Volume 1 - 3rd Edition, May 2010

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Joe Downing

FROM THE EDITOR
Pauline Raina

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Hello there wonderful Adlanders,

I’m here once again with your May edition of the Gazette ! Trust you have enjoyed the lovely month of spring in all its freshness and bloom!

I am very fortunate to be able to take a cool 20 minute walk to work each day, and the route I go is beautiful and lined with trees decked with flowers of spring, all unique in their own special way! This never fails to remind me of how special each one of us have been also created. Never let anyone tell you otherwise!!

We have featured here on Center Stage one such special group of entrepreneurs’ right here in my town. I enjoyed my time putting this together with them. Hope you enjoy them too!

I wish to thank all those who help me do what I do here at Adland, to Barry thank you for your consistent contribution here, Luis for his in this edition and to all our forum owners who strive to keep their forums interesting, attractive and fun, this community wouldn’t be where it is without YOU ! THANK YOU!! Most of all to our friends who support, encourage and celebrate with us all of the time YOU make Adland a special place to be! And last but not least I would like to welcome all our old friends we see back in the community again …to you I say ‘we missed you’ and glad you came home :)

Happy reading & keep smiling

Till next time

Pauline

Editor


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WARZONE JUDY

 

The War Zone.

 One of my mother’s answers to my elder brother’s serious questions has been etched in my mind forever. He picked up his tea then said quietly. Tell us Ma. Tell the truth. What are the three best things in life? She thought for a while and said, "I suppose you expect me to say my three children but that is not really true. The best three things in life are without question, a devoted horse, a devoted dog and the finest guns that money can buy. They are, quite simply three things that will save your life and not let you down, if you treat them well."

My mother did go into a real war zone when she was just eighteen. She was an assistant to ambulance driver, who picked up wounded and dying men. She held their hands while they died. She said that is was not difficult, as most fell in love with her or thought she was an angel. She had courage to do a job like that but I would have quailed at the thought.

I am quite happy to enter a cyberspace war zone but that takes a different brand of courage. You have to be immune to verbal abuse and use the power of your pen to get cyberspace criminals arrested and jailed. I am a regular contributor to the TalkGold War

Zone and I wish that Adlandpro would open up a WarZone of its own to join the war against cyberspace criminals. It would be a different WarZone on a different front.
 

Pauline has shown courage and she has agreed to show her face in the TalkGold WarZone. If she gets into trouble, I know and she knows, that members of Adlandpro will not allow “Our Pauline” to loose her virtue or reputation in a foreign WarZone.

I am Pauline’s cheerleader. I have TalK Gold administrators amd moderators geared up to expect a beautiful lady from The Orient. Please listen to her signature tune.
 

Pauline's Arrival in The TalkGold War Zone.
 

Do you like the music announcing Pauline’s arrival in the War Zone? Who would you Adlanders wish to see behind bars. I am determined to have a few jailed before I die. If you have any cyberspace criminals that you would like to see in jail, please tell Pauline and not me. If you want to know how the battle against crime rages you can catch up with the news in one of the threads in the The TalkGold WarZone

And so we battle on to clean up the scum that spoils our cyberworld!

Judy Hortin

 
BEST FORUM AWARD
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2010

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GREAT ART OF THE WORLD

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2010

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2010

3rd Prize
A Place For Friends To Meet & Greet

 

 


C E N T E R
   S T A G E
 

In

Conversation

With

Renie, Founder ,

co founders following...

Balaganesh Director

 Communications,( people and culture) ,

 Anoop Director

 (marketing) ,

Karthik

 (Business Dev),

 Anwin

Director (Strategic Partnerships )

Talking to us on behalf of his team is BalaGanesh [ BG]

Pauline: Thank you for giving us the time & the privilege of this interview.

BG: Thank you Pauline for the opportunity. It’s our pleasure.

Pauline: When did this concept of IndiBloggers begin with you?

BG: The year was 2007. We have been blogging for more than 8 years and there are some really great blogs that were not being showcased because there were no platforms to bring them to the crowd. So we initially started a directory for all the bloggers of Indian origin. This later evolved into a social networking platform for Indian bloggers.

Pauline: What are the major challenges you face today?

BG: Bloggers are one of the most influential communities in the online space today and we are trying to connect them to various brands so that the corporate brands and the bloggers mutually get benefited in the process. Most of the bloggers are on board with the concept and are interested in participating in different brand activities and contribute, but not all the corporate brands have truly understood the value of Social media in India. But that is changing now, and more companies are taking the initiatives to directly get in touch with the community as they have started to understand that it’s this community that uses their products and they need to be involved and engaged consistently.

Pauline: What would you attribute your success to so far?

BG: Definitely the bloggers!!!! Without them we have no clue where we'd be.

Pauline: Who or what was it that inspired you the most through your journey thus far …how & why?

