{"id":3556,"date":"2015-02-09T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2015-12-05T19:39:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T14:09:23","slug":"bloggerati-kiruba-shankar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/2015\/02\/bloggerati-kiruba-shankar\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggerati of the fortnight: Kiruba Shankar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Bloggerati-Image-Kiruba-Shankar.jpg\" rel=\"lightview\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Bloggerati Image - Kiruba Shankar\" src=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Bloggerati-Image-Kiruba-Shankar_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Bloggerati Image - Kiruba Shankar\" width=\"241\" height=\"209\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Current Position and Organization:<\/b> <b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"#\">Business Blogging Pvt Ltd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/3513890?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos\">F5ive Technologies<\/a>, <a href=\"#\">Verdure Books<\/a><b><br \/>\nEducational Background:<\/b> <b><br \/>\n<\/b>Bangalore University<br \/>\n<b>Blog Name:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/\">kiruba.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kiruba Shankar is an entrepreneur, social media consultant, speaker, author, teacher, podcaster and a farmer. He is the CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/businessblogging.org\/\">BusinessBlogging<\/a>, a social media consultant firm, based out of Chennai, India. He is one of Asia\u2019s foremost experts in Digital strategies, bringing in 16 years of work experience in the online space. He is a serial entrepreneur having started new ventures in diverse fields. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/\">Kiruba.com<\/a> accumulates his works and blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his entrepreneurship role, he was Associate Director of Sulekha.com and a senior manager at Sify.<\/p>\n<p>He is a passionate agriculturist and farms at Vaksana, his 7 Acre farm. Being passionate about books, he started a publishing company called Verdure Books.<\/p>\n<p>He has authored 4 books and is working on the next. He runs various projects like <a href=\"http:\/\/kiruba.tv\/\">Kiruba TV<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kiruba.fm\/\">Kiruba FM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cerebrate.in\/\">Cerebrate<\/a>, Sponge etc. He is passionate about <a href=\"http:\/\/kiruba.com\/comics\">comics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kiruba.com\/antiques\">antiques<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kiruba.com\/records\">vinyl records<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/businesscards\/\">business cards<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kiruba.com\/running\">running<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kiruba.com\/cycling\">cycling<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kiruba.com\/rowing\">rowing<\/a>, traveling and blogging.<\/p>\n<p>He has been a technology columnist at The New Indian Express, Business Standard and Financial Express. Kiruba is passionate about teaching.\u00a0 He is the Ambassador for TEDx program for India and has helped organize TEDxChennai. He is the curator of Cerebrate.in, an international event for achievers. A professional podcaster, he hosts Kiruba.TV where he interviews global achievers. BusinessWorld magazine once ranked his blog Kiruba.com as one of India\u2019s top blogs.<\/p>\n<p><i>The latest and upcoming new trends, topics that he shares through his blogs and articles everytime for his readers &amp; the industry across, entitles him to be our<\/i> <b><i>Bloggerati of the fortnight.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/category\/blog-content\/\"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a> <b>to read more about our<\/b> <em>Bloggerati<\/em> <b>series.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Bloggerati Image - Kiruba Shankar\" src=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Bloggerati-Image-Kiruba-Shankar_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Bloggerati Image - Kiruba Shankar\" width=\"241\" height=\"209\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Current Position and Organization:<br \/>\nBusiness Blogging Pvt Ltd, F5ive Technologies, Verdure Books<br \/>\nEducational Background:<br \/>\nBangalore University<br \/>\nBlog Name: kiruba.com<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nKiruba Shankar is an entrepreneur, social media consultant, speaker, author, teacher, podcaster and a farmer. He is the CEO of BusinessBlogging, a social media consultant firm, based out of Chennai, India. He is one of Asia\u2019s foremost experts in Digital strategies, bringing in 16 years of work experience in the online &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/?post_type=post&#038;p=3556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[797],"tags":[800,755],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botf","tag-bloggerati-of-the-fortnight","tag-top-influential-bloggers-in-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":22734,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}