Launched 'AskPreeti.com'

I have launched a new site 'www.askpreeti.com'. It contains lots of information related to programming, web designing, blogging and SEO. I hope it will prove to be a very useful resource for newbies as well as learning enthusiasts. For more information, please visit AskPreeti.com.

Google webinar - "Tricks and Treats"

Yesterday night, I attended a webinar by Google. It's named "Tricks and Treats". It was a nice experience to talk to top Googlers.
I will post all my experience on my upcoming site 'AskPreeti.com' which I am going to launch this Diwali.
So, till then keep waiting and remain excited to know about my webinar experience.

Bloggers in Media Again!

We, the members of 'Chandigarh Blogger's Alliance' are putting all our efforts to make it a success. For another time, we are in the newspaper (Times of Chandigarh). Each one of us is doing hard to reach the masses out there. Yes! It's YOU and ONLY YOU who can help this community to grow. So what are you waiting for? Simply join BlogCatalog and be a proud part of us!

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Media Coverage and Snaps of Chandigarh Blogger’s Meet ‘08

Here are the snaps and newspaper cutting of ‘Hindustan’. Enjoy!

Seriously Listening

Sameer Expressing His Views

Shanker 'BOSS' on Hot Seat

Nicely Laid Table with Snacks

Mohit Telling His Yahoo Story

Blogger's Gang (The Founders)

News published in 'Hindustan' on 7th July, 2008

Chandigarh Blogger's Meet Review

Hi Guys!

So here I am with a quick review of the blogger’s meet for all those who couldn’t make it for the event. It was a very nice and learning experience to meet all those 11 people who are so passionate about their own fields and of course blogging. It really showed the interest youth is having in blogosphere. Here we discussed how each one of us started blogging and what all difficulties we have faced.

The initiator of this event, Mr. Gaurav, is the owner of http://gaufire.blogspot.com/. Firstly, I congratulate him for taking this step and bringing together, although in small number, but all of us, the bloggers. And now as we all came to know each other, we will definitely take these kinds of meetings ahead and will help in bringing more of the bloggers.

In future we will be organizing meetings on a large scale and will get it sponsored by Microsoft. Some of the top bloggers from India may be our guests so that they can share their experiences with us and prove to be a helping hand for the new bloggers. We are also planning to emphasize some of the current issues of society and for that we can have some shows or workshops for spreading awareness about blogging. So in the place as Chandigarh, which is going to be the technology center in coming years, the bloggers meet will be an added advantage for the people who want to know anything about blogging.

Mr. Shanker Bakshi who owns the blog http://www.shankerbakshi.com, is again a very multi dimensional guy with lots of experience. He knows every aspect of promoting a blog and making money through it. So, anyone who wants to learn how to make money from blog should visit his blog.

Mr. Rakesh who although is very new to this field had a great contribution. He came up with the Id-cards for all of us and helped in organizing the event.

Mr. Abhinav, a great guy with lots of energy and an inspiration for all. He was in his full spirits with his blog http://www.inspiritblog.com. He is really a very talented person.

Mr. Jasdeep has a blog on poetry where he publishes the punjabi poems of his friends. This guy had struggled a lot in his life but is very passionate about anything he does. I really liked your enthusiasm. Keep it up!

If you have any kind of issues regarding software, hardware, programming, designing, anything, Mr.Mohit Aneja can help you out. His blog http://www.mohitaneja.com gives solutions to your many problems. He had been the best solution provider on yahoo questions and answers. This guy is really fabulous and a true lover of Google :P and one most important topic which lasted for around an hour was…in contrast to Shanker, who believes in making money from blogging, Mohit do not believe in making money from blogs, especially from google adsense. He came up with his wife, Mrs. Reet Aneja, who too is really interested in blogging and helps Mohit in all aspects.

Mr. Sameer through his blog http://threecheersindia.com/blog/ wants to showcase the developments and problems faced by India since Independence. He, in Stepping Stones School (Chandigarh), had organized a workshop to teach students about blogging and the advantages one can gain from it.

Mr. Abhishek who is into corporate blogging alongwith Sameer had started their own company. I wish them All the Best for it.

Mr. Saurabh, who is a PHP developer owns the blog http://teenmoolah.blogspot.com/.

Miss. Sukhbir Kaur, shared her experiences about blogging and had a good learning experience.

And lastly myself, Preeti, owner of blog http://entertainment-n-humour.blogspot.com/ had learnt a lot from this meeting. I am thankful to all of you with whom I got in contact with and will remain in contact in future too.

So, all those who had not attended Bloggers Meet this time, do get in touch with me anytime to know about our future events. In a month or 2 we will be having our next meet. We will soon launch a website for Chandigarh bloggers where you can get to know about the upcoming events and reviews of meetings.

