Workshop on Podcasting by Kiruba Shankar!

The concept of I'm bored! presented at recently concluded Idea Camp was quite interesting. Imagine you are bored or you have no clue about the exciting events happening in the city, what do you do?I'm Bored is supposed to be a website (read directory) where all these events / camps will be mentioned. So thought let me share something about an event that is going to happen in Chennai on July 4.

Kiruba Shankar is being doing Podcast show for quite a while. He has already interviewed many CXOs and celebrities in his show, Kiruba.tv. Now he is conducting a workshop on Podcasting. Nothing like learning the art from the best person around.

The Workshop will cover all the nuisances of Podcasting and is hands- on too, where the participants will be scripting, recording, editing and publishing their own Podcasts. Believe me, this workshop will be fun! Am eagerly looking forward to the event. For more details visit http://www.businessblogging.org/podcast

The behind scene stories of TEDx Chennai: part-1

Kiruba’s theory on Name tags

Kiruba was always particular about the size of the name tags to be used for TEDx Chennai.His theory was that people should read one’s name and designation from a reasonable distance and length of the tag should be such that one should not bend down and stare at the belly of the person wearing the tag and cause considerable embarrassment.

His TED India tag was a good reference.



So Kaushik, the tag specialist was summoned and instructed to make ‘The Name tag’. Several days passed and two days prior to the tedDx DAY we met at Kiruba’s office for a crucial organisers’ discussion.

Kaushik proudly presented to all the size of the name tag which resulted in riot like situation.


The plastic holder was slightly bigger than the size of a Business card.Kiruba was visibly upset and almost barked at Kaushik.


What more to say? The name tag was ready on Nov28


and Kaushik did a good job for sure


One can imagine Kiruba’s mental state seeing the name tag!

The power of 140
Some of the latest developments happening around the world prove the power of social networking sites. Whether its the news of how twitter helped in bringing the true picture in Iran, or how a central minister tweet his day to day activities. How one find the humour side of any events.
Tweeter also known as micro blogging (You can have only 140 characters per tweet) has become such a powerful tool for networking that US asked tweeter to delay scheduled maintenance so that without a break Iranians can tweet their protest over the presidential election. Read here

Latest is something called tweetpsych where they will analyse one's last 1000 tweets and gives a psychological profile of the person. This is my tweetpsych

Now some interesting Tweeple

ShashiTharoor : author, columnist, former UN Under-Secretary General, now Minister of State for External Affairs, Govt of India
Follow Shashi Tharoor
Tharoor's tweet is fun to read. His tweets include the various types of garlands he receive during his Constituency visit, how many mangoes he eat in a day, the number of forms one need to fill after becoming an MP (Member of Parliament). Through his tweets one a clear understand how demanding a minister’s life is.

Kiruba Shankar: CEO of Business Blogging, Social Media Enthusiast, Podcaster, Teacher, Columnist, Wikipedian,
Follow Kiruba He tweets about his various online activities on Knowledge foundation, Blogcamp etc. His recent issue with ClearTrip.com has become a case study on social networking .

Ramesh gives a humour touch to various news, its fun to follow this guy
Follow Ramesh

Am busy tweeting so are others