Chandigarh Blogger Meet : A promising Start to something big

Hi!! Myself Gaurav Sharma ,Organizer, Chandigarh Blogger Meet'08. A meet that was aimed at bringing together bloggers of Haryana-Punjab-Himachal to beautiful city Chandigarh for the first time.Already seen and attended various conferences, meets , workshops etc on Blogging,Social Media and Web2.0 Technologies in Bangalore , Hyderabad and Gurgaon..I decided to organise something similar for bloggers of 'my region' [bit of regionalism:P] . And to launch the mission , i firstly thought of making a website for the event and later contacted Indiblogger . So they helped me in spreading the word for blogger meet. Even after using Orkut,Blogs and word of mouth...i couldn't get the required response.I was about to cancel the event but thankfully Shanker Bakshi [Truely God sent!!] saved the meet by giving a helping hand and arranging meeting venue. Mr. Rajesh ,though not a blogger but i really appreciate his views and help he put forward during the meet.So on 6th of July,2008 we finally gathered at Hotel KC Residency [KC Residency is located at Sec 35 - B at 6 kms from Chandigarh Airport and 7 kms from Railway Station, Hotel KC is located in the heart of Chandigarh.]
It was raining hard in chandigarh but still quoting from Jasdeep's Blog

"The rain was pouring outside and the bloggers started to pour in too”

Bloggers started coming in and there where 12 people in the meeting room ,couple of waiters serving snacks and coffee and later A reporter from Hindustan joined in to cover the event.

Here is the attendance list :

• Gaurav
• Shanker Bakshi
• Mohit Aneja
• Reet Aneja
  
• Rakesh
• Abhinav Sood
• Preeti
• Jasdeep
• Sukhbeer Kaur
• Saurabh dutta
  
• Sameer Relan
• Abhishek
  

The founder members i.e. Above Listed bloggers discussed on various issues related to blogging,internet media ,Social Responsibilities of Bloggers ,Exchanged Business ideas and shared tips which they have learn during their time span in blogging.The team has decided and pledged to take this community to greater heights in coming future and the work has already started.
ChandigarhBloggers.com will be up and functional in coming days and A group on BlogCatalog namely Chandigarh Bloggers is really active in the direction of bringing Chandigarh Bloggers community to same stage or level as that of Bangalore Bar Camps or DelhiBloggersBloc enjoying right now. I am always in for this mission. The meet got press coverage from hindustan times .
Best wishes for the community.Would love to see this community grow:))
So I am leaving you with some snaps from the meet.Hope to cya in the next meet.









Other Blogs that have covered the event:

• What Preeti Says
• What Jasdeep says
• What Shanker Bakshi Says [Really nice]