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Amrita “Summer of Blogging” Contest
Welcome all Amritapuri students to a summer of blogging!
The Samskriti club provides you with the golden opportunity this vacation to share your views and opinions with the whole world through blogging and win attractive prizes!
About Blogging
Today, blogging is fast evolving into the best possible space to showcase one’s knowledge and talent to the larger world. Dream careers have been won by fresh students through very creative and imaginative blogs. People are getting hired because of their blogs. Please read the article in http://scienceroll.com/2008/11/12/do-you-need-some-reasons-why-to-blog/ In a world, dearth of great ideas, blogs is the shortest route to gain instant recognition. Also in all possibility it can be the trump card on your resume and the best talking point in your job interview.
Blogging has become quite common and is as common as email accounts. Blog is a place where you can either keep notes of what you studied or post your thoughts. It helps to improve your writing skills as well as organize thoughts.
Why blog?
In this new age of information technology, not only are blogs used to inform, but to help us network with other like-minded individuals from across the globe. Below are some of the reasons, personal and professional, that should encourage you to start a blog (or continue to update the one you write):
1. Codify Your Thoughts: writing forces you to succinctly, accurately describe your point of view. Blogs are short form and often contain a single serving of news, opinion, analysis or recommendation.
2. Store resources or information important to you
3. Document your personal experiences or share them with others
4. Network or meet new people
5. Share practical knowledge or skills with others
6. Bolster Your Resume. A successful blogger with a considerable readership is a powerful addition to any company,
particularly one who’s seeking to build branding over the web.
7. Motivate other people to action
8. Influence the way other people think
http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2008/01/25/should-i-blog.aspx
Is blogging for everyone?
We all agree that each one of us have something to say or share with the world. Hence blogging is for everyone. Blogging is happening in every field. Check these links
Microbiologist: http://www.microbiologybytes.com/AJC/whyblog.html
Ayurveda: http://www.ayurvedictalk.com/
BioTech: http://www.biotechblog.org/
http://helpbiotech.blogspot.com/
Technology: http://www.yengkokpam.com/
Social Work: http://socialworkers.wordpress.com/
Management Blog: http://www.managementblog.org/
Chemistry: http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/
Maths: http://bjornsmaths.blogspot.com/
Physics: http://physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com/
Mechanical Engg. http://www.mech-engineer.blogspot.com/
Electrical Engg. http://justinpaulwalters.wordpress.com/
VLSI Blog: http://only-vlsi.blogspot.com/
Electronics Engg. http://www.electronics-lab.com/blog/?p=3187
Engineering Blog: http://englibrary.blogspot.com/
There are non technical blogs too where people pen their thoughts and opinions on things happening in the world.
Is blogging difficult?
Starting a blog is very easy. It is as easy as creating an email account. There are a number of free services available that offer free blog services. Even farmers are blogging! Check out www.keralafarmeronline.com
How do I get started?
With the help of sites like www.wordpress.com, www.blogger.com you can easily start blogging. Try it out. It is as easy as signing up for an email account. If you already have a blog, you can take part in the contest via your existing blog.
Caution! - Cyber crimes are increasing exponentially. So please avoid putting ANY personal information including your address, phone number, photos, personal email id that you share with friends. We recommend you to create a separate email account to be used with your blog.
Eligibility and Rules for the Contest:
1. Open to current students from all Schools in Amritapuri Campus
2. Topics will be posted every week. Participants need to blog about it.
3. Points will be awarded every week based on tasks completed
4. A contestant is allowed to submit only one blog.
5. The decision of the jury will be final and binding.
6. All blog entries shall be in English.
How to Register
Create a blog (if you do not have one already) and email your blog URL to the following mail id using the specified format below to samskriti108@gmail.com AND samskriti@amritapuri.amrita.edu
The Blog need not have any content yet in order to register.
If you already have a blog you can use that for the contest if you like or create a new one.
Sample format of E-mail for registering - (Replace with your data)
Subject: Summer Of Blogging - AM.EN.P2CSC08011
Name: Kamal Kumar
Roll No: AM.EN.P2CSC08011
Branch: B Tech (Computer Science)
Year: First Year
Blog URL: myblog.wordpress.com
Scoring
• You will be awarded 30 bonus points for registering within 26th May’09. Subsequent registrants will get 20 bonus points for registering within 31th May’09.
• There is NO deadline for contest registration but why wait and lose easy points? So hurry up! The registrations have already started!
• Further details regarding the blogging topics and other contest details will be put up on the Samskriti blog: http://samskriti108.wordpress.com . Be sure to check with it periodically or subscribe to its RSS feeds.
Prizes:
1) 30 students with the best blogs will be taken on a 1-day picnic / outing
2) Top 5 students will get attractive prizes plus bragging rights as the best bloggers on the campus.
3) The class which has MAXIMUM number of students registered AND actively participating will get a special prize. So hurry up and get all your class mates registered.
If you have any questions please email to samskriti108@gmail.com , samskriti@amritapuri.amrita.edu
Happy Blogging !