We Blog, Therefore We Are

Univercell Hyderabad Indibloggers Meet.

We Blog, Therefore We Are

Those were the words I first saw, when I entered the meeting hall of the blogger’s meet. I saw a bunch of people with big smiling faces wearing black T-Shirts, warmly welcoming you for the meet. As we were registering for the meet, his/her Indiblogger profile pic, along with his/her name got listed on that big screen under ‘Arrivals‘. Tweets tagged with #indihyd were streaming over the big screen live. It all started with the video on how Hitler wanted to attend this indiblogger meet and how his blog has been rejected for the same. I am glad my blog was accepted for this event. only about 150 blogs were accepted for the event. The indiblogger team introduced themselves and then came the Hall of Fame event, where each blogger introduces himself in 30 secs. Its lot of fun to hear from different people, why they blog and what they blog about. I saw around 4 bloggers who were close to 60 years, but are very confident and passionate about blogging. And I also saw an old lady, who writes about recipes, who wants to make cooking easier for young people. It was so sweet of her husband to say that, I accompanied her because I am a good husband. There was a mix of bloggers who write about wide variety of categories, about food & recipes, Software technologies, about free lancing, about entrepreneurship, college students, poetry, nostalgic moments, non sense(yeah some ppl said that) and more. After the hall of fame session, came the activity session where all were given a big chart with a tag on it, so that we can sling it to our neck with the chart in our back and people can write comments on it!! It was fun going and meeting new people asking them to write comments, advertising your blog and taking their blog urls. But what delighted me most, was when I stood up and introduced myself and said I work for microsoft, in windows team, a couple of people wrote comments on my back saying , “Windows Made me, What I am today. Thanks to you guys.” , “Win 7 Ultimate rocks”. They made my day. Its not we, Its you guys who are rockstars. Then came the quizzing session, where riyaz came up with some interesting questions. I knew the answers only to few questions.Then the interesting part of the agenda came up, which is high tea with some yummy snacks. On the Menu were, Dahi wada, Burgers and gulab jamoons which were delicious. I shamelessly had tea followed by coffee in quick succession. The meeting concluded with a group photo and distribution of T-Shirts. I met Deepa, while I am almost ready to leave the session. She has got some real taste and a wonderful poetess too. Check out some of her poems here. We exchanged our numbers, promised to stay in touch and there comes the end. It was an enriching experience meeting new bloggers all over from Hyderabad. I got some new friends as well. All kudos to Indiblogger team. It was Brilliantly Organized and superbly executed. I would love to attend it again next time, If I am still in Hyderabad. If I missed anything, You could find the overall summation at Garima’s blog here