What I Learned From 2008 – Arun Rajagopal
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Guest post by Arun Rajagopal who writes over at Arun Rajagopal
I learnt a lot of things via blogging in 2008 – from creating video mashups to writing profiles, from covering events to analyzing media, from writing a chapter in a collaborative marketing book to presenting a keynote. I guess learning never stops, once you are committed to it!
January – The Best of Indian Railways Two video mashups that capture my travels on Indian Railways.
February – Oman Air – The New Wings of Oman Showcasing my advertising work of rebranding an airline.
March – The Who’s Who of Blogger Social’ 08 Spilling the beans on the who’s who attending Blogger Social’08.
April – Interesting Conversations from Blogger Social ’08 Reflections from attending Blogger Social’08.
May – My Media Diet: Arun Rajagopal Analyzing my media diet.
June – Here’s to 25 My reflections on turning 25.
July – The Secrets of Leadership: Nelson Mandela Learning the secrets of leadership from the life of Nelson Mandela.
August – Finally, Golden Glory for India India achieves a rare distinction. Winning a gold medal at the Olympic Games.
September – A Day at Bar Camp San Antonio My experiences about attending a BarCamp for the first time.
October – How Cool is Age of Conversation 2 How cool is it to be part of a collaborative marketing book that is authored by 237 bloggers from 15 nations across the globe?
November – It’s Obama Time Finally, change visits America. How Twitter reacted to the election of President Obama.
December – Speaking at the New Media Event, Dubai My first ever keynote at The New Media Event, Dubai. I spoke on corporate blogging and how important it is to LISTEN, OBSERVE, LEARN, BE HUMAN and TRY TO GIVE VALUE in social media.
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Arun Rajagopal is an advertising copywriter in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman who is passionate about the world, social media, travel, trains and coffee.
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The Secrets of Leadership – Nelson Mandela was my favorite.
What can I say, I’m a fan of leadership.
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I like the November posts’ “It’s Obama Time”. I enjoyed reading the reactions of people via Twitter. I like how Arun complied the Twitterers’ reactions into one blog post. I like Obama, too…and I hope change will indeed come to America.