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 and Don’ts of Blogging
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Do’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.
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