Your Blog Launch

Good way to recollect our blogging history.  I believe it was spontaneous decision to be a blogger and i liked to share my travel and marketing experience which was the motivation factor.  Initially i was perturbed or apprehensive that whatever i publish might be pirated or copied, I kept it underwraps without much promotion.  After joining many forums incl Indi, i decided to open up to the public.

1.  September 2007  2.  Low Key  3  Colleagues  4 Nothing specific  5. Not many reserves.

Let me give the first reply.  My blog was launched on 18th of October (I had to look at my blogger account to find this date)  between 8:50 and 9:00 am in the morning. I had been preparing for the launch since many days. By launch I do not mean any celebrations but just putting everything in place and choosing good colours and font for my blog posts and so on. believe ir or not, I have worked on these things for more than a month! I asked one of my friends to wish me (He doesn't know the reason as to why he was wishing  ) and then changed the visibility of my blog from private to puiblic and then posted two blog entries which were prepared beforehand. At that time, I had no idea that blog posts can be saved and then published later on. I had copied everything from a word document and then hit the publish button. I was already ready with a few more posts that I should be posting and had also prepared a time table which I never followed. The only day when I would be getting free time in those days was the weekend at night time and that was the only day when I would be posting. I had a lot of dreams about my blog. I myself have forgotten what those were. I only faintly remeber that most of them were related to the number of blog followers. I have also gone for a movie on that day. It was just a coincidence and wasn't a preplanned celebration or something of that sort.

Now, its time to share your stories! 

I started in June 2005. With a lot of reluctance, addicted since then :D The only thing I was sure of was about starting a travel blog.

Waah. This is an awesome idea. Would be nice to remember those Old/Gold days right?

1. March 6th 2011.

2. By a LOVE post to my little Niece.

3. Net Friends/Bloggers - Kamal, Hiral, Rahul and Mayank.

4. I didn't even know that I would keep BLOGGING for a year. I thought that would be my first and last post.

5. Read the above answer.

wow. this is a nice thread! 

so sharing my experience:

1 &2. 'launch' seems a very grand way of putting how i actually started my blog :P it actually started with me posting a 4-liner in my FB status

"My eyes hold dark pools of nostalgia,sneak into them and see the images;but be careful not to disturb them,for tarnished memories wipe away the lovely faces"

and my cousin saw it and was like- i never knew you wrote poetry! and adviced me to open a blog. i didnt even know properly what a blog was then; yet i opened it on November 16th, 2010 at 1:30 and the first post was this poem itself which i had extended to 5 paragraphs.

i dilly-dallied in opening it the next week but i already had 7 followers and 4 comments. it felt super nice :)

after that the journey started with me just posting random poems and exactly when blogging became a part of my life, an ESSENTIAL part of my life... i didnt know :)

3. My cousin, Anil, who got me started(he is a mathematician but somehow writes beautiful poetry). A friend Mohit who lives in Mumbai who is a brilliant poet himself. I just love the way he writes. he is very honest with his words :) adly he has stopped blogging, or rather became very irregular. seems like i have to kick him soon :P

also, my maternal grandfather who is a writer himself though all his stories are in Telugu :) he is a great inspiration to me...

4. honestly, i had nothing in my mind at thhat time. blogging was simply like haveing a place where i can keep a record of my poems.i had NO idea it would bring me this far...

5. Ahh... i am so NOT a professional blogger. so my blog posts used to be very erratic, depending on my mood. i am a more ardent blogger now :)

thankyou for the thread Ranjith Ji. i had a nice time :)

hey buddy you made a nice thread (everyone other than spammers puts an effort to make their thread nice anyway )... so here i'm answrering your well-set question sheet:

1. Date and Time at which it was launched: I've got two- first one for writing/photography and the second one I opened for scribbling my travel logs/photographs. First one I had launched on Saturday, August 11, 2007!

