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Quick Summary: You are invited to join SocialPundit, a collaborative wiki-based community for social media practitioners in India, where we track trends and resources on the evolving social media landscape in India.

I’m delighted to invite you to join SocialPundit, a collaborative wiki-based community for social media practitioners in India.

What is the need for SocialPundit?

As I started tracking social media trends and resources in India, I felt the need to create an easily accessible master-resource on social media in India.

When I made a small start in this direction by compiling two directories — list of social media agencies in India and list of marketing, public relations and social media blogs in India — I received several requests to share them in the form of a wiki. I listened, and the result is SocialPundit.

What is the purpose of SocialPundit?

To start with, the SocialPundit wiki will track trends and resources on social media in India.

Over time, I can see SocialPundit playing an active role in evangelizing social media in India by organizing events and workshops on a non-profit basis.

Quick Summary: Gauravonomics Blog is featured on the Social Media dashboard at Guy Kawasaki’s “digital magazine rack” of the Internet Alltop.

Maverick investor Guy Kawasaki has been involved in several interesting startups of late (Truemors), but Alltop is the one I really like.

Basically, Alltop has a number of sub-sites, or dashboards, focused on a narrow vertical. Each dashboard features the headlines of five most recent stories from 30-50 top blogs and websites for that topic. When you place the cursor over a headline, it displays part of the story so that you can decide if you’d like to read it.

You can think of an Alltop site as a “dashboard,” “table of contents,” or even a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. To be clear, Alltop sites are starting points — they are not destinations per se. The bottom line is that we are trying to enhance your online reading by both displaying stories from the sites that you’re already visiting and helping you discover sites that you didn’t know existed. (link)

Quick Summary: A number of good quality marketing, public relations & social media blogs in India form a mature niche now.

I recently compiled my list of social media agencies in India to highlight the high level of activity I’m suddenly seeing in that niche.

Another related area where I’m suddenly seeing very high level of good quality activity is in the marketing, public relations & social media blogs niche in India.

Not very long back, I had mentioned that Gauravonomics Blog was one of the five Indian blogs on the AdAge Power150 list. Today, as many as fifteen Indian blogs can be on that list.

The blogs included in this list are not only written by marketing, public relations, or social media practitioners, they are also focused on these topics. Blogs on unrelated topics written by marketing, public relations, or social media practitioners are not included in the list.

The main objective of the list is to develop a sense of community in the niche. This is the reason why I have added blogger profiles on Facebook/ LinkedIn/ Twitter wherever possible. This is also the reason why I have structured this list alphabetically (by author name) and not as a ranking. Agency blogs and multi-author blogs are listed separately.