India’s First WordCamp at Delhi

Delhi Bloggers Bloc, on the occasion of their Fifth Anniversay are organising India’s first WordCamp alongwith Blog Design Studio. It is a  two-day conference which brings together stakeholders and audiences of social media and blogging, centered around WordPress. Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress is joining us. So is Om Malik of GigaOm, a very popular blogger residing in the US.

There are a lot of interesting sessions lined up already. These sessions are targeted at Experts/executives from social media related platforms or blog platforms, Journalists who know how blogs have become an alternative to mainstream media, Professionals who have used social media to connect and build communities, Marketers (clients or agencies) who are using social media/blog strategies, Techies/application developers in these fields, Entrepreneurs who have ideas around social media and blogging platforms, bloggers (corporate, professional and otherwise), blogreaders who want to know a bit more, PR professionals looking to develop/enhance their blogger relationship programs, Marketers who want to look at case studies on how others are using the same. It is presumed that you are a WordPress user. The sessions already lined up are:

• Keynote :  Om Malik of GigaOm – one of the top 100 influential bloggers by CNET 🙂
• Talk : State of the word : Matt Mullenweg
• How to get started after installing WordPress : Abhijeet Mukherjee, Jeetblog
• Using WP to implement a radio site – Shreyas, from RadioVerve
• Optimising ads on your WP blog : Amit Agarwal, Digital Inspiration
• Implementing SEO in your WP blog : Mani Karthik
• Intellectual property rights/copyrights : Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme court of India
• WordPress as CMS for business sites : Ravish Ahuja, justskins.com
• WordPress, a lifestyle – Praval Singh
• WordPress.TV – by Matt Mullenweg
• Best Feature suggestion for WordPress – Matt Mullenweg, with moderator
• Panel discussion – the amended India IT act 2000 – Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme court of India
• Writing WordPress plugins – Speaker required
• WordPress Quiz
• Adobe’s new AIR apps – Adobe representative
• Blogging vs Journalism – Panel debate

You can visit their official website at http://india.wordcamp.org/

Here are the details of the event.

Date : 21st, 22nd Feb’09 (Saturday, Sunday)

Time: 9:00am – 6:00pm

Venue : I-1A, Sector 25A
Noida, U.P. 201301
India
Tel: +91 120 244 4711

Lunch/tea/coffee/snacks would be provided by our prime sponsor – Adobe.

Registration Fees (early bird, valid till 18th of Feb): Individual day ticket : INR 250, Full event ticket : INR 400.
Registration Fees (walk-in regn at venue) : Individual day ticket : INR 300, Full event ticket : INR 500.

Map:
http://is.gd/j1h5

For Further info on this event you can also contact the following persons.

Twilight Fairy (Priyanka) at 9811511719
Mayank Gupta at 9910786431
Sanjay Srivastava at 9873707071

We are proud to be the online partners for this event and are sure this event would be fun and useful for all bloggers and developers alike. Go ahead and register for the event at http://wci.eventbrite.com/