Bloggerati of the Fortnight

Current Position and Organization:
CEO at WebSeasoning
Educational Background:
MAIET, Jaipur
Blog Name:  savedelete.com

Jaspal Singh is a mechanical engineer by profession and skilled in coding & designing too. He is the CEO at WebSeasoning which deals in web designing, development, web hosting and domain registrations.

He specializes in Web development, designing and is a WordPress expert. His interest in computers and internet motivated him to start his blog savedelete.com in 2009.

Savedelete is a technology blog with topics ranging from tech news, internet tips, social media, design & branding. Jaspal, through his blog loves to share things which he likes and thinks that can help the readers of his blog. It also got the Google page rank of 4 in the span of two years only since its commencement.

Jaspal also has a couple of more network sites of savedelete.com like: webdesignish.com, oddstuffmagazine.com, technologytosoftware.com, sharethewarez.com, bestlistoflists.com to name them. Jaspal Singh writes on blogging tips, WordPress themes & plugins, SEO and Google and ‘How to’ tips and tricks.

Jaspal Singh is in love with blogging and is mostly found with his laptop even when he is sleeping he keeps it close enough not to miss a glimpse of anything important. Jaspal has interests in reading novels, playing guitar/violin, body building, blogging and internet surfing. He likes interacting with new people whenever he has time. Basically, he is a self-learner with some pretty basic knowledge like any other guy. He has achieved a lot in a very short span of starting his blog.

The topics like designing & coding tips, blogging tips, tips on using Internet to the fullest and blogs on latest software that he writes about in his blog every time for his readers and professionals across, entitles him to be our Bloggerati of the Fortnight.

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Bloggerati of the Fortnight

Current Position and Organization:
CLINICOM, Freelance Writer, Business Blogger
Educational Background:
Quintiles
Blog Name: vidyasury.com

Vidya Sury is a freelance writer and a professional blogger. She is completely in love with coffee, music, books, gadgets, Internet, social networking to name a few. Vidya enjoys blogging, writing and photography.

Result oriented and self-motivated, Vidya’s experiences include work in various industries like office automation, advertising, industrial components, export/import, transport/logistics, sales and marketing, in addition to writing material for training programs.

Vidya writes ebooks and articles for the web, press releases and blogs. She is also the member an independent ethics committee, CLINICOM, which evaluates protocols for clinical trials.
Her blog vidyasury.com talks about life, fun, humor, love, trials, errors, relationships, health, tips, resources, technology, experiences, stories, inspiration, life lessons, self development and photography; as she strongly believes that variety is the spice of life. Vidya Sury takes an effort to make everyone believe that ‘we are as young as we’re ever gonna be, these may be the best days of our lives‘.

She started blogging in July 2003 and was fascinated to write anytime & everytime she was in mood. She enjoys writing about everything in life. She is indeed an amazingly inspirational blogger. Very much inspired by routine, Vidya considers herself to be lucky to have one. She loves reading and has an eclectic taste in books and has even subscribed to a lot of blogs as a part of her interests.

Vidya begins her day with meditation & prayer as it’s a great way to relieve stress she feels. Though writing is her full time job; she loves being a full-time mom to her son. She proudly enjoys the perks of being her own boss as her time is flexible and can manage it better.

Poems written by Vidya in her blog are amazing. To her, poetry is a rhyme with reason. She also runs a medical blog where she writes on medical awareness. She has also written guest articles on many health related issues.

Vidya Sury has always been passionate about writing about health-related issues. Her inspiration for ‘Your Medical Guide’ was basically from the experiences she has had with doctors, hospitals and her Mom’s medical conditions. Blogging is a joy for her; and she feels that sharing the blog on social media platforms, visiting other blogs, commenting and guest posting are some of the great ways to promote a blog. Vidya regularly shares or tweets on Facebook and Google+ if she comes across something interesting. She believes that interaction is what blogging is all about as it inspires the blogger and the reader. Therefore, Vidya also loves the discussions that come up and responds to all the comments she receives. And most of the readers mail her or call her to connect to her. They even send her post ideas.

