BLACK the event and IndiBlogger – Awareness of Eye Donation

Posted by Anwin on Aug 12, 2009 in Associations | 3 comments

We heard about this event a while back and we thought it was a good idea. So we got in touch with the organizers of BLACK (the event) and decided to pledge our eyes at the event. And then we thought, why not a blogger meet? Great.

Visit the meeting page for the Nandi hills blogger meet details.

Details of the actual event below:

BLACK (the event) is an initiation to bring in the “AWARENESS OF EYE DONATION” among the masses.

Motive behind the event:

To help the blind have their eye sight and make people understand the need to donate the eyes

How to bring in the awareness?

Through a daring act of riding a bike blind-folded on Nandi hills for a stretch of 8 kms. (Please don’t try this yourself, or you may be giving away your eyes sooner than planned!)

What is Blind Fold Ride?

Blind fold ride is an art of riding the bike without having any visibility. A cloth will be tied to the riders eye while riding and only after meticulous practice and planning is such an act possible.

What is the IndiBlogger agenda?

To show our support and spread awareness of eye donation by blogging, tweeting, inviting your friends and family, being a  part of the event and to pledge our eyes.

About the rider:

Deepak Shenoy, an actor by profession is a down to earth person whose dreams have no limits. The crave to carve his own niche drove Deepak to learn the art of blindfold riding through sheer guts and hard work. He’s performed this act many times, with inspections by TV channel associates to verify that no hearing aids or other devices were used.

All this, of course, can only take place with safety presence, civil protection agencies and a doctor.  Whilst performing this stunt Deepak wants to send a message to our people how difficult it could get for people who cannot see at all and how they would be living in a world of darkness. In a hope that this will promote eye donation and people will come forward to join hands with us in this noble deed.

Visit the meeting page for confirmation of participation.

Fosters, bloggers & the art of chilling

Posted by Renie on Jun 15, 2009 in Associations, Blogger Meets | 16 comments

Apparently, IndiBlogger’s main mission is to ensure that Indian bloggers get their fair share of free beer. Barely 4 months after our Heavy Metal Blogger meet at Bangalore, Fosters Beer has decided that IndiBloggers need to forget the recession, poor Adsense CPM, India’s poor showing at the T20 and the Indian government clamping down on the internet by simply chilling out at a party.

Last evening, the Delhi Bloggers had a ball at the Fosters “Art of Chilling Party” – so much so that they had an entire table filled with beer bottles!

Nikhil had this to say on his blog – “As the world is trying to adopt the “Art of LIVING”, Forster’s idea of CHILLING was simply amazing – FOSTER Beer, Foster hats, babes diving in the pool and loud music.” These happy bloggers tweeted (#fosters) the night away – @kinshuksunil, @yadurajiv @shayonpal @prolificd @simplesumit @twilightfairy @mojosanjay @phoenicks @manugoel @manishbasetia. Check out the rest of the pics from the event on Nikhil’s Flickr set. Kinshuk Sunil had this to say – “The three crucial elements of a good party were all there – the pool, the chics, and the booze. Does it get any better? Yup it can. The beer was on the floor (free as in free beer).”

Earlier this month, bloggers from Mumbai and Pune had a great time as well, courtesy Fosters & IndiBlogger. Kiran Pillai from Pune said “I was on for a surprise. A pool party with beautiful babes thrown in man! Awe-fu**in-some!”. We couldn’t help but agree with him when we saw this pic:

Indicentally, Kiran also went up to one of these models and asked her if she had a blog. We’re sure Kiran’s intentions were completely noble – he was simply trying to promote blogging in Australia. We applaud his bravery and devotion to the cause.

Our favourite quote though, has to be from Dr. Roshan:

Free beer, free tikkas, a poolside party, Foreign babes in bikinis, Indian babes in shorts that had me blushing and oh !! Did I mention FREEEEE BEEEEEEEER !!

Vs

An afternoon spent pushing a tube down some old lady’s throat and then ventilating her for hours as people fixed her broken arm, covered in her blood till finally I get the pleasure of awakening her , suctioning her oral secretions and retrieving my tube before she decides to chew it like a doggie chew toy.

