Chennai bloggers thank Tata Grande.

The four plus hours I spent on 9th October at the ballroom in Hotel Hyatt Regency was memorable. The event, "Chennai Bloggers Meet" was organized by indiblogger.in and sponsored by Tata Grande.

The man behind the whole show is Renie Ravin, a silent man who works behind the screen but ably assisted by Anwin . Both of them have made a quite few changes in the events when compared to the last year conference.

49 seconds to fame:
This is the introduction session that all the bloggers usually love and wait for. On the giant screen, the blogger's username in the indiblogger network was displayed along with his approved blog URL. With this info on the background (foreground rather?), the blogger was asked to speak a few words for 49 seconds which when exceeded, the horn will be honked by man at the wheel of Tata Grande.

Group discussion:
This is another new concept this year. A couple of groups on specific topics like blog monetization, automobiles, travel etc were formed and bloggers with interest in these groups huddled together and tried to make conversation because of a boisterous group.

During tea time, a reporter named Sagar from Indian Express asked me a few questions. He showed surprise that I maintain 16 blog out of which 4 blogs belonged to the category of blog sitting. His blog http://www.sruthisagar.com/ has a post on Advaitham of which I strongly disagree because I am a visihstadhvaithi.

One of the bloggers I met was Sanjeeta K.K. whose food blog titled Lite Bite located at http://litebite.in/ has got a huge number of followers which may be due to her stunning images on her blog.

The high tea was good and the free t-shirt too.

I thank indiblogger.in and Tata Grande. Hope to meet next year.

Chennai bloggers meet by indi blogger.

The wait is over at last. I am excited about the Chennai Bloggers meet arranged by indiblogger.com and sponsored by Tata Grande! Yes, a big fish has entered.

Chennai Bloggers meet is scheduled to be held on 9th October at hotel Hyatt Residency. I browsed through the list of attendees and the names I recognized from the last year Chennai Bloggers meet are:
* Websnacker
* Srivalli
* Sekar Saptharishi
* Old sailor
* Aarti

Failed to spot the names of Tulasi (Tamil blog துளசி தளம்) and Rasanaikari. I enjoyed reading their blogs. By the way, where is ZEE TV Tamil editor Balabarathy?

Of course, it would be nice to meet Anwin and Renie again. Last year's meet gave me several wonderful friends. Hope it will repeat again.

Chennai Bloggers Meet.

The Chennai Bloggers Meet organized by indiblogger.in and sponsored by Univercell Communications was held in posh place called GRT Convention Center in Madras.

Here my observations:

* Renie Revin and Anwyn Joselyn of Indiblogger.in efficiently managed the show without any issues.

* The get together part was arranged in a different manner that encouraged the participant to mingle and start conversing freely.

* I appreciated the ZEE TV Tamil editor Balabarathy's speech in Tamil. He motivated the blogger to speak up in their blog about all socio-economic issues that affected the community. (Sure sir, but who will read?)

*Had there been a question and answer session on blog monetization, blog promotion etc, I would have made some useful contribution. I have so much to pass on.

*A young girl asked about how to attract advertisers but sadly she didn't get satisfactory replies. During the break, I approached her to offer some useful tips but she politely excused herself.

*Before the meet, I randomly visited some of the blogs and I recognized Srivalli who has a nice recipe blog.

*I failed to spot Tulasi whose Tamil blog துளசி தளம் impressed me very much. Her latest post "சும்மா சுத்தினபோது கண்ணில் பட்டவை" -அருமையான தலைப்பு. How easily she has communicated!

* Another blogger I wanted to meet was Rasanaikari whose Tamil blog is just superb.

I thank both the organizers and the sponsors for a creating a nice opportunity to meet bloggers from the same city of Madras. (BTW, where is Chennai? )

Chennai bloggers meet!

Sadly, I had to reconcile by calling Madras as 'Chennai'. I am an old timer of Madras city and I just can't bring myself to its name change several years ago.

Oh ok. So, it is Chennai where bloggers of Chennai who are registered embers of Indi Blogger are going to meet on 20th of March at GRT Convention Center. The event is being sponsored by 'Univercell Communications', the largest seller of leading mobile phones.

There are more than 1500 bloggers from Chennai that are members of indiblogger.in but only 160 of them can participate in the mega event which is held after a couple of years.

I have registered for the event and eagerly looking forward to meet face to face, all of my online contacts who had thus far remained in contact only digitally.