The most gratifying aspects of blogging for Vidya are the connections, the relationships, and the friends she makes. She loves how the world becomes a smaller place as geographical boundaries fade. She feels great to read other blogs and appreciates them. Indian blogs are fabulous according to her.

For beginners the piece of advice she gives is, one should write the blog, have fun whether long or short, one should consistently write and enjoy the process.

One should be very passionate about their blog and interact with other bloggers & be generous about sharing. According to Vidya Sury, blogging is the future. She feels that in this social world where primary interaction is through social media; even top businesses garner the benefits of blogging as they realize that it is all about keeping their audience engaged. Also, blogger outreach programs are a very effective method to create awareness about businesses and their products. People also trust the opinions of their peers and so, blogging is surely the future.

Vidya Sury always walks with a belief that one should always free their mind, laugh a lot and never underestimate the power of their mind to shape their destiny.

The inspirational topics in life that she blogs about, the thoughts and knowledge she comes up with every time for her readers and professionals across, entitles her to be our Bloggerati of the Fortnight.

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Bloggerati of the Fortnight

Current Position and Organization:
CEO and founder of BloggersPassion.com
Educational Background:
Masters in Computers
Blog Name:  BloggersPassion.com

Anil Agarwal is a professional blogger from New Delhi, India and the CEO & founder of BloggersPassion.com. On his blog, he writes about tips related to Blogging, SEO, Affiliate Marketing and Social Media. BloggersPassion commenced on Jan 01, 2010 on the world’s most awesome blogging platform- WordPress. This blog was started to share blogging tips and for helping one become a successful full time blogger.

Blogging is his full time hobby, passion, career and a way to earn money from his blogging skills. He got motivated to start his own blog after he saw success of some of the leading blogs in blogging and make money online niche like Problogger, ShoeMoney and JohnChow. Anil developed a great knowledge about the topics related to blogging, SEO, affiliate marketing, making money online, social media networks including Twitter and Facebook, WordPress etc over the period of time.

He is also good at making search engine friendly websites and blogs and loves to help people with their blogging and SEO related issues. Anil also has an SEO consulting website at www.seobricks.com.

He is a great learner too and is blogging for years now.

He plainly believes that these days in blogging; good and effective writing will contribute to 50%, SEO will be 30% and the rest would be social networking. In order to be a successful blogger one has to write posts which go viral amongst their target audience.

Anil is a promising blogger and a much focused individual. His blog also offers the potential bloggers; tips on how they can make their blogs search engine friendly. He shares information about WordPress plugins and themes etc for helping them turn their ordinary blogs into professional blogs. Anil also shares success and failures of some of the top bloggers in the industry to offer a level of motivation to his blog readers.

Anil believes that “Blogging is an art and the more you do it, the more you perfect you become.”

The blogging tips, strategies and the knowledge that he comes up with everytime for his readers and professionals across, entitles him to be our Blogger of the Fortnight.

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Bloggerati of the Fortnight

Current Position and Organization:
Tata Consultancy Services
Owner of 9lessons
Educational Background:
Dr M.G.R University
Blog Name: 9lessons

Srinivas Tamada is an Entrepreneur, engineer, blogger, thinker and founder of 9lessons programming blog which is a very popular web development site. This blog covered topics on programming, database, Ajax, PHP, Web Design, apps, CSS etc.

Srinivas lives, eats and drinks web, basically he loves the web. The programmer and developer side of him evolved as a result of his curiosity in the same. He learnt web programming and developing with great interest and still feels he is not a great programmer but a great implementer.

He started his passion for blogging with Google Blogger in August 2008 which was later followed by his first success that was creating a customized blogger template. In order to make people fall in love with his ideas and explain the complicated things in a simple way, Srinivas came up with his blog 9lessons.

