CURTAIN RAISER: Blog Now Live Forever BNLF

An international conference on Blogging, conceptualized and hosted by IndiBlogger on 31st Oct - 1st Nov, Mumbai

Influential bloggers from the global online community are gathering this weekend at The Lalit Hotel, Mumbai to interact with the thought leaders and powerful speakers from the world’s emerging change agent- Blogging.

BLOG NOW, LIVE FOREVER

The BNLF event, as promised by the organizer’s IndiBlogger, is going to be…

- The most disruptive conference on blogging

- The only congregation of global speakers on blogging hosted in the Indian subcontinent

- Unique combination of Bloggers, Content creators, Content marketers, Agencies, Speakers and Investors in blogging among the attendees

- An event with in-depth techniques and insights from some of the most experienced in the industry

- A place where you will be finding the ways to help you build a rewarding career in blogging

...the place where every note is a keynote

Thanks to Anoop and Renie, I have had the pleasure to interact with some of the Key Note Speaker’s to understand what makes them click…

HIGHLIGHTS

 

Christoph Trappe

IMA Marketer of the Year - 2015, is a career storyteller who has worked as a journalist, a nonprofit executive, and a content marketing strategist and consultant. The Content Marketing Institute acknowledged him as a 2014 and 2015 Top 100 Most Influential Content Marketer.

Everyone is an influencer to somebody. You, too.

By the way, chasing trending stories is quite OK, as long as we have something of value to add. Being unique counts.

- Christoph Trappe: To read more, click here…

Jeff Bullas

A speaker, consultant and an internationally recognized marketing blogger who is Ranked #8 on Forbes” The World’s Top 40 Social Marketing Talent” – 2014

I would encourage any blogger to think big, be global and be true to your purpose.

Creating an online digital brand means that your voice will be heard even when we no longer breathe. So the web will indeed create a form of immortality or legacy for bloggers.

- Jeff Bullas: To read more, click here…

Arnab Ray

Blogging for more than a decade, writing three best selling books, a PhD in computer science and to top it all, a Bengali living in USA - The perfect recipe for making “Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind” the most widely read blog of the Great Bong.

I think we are. It's not perfect, and nations seldom are, but we are doing more things right than we are doing wrong (and yes we are doing a lot of things wrong).

Anything you write online stays there, it is technically immortal (unless an alien strike or a zombie apocalypse) takes the Internet down forever). Whether this immortality is always a good thing.... I am not exactly sure.

India is not perfect, and nations seldom are, but we are doing more things right than we are doing wrong

- Arnab Ray: To read more, click here…

Preeti Shenoy

A blogger, who managed become India’s most celebrated Author with her six best sellers, listed among the Forbes List of 100 most influential celebrities of India (2013) edition.

The important thing is to choose a good publisher who believes in the book as much as you do and is willing to go the extra mile for marketing.

Blog regularly. Be genuine. Be Nice. Be yourself!

There are so many people who try to copy the personality of a successful blogger/writer. That’s a big put-off.

If the book doesn’t strike a chord or the reader finds the quality poor, he/she is not going to pick up another book by you.

- Preeti Shenoy: To read more, click here…

Purba Ray

A Bengali born in Delhi, who is unable to befriend people more interested in the number of bedrooms in her apartment. She vents her angst writing damning posts on her blog and praying no one reads them. But then people do read and relate to her so much so that she has been winner of numerous awards. She has contributed articles for IBN live, NRI Section of TOI and currently blogs for Huffington post.

Indian bloggers can make a difference. At a time when news is more of subversive, divisive propaganda and news channels a constant cacophony of misplaced indignation, we can be the voice of reason… The blogging community is yet to take their role as influencers seriously.

Bloggers can be the voice of the people, we can be the platform for debate.

As long as we wait for men to treat us as equals, we will never be empowered.

Never underestimate the power of your words, the reach of your blog.

- Purba Ray: To read more, click here…

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Shashi 

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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CURTAIN RAISER BNLF III : Key Note Speaker Arnab Ray - The Great Bong

“India is not perfect, and nations seldom are, but we are doing more things right than we are doing wrong” - Arnab Ray

Arnab Ray is a keynote speaker at BNLF - The Most Disruptive Conference on Blogging, conceptualized and hosted by IndiBlogger on 31st Oct - 1st Nov, Mumbai

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What is BNLF?

The "Blog Now, Live Forever is an event, which is carefully constructed from the ground-up to give you a front seat to amazing insights into the world of blogging!

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The Great Bong: A teller of tall tales

Blogging for more than a decade, writing three best selling books, a PhD in computer science and to top it all, a Bengali living in USA - The perfect recipe for making “Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind” the most widely read blog of the Great Bong. This is the place where Arnab Ray downloads his widely read sarcastic outlook on anything and every thing that takes his fancy. And it works too as he is been awarded the best blogger of the year awards quite a few times.

His first book “MayI Hebb Your Attention Pliss”, published by Harper Collins, was on India Today's Bestsellers list. His second book, “The Mine”, has also been well received. His third book, “Yatrik” was published in September 2014. He is contributor to New York Times India Ink, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal Online, Times of India, DNA and Outlook. He is a wannabe politician, disgruntled movie fanatic, tranquil cosmic citizen on the prowl for mind-bending experiences.

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So when I, a common citizen of the blogging world, was on the prowl for mind-bending experience of writing about him, developed cold feet and took the easy way out.  Put across some questions and let him do the writing. So here you are friends and fellow bloggers, the Great Bong.

Q: What is your first love, writing for journals or books?

A: Books. Fiction as well as non-fiction. Blogs, at least in the beginning, was just a way to showcase my writing.  

Q: What do you think made your writing click?

A: There is nothing really known as clicking. It's about finding an audience. Everyone has an audience. Everyone. How big the audience is for your writing...well that's a different matter. I was just lucky enough to find my audience. That's all. Not that I wouldn't mind a bigger audience.

Q: What is your impression about India and Indian Bloggers? What advice you would like to give us, IndiBloggers.

A: Asking me for my impressions on India and Indian Bloggers is like asking me for an opinion about myself. Too close to the topic to give an impartial answer. 

Q: What do you think about the way things are going on in India. Are we on the right track?

A: I think we are. It's not perfect, and nations seldom are, but we are doing more things right than we are doing wrong (and yes we are doing a lot of things wrong) 

Q: The obvious question, Why Blog Now Live Forever (BNLF)? How does it relate to living forever?

A:  Anything you write online stays there, it is technically immortal (unless an alien strike or a zombie apocalypse) takes the Internet down forever). Whether this immortality is always a good thing....I am not exactly sure. 

Q: Tell us more about you, especially the part that people don’t really come across about you. What are your passions and what makes you really happy?

A: I think I put a lot of myself online. Too much actually. The only thing left for me to reveal are my passwords.

Q: And finally anything else that makes you, You.

A: Speaking my mind. I always speak my mind.  

So Friends get ready to hear him speak his mind as Key Note Speaker at BNLF event 31^st Oct - 1^st Nov, in Mumbai.

I am leaving you with a video from his TEDx Talk at IIT to know more about him.

Welcome Arnab to Mumbai and India. Looking forward to meeting and interacting with you.

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Shashi 

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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