The fifth edition of the Delhi Bloggers Meet, which is scheduled to take place on December 11, is one such platform where the city’s blogging community can get together to discuss the latest in the blogosphere. This year, the meet promises to be the biggest that the Capital has ever hosted.
The organiser of the event, IndiBlogger, which has so far done 45 blogger meets across India, is expecting more than 200 bloggers who write on technology, society, lifestyle, business, politics, sports, science and more.
The event will see a range of activities such as 30 seconds of fame, where the bloggers get to introduce themselves and share interesting things, engagement activities, games, debates, a networking session called Live and Let Comment, and forum discussions on various topics.
Date:- December 11
Time:- 1.30pm - 6pm
Venue:- The Park, 15, Parliament Street
NEAREST METRO STATION: Patel Chowk on the Yellow Line
Top 5 most influential blogs in Delhi
- www.purushu.com
- www.peachesandblush.com
- www.tikulicious.wordpress.com
- www.gkhamba.com
- www.youthkiawaaz.com
Total number of bloggers in Delhi: Over 3,000
Male: 64 %
Female: 36%
Highly Influential: 18 %
Know the Delhi blogosphere
Maximum blogs on: Personal nature (23%)
What is unique to Delhi is that 18% of these bloggers also fall in the highly influential category, which is quite high when
compared to bloggers from other regions in India
Blogathon
A one of its kind initiative, a blogathon kicked off in the city last month. Called Men Say No, the blogathon, by mustbol.in, a youth forum, is about activism against gender violence. The interested people have to blog about gender discrimination and then link their blog to a central blog, which will be created by mustbol.in. The 16 day long blogathon concludes on December 10.