BG: More than whom it’s the what factor. It’s the concept of blogging and our active community that not just inspires us but also has shaped Indiblogger to what it is right now.

Pauline: how would you describe your team and what works for you all the best? Any advice for those out there building a team?

BG: We all are a sincere hardworking group...and we came together for a good cause. Hence we are a 'team'...everyone in our team has leadership qualities in their respective practice areas so one does not need to look over the others tasks. We all know and understand our responsibilities well. For a good team to work effectively, the objectives have to be clear to all the team members, initial resources & design provided, a good communication protocol within the team is an absolute must.

Pauline: About recession, how could we not talk about it…every internet marketer has suffered the brunt of it…how did you cope?

BG: Well, we surely have had our share of downs, but we knew that recession was just another reason for bloggers to blog about and we tried to focus more on bringing in more engagement products like IndiRanking system, Indimail etc.

Pauline: On a lighter note I just have to ask this … What are you guys like on a day at home, yes that’s when you aren’t working?

BG: Well, our entire team is a huge fan of Rock. We spend our time on good movies, books, PC games, Partying etc.

Pauline: Is there anything in particular that you would like to say to our readers?

BG: Keep blogging!!!!!!!!!!!

Well folks that was our IndiTeam for you, we wish them every success and loads of happy bloggers !!!!

WATCH THIS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM

http://blog.indiblogger.in/category/the-team/




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FROM THE DESK OF ALAIN DEGUIRE

ADLANDPRO’S GOODWILL AMBASSADOR

 

Meet our Goodwill Ambassador - Alain Deguire

Alain Geguire

AdlandPro is on a roll with now well over 100,000 members and, in my opinion, this is just the beginning. Looking at all the changes made by our Great Friend and CEO Bogdan, we are in a position to handle many more members and looking forward to a great expansion and a very bright future. And, this growth can only be beneficial to all of us - the AdlandPro members.

While Evidence shows us that we are here on a Business Site - within a Business Community, we can also greatly appreciate all the efforts being made to make this place the Best Community on the Internet…

This is why we have Features like the « Person of the Week (POTW) » or the « Best Forum Award (BFA) » in which we recognize members for their positive contribution or participation within the community; and, this is so greatly appreciated by many of us here.

NOW, Great News… As we have seen a New Beginning of the POTW with Barry, a New Beginning of the BFA with Pauline, we are now observing a New Beginning of the «Goodwill Ambassador Forum» with Alain, Your Humble Servant.

YES!!!!!!! That was quite a Surprise when Bogdan talked to me about it. At first, I was hesitant… then, he made me realized that I would simply keep on doing similar things to those I am already doing within the Community, such as « The Welcoming Club » forum but, to a different extent. So, here I Am! I feel so deeply honored that Bogdan thought of me and, I am so very proud of accepting this new challenge and responsibility.

There are already so many Great Things being done here within this community, that we often times hear by many members that this is the Best Place to be on the Internet. I have so many ideas that I wish to work on with all of you here, either in complementing or in orchestrating different activities, so that Together we always Make Better this Wonderful Community…

My Aim is to Support our AdlandPro Members…

In Every Possible Ways and,

In all the Diversity of their Needs and Objectives!

AdlandPro is « The Place To Be »

To FEEL GOOD

And Get the BEST RESULTS!

INSIGHTS
We will have a monthly guest writer from Adland sharing their thoughts and insights with us.
Dear Adland Friends,

This is such an honour, to write here in the Community Gazette. And what can I say that is at least interesting to you?

Pauline suggested art, one of the things that I most delight in; so let it be art. But not just the art of the great masters of the past which is the theme of my main forum here in Adland, but that kind of art that we can see everywhere in our daily lives if only we have the eyes to perceive it.

I mean the art in the clouds and the trees and shrubs, in the birds and flowers, even in the simple things that all about us are always waiting to be appreciated. Art like you can see in the smile illuminating the face of anyone that happens to walk by you in the street.

Art is omnipresent, art is everywhere. You see, wherever there is beauty, there is art to be seen. Indeed, there are so many beautiful things on this beautiful earth of us that we may take solace in.

And lo, they are all of a far better kind of art than anything we can produce!

True, there are so many ugly things out there assaulting our senses. Like more and more garbage in the streets and the cacophony that is increasingly becoming part of our lives.

But then, these things are not the creation of God. I am afraid we have created them ourselves.

So let us promise ourselves and God to collaborate on His, and not our, creation.

And if after this you still wish to see my art forum, please go here: http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/forum/18859/GREATARTOFTHEWORLD.aspx

Or if you would care for a forum of an altogether different sort, please visit here: http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/forum/536923/CosmicReligionandtheNewAge.aspx

Come to think of it, is there any Social Network other than Adland where you can participate in a forum dealing with art or with the coming New Age?

Love you all,

Luis Miguel Goitizolo


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