1) We have removed the word “Mumbai” from the “Best Mumbai Blog Competition”. The competition is now open for all bloggers.
2) We’ve divided the competition in 5 blog types.

PS: There will be separate awards for each category.

The registration link: here.

Check out Mumbai Magic. This is a blog managed by Janaki, her daughter Deepa and granddaughter Aishwarya. The blog often contains interesting insights about Mumbai as seen from eyes of three different generations and the posts are often made interesting with suitable photographs.

The blog is also reference by National Geographic. In their on words, this blog is

Cull cultural tips and highlights from this family’s three-generational approach to Mumbai. The insightful photography and anecdotal writings stem from the three women’s local expertise.

The blog is definitely worth checking out.

Our first FollowFriday suggestion is Bombaylives. The blog was amongst the winners of Best Mumbai Blog Competition arranged by MumbaiBloggers.

The blog is maintained by Satish Vijaykumar, a Gulf Returnee and Mobile Campaign Ideater & Planner. His blog is often filled with interesting images from Mumbai and suburbs. Being a travel and photography enthusiast, you always get to see a new view of Mumbai through his camera lenses. He also shares various events happening across the city.

Satish is also the person behind the often discussed Sapling project.

You can check out his blog at This link.

Suggest: Suggest us some bloggers who are doing something for society. Mail us in brief about the blogger and the cause he is working for. Links / News articles will be highly appreciated.

Spread Word: Blog about the cause you find worth blogging about. Spread the word about the cause through blog, mail, twitter, SMS..

Motivate: Motivate the bloggers working for cause by sending him congratulations letter and gifts. Even a small gift like your brand merchandise or an appreciation letter would be motivational factor for them.

Sponsor: Sponsor our efforts to bring out good in the bloggers. In return you will also get your logo printed on the appreciation letters sent out to the bloggers, on our website and you can choose to send your fliers / advertising brochures to all the bloggers who get featured here.

Got any other way to support? Please let us know. You can drop us mail at admin@mumbaibloggers.net or call us on +91-989 00 77 47 48.

If you know of someone who is doing something for society, please let us know. Drop us a mail at share [at] mumbaibloggers [dot] net or call us at 989.00.77.47.48.

Process

The competition happened in three steps.

I. Registration
The registration was open for 15 days and saw 59 people registering for the competition.
II. Voting
The voting was kept open for 3 weeks for registered users only. Every registered user was allowed to vote for upto 5 blogs. A total of 296 votes were casted in these 3 weeks.
III. Expert Judging
The top 5 blogs were judged by our expert judging panel. The final winners were decided based on public voting and Expert judging with an weighted ratio of 75:25.

Winners

The three winners were as follows.
1. Sudhindra
2. Pranjal
3. Satish

Detailed report about how winners were decided Here.

Sponsors

The competition got three sponsors. We had Inkfruit as premium sponsor, Moble4Mumbai as gold sponsor and Ennovata as hosting partner.

What did the winners get

The winners got-
1) Congratulation letter and gift merchandise from MumbaiBloggers
2) Full blogging package by Ennovata including domain name of winner’s choice, 1 GB hosting space, WordPress installation and a premium wordpress theme.
3) Cool T-shirt by Inkfruit.

PS: Don’t forget to collect the prizes during the MumbaiBloggers’ Meet on 21st March.

For detail analysis of the scores, kindly click on the following image.

We’ve an Mumbai event calendar where we will keep adding events and their registration details for your info. You can also subscribe to our SMS alert service by visiting Mumbai events SMS alert page.

If you know of any event happening, please drop a mail to MumabiBloggers Events team. Alternatively just SMS your event details to 9890-SPIRIT and we will add your Event details to the calendar for the benefit of Community Event Enthusiasts in Mumbai.

Here are details..

Date: March 21, 2009, Saturday
Time: 3.00 – 6.30 pm
Venue: Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd. 4th Floor, Windsor Building, Off CST Road, Kalina, Santacruz (East) Mumbai – 400 098
Registration: Here.

We are looking for sponsors for the same so that we can arrange food for the attendees.. If you are interested, please Drop us a mail.

You can ask your friends to come ahead and vote. You can also write posts on your blogs about the competition and voting. And you can spread the word through twitter. We will be soon coming with badges which you can put on your blog to ask your readers to vote.

Btw, Inkfruit , Mobile 4 Mumbai and Ennovata have generously come ahead to sponsor the initiative. The winners of the competition will be getting special prizes from the sponsors. We are very thankful to the sponsors for their support.

For any further query, don’t hesitate to reply back to this id. You can also shoot your queries on twitter. Our handle is @mumbaibloggers .

Happy voting and all the best..

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MumbaiBloggers Team
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