogging Beyond English - by Amit Gupta

Audio

Links will be posted here after the event.

Video