Srinivas believes that an organic search or traffic helps one reach real people and one should follow SEO (search engine optimization) rules for greater results. Social media or networking sites are basically for generating viral traffic. Blogging is and always be a strong element providing everyone with lots of internet identity and knowledge.

Blogging changes his life and career completely. He always inspires people to blog of anything they know about perfectly and in a unique way.

The blogging tips, strategies and the knowledge that he comes up with every time for his readers and professionals across, entitles him to be our Bloggerati of the Fortnight.

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Bloggerati of the Fortnight

Current Position and Organization:
Digital Marketing Evangelist, Google
Co-Founder, Market Motive Inc.
Educational Background:
The Ohio State University
Blog Name: Occam’s Razor

Avinash Kaushik is an entrepreneur, public speaker, author, digital marketing evangelist and a Blogger. He has done great works & simplified the complexity in the field of data analytics. He is the Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google and the Co-Founder and Chief Education Officer for Market Motive.

Author of two best-selling marketing books, Web Analytics 2.0, Web Analytics: An Hour A Day he is also termed as a true marketing guru who has inspired masses with his powerful speech & scientific approach of marketing analysis. He loves asking questions with an interest to learn new things.

Avinash started his blog Occam’s Razor on 14th May, 2006 as a Director of Research & Analytics at Intuit, Web Analytics Practitioner. With an aim to provide something relevant, incredible and of value to people, his posts reflected his interests in marketing, people, politics & design.

Occam’s Razor connects to him very deeply. He believes that everybody lives in an increasingly complex world trying to complicate things a way too much in trying to understand events, activities & happenings or maybe in this case web data. Occam’s Razor is always at the back of his mind because it reminds him that often one needs to simplify one’s thinking. The simpler the explanation the more likely it is better than a complex one. He recommends all those in the decision-making field that in order to truly understand complex sets of data one should apply the Occam’s Razor “smell test”.

Through his blog, Occam’s Razor, Avinash is now popularly known as the voice on how marketers, executive teams and industry leaders can leverage data to fundamentally reinvent their digital existence.

He admits that life is too small not to look out for exceptional things. According to him, the world is changing every minute and so his quest to search for ‘awesomeness is the reflection of the amount of reading he does on variety of topics.

Avinash hopes that through his blog he shares back with the world to the extent that he could the core area of expertise. He based his blogging on ‘think book not diary’ principle. One will always find his blog posts delivering new content, offering answers to a lot of questions and excellent analytic narratives.

He has categorized the blog into a few sections, namely, Digital Marketing, Digital Analytics, Practical Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Competitive Intelligence Analysis, Excellent Analytics Tips Series, Web Metrics and Standard Metrics Revisited Series. The Grab bag section includes Life lessons, observations, advice, and a lot more.

In the blog he has tried to put a framework of common sense around the world of web analytics combining that with the philosophy that investing in talented analysts is the key to long-term success. He passionately advocates customer centricity & leveraging competitive intelligence techniques.

Avinash, has also received numerous reviews for bringing his inspiring & practical insights to companies like Unilever, Porsche, IBM, Dell and many more. He has given keynotes on Search Engine Strategies, Monaco Media Forum, Ad-Tech, JMP Innovators’ Summit and The Art of Marketing and web 2.0.

Acting has always been his passion. He has lectured at major universities like Stanford University, University of Virginia, University of California – Los Angeles and University of Utah. Avinash also received the 2009 Statistical Advocate of the Year award from the American Statistical Association, and the 2011 Most Influential Industry Contributor award from the Web Analytics Association. His passion, dedication and competitive intelligence techniques entitles him to be the Blogger of the Fortnight.

