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.

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.

Amit Agarwal

Amit holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from IIT and has previously worked with clients like ADP, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. In 2004, Amit quit his job to become India’s first and only professional blogger.

Amits authors the hugely popular and award winning Digital Inspiration blog where he covers computer software reviews, consumer gadgets, tutorials and web applications for personal productivity. He also writes personal technology columns for The Hindustan Times and Financial Express, both leading national dailies.

Amit has appeared on TV and radio channels including BBC, CNN IBN, CNBC, NDTV, Star TV, ETV and Blog TV Singapore. He has been featured on the coverpage of The Week magazine, HT refers him as “founder of the Indian blogging revolution” while the prestigious The Straits Times of Singapore included in their list of Asia’s Blog Stars alongside Chinese actress Xu Jinglei and Japanese Ambassador Naoto Amaki.

Microsoft awarded Amit Agarwal the “Most Valuable Professional” status for 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Sathyajith Bhat

Sathya a Software engineer working at 3i Infotech Ltd since a past 1 and half years. He first started blogging back in 2006. He blogs on his life, his rants, on Linux tips, open source applications, all in a single WordPress blog. Soon he shifted to own domain http://sathyasays.com where he started (and still does) blog on Linux apps, review different distributions and also post some tips and tricks. Besides his Linux blog, he also blogs on his life at http://sathyabh.at/
He also loves the concept of tumblelogs, and posts few snippets on his tumblelog at http://tumble.sathyabh.at
He is also a prolific twitter user(with over 16,500 tweets) and a twitter fan.

Netra Parikh

Netra is a heading logistics, Admin & Events at Pinstorm, Pay for Performance Marketing Firm.

Apart from her day job, Netra is part of Headstart Network Foundation. Headstart is a not- for-profit company that promotes entrepreneurship. It accelerates innovation in India through:

• Startup SaturdaysTM: monthly events for entrepreneurs across India
•  Headstart NetworkTM: industry-startup co-innovation partnerships
•  Headstart.in: resources for entrepreneurs & profiles of new products and entrepreneurs

Netra, organizes several Barcamps across India along with lots of others events like Blogcamp, Twitter Meet etc.

Netra holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Bhavans College, Ahmedabad. She also holds Law Degree & Honors in Business management in her Post Graduation at M.Com

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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Once you have registered you can check out your profile on attendees list just to be on safer side if we dint miss you

We are waiting

Just to let your curious side know, voting will start from 2nd Feb 2009.