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Kingfisher Indiblogger Meet @ Kyra

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Writing this post as I am returning from Kingfisher Indiblogger meet at Kyra Theatre, Bangalore while traveling in a BMTC Volvo public transport instead of taking out my own vehicle. Since Kyra is pretty distant from my home, I chose to utilize the public transport on a lazy Sunday afternoon. This meet was sponsored by Kingfisher and Kyra Theater and Restaurant. You can read my earlier review on Kyra Theater here. Kingfisher was sponsoring free BEER to all the bloggers present at the venue, I had to satisfy myself with water since I am not even a social alcoholic! If you wish to read about the previous IndiBlogger meet in Bangalore here.

Well, coming to the event, there were around 100+ bloggers who made their presence felt with 30 seconds of fame to start the proceedings. During those 30 seconds, every blogger gets an opportunity to introduce themselves to rest of the blogging community present there. It was interesting to see and hear about all the bloggers. There were people who hail from different professions. Starting from engineering geeks and students, poets, a bunch of doctors, journalist students, photographers, Wikipedia evangelists, web designers and few professional bloggers! Oh yeah, there were few folks who had no blogs also, but were curious to learn from this event and start a blog soon. I was inspired by listening to some of the bloggers who have been blogging for over 7 years! It was even more interesting to listen to some of the folks on their story about choosing to blog – One person said he wanted to build a blog that could beat TechCrunch!! I do recall some web designer coming to the event and saying he has no clue on what the blogging is all about and looking forward to know better. There was another person saying that he was learning through the experiment of creating multiple blogs repeatedly and letting them die. Not sure why someone would want to do that repeatedly… My principle is not to commit the same mistake for the second time.

Not to mention, I met a number of people whom I knew through virtual world of internet. The list includes SR Ayyangar who has written a guest post on my blog about Traffic Management in Emergency. Vijay, Raj, Raghav, Meghana, Sowmya Suresh, Hitesh, Mohanish, Anand Bala, Saraswatan are a few to name who are familiar to me. The list is really exhaustive to recall and mention everyone… It was a good platform to meet up with so many folks from blogosphere. After the introduction round, every person was given a cardboard sheet that one can hang on their back to let the fellow bloggers to write on it with crayons. Sometime after personal interactions and writing on backs, it was time to count the number of comments each person got on his/her back! None of us knew that there would be special goodies for the highest comment count. I was lucky to stand second with 25 comments while Vijay had 27. We both got the white IndiBlogger T-Shirts! Thanks to all those who met me and commented on my back 🙂

The beer guzzlers continued to empty mug after mug throughout the session. There was a good discussion to help everyone become a good blogger as well as some of the common issues faced by blogging community. Copyright & Plagiarism was one helluva hot topic! Well utilized the opportunity of meeting up with the IndiBlogger team of Renie, Anoop, Karthik, Nafisa, Diana and many more. I will update the pics once I reach home. Look forward to meet you all and many more who missed this event sometime soon through this kind of blogger meets or whatever event works out. Feel free to reach out and stay connected through social media.

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    • Look forward to meet you in the next meet up. Thank you.. Not sure if I were the top commentor… but i was second highest comments receiver 😉

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  4. Hey there,
    meeting you was one of the high points of the evening, other than the beer induced ones 😉

    im still waiting for your ‘why is your blog so darn slow’ post!!

    i’ve been obsessed with the loading speed since sunday and there’s only you to blame for it!
    😀

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    • Hello! pleasure is all mine 🙂 It is on the cards and you will get to see that sometime soon! Don’t be so serious… take it easy. Damn.. I shouldn’t have spoken about it.

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    • Hey Shaunak, thanks for dropping by! Well, you can initiate the meet – see indiblogger site for more details on how you can host. I am sure Mumbai meet would be much bigger than what we had here in Bangalore!

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    • Yes! it was my second such blogger meet and glad to have known so many more bloggers compared to the first one. Thanks to IndiBlogger for providing such an opportunity where virtual world becomes real world 🙂

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  10. hey mohan.. ure blog is really famous buddy.. never in my life, I got so many comments:)
    nwz was nice meeting u n all fellow bloggers.. will link u in ma blog.. bye

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    • Hi Shashi, all credits to my readers and the kind of interactions we indulge in along with learning 🙂 It was nice meeting you too, I have already subscribed for your blog 🙂

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  11. Nice post and a nicer blog 🙂
    I couldn’t talk to you on Sunday, but am glad that I saw you! Thanks for the pics (am there in couple of them)! And congrats for the tee 😉

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  12. Nice one Mohan.. though you missed the name of the guy who was advocating the hormones and the peaks level when he started blogging ;).. yeah yeah that was me.. but really it was really fun to see so many people turning up and making the entire gathering so wonderful.. I missed talking to u much.. but next time.. we will certainly share same table to put the empty jars of beers 😉

    Nice to know you in person..
    Take care..

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  14. Now, I wish even I had attended it. I will make sure I will attend it next time. After reading your review, I realise I missed all the fun.
    Nice post. 🙂

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  15. I got to know first-hand about blogging activities in India. Gr8 meet.

