Alpesh Nakar's Blog

 

That’s right, I am is Seoul and blogging from HYATT Regency. I board Korean Airlines flight to Chicago in couple of hours. I would like to meet you, if you are in US. Please use my contact form and lets meet.

To know more about my trip and the schedule, you can check out my personal trip blog here. It’s been setup but no content, since I have just started this trip.

There are couple of posts – like 100% SharePoint Unattended MOSS Installation Series that needs to be published – that have been sitting in draft for last couple of weeks, will be published over this coming holidays.

If you want to write for this blog or would like to share your content, please contact me.

This month of October 2007, has been really very good. As can be seen here, number of visitors nearly doubled from 5,554 to 10,667 (as of Oct 31, 2007 morning)

This boost is attributed to SharePoint Blogs Mirrored feeds. Big thanks to Dustin Miller for this. It gives my SharePoint content more exposure.

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I would like to thank my rss readers for continued patronage. If you would have noticed, Google has noticed my blog and slammed me with PR 2. Ah well, what can you do? Slam Dunk! Abusing it’s power. I don’t want to express my opinion in this post. Let’s keep it for some other day.

An important announcement – coming in tomorrow. Stay tuned.

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Dear Readers,

I have been away most of last 45 days. I have tried to catch up and post regularly but just haven’t been able to…. Expecting to resume next week. Will keep us all posted. Until then….  browse through google or vista or sharepoint posts….

Blogging leads to socialising and I am one happy mate! I made so many new friends. Some linked back to my posts, some raved and some mentioned me, whilst some pimped the blog! All in all we all are one community. Thank you all.

Blogroll:

Amit Agarwal – Digital Inspiration

Kanwal Khipple – SharePointBuzz

Darshan Patil – WorkTheMoney

Lorelle – Lorelle on WordPress

MyBLog Community Members - thank you.

1. PC Here – Quick Online Tips
2. Ved – Veds70mm
3. Douglas Karr
4. ilkeryoldas
5. Rudi – BluesDiary
6. Rishi Raj
7. Abhishek Bhatnagar – Technix Update
8. topaix
9. enginerd
10. Blogpond
11. GarvinHardin
12. jeketb
13. EvertonBlair
14. Adamoklah
15. Wamylove
16. AKTION
17. AntiCracker
18. MimiLenox
19. veeravalli
20. esofthub
21. blogosquare
22. Euripidis
23. SSA
24. wwsuccess
25. VahidChaychi
26. aoleon
27. debojitc
28. GregLaden
29. bibby
30. MEZICAR
31. Romik84
32. sfod223
33. Zath
34. LoveTechno
35. bomberchia
36. jake3991
37. Nirmal
38. Bitter_Tonic
39. chemstudioster
40. sindhu
41. oliezekat

Directory Links:

IndiaCounts

SharePointFeeds

SharePointReporter

India Blogs Directory

Connected Internet Directory

BUMPZee - Australian Blog Community

2K BLoggers Network

UBSquare

….will keep updating

And going strong! This blog has survived 365 days in the blogosphere! Hooray!!

It’s my blog’s first birthday! Yes, it’s been a year since I started blogging. In this one year, I have learnt a lot. I started blogging primarily to network. I was right. With so many social networks springing up around the web, I jumped in at the right time. I started blogging to make something out of my name, sharing my passion and make new friends. Which I have done over this one year of my blogging.

I believe not everyone is 100% and there’s always a lot of learning that happens. Over this one year, I have not rubbed anyone on the wrong side. At least, no one has contacted me, writing to me that I have done something that I should not have.

Infact, I have made many new web friends and look forward to being in touch with them over the coming years. I may even end up meeting them, never know.

It sure has been very encouraging for me to continue blogging. Over the 12 months, I have received much kudos for some of my posts – mostly on SharePoint, which is I strongly believe is a great collaborative tool. If you have been following my blog, you can clear see my niche in writing for SharePoint as I learn. I read large number of feeds on SharePoint and I admit that I have learnt a lot, but sometimes I miss reading and learning the IT professional side of SharePoint. It’s more on developer side and I am not a coder or a designer (hence the homemade picture that you see above), I must say.

In my endeavor to deliver to that side of IT professional, I have been featured, linked and recognized in many newsletters, blogs and blog directories. This blog has gone from zero (always a start at that) to 140 and I have not shied away from displaying the feedburner chicklet . There is nothing to be shy off. I won’t take that away for sure for new blogs that I am planning…

A lot of IT and in particular SharePoint feed aggregators pick up my blog feeds. In addition to that I know a lot of bloggers and IT professional’s like you have subscribed to my blog and have since commented on my blog, encouraging me to keep writing – a commitment from my end – despite a year where I had to rush back to my sick son, my dad back in India and in between my studies. I personally extend my thanks to each and every one of you for your continued patronage.

In this birthday week, I will be featuring

• My Blog’s Stats for this year from Google Analytics, Feedburner and Reinvirogate.
• My top posts (that I feel are tops),
• Popular posts,
• My new friends,
• Themes that this blog has skinned,
• My plugins and
• My write up for every new blogger – must do’s – that I have learnt.
• My plans for the second year.

Stay tuned to see how I have managed to stay afloat in this blogosphere.
Until then…

UPDATE: It should have read Minutes and not Hours! I have corrected that Wonder why no one calculated this 356x24x60

Yahoo!!! And I am at work…. geeezzzz… Ain’t I committed to work

It so happens that I working on a dream project. Developing Intranets in Schools using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3 and we are (as is with any project) very short on timelines. We go live on June 01 2007 and to take a day off is seriously not an option for me.

I am just over 30+ and that’s one year less… At 30+, I am doing well in terms of family, financially and healthwise.

I am not looking forward to anything in terms of gifts for the day, since my wife and my son have given me what no one could – lots of love and support – from day one since we migrated here in Australia.

Milestone I have achieved in my life so far (with my family)

1. Migration to Australia – May 2003
2. First Job at Ironside State School – July 2003
3. Enrolled in Masters of Business Administration & Masters of Information Technology – QUT – July 2003 
4. Moved to Current Employer – September 2004
5. Purchased first home (withing 3K of Brisbane CBD) – April 2005
6. Naturalised as Australian Citizen – January 2006
7. Purchased second home ( within 2K of Brisbane CBD) – January 2007
8. Celebrated Wife’s Graduation as a Teacher - March 2007
9. Secured job as Senior Project Officer to develop intranets in school on SharePoint! – April 2007
10. … (Secret )

That’s quite a lot Well, I am going to be spending some quite time with my family today evening at a swank India Restaurant here in Brisbane, unless my wife has some other plans

Thought, I’d share some of my life-line with you guys and gals.

If you haven’t received one yet, please use contact form to request one. Once you have got the invite, please pass it on to others.

I have sent out at least 25 invites and am dying to give more

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