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This post comes 2 days after BlogCamp pune…

The venue was Symbiosis Infotech Campus, Hinjewadi… A lovely place where wi-fi dint work… Now, I’m not being critical, I’m being candid… First unconference where I could not live-blog… But then yeah, it was interesting in a kind of a way…

Rediff was one of the big stars of the event… They launched a service called Rediff BlogShowCase… which was kinda over-hyped by the media to an extent that was way beyond proportions… Simple RSS Aggregator with a voting and ranking feature… Sounds familiar doesnt it??? It’s called Digg!!! And Digg podcasts!!! Absolut old wine - new bottle stuff… But hey! They’re Rediff.com!!!

So you have StarTV, NDTV, CNN-IBN, CNBC, TechTree, Mid-Day, Financial Express, and what-not and what-all of the media fraternity here… And then, there was Sakshi Juneja - who is Rakhi Sawant’s unofficial PR! Caught up with Rajiv Dhingra and team from WATBlog / WATConsult.

The sessions were mostly marketing stuff. By PurpleNova, PooraPoona, Sulekha, Rediff of-course and some others. Some of the interesting sessions were however the ones on Blog Traffic building and Blogging for learners… which were both interesting and interactive. So, I caught up with that…

And then the personal high of the event, I got covered by CNBC for being a blogger and my experiences on blogging and for the fact that I’ve been blogging since 2004… which apparently puts me in the previliged league of veteran bloggers…

Did a huge pitch for NisargaIndia there. A lot of people were interested in the part that there were wildlife-conservation and naturalist activities in India AND I was not associated with WWF AND that my organization was a privately held one, not an NGO AND that we actually had a perfectly fine and successfully working business model to round it all off…

So thats that about BlogCamp pune. The trip was however lovely… Met up with all my roomies there, my gud old friends, my managers in my old-organization, lunches, dinner, party, disc… whoa… Lovely saturday nite… And now, it’s back to life… and reality!!!

And yeah, is it something about me flying??? Everytime I’m on a trip, on the return flight back home, the flight attendant has to spill something on a passenger… 3rd occurrence today… This time it was however lemonade… and not boiling coffee… Read up my older posts for that incident…

So long…

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