Tag: Indiblogger
Followup on my previous post
by Karthik on Jan.06, 2010, under Bangalore, Chows, Indiblogger
First of all, wish you all a very happy and a damn rich new year!
This is followup on my previous post. I’m back and in action after the Nagarcoil vacation. I know this is coming a bit late considering the fact that I was back for Christmas itself ;-p
However, it was a great trip and you can read a lot about it here at Anwin’s blog. As far as me moving to Chennai, its happening this weekend and I’m yet to watch Avatar. But that ok, weekend is nearing already.
Keep watching splitsilla 3 on MTV at 7 pm on saturdays and repeats everyday to watch the indiblogger logo on TV! We are the official blog partner for them. So thats enough followup for now. I’ll see you again later this week with my final post from bangalore.
NASSCOM product Conclave – Day 1
by Karthik on Oct.28, 2009, under Bangalore, Events, Indiblogger, Tech
The NASSCOM conclave this year is happening on 27th and 28th October, that is today and tomorrow. The crowd this year at the conference was a lot higher than I expected. I’m sure their could have been more than 1000 people participating in the event. It’s a full 2 days event and this time they were able to attract more crowd into the event because they did a pretty good job of online promotions and partnered with some leading product and Social media companies.
There was quite a good coverage from the press as well. This time the highlight of the event was its speakers. Guy Kawasaki started the events with a very interesting speech and set the standards quite high for rest of the speakers. You can find his presentation in slideshare. After that, there were a few unsessions and workshops happening parallelly at various halls in Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bangalore.
You can download the information on the sessions and speakers here. A few distinct highlights about this meet up was that NASSCOM has got some really good speakers running sessions and discussions that startups can really connect with and take home some valuable information.
All conferences that I have attended in India has one same basic flaw in organizing the sessions. They are always too basic, repetitive and CEOs go on their ego trips to explain how they faced a particular problem and overcame it successfully. But I always ask, no 2 problem are same and there is no guarantee the same solution will work the 2nd time. Then why would I be interested in your sessions?
But always these conferences invariably becomes an event where the intelligent start up entrepreneurs end up taking nothing home – besides the bags and stationary of course.
But today, I got to say that even though it had the same shades in some of the sessions, the key-note speakers really stole the show. 2 outstanding speakers of them were Guy Kawasaki and Naeem Zafar.
Naeem has promised to upload it to slideshare as well. Guy spoke about “Art of the Start” and Naeem spoke about “The art of writing a business model”. As an entrepreneur and an active member of a startup company I was able to trace back my steps and got my plans reassured that we are moving in the right direction with the right team. Also I was able to take home information with me home that will practically help me in marketing my products and services.
Now thats the kind of stuff entrepreneurs wat to hear in a start-up conference. And NASSCOM managed to pull that off quite well this time. There were tweetup sessions as well with Guy and discussion sessions with speakers CEOs, VCs and other big guys you might have wanted to talk to. Those things were organized quite well.
There were stalls with lot of companies showcasing their products and other sessions that we were a part of as well, but as I said they were moving out of the intended direction or was uninteresting (I mean the ones you really don’t have anything to take home).
Overall it was quite well-organized event so far and we’ll be joining them back tomorrow for rest of the sessions and discussions. Will fill you guys on it a well once I’m back tomorrow. Today was truly long but untiring experience.
And the award goes to… ME!
by Karthik on Jul.07, 2009, under Cool Stuff, Indiblogger, Writing
Yes, that’s right. I just won an award for “The Best Fun blog with real environmentalism award” from Nicky. I’d like to thank my parents for helping me reach this high, my English teachers for helping me frame these sentences when I write this blog, Old monk for helping me with ideas to write, and Nicky of course for recognizing me.
I must say I’m honoured for this is coming from a blogger who just won for pure rage and had rough mood swings lately 
. Thank you Nicky for putting me on the stage.
Now, coming to the rules of this award program:
- Link the person who tagged you
- Copy the image above, the rules and the questionnaire in this post
- Post this in one or all of your blogs
- Answer the four questions following these Rules
- Recruit at least seven (7) friends on your Blog Roll by sharing this with them
- Come back to BLoGGiSTa iNFo CoRNeR (PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS LINK) at http://bloggistame.blogspot.com and leave the URL of your Post in order for you/your Blog to be added to the Master List
- Have Fun!
and then the questions and answers (my answers are in blue italics)
- The person who tagged you: BitchOn
- His/her site’s title and url : http://bitchsena.blogspot.com/
- Date when you were tagged: 4th day of July, 2009
- Persons I’ve tagged: see below
Anwin: Dedicated personal blogger award
Renie Ravin: HDR experiments and personal photography award
SriHarsha: Interesting views on everyday life award
Adarsh Rao: Best Blog of national interest award
Naveen Roy: The best Passionate biker I know who blogs all his trips award
Hemal Shah: Interesting variety of information in one blog award
Anoop Zombie: Sincerely started writing a blog after a very long time award
PS: Even though you might find this post incredibly interesting, please think again before you print this on a paper and read it again and again. (Just showing off my environmental responsibility, as thats a factor for my award hehe)
Heavy metal blogger meet – A report
by Karthik on Feb.17, 2009, under Bangalore, Cool Stuff, Events, Music, Quiz
As usual Indiblogger heavy metal blogger meet was a success. As you guys might already know Kingfisher sponsored the event and we all had a great crowd for the meet. We all had unlimited beer too. There were about 70 bloggers in the meet. Although a some of them really couldn’t stay long, it was nice to see that they made the effort to be a part of the meet. Thanks a lot guys. You rocked!
For the all the guys who were present for the meet, thanks a lot for coming and making it a success. Bloggers started coming in from about 4:30 and the event went on till about 7:00 PM.
We also conducted a quiz on Iron Maiden for all the bloggers who won a free mug of beer for every correct answer.
Once again, Indiblogger is organizing a meet on 28th February at Microsoft office. Check out the details here.
That meet is nothing like the one we had in stones. Its at Microsoft Office at EGL. Come over and I’m sure we’ll have a great time meeting fellow bloggers from all around the country.
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