Do you think Bloggers are just mere writes in this online world? Whatever they write just bothers there online friends and readers of that blog?

NO!!

Indian Bloggers have a decided to join together and make a change. Blogathon India has just taken the first step towards it. Here are some exerts from there home page.

Blogathon India is a creation from the desire to:
• Instill a mass awakening amongst citizens and bloggers alike towards issues of social importance that affect our day to day lives.
• Building an interesting and close-knit community of bloggers to learn, share and socialize with a larger purpose.
• Motivate NGOs and other experts to embrace the net and start blogging with their invaluable ideas.
• To provide a platform for thought leadership for ideas to emerge, to get discussed, improved and implemented.
• Introduce citizens to blogging and help them to adopt Blogging platforms and tools to express their views.
• Encourage people to blog in regional languages including Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Bengali among others.

Come lets join in

Do’s

Review your posts before publishing them: Very often when I read my blog post again, I find mistakes and have to go back and correct them.

Encourage Participation: Always try and involve your blog reader by encouraging them to participate in your blog through comments or introducing some kind of polls.

Comment on other blogs: This will help you know other Bloggers and in addition to this will help you with some traffic for your blog.

Regularly posting: Its important that you maintain a posting frequency and try and stick to it.

Just be yourself: Remember its your blog and it should reflect you. Write your views, be boring, be unpredictable but just be yourself.

Don’ts

Don’t copy: As mentioned earlier try and mention your views on your blog but if there is something that you have copied from some other blog or site don’t forget to give them the credit.

Ignoring Users: Never ignore your user, try and respond to all of them.

Don’t Promote site/products you are not sure of: Trust is something that takes time to build and you surely do not want your readers to loose it by reviewing some site and product that you are not sure of.

Add lot of widgets: Don’t add lot of widgets on your blog. This will increase the loading time of your blog and may get frustrating for your readers.

Don’t Give up: Blogging is not as easy as it seems to be. Its something that will take some time. Just take care of it, nurture it, feed it regularly and it will bear fruits. And for all these all you need is staying motivated. Remember when going gets tough, tough gets going.

Top 10 CEO Blogs

1. Jonathan Schwartz (President & CEO, Sun Microsystems)
2. Craig Newmark (CEO, Craig’s List)
3. Mark Cuban (Owner, Dallas Mavericks)
4. Ross Mayfield (CEO, Socialtext)
5. Matt Blumberg (CEO, Return Path)
6. Alan Meckler (CEO, Jupiter Media)
7. Kevin Lynch (Chief Software Architect, Adobe)
8. Robin Hopper (CEO, Founder - iUpload)
9. Jason Calacanis (CEO, Weblogs)
10. John Dragoon (CMO, Novell)

Top 10 Blogs for Writers

1. Brian Clark’s CopyBlogger
2. Deborah Ng’s Freelance Writing Jobs
3. Tom Chandler’s Copywriter Underground
4. Liz Strauss’s Successful-Blog
5. Angela Booth’s Writing Blog
6. Kristen King’s InkThinker
7. Anne Wayman’s The Golden Pencil
8. Carson Brackney’s Content Done Better
9. Dianna Huff’s B2B Marcom Writer Blog
10. Allison Winn Scotch’s Ask Allison

Top 10 Free Desktop Blog Editors (Windows)

1. Windows Live Writer
2. ScribeFire
3. Qumana
4. w.Bloggar
5. Zoundry
6. Thingamablog
7. Flock
8. Blog Desk
9. Post2Blog
10. Bleezer

Top 10 My Favorite Blogs

1. Great Bong
2. OuchMyToe
3. IdealWebtools
4. NateWhite Hill
5. ProBlogger
6. Gautam Ghosh
7. Labnol
8. BoingBoing
9. India Uncut
10. Time and Again

I will keep updating this post in days to come..so watch out

At last I have a new blog theme. It’s been quite some time that I have been thinking of changing my blog design…. Finally did it yesterday.

Although this theme as everything that suits my need but still there are few areas that I need to work on.

That’s it as of now… do let me know your feedbacks on this new design.

Blogging is the latest fever that has caught my fellow employees. Here are some of the tips that will help them boost their blogs' user experience. 

Make your Blog your own: Don’t bother or worry about what and how others writing on there blog. Blog the way you want to. 

People like people: One of the basic reasons big Bloggers get big is because they always share any information from their own point of view. Its important that you show your readers that your blog is just not an information bot. 

Make your blog post useful: Making a blog post that has just helped you or you have found it very useful is good, but before that you need to answer some questions like How is it useful? Why did you like it? And how can readers take what you have just written and apply that in their situation. 

Make your blog interactive: In your blog all the conversation has to be started by you but you will also have to make sure that it is continued by your readers. Try and engage people to talk about your blog. Once that is done, you can take the back sit and listen to them. 

Have Fun: You cannot come out with your best if you are not having fun in doing it, and Blogging is no different. Have Fun in what ever you do with your blog.