Pictures & Presentations from the Blog Conference

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It was a busy weekend here as we had a blog conference for aspiring bloggers as well as expert bloggers or people who already have blogs but want to take it to the next level both in terms of traffic and monetization.

Organizing a blog event in a non-metro city like Agra was a very interesting experience. Around 120 folks turned up on the final day and lot of them travelled all the way from Delhi, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Karnal, Bhopal, Panipat, Aligarh and Mathura to attend this half day event.

Blogging for Beginners

The first session "Blogging for Beginners" (download slides) was purely for people who are new to blogs but are curious to make the jump. The main idea was to convince them why they should blog and how blogging is almost as easy as writing an email. It was really nice meeting people who are now retired and want to write blogs.

Advanced Blogging Techniques

In the next session "Advanced Blogging Techniques" (download slides), we covered stuff like finding ideas for content, connecting with influencers, distribution channels, linking myths, advanced Google Analytics, AdSense optimization and so on.

Due to time constraints, we didn’t get enough time to interact offline but thanks all who made it to the conference. Here are some pictures.

blog conference photos

Thank you everyone who helped spread the word about India Blog School including Gautam, Kamla, PC, Rahul, Rezwan, Amit Somani, Narayanan, Priya Shah and everyone else who twittered or blogged about it. Special thanks to Google for taking care of all the bills.

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Reader Comments

Wonderful Amit. Congratulations.
Are there any video extracts available for the same?
Thanks
Vaibhav

amit presentations are really good and i have learned a lot of things by going through these ppt’s
is there any recording also available for this blog conference
Thanks very much

job well done…any chance for one in Bombay?

Nice Presentations there..Surely helpful for everyone..(even those who couldn’t attend and those who want to know about blogging)

Hi Amit,
Great work! Do you guys plan to organize such conferences at other cities as well? I see that many people asked this question, but could not find the answer.

Great show Amit,

Are you planning similar session in Gurgaon city for Bloggers?

Excellent work for Indi bloggers, keep it up Amit, Say it with Flowers : )

This is fantastic, Amit. You are taking blogging to the next level, most definitely. Keep up the good work. Good luck!

Thanks for sharing very good information. Leant quite a bit of things from the slides.

Great event for Indian Bloggers
Hope to see more such event in Southern part of India
Thanks Amit for Sharing the PPT

Very nice presentation Amit… but What is the MOM thing… Can’t figure out that ???

Ya it was an exhilarating experience for us to be fortuned enough to visit his blog conference I traveled from Delhi to Agra just to attend his conference…n I tell u guyz it was worth attending ..I enjoyed especially his ‘F’ theory that he told i.e. a viewer visiting ur page focuses more on an imaginary ‘F’ located at d center of ur page..so now u know where to put in more interesting stuffs on ur page…though the 1st 45 min was 4 beginners so it was quite boring for me but the advanced section was too good…Amit u rock man…takecare

@jacob @About Online Tips

ya he is planning to visit Delhi on 21st of next month for something similar as he told me….

Very Nice presentation Amit Sir :)

BTW Who is the small Baby in the Blog Conference (in Pink Dress)? :D

Congratulations on the success of the event!!.

Hey Amit,

great job on organising the conference. I was flipping through the presentation slides and came across this one – “.in or .com or .org”

can you expand on that slide a bit?

I am very much interested to take part, but i am in kerala, any chance to get Video , audio or webcast of of that Blog Conference

Hi Amit,

Nice Event.
One thing I want to ask. In this post “download slides” options you gave skydrive public folder link. is it a trick for traffic? It should be proper pdf link. you will get in “embed” option in particular pdf in skydrive public folder.

Congratulation for having Nice job.

Thanks

Hi Amit,
Thanks for link back. There is one correction though. Post at Devils Workshop was written by our editor Deepak not me (Rahul).
I have gone through PDF’s of events and shocked to discover many new things in “Advance Blogging Techniques”.
BTW please organize next event in a metro like Delhi, Mumbai or IT town like Bangalore, Hyderabad.
Hope to see more lessons for blogging school… :-)

I don’t agree with the way the Beginner’s guide PDF progressed through. I feel the bias towards professional and money-minting blogging very strongly towards the end of the presentation. I am not agreeable with that, because the title doesn’t mention its for only the pro blogger type audience.

The one most valuable thing that I have read about and agree with is the heat map (F shaped).

But according to me, beginner’s guide for personal blogging and professional blogging certainly have to be different and mentioned so.

You’d never say “don’t write when angry” or “show it to your mom” for general blogging. I for one like them for the lack of ad clutter but they can surely get some help with encouragement for writing and some guidance for structured writing. writing out when angry should be encouraged because
1. it helps lighten the load.
2. almost all blogs have private post feature. in a way it certainly helps blogger relate to his blog and maintain it better in time.

What kind of yardstick is “show it to your mom” like what age should she be (mentally)?

I hope the points are considered in the right context.

@Diabolic Preacher

Dear I think I totally disagree wid wat u have commented the pdf is ofcourse not for beginners but no where in the pdf it is written that it is for beginners the title of the pdf is
if u have got the time to see my dear is “Build a successful Blog”…& about writing a blog when ur angry I just wanna say go ahead write a blog when you r angry but write it only for urself..coz ur not going to find an audience who is going to waist their imp time to read ur crap out lol…this is wat Amit wanted to say…

Hi Amit,

Congratulations on the event. I love your blog a lot and learn handful in reading it.

Would love if you can organize another conference, somewhere on the southern part of India (I would love Bangalore!!)

~Ashwin

@shashank (something tells me amit actually logs in with names like these and insults his commentors, coz he can’t take criticism)
if the pdf is not ofcourse for beginners then why is it mentioned in big letters “Blogging for Beginners” ?

and i clearly mention that when you’re angry there is private post feature

@amit: its really a bad experience commenting on your blog and getting such moronic feedback. its like DI is the Digital Insult blog.

@Diabolic Preacher

This is my last comment over here & this is to inform u that it is not Amit who is taking a different name to insult u it is actually me…& I apologize from the bottom of my heart if u have felt insulted for wat I wrote im my previous comment …I was just trying to keep my point of view that’s all…



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