Ya, right. Big choice, there.

More blog posts from Neeraj Jain,  Ravish Mody, Sahil Khan (The Tossed Salad), Prateek Gupta,  Bhavya and Anjuli.

A special thanks goes out to Kinshuk Sunil, Priyanka (aka Twilight Fairy), Vineet Rajan (who helped all the way from Hyderabad), Bhavya, Prateek and Anjuli who went out of their way to help us out.

To sum up, again from the good Doctor:

Overall, it was a great experience. The kind that for me is , quite literally, a once in a lifetime experience. To be able to sit in cushioned chairs, a beer in your hand in front of the pool, watching H-O-T gals dance to great music… That is the good life. This was, indeed, the art of chilling.

I mean, it was all that you’d want to see in a high class party, plus 10 intellectuals as well… ok, bloggers. Indibloggers, no less. (You ain’t an Indian blogger till you’re an Indiblogger, guys and gals. Just remember that.)

Cheers!

Knowledge Series’ seminar on New Media

Posted by Renie on Jun 15, 2009 in Associations | 0 comments

The IndiBlogger Team will be participating at the Knowledge Series’ seminar on New Media:

Public Relation Consultants Association of India (PRCAI) is organizing a “Knowledge Series” seminar on “New Media: Working with Bloggers and other New Media” on June 16, 2009 at 5 pm. The seminar is aimed at familiarizing students and working professional’s with the basics of new media, its growing importance and impact.

The ‘Knowledge Series’ will see Kiruba Shankar, renowned Social Media expert discuss how to use tools like blogging, twitter, online videos and pictures. He would be sharing his experiences of interacting with journalists, PR firms and Corporates. The seminar will also include a presentation by the IndiBlogger Community, sharing information from their survey on the state of Indian blogosphere.

Source: MyBangalore.com

WordCamp India – update 1

Posted by Renie on Feb 16, 2009 in Associations | 0 comments

The organisers of India’s first WordCamp have another surprise for you all! On this occasion, apart from Matt Mullenweg (Founder of WordPress), another special guest - Om Malik of GigaOm would also be joining the event.

As if the special guests were not enough, you can also meet Amit Agarwal of Digital inspiration who will be presenting a session during the event.

Kudos to the Delhi Bloggers Bloc, Blog Design Studio and Mojo 360 for all the hard work they are undoubtedly putting in!

Indian bloggers unite against terror

Posted by Renie on Dec 8, 2008 in Associations, Bloggers | 0 comments

Calling all IndiBloggers!

As a blogger of this great nation, we know you have joined thousands of others in expressing your anger, and calling for action to be taken in order to prevent another attack on our national integrity.

We know this for a fact thanks to this collection of blog posts from Mumbai bloggers, who blogged during the attack, are still blogging today, and will surely be angry enough to be blogging about it tomorrow.

With requests from several bloggers asking us to lead an initiative, the IndiBlogger team realized that we had a moral responsibility and a unique advantage where we could bring a vastly influential community of bloggers together to make a difference. Thankfully, we found that there already was an initiative, an initiative that does not talk about signatures or candles. This is a mission with an agenda, timeline and an end result that this country desperately needs.

The “Rebuild India” Mission

We ask that you all get involved with this mission and help us spread the word by blogging about it. The world needs to know that Indian Bloggers come together when their country needs them.

Below, we have a personal invitation to the members of the IndiBlogger network from Ashutosh Didwania, on behalf of the “Rebuild India” mission.

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Late in the evening on the 26th of November, things seemed normal and peaceful. We all were busy with our night duty (read blogging) when all off a sudden the nation landed in dire straits. Some unknown intruders had penetrated our national territory with a motive of causing mass destruction. By the beginning of the next day, they had managed to do that and much more. Indians worldwide were left with only one thought – “enough is enough”. In the aftermath, the nation was left shattered, wounded and demoralized. We knew we had to build it all up again. We knew we had to initiate the ‘Rebuild India’ Mission – and that’s how it all started.