2. The manner in which it was launched: by posting 4 of my poems in that same day

3. The poople present around you at that time: I had a net friend who was the sole inspiration.....

4. The future of your blog that you had in your mind at that very moment: will be very famous someday as the blog of some well known writer ... i was under high dose of antidepressant then... did it overact on my neurons

5. The number of posts you have were ready with so that you won't be facing a deficiency within months of launching your blog: atleast 60... sadly my crashed hard disk left me on the road... i was too broken having lost so many poems, along with a longggg story (may be a mini novel) which was 95% finished... you must be thinking how full i was not to keep backup... yes you're right.... [sigh...]... anyway life goes on...

I started my first blog on 15/3/2010, I had google searched some query and was taken to a blogspot blog. There I saw an option create a blog. Enthusiatically searched and plunged in. When I created , maunvsion, my first post was a welcome post. There was no friend or reader for me. Just my desire to put up religious views. Seeing no joiners, a doctor friend of mine, he didn't even have email I'd , I had created his account, I knew his password. I joined him. Then getting new ideas in mind, I created 4 blogspot blogs. I could oncentrate only on one my musings. Since I joined indiblogger, friend list grew and I give full credit to friends here for guidance from time to time.
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 1. 21 April 2008 - Don't remember if it was morning or evening

2. I thought a lot about title for blog and my blogger psuedonym. Then started with an explanation of the name. Then to go with that, I found 2 articles from the internet - one an essay by Bertrand Russell and another a poem by Henry Davies extolling idleness/leisure keeping with my blog concept and re posted them 

3. I was alone. Started telling folks through gmail. 2 of my school friends were first followers. Then somebody on a site pagalguy where I regularly give MBA advice told me to put blog link on signature. That was a golden advice. To date pagalguy has been my biggest traffic and follower source.

4. I wanted to become a popular political strategist and commentator on the internet

5. Nothing. Had no clue what I was going to do with the blog. First 2-3 months I had to rake my mind to find ideas. 

The day i published my first post was a weekend. I had got my dad and brother to proof read the post before hitting the publish button. Dint have any more posts in hand but got down to it soon after publishing. And about the future, was too busy enjoying THAT moment to think anything further, i guess :) Nice thread Ranjith, soaked me in nostalgia :)

I am a relative newbie to blogging / travel blogging and photography. So this is how it started.

1. April, 2010: Great Lakes: After 4 years of work, Great Lakes happened to me. 300 young, vibrant and energetic people around me 24x7 and some of them were great photographers. Gladiators (as our batch was named)  were great company and made wonderful models for photos. 
2. June, 2010: Camera: Though I had decided to learn how to take photographs, there was a big hurdle - I had no Camera! And I had never handled one. So with my zero knowledge about Digital Cameras, one night I asked one of those photographers what camera should I buy. He asked if I knew photography, and I lied sayin yes had a good experience . So he wrote a name in a chit and told me to buy that one whenever I went to Chennai. Well thats how I ended up with a D3000, without an idea on how to use it 
3. June 2010-Nov 2010: Photography: Now since I had a camera, had to learn it anyway. So started with the user manual, read it like Ramayana and then would go and bug the photographers. The Photography Club of my college did help a lot to us newbies by conducting late nite training sessions. By Nov 2010, I started shooting in manual.
4. Nov 2010: Blog: Finally in Nov 2010, I decided to take part in a photography competition of some B School. Its prerequisitive was that I should have a Flickr account or a Photoblog. Now Flickr I never understood in those days, so thought of creating a blog. Since the theme of the competition was Shadows in black and white, named it Shadows Galore . However, the blog remained unused after that competition for alomost 7 months. 
5. July 2011: Shadows Galore 1.0: College over. Was in my new job and on bench. So all I would do all day was to browse the internet. One day i came across a blog called "Me and Frenchie". It was the travelogue of a French couple all over the world. It got me hooked so much that I started thinking that being no less than myself, I should also write something about my trips and become a Marcopolo ASAP. Shadows Galore was taken out from mothballed trunks, dusted and put on web again that night. This was Shadows Galore 2.0
6. Oct 2011: Shadows Galore 2.0: 3 Months down the line, Shadows Galore has some 25 posts and 9000 visitors! It was overwhelming!But there was a problem. Being blogger, flexibility was very less and I just wasnt able to put a photogallery in the blog with breaking functionalities. So after a lot of deliberation and research, shelled out some $50 and bought a hosting, learned how to use wordpress, took 2 days leave from office and kept working on it endlessly. The end product was what you see now, not as beautiful as that Blogger blog of mine, but much more flexbile. 

