25 Blogs To Help You Stay Current With Social Media
Posted November 24, 2009 in How-To, Tools/Resources 107 Comments »
Most of us agree that social media is valuable — but keeping up with the latest trends can be difficult given the speed at which social media is growing and changing.
The big sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are easy to folllow, but there are many others that often get ignored such as Docstoc, Scribd, Slideshare. With all the different platforms, it’s hard to be able to keep up with everything that is new.
In this post we’ve listed 25 of the best social media blogs out there. Read through some of these blogs and you’ll quickly find yourself getting an edge in the social media world.
25 Social Media Blogs You Should Read
Here are 25 social media blogs that you should read. Some keep you current on new trends and others give you advice on how to leverage social media to your advantage.
I’ve included an excerpt from each blog’s about page to give you an idea as to what to expect from them. This list isn’t a ranking of social media blogs, so these are listed in no particular order.
- Mashable – Founded in July 2005, Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. With more than 12.5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web and offering social media resources and guides.
- Social Media Explorer – Social Media Explorer is the online home and blog of Social Media Explorer LLC, of which Jason Falls serves as principal. Falls has established himself as one of the leading thinkers in the social media, public relations and communications industries.
- Social Media Today – Social Media Today LLC helps global organizations create purpose-built B2B social communities designed to achieve specific, measurable corporate goals by engaging exactly the customers and prospects you most want to reach.
- Chris Brogan – Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds on his blog. His blog is in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati. He is co-author of the book Trust Agents.
- Dosh Dosh – Dosh Dosh is a blog offering internet marketing and blogging tips, alongside social media strategies. Best consumed by bloggers, entrepreneurs, web publishers, marketers, freelancers and small business owners.
- 10e20 – 10e20 is a New York-based Internet marketing company specializing in Social Media Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. Founded in 2002 in Brooklyn, NY by Chris Winfield and Danielle Lanzillo.
- PR 2.0 – Brian Solis is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning PR and New Media agency in Silicon Valley. Solis is globally recognized for his views and insights on the convergence of PR, