It’s time for the completely shameless monthly exercise in subjective measures of greatness…the Most Influential Blogger post. Winners get complimentary Blogs of Fire T-Shirts.
This list changes quite a bit from month-to-month, and ranking by cumulative score allows for a better picture of my most influential bloggers.Year-to-date rankings for the blogger of the year are accumulated from month to month. As this is the first ranking of the year, we are beginning with a clean slate.
1) Shel Israel - Consciousness in a time when every marketer on earth is trying to figure out social media to make money. Shel offers a voice of reason and experience when we most need it. He has been my favorite read for some time.
2) Wkinomics (team) - Continuous and intelligent coverage about the ongoing social media revolution. This is the best blog about social media from an executive management trend perspective. If Read/Write Web is too geeky for you, check out Wikinomics.
3) B.L. Ochman - At a time when PR bloggers seem redundant, B.L. offers a breath of fresh air. I wouldn’t call her a PR blogger though, especially after her recent run-ins with PR Week. Anyway, lots of great insights into social media with B.L.
4) Ignite Social Media (Tobin and McNeil) - A great team blog with outstanding insights into marketing, backed with stats and figures. I always look forward to a new piece from this North Carolina-based blog team.
5) Chris Brogan - Ahh, grasshopper. Always on, always thinking about his community. It’s hard not to get something from Chris Brogan’s blog. Chris is a regular on the monthly most influential list.
And the 2008 rankings begin!
- Shel Israel - 5 points
- Wikinomics - 4 points
- B.L. Ochman - 3 points
- Ignite Social Media - 2 points
- Chris Brogan - 1 point
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Geoff, I am honored by your extremely kind words. Thanks so much. Just one thing: I already have a Blogs of Fire T-Shirt. What I could really use is a nice new Mercedes Benz. What do you say?
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I’m going to work towards getting Shel’s tee shirt then. : ) I’ll have to make some more posts that speak to marketing and PR types (and finish my slides), and then maybe… : )
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I’d like to start off by thanking my mother, my wife, my children… hee hee
Seriously, Geoff, Lisa and I are sincerely flattered. We’ll try to continue to live up to it!
~Jim
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Geoff - thank you for not calling me a PR blogger. don’t know how i got stuck with that tag. :>)
and I am honored by your kind words. I’ll keep trying to win a t-shirt.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:53 am
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