Kolkata had two back to back Bloggers Meet on February 20th 2011. As a blogger and a web worker, it was awesome to meet bloggers with whom I had been friends online. The best things in life come in small packages. So were the Blogger's Meet. When the sun was up in the morning yesterday, IndiBlogger took on the show at CII grounds City Centre. They added a zing as bloggers started introducing themselves to the crowd.
This meet saw the coming together of bloggers for a cause that was envisioned by
The Akshaya Patra Foundation who tells the world "Food for education". They are feeding almost 1.2 million children everyday and they say "No one within a ten mile radius of our center should go hungry." Bloggers from Kolkata and other parts of India made it to this forum to light the cause. As the show took on more energy, bloggers started to greet each other by writing nice comments offline. The blogger's meet winded up with rock band and open house discussions where bloggers interacted with each other. According to Anoop Johnson, Co-founder,
Indiblogger.in, “It has given bloggers a purpose and brought about focused content on a particular issue, which is incredible to see.” This meet empowered the vigor of individual voice!
As IndiBlogger meet reached a culmination point, Kolkata witnessed another great
Kolkata Blogger's Meet 2011 or #kbm11 organised by
Webreps.in in association with INFOCOM.
The platform was big and this meet had some great speakers to educate both amateurs and pro-bloggers on web, technology, SEO, making money from blogging and addressing the enthusiastic crowd. Bloggers from various verticals came here.
Kamanashish Roy- the person behind this meet added a zing to the show as he kept on adding beautiful snippets on blogging whlist speakers were getting ready! You could definitely check out some live tweets from the show
@infocomlive.
The cherry on the cake was when Arnab Roy or rather
Great Bong yielded the floor. He shared his experiences on blogging.
Angsuman from
Taragana also added more to the information basket when he went on to say on a gamut of factors that has empowered the blogosphere. There were other social media enthusiasts such as
Nitesh Ambuj, Rahul Bharadwaj. The blend was when Akshaya Patra even made it to this show after the morning meet. They were thrilled to see the crowd and addressed the bloggers at this meet to support their cause. They are leaving no stone unturned for this enormously big social cause "Unlimited food for education". Their motive was not to just raise money but to spread more awareness among bloggers and asking them to write a word for them. One little effort can take them a long way. From morning till evening, both the shows threw light on the fact that even Kolkata has joined in the blogging bandwagon and is catching up action.
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