    Thought I’ll express some thoughts about monetization (not enough time yesterday!) –
    Blogs (and the internet) offer an opportunity for the value creator to “directly” connect to interested people. It’s similar to the days when there where no merchants (middle-men). Value created is typically exchanged/payed-for; it so happens that the current mechanism is Ad revenue. It would be great if the medium was something else other than currency, but for now, this is the way it is. This line of reasoning was inspired by “Life Inc by Douglas Rushkoff”.
    – @naveen_jp, @naveen_ookull

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  16. Hi Mohan,

    Nice Article Sirjeee… I’ve posted some more pics and videos in my blog, if guys interested to see them, please do visit 🙂 Not very old timer in indiblogger, so any promotion of my blog would be helpful for me. ( Grin :)))) )

    -Raj.

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    • I will let you know for sure when the next meet happens. You get to read all sorts of comments here… serious ones to the most hilarious… all out here. Enjoy maadi.

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  19. People have been waiting for me to leave Bangalore to have all fun… Sigh! I would not the touch the beer either but would have enjoyed meeting you people. I would have asked you in advance to bring one of those Brinjal from your garden.
    Congrats for winning the T-shirt.

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    • Oh Farila, Beer is just a motivation for some of the bloggers if not for us 🙂
      Hmmm thank god… you just limited yourself to ‘ONE’ brinjal and not all like others!

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  20. It’s sad that I couldn’t make it to the meet. Reading whatever you have read I can decipher that it was an enjoyable event. I’ll definitely make it to the next event.

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  23. Although thanks to your picture in your site and indiblogger your face was very much recognizable It was wonderful meeting you in flesh and blood and in real motion 😀

    It was a great meet! Hope to catch u guyz sooner in near future 🙂

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      • Now you know a mike phobia guy 😛 , Ask me to write i will be happy, ask me to talk in small groups i would be glad, throw in a 100 plus crowd and hand over me a mike , I will freeze 😀

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        • lol Lakshmi… seriously that true? That would have been a funny sight! lol
          I am pretty shameless… can just go and blabber in front a crowd… but mom is like u… can talk allot in a small group… but asked to go hold a mic and talk? It just aint happening

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  24. I was looking forward to meet you and this meet gave me an opportunity to meet many other bloggers like Reine, Anwin, Lakshmi Rajan, saraswathan, shenoy, Sowmya and others too.

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    • It was my pleasure to have met you sir! Thanks for all the insights and I had a very healthy conversation with you. Looking forward for more partnership 🙂

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  26. Yeah Mohan… it was truly nice to meet the ‘real’ person behind the blog…. Thanks for the Indivine votes I know you’ll keep doing it :D…. look forward to such meets in future…

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  27. Damm I couldnt make it…. wanted to come down to blore for the even but i cudnt… thanks for letting me know on what all I missed out on… 😛

    and yeah Lovely pics

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      • There is one being held in hyderabad on march 21st. I dont think there was one in hyd that day…Well I was cought up in some work, so wouldnt have been able to attand that too… damm my luck..

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          • I know… and i was so looking fwd to meeting all u guys…. i mean u r there then lakshmi Rajan is there and there so many others… and plus c’mon there is beer!!!! lol

            btw I heard there is going to another one soon… hopefully all u guys will be there then too

  28. Hey thanks for the update about this meetup. I was kind of looking forward to the update 🙂 Though registered, I was kind of reluctant till the end to meet bloggers over beer!! But I would not want to miss other non-alcoholic blogger meets 🙂

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    • Oh there were a number of non-alcoholics including me! it would have been a nice platform to meet up and know more! Anyways, lets catch up sometime soon in near future.

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  31. hey i got 6 comments…….and two were spam……..
    but even though the evening was rocking………much much better than the last experience at potluck…..not cause it was bad or something …..i just take time to open up with ppl……..it was great to meet you again………..being popular at indivine does pays you..rite….you got TEE…………

    though there were some missing from the potluck meet…….. but i got in touch with the a couple of blogger i met at potluck….and many new ones……

    well know i have a lot of ppl to read from…..

    \,,/

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    • Wow.. nice, but you were busy helping Raghav meet other bloggers. how did you come to the conclusion that 2 comments were SPAM? My pleasure to have met you too!

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      • pretty simple to guess…….two ppl left their blog URL’s @ my back………….they were spamming there too 🙂

        but i did visit them later that nite…….

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        • hahahahaaa can’t imagine the kind of people haunting you around! nevertheless, you did show a good gesture of how not to spam while they had a never ending grin of achieving success of their spam 🙂

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  32. I missed it again! Free Beer? I surely missed it big time. Nice recap of the whole event. I did see that hitler video on indiblogger site.. No mention of that in your article? You missed it or purposefully avoided?

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  33. @mohanbn

    Very well summed up. I likes the attention to detail.
    I do hope I can get a hold of you sometime from migrating to WordPress.

    @gyanban
    While there was no minute of silence for the “missing” blogger. One person, did guzzle an extra mug in his name.

    Anand

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  36. Was there a moment of silence for the poor blogger who couldn’t make it ?

    was there someone who poured one glass of beer for the one poor blogger who couldn’t make it ?

    I guess not. Sad.

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