Tamil Blog Camp 2007 held at Madras University Tamil Department Auditorium on 5th August 2007 saw 400+ visitors from various walks of life from 70 years elder to 5 year old Kids to know about blogging in Tamil with tools like e-kalappai, tamilnet 99 to write Tamil in blogs, creating blogger account, wordpress account, creating email ids and lot about blogging. The meeting was organized by a group of Tamil blogger community with contributions from tamil bloggers all over the world and few advertisers like Thamizmanam.com, Headway Properties, maatru.net, Lynus Academy, Sify Tamil , Hello FM etc.,About 130 Students of Madras University Tamil Department too had wonderful time in having knowing the Tech savvy way of writing Tamil and their thoughts in Tamil.
The Camp had Wi-Fi connectivity, with Class Rooms with 20 odd computers to teach basic blogging in Two Halls. TV/Magazine Editor Mr. Malan was on the Prominent participant in the camp.
The Blog Camp organisers did provided bunch of freebies for the visitors like Conference pad, Pen, CDs of Useful Software and tools for tamil blogging in a CD, Help manual for Starters in Tamil Blogging along with a Key Chain from Hello FM in a Fancy Eco friendly Recycled Paper Bag ;)
A Team of organisers headed by Ma.Sivakumar, Vicky alias Vignesh, Pons Alias Poorna, Balabarathi had done a excellent team work along with bunch of volunteers from blogger community to make the Tamil Bloggers camp Successful.
The Tamil Blog Camp 2007 had a good coverage in Press. The Indian Express carried the news on the Headline in the First Page itself on August 6th 2007.
CNN-IBN too gave a 10 Mins programme on 6th August as well it did had it in news for the whole day and www.IBNLIVE.com also casted the news in both Video and Text format.
Jaya TV is charting a 15 Mins Programme about this Tamil Blog Camp 2007 by 13th August 2007 in its morning Edition called "Kalai Malar".
