Bhopal bloggers symposium organized by Scratchmysoul.com in association with HT on 10th April was a big step in the social networking. This event was made a success by the joint participation of active and novice bloggers from all segments of the intellectual community.

The event was enlightened by addresses from the eminent speakers and guests. DC Jugran, Information Commissioner and former DGP of Madhya Pradesh was the chief guest. Other eminent speakers were Raghav Chandra, Principal Secretary Urban Development Madhya Pradesh, Shailendra Srivastava, and IG Bhopal, ON Shrivastava, ex-Governor of Nagaland, and NK Singh, Resident Editor, Hindustan Times, Pravir Krishak, CEO scratchmysoul.com. Credit for success of the event also goes to Mrs Ambreen Zaidi who coordinated the event.

Bloggers symposium acted as the common platform for the blogging community to voice their ideas and opinions. Through this symposium the concept of  ‘focused blogging’ was brought to the fore. It is blogging with the purpose of making the civil society informed. Idea of maintaining an online personal diary was put forward as the part of focused blogging. Chief Guest Mr. Jugran, himself wrote few words in his personal online diary on scratchmycoul.com.

As a part of the symposium, role of blogs in many important world events were discussed and highlighted. Also many interesting facts about blogging were exchanged among the participants. To make the discussion lively, participants shared snippets of their blogs of various styles ranging from satire, humor, poetry and critique. Legal issues related to the blogging were also pointed out.

At later stages of the event, open discussion was conducted which involved participants to put their views openly on the topic of “Blogs as the tool of social expression”. Also the “Blog Reading Contest” was one of the key attractions of the event and saw blogs by participants and English as well as Hindi.

The event was concluded successfully with the all participants agreeing to the fact that “Only  informed citizens can change the society and can make it better”