{"id":8931,"date":"2014-02-12T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2020-12-31T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T09:43:16","slug":"win14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2014\/02\/12\/win14\/","title":{"rendered":"@ #WIN14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogadda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlogAdda<\/a> and I go a long way back, practically to around the time they were born, and when I was asked to be a speaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/win.blogadda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WIN14<\/a>, there really was no question of not going. The icing on the cake was being a part of <a href=\"http:\/\/win.blogadda.com\/speakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this excellent list <\/a>of speakers!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favourite talk of the day was delivered by one <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_kavi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kavi Arasu<\/a>, who, first virtually and then really, has become a very good friend. As I tweeted<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KavisMusings\">@KavisMusings<\/a> showed us exactly how a story should be told. Awesome! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23WIN14&amp;src=hash\">#WIN14<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 manu prasad (@manuscrypts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manuscrypts\/statuses\/432396994540097536\">February 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, I was part of a session whose subject was &#8216;Influence of Blogging&#8217; and my fellow speakers were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhatnaturally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lakshmipathy Bhat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anaggh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaggh<\/a>!\u00a0The areas I tried to cover in 15 minutes were the changing nature of influence, its effect on brands, how blogs can help in that context and how bloggers can create a market for themselves. \u00a0(does that explain the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/si0007\/status\/432416010679746560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">breathlessness<\/a>? \ud83d\ude00 ) Do take a look and let me know your feedback.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/31016787\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong> <a title=\"Brands, Blogging and the Business of Influence\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/manuscrypts\/brands-blogging-and-the-business-of-influence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brands, Blogging and the Business of Influence<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/manuscrypts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manu Prasad<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shekhar Kapur made his presence felt in the second half by being his usual articulate self. His analogy of crests and troughs, and tsunamis, to explain media cycles, time, and social was just fantastic. He had the audience spellbound, and deservedly so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was wonderful to meet people, \u00a0some of whom I knew online, but had never met &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anaggh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaggh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maneeshm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maneesh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/finelychopped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kalyan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ankitagaba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ankita<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rakeshthekumar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rakesh<\/a>, and others whom I got acquainted with at the event \u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/subramanianravi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ravi Subramaniam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashwinmushran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashwin Mushran<\/a>, (what a fantastic compering role he played!) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anuradhagoyal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anuradha Goyal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/labnol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amit Agarwal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/si0007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sampath Iyengar<\/a> and Anil P.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A big thanks to BlogAdda for putting together a great event (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151953839251139.1073741829.63892936138&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos<\/a>) and having me over, and to Courtyard by Marriott, who were great hosts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlogAdda and I go a long way back, practically to around the time they were born, and when I was asked to be a speaker at #WIN14, there really was no question of not going. The icing on the cake was being a part of this excellent list of speakers! My favourite talk of the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2014\/02\/12\/win14\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,2539,15,2538],"tags":[4428,1230,4430,3224,4431,4429],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand","category-internet","category-personal-updates","category-social-networking","category-ideas","tag-blogadda","tag-blogging","tag-brands","tag-influence","tag-shekhar-kapur","tag-win14"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}