Day: October 29, 2009

Webneetech.com is interviewing bloggers especially those who can share the secret of how to quit your day job and start making money by blogging. I am very jealous of people who make money in this fashion. If I am unable to do it, how can someone else do it – kind of jealousy. Or is that called envy? What’s the difference between the two? Anyway… they asked me about my first blogpost and why I started blogging in the first place.My first blogpost was on the Blogger platform. It was push button publishing and it helped me build awareness about my book. My second blog was born while I was working for FritoLay. It was about the People and Happenings at FritoLay and was one of the first Corporate blogs. Here is the first post for the FritoLay blog. The third blog was at the OD Collective – which was fundamentally a group of friends from the HR fraternity who would meet to discuss common HR issues (usually hosted by one of us in the office!). The group got Dave Ulrich to come and address the group. He spoke about the ned for our group to influence others through our writings. He suggested that we blog. Thus was born the first post called People Are Our Most Important Asses oops Assets. I had written for some othe sites as well.  I participated in a contest called India Smiles that was hosted at Sulekha.com. It was a post called 15 Minutes of Fame. Needless to say I did not win that contest, in case you are wondering. Here is the interview… (more…)