Weekly Roundup of Indian Business Blogs

What are we trying to do?

We want to promote business blogging in India.

How will we do it?

• We will form a network of 5 to 10 influential business bloggers — Veerchand Bothra, Rajesh Lalwani, Ranjan Varma, Palin Ningthoujam, Gaurav Mishra and (maybe) Gautam Ghosh to begin with — who will publish a weekly roundup of Indian business blogs on their respective blogs.
• We need to brainstorm on which other members to invite into the network. The other members should be Indian business bloggers will significant (typically 300+ feed readers etc.) readerships to maximize impact.
• While we will decide the links to be shared between us, others are, of course, free to replicate the list on their own blogs.
• The roundup will consist of about 10 high-quality posts written by (new and established) Indian business bloggers. We'll typically share the link with a small excerpt and our own comment on the post.
• We can brainstorm on the links to be shared in the roundup on this wiki over the week and then publish them every Saturday on our respective blogs.
• While we will publish the same set of links, we can choose to share different excerpts and comments in order to provide multiple perspectives and avoid duplication in search engines.
• Whenever possible, we will try to track (and sometimes start) memes in the Indian business blogging community.
• The posts can include all business topics including marketing, advertising, public relations, human resource management, finance, and entrepreneurship.

Links for Roundup of Indian Business Blogs: Week 1 (Saturday, March 22nd)

• Rashmi Bansal interviews the team behind the real world startup Four Fountains spa.
• Kiruba Shankar on starting the 'Expert Talk' series in his office for knowledge sharing.
• Rajiv Dingra on how Indian web 1.0 companies are moving offline.
• Ankit Saxena on the link between social media buzz and box office results for Indian movies.
• Amit Ranjan's presentation on “How organisations can harness the power of Web 2.0?” at Nasscom
• pramit Singh on why the mystery behind geeks is gone.
• Reactions on the Jason Calacanis "startups need workaholics post: Venturewoods, Ashish Sinha, Pranav Dharma and Aditya Mishra.
• Lots of great guest posts in the new improved Alootechie (excerpts and summaries on my blog).
• Deepak Shenoy on the Credit Derivatives & ICICI Bank losses [http://blog.investraction.com/2008/03/icici-bank-more-on-credit-derivatives.html]
• Ajay Shah on another WMD! Waiver of Mass Debt WMD