The meeting started with an interesting video about bloggers (a question to organizers: is that video available on YouTube??). It was followed by a round of introductions where everyone got to show their blog and believe me Pune has some amazing bloggers. Post introductions IndiBloggers team had a very interesting session where they read out comment from somebody's blog and the blogger was suppose to do a small jig if it was a comment from his/her blog, very nice idea! Then there was a Pizza break and during this time I could talk to some of the bloggers. After the quick Pizza break we had a session from Microsoft on Live Writer (makes it easy to blog while you are off line but doesn't have a Mac version :( so of no use to me). There was an interesting skit by the IndiBloggers team before we wrapped for the day.
There were some really good bloggers I got to meet like Harsha (I follow his blog and it was nice to meet him in person), Vineet (another member of our Symbiosis family), Sandhya (nice to see an evangelist from Microsoft), Karamveer (he knows how to make money from blogging and also a very sporty guy), Anwin (one of the guys behind IndiBlogger), Prashant (always nice to see him around), Renie (the super cool IndiBlogger founder), Aparajita (nice to meet another blogger from Symbiosis family), Divya (did not get to talk him but very nice blog) , Maltesh, Meetu (Entertainment and Movie blogger), Navin (Tech Blogger) and many more.
All for the love of Blogging :)The event was very nice though I would have liked little more time to meet the bloggers. I think the Pizza break was very small. I couldn't meet a lot of people I really wanted to meet, as the time was very less. This is one of the thing we will have to keep in mind during the Blogcamp Mumbai, to give more time and space for bloggers to meet each other.
I always like to visit Pune and If I get to spend time with good people and have nice food it just makes the travel worthwhile. Thanks to Moksh for his company in the morning and delicious Misal Pav on our way to Pune. Thanks to Rohit for delicious lunch and the Blogcamp Pune T-Shirt (yes I finally got one). Thanks to Vineet (the guy behind the show), IndiBloggers team and Microsoft.
Tarun Chandel
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I agree with you on the time constraint thingie... I wud hav liked to hav more time to speak to the bloggers present, to get to know them a lil better... Anyways twas the first time I went for a blogger meet...Was an ok experience
Hi Tarun,
Yes--the blog meet was fun --and I am still amazed that you travelled from mumbai and made it--In fact I mentioned that in my article which i'm turning in today.
Cheers
Ps
Hi Tarun, I was just googling my name + "super cool" and guess what I found? :-) Thanks for the post, and yeah - it was loads of fun. Unfortunately the "1 minute of fame" took longer than expected and we were getting very aware of time. We normally give more importance to the pizza/mingling session because that's what most bloggers expect out of a blogger meet.
It was good meeting you, and I'll try and make it for the blogcamp!
hey man! the video is available for view here. you can post it in your blog with the code.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4qf10_i-am-the-blog_blog
:) glad people liked the video. Its always good to spread the word around! all the best for the mumbai camp.
--> Apu: Nice to meet you at the bloggers meet.
--> Ps: Traveled for the love of blogging :) It was pleasure to meet you at the camp.
--> Renie: It was still really good.. there are always learnings for the next time. Do come over for the Blogcamp I am sure campers would love to know about indibloggers :)
-->Vineet: My friend the meet was really good and that video is awesome. I have already seen it like 10 times :) Thanks for your wishes for the Blogcamp Mumbai, do come down here for the camp and bring your video long :)
wonderful meeting here. Will try to make it to one of the blogcamps soon!
it was a fine experience...a s for meeting other bloggers.. i dare say there was little or no time...
like the last time, i again have to miss blogcamp... work!!
Hey buddy!
See you in Mumbai on 29th. I am coming for blogcamp.
Hmm..wish we had more time to network.
It woud be interesting to see how Tarun-the participant would handle things as Tarun-the organiser in Mumbai :)
--> Anwin: It was good to meet you, hope to see you at the blogcamp, it will be a good place to talk about indibloggers.
--> Sam: Time was less but still it was really good. You are working on Staurday??? Take a blogging break ;)
--> Karamveer: Hurray!! Thats a great news looking forward to meet you.
--> Harsha: Is that a gentle warning from a gentle dude?? See the thing about camps and meets is that, its the participants who make or break them. That is why they are called unconferences, with no organizers just participants and I am one of the participants. Anyways it was really good to meet you in person, hopefully we will catch up at Blogcamp Mumbai. Hey ask Sandil to come as well.
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