Finally a blog camp in India

Aug 24, 2006

BlogCamp India 2006 is being organized in Chennai. It will take place between September 9-10, 2006. Dina’s blog has this text about the upcoming “unconference” of Indian bloggers:

Blogging is more than just a tool for online communication. For bloggers and blog readers, it represents a way of life where open communication, dialogue, feedback and collaboration enrich content, helping us forge professional and personal relationships. From encouraging government transparency, blogging about children, discussions on economics, sharing poetry and literature, ribtickling humour, online activism, movie reviews to Sunday musings, the tool has changed lives for all those who use it and rely on it for opinion, information, entertainment and business.

Because blogging has influenced each individual at so many different levels, the theme of the BlogCamp in Chennai is going to be “Living The Blog”

We hope to provide a forum where bloggers can share their stories and be inspired by innovative and successful blogging experiences. In the spirit of blogging and no barriers interaction, the two-day event will be in an “unconference mode”. Participants will have the choice of simultaneous workshops and sessions that will be held in small groups and use relatively informal ways of engaging each other, in conversations around the various themes.

In India we have an extremely vibrant blogging community and the collective power of the Indian blogsphere manifested itself during the recent blockage of blogs by the Indian government. Corporate and professional blogging is still a far-fetched idea as far as India is concerned. But then online content as such anyway doesn’t rate high in the priority list of Indian businesses.