Step 1

Armed with a very small group of bloggers but ones with huge levels of motivation, we initiated a movement to publicize the voice of the citizen. Bloggers simply wanted to scream out their frustrations. We said we would provide them with a punching bag. Some were up with suggestions based on where things were going wrong and wanting their ideas to be heard. We said we would provide them the stage and the microphone. Gradually everyone starting from key business personalities to socialists were raising their voice. The gap between the elite and the ‘Aam Aadmi’ was erased and that’s how the ‘Rebuild India’ Article Repository was formed.

Step 2

With a huge content base in hand, we were contemplating our options when suddenly it occurred to us that these were the suggestions of bloggers. We needed the general citizens to approve these suggestions, for even a master plan fails without consensus. We got back to the drawing board and came up with a plan to separate the grain out of the chaff for public approval/disapproval.

That’s how the ‘Rebuild India’ Online Survey got going and this is where we are at the moment. At the end, we expect a full-proof case of stats and figures on how we rebuild the nation.

Step 3

This is where the game begins, as this is where everyone gets involved. We alone won’t decide what to do next, it’s the bloggers of the IndiBlogger network who need to guide and support us. In fact, you guys need to carry forward the rebuilding process, and we assure you that it’s not a small responsibility. It’s a responsibility of providing hope to over a billion Indians citizens and many more residing across shores. Tell us what to do and we would be all ears. Raise your hands in support and join us.

Let’s get together and make a difference! Let’s get together and rebuild the nation!

Regards,

Ashutosh Didwania
(On behalf of the ‘Rebuild India’ Mission)

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The “Rebuild India” Mission >

IndiBlogger.in Student Initiative kickstarts at KCG College of Technology

Posted by bg on Oct 19, 2008 in Associations | 9 comments

IndiBlogger.in, as a part of the IndiBlogger.in Student Initiative Program conducted its first workshop on blogging at the KCG College of Technology, Chennai on the 16^th of October 2008.

Students, Lecturers and Professors from various departments attended this workshop. The workshop was initiated by the students of KCG Tech and the program was organised by Sriram, a final year student of Hindustan University, along with his colleague Ferdin of KCG Tech.

These enthusiasts wanted the students to understand the potential of blogging as an influential medium. We were more than glad to conduct this workshop for the students’ community and are looking forward to more workshops in colleges this year. The students at KCG were focused, attentive and interested to know more about ‘blogging’ and were all ready to experience it.

I gave the welcome note and it was surprising to see the interest shown by all these students on a nice cloudy afternoon with the smell of rain in the air, when we assumed they would rather be outdoors!

Manoj, a first year student of KCG was the most outspoken of the lot and now has his own blog at http://manojbhamidipati.blogspot.com/. This blog was created for him by the IndiBlogger team during the session.

Sandhya, a well-known face with many bloggers and seen at almost all IndiBlogger meets, too joined us to make this workshop a success by taking a session on how to create a blog. (She was the one who created the blog for Manoj.)

Renie‘s session in this workshop was ‘all about blogging’. His session covered an introduction as blogging, the various terms uses, what it takes to blog and why blogging is important to everyone.

Sriram conducted a session on promoting your blog and maximizing readership.

One instance from the workshop which made us proud – Vikraman, another student stood up to make a bold and honest statement that “I always thought that learning to speak in front of a large audience was the only way to make myself heard. I thank the IndiBlogger team for showing us this new medium where we can express, open up, share our views, opinions and suggest our ideas about anything to the rest of the world” . This truth was reciprocated by a hall filled with applause for himself, the IndiBlogger team, the students of KCG, the workshop and the experience of blogging.

I was eagerly waiting for the launch of the ‘IndiStudent Badge‘ at the workshop. This badge is dedicated to the students in our community.

To conclude:

We thank the management of KCG tech in providing us all the possible support for this workshop.

Special thanks to Professor Ravi, Ferdin and Sriram  – Computer Science Dept.

Pictures of the event are available at the IndiBlogger collection on Flickr.

We are on tour! So please do reach us if you want to have a workshop conducted in your school or college.

- Balaganesh & The rest of the IndiBlogger Team