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Top 10 Blogs by Learning Professionals in India

Labels: Blogging, eCube, eLearning, India, Learning, Learning professionals, Lists 7 comments

Jul 2009 Update: You can find an updates list of blogs by Learning professionals and companies in India here.

Time magazine came out with an issue of ‘Lists’, publishing various top 10 lists for 2008. RWW has many posts on various top 10s of the year. Inspired I started working on top 10 blogs by learning/training professionals in India, about learning/training. I found it hard to find 10 blogs that are updated regularly (at least 1 post a month)!!!

Obviously I am not reading enough. So where are the learning/training professionals with their blogs about the profession? Do leave your comments with links to blogs by learning/training professionals in India.

Here’s my list of top 10 blogs by learning/training professionals in India:

Writers Gateway – Rupa Rajagopalan
Viplav Baxi’s Meanderings – Viplav Baxi
eCube, Collaborative Learning Environment – various authors
Speak Out – Archana Narayan
Designed for Learning – Taruna Goel
Random Ideas – Mousumi Ghosh

Here are the remaining who I wish would write more often:

The Emotion Called Trust

Labels: Behaviour, Blogging, CEO blogging, Corporate blogs, Life, Online marketing, Survey, Trends, Trust 1 comments

Continuing with the thread I started in my previous post Do you trust corporate blogs, and picking up from posts on Trust by Ken Allen and Tony Karrer, I came across Chris Brogan’s post Advertising and Trust. Chris wrote in response to Jeremiah Owyang raising questions about Chris’s sponsored post for Kmart. Chris does a great job at analysing and responding. In this process I discovered many posts that talk about trust and integrity of bloggers. Two posts that caught my eye were Lucretia M. Pruitt: What is Your Time Worth? What’s Worth Your Time? and Barbara Gibson: What is your integrity worth? I don’t follow blogs of Jeremiah, Lucretia or Barbara, but I had no reason not to trust them. They have an opinion that they are sharing.

When I come across blog posts that talk about other products, I take them as opinions of those bloggers. I am a gullible guy J. However I will not necessarily take business decisions (or even personal buying decisions) based only on one or two blog posts, and I don’t think that means I don’t trust blogs. It is definitely helpful when bloggers disclose posts to be sponsored posts. I follow RWW and they talk about their sponsors all the time. They also talk about other products and I trust them to provide a balanced view in their product reviews.

An interesting thing to note in the Forrester report is that people trust emails from people they know but don’t trust as much the social networking profiles from people they know. Hmmm…

Do you Trust Corporate Blogs?

Labels: Blogging, CEO blogging, Corporate blogs, Online marketing 3 comments

According to a recent Forrester Research report, people trust emails from who they know most and they trust corporate blogs the least. According to the report, only 16% people trust corporate blogs. I had written about CEO and corporate blogging sometime back and this report presents some interesting perspectives.

You can read posts that comment on this report at RWW and Rohit Bhargava’s blog.

What do you think? Do you trust corporate blogs? Which ones do you read regularly and why? It would interesting to get some views of corporate bloggers too.