Here’s a quick recap of extensive list of events which we’ve live blogged. Do click on the event and read complete coverage of all talks given by experts during various sessions of the event…

3rd Financial Inclusions and Payments Conference, Mumbai

Mobile Application Developers’ Meet, Bangalore, June 29 2010

ICT for SMEs Conference, New Delhi, 6th July 2010

Mobile Ad Conference, Mumbai

Marketing Conclave, New Delhi

National Security and Digital Technology Conference, New Delhi

Through live blogging we’ve been able to reach out to 1000s of audience who couldn’t physically be present during the event…

IAMAI’s Mobile Application Developers’ Meet was live blogged by Shrinidhi Hande and Sandeep Varma from BusinessBlogging, social media partners for IAMAI

If you’re interested in live blogging IAMAI’s events, here’s your chance to get on board.

What do we do in live blogging?
We listen to the speaker attentively, note down key points, quotes and interesting information from his/her talk, quickly compile it into a blog post and publish it. This way, we document the talks and ensure extended reach to millions of users and not just to those who are sitting inside the conference room.

Check this previous post to know more about the advantages of live blogging

What do you need for live blogging?

• Be familiar with basics of blogging and wordpress platform
• A laptop/net book with mobile internet connectivity (Reliance net connect or Tata Photon)
• Be free on the event day (29th July at IIM Bangalore [event website] and 6th August at Hotel Taj Palace n Towers, Mumbai [event website] are our next 2 events.

If you’re from Bangalore and would like to join us for live blogging on 29th at IIMB or at Mumbai on 6th August, do let us know.  Just write a comment below expressing your interest and we’ll get back to you immediately.

You’ll get complementary entry to the event and an opportunity to interact with speakers and delegates. All your posts will be published under your identity and you’ll get credit and links.

Khushboo and Kalyan Biswas from IAMAI

The live blogging and live tweeting team
The event is being live blogging by Shrinidhi Hande, Sneha Menon and Vikrama

Catch us on twitter, facebook and flickr for more updates

Keith, Head – Competence Development at Nokia Siemens Network (NSN) gave an interesting presentation.

He mentioned that historically, carriers have been in the business of just transporting data. Now the scenario is quite different.   Security is an important differentation for the discerning customer. Alluding to the example by Mr. Rajat Mukherji of Idea Cellular, the previous speaker, Keith said that the telecom carrier that is seen to be taking care of the consumer’s security concerns will be at an advantage.

Keith stressed that carrier’s network infrastructure that are stable during major disruptive events like the Winter Storm that hit USA’s NorthEast recently, will gain tremendously. Availability during normal times are taken to be a commodity, but availability during those events will make that telecom carrier trust-worthy.

The position of the carrier in the cyber-security equation is of paramount importance. When planning networks, what is needed is to identify the small number of “weak links” which if compromised by, for example, malicious code, then an entire network can be brought down. So those need to be reinforced.

Vendor Trust was his key take-away.

Speaker Profile:
Keith White is Head of Competence Development for the Nokia Siemens Networks global Business Solutions Organization.

He was formerly Head of the Security Practice for Asia Pacific within the Consulting & Systems Integration Group at Nokia Siemens Networks.

Those familiar with traditional journalism would know the significance of reporting the news at the earliest. Journalists all over strive to deliver latest news into your TV room, as soon as they occur, braving all odds in the process.

With high end communication technologies at their disposal, journalists of today have relatively easy job, compared to their seniors who had to depend on traditional medium of communication such as telephone, telegram and fax while they were on the field few decades ago.

With blogging positioning itself as an unofficial alternative to journalism, live blogging can add significant value to any event, even more than what traditional reporting could offer.

In brief, live blogging an event would bring following value additions to stake holders:

1. Traditional media may not be able to cover an event live and delivers event news to public after a delay of few hours to a day. Live blogging, on the other hand can bring in instant updates and happenings of the event, both for the people attending the event as well as to those who are not able to.

2. Live blogging effectively documents the keynotes shared by the speaker. A journalist composing his report at the end of the day will have much less to recall vis-à-vis a blogger who blogs soon after the speaker finishes speaking.

3. Conventional media only gives a high level reporting of the event (due to time and space constraints) while bloggers can report each activity in detail and let readers chose what they want to read.

4. Live blogging, coupled with live twittering, can bring in interactivity with participants who may not be physically present at the venue. This is something impossible in mainstream journalism.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my previous live blogging experiences (of CII Connect 2009, Webinnovation.in 2008 and others) and am eagerly looking forward to IAMAI’s event next week