We had got our media coverage from Hindustan (the hindi newspaper by Hindustan times), you can read an article in it within a day or 2.

Will post some snaps too as soon as I will get them.

Thanks to all of you and all the best for your future. See you all in the next meet.

Keep in touch.

Chao!

PS: If I had written anything wrong or had forgotten to mention, please forgive me and do write a comment.

Chandigarh Bloggers Meet '08

Hi Friends!

I am too much excited for the first Blogger's Meet going to be held in Chandigarh on 6th July 2008. It will going to be a great step for the blogger's community. I am definitely going to join it and will get in touch with you guys later to tell you a review of it.

See ya!
Bbye

Blogosphere Turns 10

Do you dig link love, hate blogasms, tag memes and can’t stand to ignore a ping? If you don’t know what on earth this is all about, it’s probably time to take your first tentative steps into the blogosphere. As blogs turn 10 this year (exact date unknown) - the tribe of those who put fingers to the keyboard and their thoughts to the “homepages of the 21st century” is growing everyday. Blog tracker Technorati counted 93.8 million bloggers worldwide in July 2007 as compared to 100,000 in March 2003. In India, blogging is the most popular internet activity after emailing and the number of bloggers runs into lakhs though no exact count is available.
The fact that blogs are changing the way we date, work, teach and live cannot be denied. A majority of blogs are online diaries- for the kind of stuff not good enough for print, but too good to waste on after-dinner conversation or, worse, mere thinking. Sometimes, the thoughts run out and sometimes, the time. But amid the army of irregulars, the diehard blogophiles can’t stop posting.
The complete strangers get involved in the matter. It’s the comments that give blogs a life of their own-pouring in from smart, dumb, creative, sadistic strangers who show up on the blog to be rude, flirt, veer off topic or simply to connect. The latter’s probably the reason why everyone from Indian CEOs to Bollywood celebs is blogging.
Be it Bollywood or business, sex or spirituality, there is little that Indian bloggers don’t tackle. But how did a trend that was slow to pick up initially in India become a phenomenon that has embraced so many? The opinion’s almost unanimous on this one: a government directive that led to the blocking of blogs in July last year proved to be the turning point for the Indian blogosphere. “Till then, awareness was very low. The ban sparked such a furor that many people who didn’t have a clue what a blog is found out about it. Some people like Amit Aggarwal, a techie gave up an MNC job in 2004 to become India’s first professional blogger.
Though readership of most Indian blogs isn’t very high, some of them have extremely good content. But readership is what cyber success is all about and that’s where most blogs flounder. Making money through blogs isn’t easy. It takes vision, creativity, commitment and a lot of hard work-more than you would give to a job.
A blog gives you exposure, helps you build a reputation and is a great networking tool.
But success doesn’t come easy. A lot of thought and research goes into it. From getting tips from other bloggers, optimizing key words so that the blog comes up in search engines to finding thought-provoking topics of discussion that increase “the pop” (number of hits). It’s such a fabulous way to communicate…like you are talking to a friend yet you have thousands of people listening in.
Blogging’s become the 21st century soliloquy – heartfelt, candid, self-absorbed. It’s meant for no one in particular yet the reader hopes the world will read it. And so what if you are writing about what you had for breakfast. If you have a voice, there’s a blog for you.

Celebrating 10 good years of Blogging

Someone, somewhere started the first blog. There is consensus in the blogosphere that 1997 marked the birth of what has now become an online revolution.

In April that year, New Yorker Dave Winer kicked off a new kind of website. Though Winer's first entries on Scripting News were just a list of websites he had visited that day, it was the forerunner to the modern-day blog. On his site, Winer says Scripting News "bootstrapped the blogging revolution" and that it is the "longest currently running web log on the internet."

But the credit for actually using the term "web log" goes to Jorn Barger, a programmer. In December 1997, he created RobotWisdom.com which featured links to articles about politics, culture, books and technology that he found interesting. And like the present-day avatar of blogs, Barger even appended his own comments to some items.

Sometime in 1999, Peter Merholz of Peterme.com declared that he has decided "to pronounce the word 'weblog' as 'wee-blog'. Or 'blog' for short." It's also the year in which the word 'blog' first appears in print, acording to the Merriam-Webmaster dictionary.

Today, there are as many different kinds of blogs as there are human impulses - sex blogs, dating blogs, political blogs, technology blogs, music blogs...the list goes on. But 70 to 80% are still a variation on the personal diary. Number of blogs close to 100 million, according to Technorati. Every second, 14 blogs are added.