Blogathon India – Indian Bloggers come together

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

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 Blogs

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


Got a New Blog Design

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.