BLOGSPHERE & ITS ACHIEVERS

Today, blogging become a passion for writers, techies, editors, students etc. Here in his/her blog one can explain his/her love, passion even anxiety against anyone. Its your personal web page and you have full right to write whatever you want to write.

Today, DYUTITA crossed the initial target of 1200+ visits in just one month of time. The most astonishing aspect is about its visitors. Today morning, when we were analyzing the whole report of our blog visitors, we found out an amazing fact that our visitors are from 12 different Indian states and international visitors from 27 different countries & highest from US...

Lets look at the statistics of our blog:

On (19^th September, 2007)

source: google analytics

THANKS TO ALL OUR VISITORS

WORLD BLOGSPHERE:

There are number of bloggers who do blogging but if you ask him that that who is world most famous blogger, he will get stuck----“ Unfortunately I was that person who don’t know about such important facts”. It’s a bad impression because if you are doing some very passionately then you should know about its evolution, achievers etc. To avoid such setback for you & me once again I am giving you a glimpse of veterans of BLOGSPHERE.

Start from bottom:

No. 10: Mr. Brain Lam – (Technology blog)- popular gadget blog Gizmodo- . 40-50 posts daily.

N0.09: Mrs. Gina Tarapani- (technology blog)- Gina’s blog

No. 08: Ariana Huffington- (political blog)-The Huffington Post

No. 07: Mark Frauenfelder- (writer’s blog) Boing Boing

No.06: Pete Rojas- (gadget blog) - Engadget

No.05: Joi Ito- (techie blog)- just look at the profile of such personality…Joi’s blog

No.04:Jason Calacanis- (popular personality of Internet)-direct publicly attacking on founder of dig.com Mr. Kevin Rose. Jason's personal blog..

No. 03: David Sifry- (Founder of technorati.com)-Icon of blogging world- David’s blog

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Waiting for NEXT !!!

No.2: Kevin Rose (founder of dig.com)- Kevin’s blog

Now WORLD’s most famous blogger, god father of blogging……….

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NICK DENTON- Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media, perhaps the most successful blog network. It includes 14 high-traffic blogs, the largest of them being gadget blog Gizmodo, productivity blog Lifehacker, gaming blog Kotaku and porn blog Fleshbot. He was previously a journalist with the Financial Times.

Denton owns 8 blogs in the Technorati Top 100 list, and has created the most powerful blog empire. His estimated wealth is about $280 million according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2007. While he has downplayed the viability of a blog as a business, many believe that that’s just his way of discouraging competition. With very low costs (including modest wages for staff writers), Denton’s blogging income is guessed to be pretty high. And in total, his blogs have the most links pointing at them.

Nick’s blog

Don’t be disheartened that all are foreigners, we Indians are very good in finding bypass to achieve success. Lets look at few Indian Bloggers

Trak in – blog on current business movements, if you missed to know about something. You can get full stuff.

Digital Inspiration-1.2 million hits per month, most visited in blog in India. It was started by Mr. Anil Agarwal in year 2004.

Now India’s top blogger in World TOP 50 BLOGGER LIST

Neil Patel- Ranked 50 among world top 50 bloggers- Patel has successfully branded himself as one of the top experts on SEO and Internet marketing, including linkbaiting and social media such as Digg or Netscape. This is not only because he finds ways to exploit loopholes in the system to get on the Digg homepage or a high ranking on Google, but because he’s willing to talk about it and share his secrets with others. In addition, he’s done some high-profile publicity, such as publicly challenging Weblogs Inc. owner Jason Calacanis when Calacanis implied that SEO techniques don’t really work — and the high-profile publicity has made Patel one of the top names in the industry.

Neil's QuickSprout , Pronet Advertising

Om Malik- ranked 35 among world top 50 bloggers- Malik is a former senior writer for Forbes magazine, one of the original team for Forbes.com, and a former senior writer Business 2.0 magazine. In 2001, he started technology blog GigaOM, which is now in the Top 40 in Technorati. He’s still the editor and chief writer for GigaOM, but he has expanded to form GigaOmniMedia Inc..

Om’s personal blog

It’s a snapshot of world & Indian best bloggers, today when we talked about our blog there was very common reaction from public that blogging is outdated but I believe If you have creativity, enthusiasm and ability to change with changing market scenario nothing can be outdated…

Blogging is like a business if you have marketing myopia then business will be no more but If you have vision, proper strategy and above traits then success will be your next target..

Keep visiting & keep blogging friends.................

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CORPORATE BLOGGING - A TRUTH

In last article we have seen what is corporate blogging & how its spreading among companies.

According to Technorati report, in one year corporate blogging increased by 330% which itself shows a huge upthrust is there in it.

Today, in every company almost 20% of its marketing budget spend on new ways of promotion like blogs etc. With the increasing demand of blogs as Public Relation, there are number of ways adopted by companies to promote its unique image, products, queries & suggestions etc.

According to Marketing Profs analyst David Felfoldi, there are seven types of blogs prevails in corporate blogging, each one has its own importance.

1. Corporate Newsroom
2. Product blog
3. Developer/channel partner Blog
4. Event/promotional blog
5. CEO/ thought- leader blog (Jason Calacanis of Sequoia Capital)
6. Company evangelist (Matt Cutts, a well-known blogger who works at Google)
7. Internal blogs

Answer of last post are:

Code of conduct: Actually its not well defined some of blog experts said that it should be formal but what I thought that if you are initiating something for PR & sifting traffic from your web portal to your blog then code of conduct should be informal and interactive because if the user who posted comments will not be satisfied, he will not come back & share anything with you.

Handling of blogs: As above mentioned there are six major type of corporate blogs and each blog is handle by one senior manager of the deptt.

• Product blog- it will be handled by product development deptt.

• Company evangelist: these blogs are handled by senior level mangers who have lot of experience in particular field because the visitors on this blogs are also well known experts in particular field, so expect quality answer of their queries.

• CEO blog: these blogs are directly taken care by CEOs himself.There is a list of few international & national CEOs.

International CEOs

Indian CEOs

Rajesh Jain, CEO of Netcore

Dr. Vivekanand P Kochikar Associate Vice President and Principal Consultant - KM, Infosys Technologies Ltd.

George Eby Mathew Principal & Head of IT management Research, at Infosys

Dina Mehta, Explore Research & Consultancy

Most amazing fact I have seen few days back was that government departments of various countries also have their blogs.

Indonesia: Juwono Sudarsono, Minister of Defense

Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President

United Kingdom: David Miliband, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Andrew Wadge, Chief Scientist, Food Standards Agency

United States: Department of Defense

On a same day, I was shocked by seeing India blog & India blogs which contains the database of best Indian blogs with various categories i.e. CEO’s blog, marketing blogs, personal blogs etc. First one has database of few thousand of Indian blogs which shows that there is huge growth & interest is rising among Indians also.

But on the other side if we see Indian comscore report which shows that Internet penetration in India is meagre 3% , around 2.2 crore people out of 1,129,866,154 population (till July 2007).

Benefits of corporate blogging:

• Quickly giving consumers company updates,
• Allowing for open feedback with consumers, and
• Inclusion in search engine indexes, and thus possible increased traffic.
• Online newsletter with community feedback e.g. ICFAI stockyard (it has no blog but have its forum), Google press centre.
• Information sharing

Have you ever thought about the evils of blogging? hopefully sometimes or might be no. Its very true that every coin has two faces: one is there in my first post, in this post and other face will be in next one. Till then just think about it & evils will be there in my new article......

“Blogging an incurable disease”

M.P.Singh

ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL

HYDERABAD