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The #Sapling Project Is Back

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sapling The #Sapling Project Is BackThe #Sapling Project is a mission, to plant and share plant saplings. This initiative was taken by two Mumbaikars, Satish Vijaykumar and Ranjeetsinh Walunjpatil. The samplings are given away for free of cost to the participants, nurture them and must monitor the health and progress of the #sapling for at least 2 years.

The next #sapling project is happening on 6th June 2010 in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Thane and New Mumbai. You can be a part of this project by planting a #sapling, Sponsor a #sapling or both.

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Ethnic Day

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Ethnic Day is a celebration denoting the ways of sharing cultural characteristics and traditionality. At Oxford, we celebrated the day with so much fun and enthusiasm. When I reached college, I thought I landed up in Kerala. Damn! I could see a huge group of Keralites in their traditional dress. I just smiled and ran inside. Girls were looking pretty in their sarees and guys were looking smart in their kurthas. Everyone were busy admiring each other and clicking photos. Our lecturers grew mad as were roving around. Like we cared.

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Our lab was supposed to start at 9:30, but we took our own sweet time and entered the lab at 10:15 :P As we entered, it was like hell in there. AC’s were turned off  and we were literally sweating. But that didn’t bother us much as we continued clicking snaps inside the lab itself ;) :P I couldn’t take the heat anymore and I just walked out pulling 3 of my  friends to the so called cafetería to have a cup of coffee. This temporary canteen sucks big time!

After wasting a lot of time and playing around near the canteen, we got back to the lab and started the photo session again :P Few were playing Counter Strike and few were honestly executing the programs. As our lab ended, we decided to go out and celebrate the day coz our college management didn’t encourage us to celebrate it inside the college. So, we headed to a Chinese restaurant and had our lunch. It was very hot, so I changed my kurtha and wore a t-shirt. Yes, I did carry a t-shirt with me. We then headed to Mc Donalds and it was the best time we had. Thanks to Shruthi and Arun for cracking their stupid jokes and making us laugh our heads off! (If they both start laughing, I bet you can’t control your laughter. Crazy people :P )

It was overall a great day. Thanks to our seniors for making this day happen :)

Official Launch of Darkwater Digital

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logo Official Launch of Darkwater DigitalThe wait is finally over! :-D I’ve been so eager and excited to put the word out but the launch date was stopping me from doing so…

But now, I’m even more excited and I feel like I’m on top of the world. Its because, today we have officially launched Darkwater Digital – Redefining PR 2.0 a digital communications firm.

What is Darkwater Digital?

Darkwater Digital is a digital communications firm that specializes in strategic online campaigns aimed at leveraging the internet and Web 2.0 to achieve a high recall quotient of your brand. Darkwater specializes in building your brand comprehensively online, and is strategically poised to deliver your product directly to your customers globally. Online reputation management is an area overlooked by most businesses, which could make or break the business.

Darkwater Digital, with its elite team of technology experts and highly-networked bloggers will ensure that your brand achieves the right kind of publicity among the online audience. We build businesses, not just brands.

Our Mission:

LISTEN to what your customers and competitors are saying.

BUILD your image and presence online through active social engagements.

MANAGE your online reputation with the best passive-aggressive outlook.

How did it all start?

It was all Nikhil‘s idea of starting this firm. One night he called me and said, “Dude, can you come down to my office tomorrow? I wanna talk to you about the firm”. Earlier that night he had mailed me saying that he’d like to start a firm and wanted me to partner with him. Without any hesitations I said “Yes!”

I headed to Nikhil’s office the next day and he explained to me everything. I WAS HELL EXCITED!!!! :D :D We registered the domain on April 4th, 2009 and started with our work. Thanks to Nikhil, he got Darkwater a pretty good number of clients and we did have a blast. Work pressure was increasing as clients were flowing in.  But, we somehow managed it. The best part is, Darkwater had its first international client and we were damn happy about that.

After so much of progress in no time, we had planned to launch Darkwater Digital on June 1st 2009. But, due to some unavoidable conditions we had to drop it or rather reschedule it for today. (Again, Nikhil sent me a surprise SMS saying that, “Dude, Darkwater Digital is officially launched today!”)

Phew! That was so much. Never have I been so happy and excited and have written such a big post :-P

Me on Bangalore Mirror and Times of India! w00t!!!

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Me on cloud9 :D My previous blog post, Bangalore Tweetup and Photo Walk was published in Bangalore Mirror. Here’s the a shot of it :) Thanks to Balu for publishing it :)

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And that’s not it! I was on Times of India too! That’s a huge thing for me :D We are a group on Flickr called Bangalore Photo Walk (BPW) and we host weekend photo walks in and around Bangalore. I happened to contact Nirmala, a journal at TOI and introduced our BPW group to her. She shared all the details with the Editor and the Editor asked me to form a group of 6 and asked the 6 of us go to different places in Bangalore and capture some interesting shots at the same time. In the sense, we were supposed to go to different places individually and click some shots at one particular (same) time. The time and the place was all our choice. So, we planned on it and decided to go on 23rd July, 2009 (It was my mom’s birthday that day :) ). We started our walk at 10:30am in the morning and completed it by 12 noon. Unfortunately, one out of the 6 dropped coz of unavoidable conditions and we were only 5 of us.

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