Blogging-an easy way to get connected to people

By Sanjeev Shekhar
Ranchi-

Hindi blogs have fewer visitors in the website and there is a need to make the blogs more popular, strongly felt the section of bloggers who conglomerated here on the occasion of first Bloggers Meet organized under the aegis of Kashyap Eye Memorial Hospital (KEMH) at Purulia road on Sunday.

I too was a part of the conference and enjoyed the interactive session of the bloggers. The meet, as I believe, was a sincere endeavour to encourage bloggers as well as provide information to new bloggers regarding the technical issues attached to blogging. Such conference would pave way for many to get into writing.

While inaugurating the event, the senior journalist & Editor of Ranchi Express Balbir Dutt stated that blogs have now become the extension of writing diaries wherein the individuals present their thoughts without fear. The CEO of the KEMH Dr. Bharti Kashyap was the chief guest on the occasion who emphasized that blogging is a strong means of communication to express views and ideas to the outside world. Dr. Kashyap is also an active member of the popular blog ‘ranchihalla.blogspot.com.’

About 100 bloggers participated in the meet from various parts of the state including Dhanbad, Bokaro, Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh etc. This was seen as an opportunity to know each other in person and share the experience of blogging including some memorable instances of their creation. “The content of the Hindi blogging needs improvement and the characterization of the blog should be well designed in order to cater to the needs and requirements of the readers or the web visitors,” stated a blogger at the conference.

The famous blogger Shailesh Bharatwasi spelled out the ways and techniques about blogging and gave statistical data that puts the figure to as many as 133 million blogs available at Blogosphere as per the technocrat survey of 2008. He, however, admitted to the query that the money earned through blogs is very less depending on the size of the visitors to a particular blog. For every 1000 visitors, one can expect to earn Rs.32-40 only, Shailesh said.

Another prominent blogger Ghanshayam Srivastava having his blog ‘jharkhandighanshyam.blogspot.com’ was of the opinion that in near future blogs would be the strong means of communication to get connected to the outside world. He believed that such interaction will bring about more understanding about the improvement in content and knowing of the newer techniques that would help in enhancing the blog qualitatively.

Sanjeev Shekhar
Journalist/Media Consultant/PR