Phew! This is my story. I must say, that in these months of blogging, I have met wonderful people and have been so happy. Creating something is so beautiful! I must thank you all for the constant support you have shown. Am grateful ! 

It just happened, like love.. 

Nice to remember all the memories...but just happened. 

Blogging is just a very small part of goals which I had in life, so just trying to work on every aspect. 

Hmmm,

Since I was travelling most of the time and the memories/stories/experiences had started getting accumulated, the blog happened. I wanted to pin down everything that was happening but it's always lagging behind. Even today, I travel more, and write less on my blog. The backlog is so much that I can keep writing one post everyday even if I completely stop travelling for two years !

From 'only' memoirs, slowly the blog started recording other aspects of travel from across the globe. Fir to Mai akela hi chala tha janib e manzil ko magar - log sath aate gaye aur karwan banta gaya

One blog is enough for me. Very dear to me, it has given me many more travel related opportunities and name at international level.

And yes, there were already a few Indian travel bloggers when I took up this job.

As always, I'm late here... keeping up my trend :)

Nice to recollect the journey that started a few years back. Being a traveler, I wanted to put my experiences in some place, help people, make a list... so to recollect those wonderful moments much later (probably when my memory fades and grey hairs replace my entire continent of black) :)

28/5/2008 was when my first blog post came out, I din't know what was blogging, who was a blogger, what to post, where to start... a intelligent dud to start off :)

Forget putting it as private or public, I just hit the publish button and it went live !&*%$*#@!

I was alone then and absolutely had no idea of what would be the impact and what the future holds. I just needed a platform to put in my experiences and share with the world, and help fellow people who would want to go there, do that.

Once I started with a nonsencial post, the flood gates opened... (I was an hardcore traveler and trekker than, so was sure of not sitting idle for the next few months which were already planned up) :) But continuing the trend sometimes got tougher due to time constraints, 'the state of mind', 'time for editing photos' and sometimes lack of content, but all along one thing that always drives me was and is that 'there are few people who are looking up to your blog, waiting and reading your posts and enjoying the content' and you should not make them wait endlessly :)

As i am writing hindi poems from childhood when i was in 5th class

i always maintained my diary lost the 1st dairy which contains poetry of kid(1995-99), still have 2nd one (1999-04)

after that orkut and FB came an i started my poetry community 

at that time my frnds said to me why dont u start a Blog

and my answer was u rarely come to orkut n FB community who will come to my blog

on November 16 @2:25am i wrote a poem 

from here story of my blog शशि की कविताये   started 

i took me almost a month to decide should i start blog or not

on December 11 @ 12:53am was the time when my blog was online with the 1st post 

at that time only some frnds of mine was followers  

and i dint get much traffic untill i joined Indiblogger in Jan 2012

never was in deficiency stock is always full still some poems rest in my dairy

my poetry  is simple so as the same of my blog is  शशि की कविताये

I launched my blog on 16th August 2010 at 10.16 pm and I have never looked back since then. I started blogging just because I love to write. I had and still have no agenda for my blog. I will continue to write and post photographs I click for as long as it makes me happy. I dont like to plan ahead and wrie just so I blog as often as possible. Rather I keep it simple and blog when I think of something substantial. And all this makes blogging the most fun for me!

I love to see the orange notifications on my wordpress page :)

Nothing can make me happier...!