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Bloggerati of the Fortnight

Current Position and Organization:
Founder and CTO of HubSpot & Blogger at OnStartups.com
Educational Background:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Blog Name:
Onstartups.com

Dharmesh Shah, an Entrepreneur and Blogger has wide interest in startups, more specifically, software startups. Dharmesh is basically a software entrepreneur and the co-founder and CTO of HubSpot, a software company that is into building a revolutionary software platform for Internet Marketing. Hubspot is essentially his third software startup.

Dharmesh, as a professional used to write codes and later started his own software company. This company also earned him awards, helped him attract smart people and also brought him millions of sales. Followed by this he also started a few more companies.

He discovered that like him there were other people also who were fascinated by startups, their stories & what made them succeed. This thought motivated him to start his blog which included everything for and about the software startups. Being a technology person from within Dharmesh has built & shipped commercial software products across his various startups. He still writes codes as he believes that it helps him stay in touch with reality, making him a better entrepreneur.

He is also an active member of the entrepreneurial community of Boston and has made several investments there. He is also the co-author of “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs” published by Wiley. The book was a runaway hit and has been translated to 8 languages.

Dharmesh’s blog OnStartups.com is a popular startup blog with over 290,000 members in its online community. He also invested in over 30 startups and is a frequent speaker on topics like inbound marketing and startups. He, through his blog and musings on Twitter has inspired and encouraged masses in their entrepreneurial journey motivating them to evolve with amazing strategies for their businesses.

His genius helps one understand and define why their market and business is different and also how innovation and skilled strategies are also important for brands and businesses to achieve their goals.

People love his presentation skills too. He is known to be one of the most memorable presenters, unique and creative.

Entrepreneurs across the nation swear by the value he brings to them through his blog. Dharmesh is extremely active on the startup ecosystem and feels motivated to invest his ideas, skills and energy in fresh and intelligent entrepreneurs. He clearly states in the blog his belief on young entrepreneurs that: Think about them, help them through ideas and watch them work hard and succeed.”

He is always on the verge of learning something new and therefore he is constantly reading something different or experimenting with new programming languages and coding up on his next projects.

The teachings about markets, points of view of new people in the market, various team dynamics and stories of how startups have built their business with excellent strategies that Dharmesh gives through his blog attracts a wide range of readers, professionals and entrepreneurs to his blog.

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Bloggerati of the Fortnight

Current Position and Organization:
Founder of ShoutMeLoud
Educational Background:
Software Engineer
Blog Name:
ShoutMeLoud

Harsh Agrawal is a young Entrepreneur and a professional Blogger from New Delhi. A proud owner of ShoutMeLoud, he is very passionate about computing & internet and mostly writes about blogging, Social Media, WordPress, SEO, technology and making money online. Harsh initiated the blogging journey in 2008 with BlogSpot platform.

He is a fun loving person and lives life to the fullest. He also loves travelling and lives an optimistic life. His other areas of interest are Computers, Linux, Networking and WordPress. He also offers a gamut of services like WordPress set up, WordPress SEO, blogspot to wordpress migration, and Personal blog & SEO coaching apart from blogging.

He basically writes what he enjoys writing and does it greatly. And when it comes to talking he likes to talk about things related to marketing, solopreneurship and art of living.

At ShoutMeLoud, Harsh shares tips about blogging and how to earn passive income online. Blogging is his passion and he lives by it. Shoutmeloud is a community blog where bloggers take part and contribute via Guest posts too.

His blog ShoutMeLoud also has other blogs and portals in its network too, like:

CallingAllGeeks which is a multi author dedicated blog for technology, gadgets, Apple and OS.
WordPress Hosting Discount is a blog dedicated to monthly web hosting discount coupon, Webhosting review, WordPress hosting tips and tutorials. ShoutMeTech is targeted to Web2.0 apps and tools.

Just like Rome was not built in a day, Harsh too believes that his blogging dream will go a long way if he consistently works towards it.

The blogging journey that Harsh has travelled & the inquisitiveness with which he is adding a new horizon to the complete blogging experience with ShoutMeLoud entitles him to be our Blogger of the Fortnight.

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