Business Blogs in India and Why You Should Start Blogging
Gaurav Mishra has started an initiative to work on a collaborative report on the state of the Indian Blogosphere. As a part of the group effort, Gautam Ghosh has compiled a list of Business Blogs in India:
In the CEO bloggers listed there are primarily dotcom and IT CEOs Mohan Babu(Infosys), Rajeev Karwal (Milagrow), Ajit Balakrishnan (Rediff.com), Sanjeev Bikhchandani (Naukri.com), Basab Pradhan (Gridstone), Vineet Nayar (HCL), Hrush(Cleartrip), Jay Pullur (Pramati), B.G. Mahesh (OneIndia.in) – Rajeev Karwal is the exception
Then there are other business related bloggers who focus on Venture Capital, Innovation or are CEOs too – either in India or in Silicon ValleyAnand Rajaraman,Shripriya Mahesh, Sramana Mitra, Rajesh Setty, Rohit Bhargava, Rakesh, Avinash Kaushik, Rashmi Sinha,Shuman, Rahul Sood, Raghav Gupta, Rajesh Jain,Dharmesh Shah, Michael, Munjal Shah, Om Malik, Shantanu, Shalin Jain, Atanu Dey,Nilkanth, Ruban Phukan, Ramit Sethi, Kris Nair, Manish Jain
In other categories like functional area like Marketing, Social Media, Advertising, the following bloggers are active.
T T Ram Mohan, Ajay Shah, Ranjan, Deepak Shenoy, Aji, Mayank, Ray Titus, Rohit,Prem Sagar, Kaushik, Rajesh Soni, DeadPresidents, Nooresh, Arun, Bullish Indian,Arun, Colton, Ganesh, Shailendra, Prem Rao, Abhishek, Prasad, Manisha, Ravi,Sampad, Sunil, Siva Rajendran, Arun, Venkatakrishna Nalamothu,
Would Jobs and Career Advice would also be on this list? I think these bloggers would also make the cut Achyut, Manisha, Santosh, Shweta Khare, Walkin, Jobs-Media, Tushar Lal, BK Sharma.
Not only is this a good listing of business blogs, but it also shows how mainstream blogging is becoming. More and more companies and individuals are starting blogs, showcasing ideas and sharing thoughts. And, it is just not the young crowd which is into blogging, but as per this post by Business Logs, many of the blogs are written by people over 30 years of age. And, in my experience, blogging helps in a large number of ways:
- It is a great self-expression tool and helps you to learn to present your thoughts.
- It is a personal development tool and helps you learn to gather and organize thoughts. Being active in the blogosphere exposes one to a plethora of viewpoints and ideas. It helps you broaden your thinking.
- Blogs are a great platform to start “talking” to a larger community. Your ideas do not need to be confined to your best friends!
- Blogs help you showcase your subject matter expertise and hunt down career opportunities of your choice. You never know, you might be waiting to be “discovered”.
- A blog is your individual “address” on the web map. It is a place where people can go and know you better.
- Finally, blogs help you store your “mind-stream”. Your thoughts no longer need to be ephemeral!
Do you plan to start blogging soon? What are some of the other benefits of blogging?
@Abhishek: Thank you for the shout out on the ‘State of Indian Blogosphere’ report. We need all the help we can get.
Another addition to your list of reasons to blog: it can help you change careers (it has helped me, at least).
Gaurav Mishra
January 5, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Sure. Blogs do help to ‘discover’ careers! They help you and others understand innate talents and utilize them far better than traditional means.
Abhishek
January 5, 2009 at 1:56 pm
[...] February 26, 2009 Many companies aorund the world have taken to blogging. Not only we have individual business bloggers, but also one can see a lot of company blogs, team blogs and so on. (Here is one post I wrote about business blogs in India.) [...]
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February 26, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Abhishek, Thanks for sharing the list. Another key aspect of blogging is to raise the profile of digirati from India and South Asia in the context of globalization vs. emerging protectionism. This is the reason I am looking to extend my blogging beyond my Corporate Blogger avatar (listed above)
Mohan
April 20, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Mohan, thanks for stopping by. Great to have a blogger like you on my blog.
It’s really good to know that you are blogging about the very specific areas around globalization. Very interesting. I am going to be following your blog closely.
Abhishek
April 20, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Hey this is really impressive and inspiring. Blogging has actually started a new internet wave. People can express their thoughts and no running behind web developers and designers.
Nitin
October 15, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Thanks for stopping by on my blog, Nitin.
Abhishek
October 15, 2009 at 8:14 pm
good article keep it up
shalini aggarwal
December 31, 2009 at 1:24 am
Thanks Shalini!
Abhishek
January 5, 2010 at 10:41 am