What started as an idea at The Viral Garden by Mack Collier, has gone, well, viral and has earned its own Squidoo zlist where voting for your favorite blog has never been easier. I made the list early thanks to Drew McLellan of The Marketing Minute.
If you have a Squidoo account, you can go and vote for your favorite blog. As Mack did, I also noticed that many 'famous' blogs started making the list. We all read them, we all know them, now maybe their authors will begin to know the rest of us. Linking to the famous is like hiring IBM, let's take a chance on discovering the talent behind all the others.
[Note: I encourage you to read the FAQs at Squidoo and learn why it is a good idea to create a business and nonprofit lens. We will be spreading the word on the Fast Company readers' network listserv in Philadelphia next.]
Now the link love with one assignment for each of the bloggers listed below:
- Go find three (3) blogs you do not know -- I stand behind the initial meme launched to make the less known shine -- meet the person behind the blog, and figure out a way to help them with a project, an idea, or a new connection in 2007. Make something happen, together.
And now, here's Z ways:
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Andy Nulman
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Darren Barefoot
Two Hat Marketing
The Engaging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
Conversation Agent
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Carpe Factum
Steve’s 2 Cents
Simplicity
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Make it Great!
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
Urban Jacksonville
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
Jeremy Latham’s Blog
SMogger Social Media Blog
Masey.com
37 Days
A Clear Eye
Alex Halavais
Blog Brothers
Brand Autopsy
Brand Soul
Crossroads Dispatches
Drawn
eHub
gillianic tendencies
Good Experience
Hitchhikers Guide to the Blogosphere
Hobopoet
How to Save the World
Josh Hallett
Joy of Six
Learned on Women
Listics
my topography
New Charm School
Occupational Adventure
Orbit Now
Pause
PureLand Mountain
Simplicity
Songs of Experience
Talking Story
Time Goes By
Tomorrow Today
WonderBranding
World Changing
Tertiary Education
Joyful Jubilant Learning
Creative Think
8wishes
Movie Marketing Madness
Blog Till You Drop!
Get Shouty!
One Reader at a Time
100 Bloggers
Critical Fluff
The New PR
Own Your Brand!
OTOInsights
bizandbuzz
Work, in Plain English
Buzz Canuck
New Millenium PR
Pardon My French
The Instigator Blog
AENDirect
Diva Marketing
Marketing Hipster
The Marketing Minute
Funny Business
The Frager Factor
Mindblob
OrbitNow!
Open The Dialogue
Word Sell
Note to CMO:
That’s Great Marketing!
Shotgun Marketing Blog
This is just a list, albeit a really good one. Relationships are a contact sport. I already picked my three (actually it's more than 3 for me) I'd like to get to know better. If you're ever in the Philadelphia area, or planning a visit, make sure you let me know so we can meet for coffee, lunch or drinks. I am heavily in favor of making things happen.