{"id":16,"date":"2011-07-27T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/books\/copyrightandleft\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2015-12-30T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T12:34:12","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/author\/","title":{"rendered":"Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiruba Shankar\u00a0is CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/businessblogging.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Business Blogging<\/a> and Director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.f5ive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">F5ive Technologies<\/a>. He has 15 years of experience in the Internet space. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com.<\/p>\n<p>This book, \u2018Copy Right and Left: Understanding Creative Commons\u2019 is his latest book. His first book is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kribs\/4595231682\/sizes\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Wikipedia : A Beginner\u2019s Guide\u2019<\/a> and his second is titled, \u2018<a title=\"Unconference Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unconference.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unconference : Why the Audience is Cleverer than the Speaker<\/a>\u2018. He is parallely working on two more titles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kribs\/4594619771\/sizes\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Crowdsourcing Tweet\u2019<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kribs\/4594651239\/sizes\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Personal Branding Tweet\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has authored technology columns at T<em>he New Indian Express<\/em>, <em>Business Standard<\/em> and <em>Financial Express<\/em>. He was an official blogger for NASSCOM and IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India).<\/p>\n<p>For two years, he sat on the advisory board of <a href=\"http:\/\/rangde.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">RangDe<\/a>, a microfinance initiative supported by ICICI Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Kiruba loves teaching and teaches at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianmedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian College of Journalism<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adclubmadras.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madras Advertising Club<\/a>. He has lectured on Social Media at IIM Kozhikode, IIM Bangalore and IIT Madras.<\/p>\n<p>Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behind successful events like BlogCamp and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.proto.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Proto.in<\/a>, a premiere event showcasing startups.<\/p>\n<p>Kiruba is the Ambassador for TEDx program for India. He has helped organize\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxchennai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TEDxChennai<\/a>. He is the curator of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cerebrate.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cerebrate.in<\/a>, an international event for achievers.<\/p>\n<p>He is a professional podcaster and hosts\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kiruba.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kiruba.TV<\/a> where he interviews CEOs of Indian IT companies. <em>Business World<\/em> magazine ranks his blog\u00a0<a href=\"..\/..\/..\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kiruba.com<\/a> as one of India\u2019s top blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Kiruba is a rowing champion and has captained the Sify Rowing Team to four championship titles. He has participated in Chennai and Bangalore marathons and lived to tell this tale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/contributors\/\">View the Contributors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiruba Shankar\u00a0is CEO of\u00a0Business Blogging and Director of\u00a0F5ive Technologies. He has 15 years of experience in the Internet space. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com. This book, \u2018Copy Right and Left: Understanding Creative Commons\u2019 is his latest book. His first book is titled \u2018Wikipedia : A Beginner\u2019s Guide\u2019 and his second is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}