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A few months back, I had compiled two lists to help define the social media scene in India — a list of marketing, public relations and social media blogs in India and a list of social media agencies in India.

Now, Sampad Swain has taken the idea further by compiling a ranking of social media blogs in India, using a combination of metrics — Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Number of Feed Subscribers, Technorati Authority and his own qualitative assessment (Sampad’s Rank).

I appreciate the hard work Sampad has put into the list (and it’s flattering to be ranked first), but I personally believe that blog rankings are premature for the India social media scene. Blog rankings are useful as filters when there are hundreds (or thousands) of blogs. As of now, there are only twenty odd social media blogs in India, so, focusing on rankings will make some people defensive and detract from what we need to do — build a community by highlighting each other’s work.

As promised, here are my top ten resources on social 2.0 or how to use social media for social change —

- Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant who writes about the effective use of social media tools in the nonprofit sector to enable social change.

- NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network

NTEN is a community of nonprofit organizations that aims to help them to use technology more effectively via it’s blog, webinars, newsletters, conferences, events, research and online community.

- Net Squared: Remixing the Web for Social Change

Net Squared is another community of nonprofit organizations that helps them use technology via its blog, online community, events, conferences and mashup challenges.

- BlogHer Social Change Section

Posts on social change, non-profits and NGOs by women bloggers at BlogHer.

- TechSoup: The Technology Place for Nonprofits

TechSoup.org offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support

- NPTech

NPTech is a resource developed by Peter Campbell that aggregates nonprofit technology information from across the internet.

It seems that I’m not the only one putting up goals on my blog.

Alex Shalman has started a Gotta Get Goals meme and blogging biggies like Liz Strauss have joined in.

Consider yourself tagged.

Also see - Aaron Potts.

Cross-posted as a guest-post on Melody’s blog.

The voice in my head is telling me that it’s time to begin a new life.

As I move into a new role at work, in a new financial year, almost thirty months away from my thirtieth birthday, my thoughts turn to the questions I have often asked myself -

- What is the purpose of my life?
- What do I really want to do with it?
- What will I leave behind when I’m done?

As always, I don’t have answers to any of these questions. I don’t know the purpose of my life, or what I want to do with it, or what I’ll leave behind when I’m done. What I do know is that I haven’t done enough with my life, not nearly enough.

Sometimes, I think of a fat, ugly, awkward twelve year old boy I once knew. He studied in a Hindi-medium government school at one godforsaken end of Patna, read Chacha Choudhary comic books in Hindi, and struggled to put together one sensible sentence in English. He wore thick glasses in a cheap plastic frame, hand-me-down ill-fitting too-short shorts, and white-and-blue rubber slippers from Bata. He watched Chitrahaar on Doordarshan and third grade Hindi movies on a black and white TV with his parents. He sucked at sports, stammered when he spoke to girls and was bullied by his classmates for being the teachers’ pet. That totally pathetic boy was me.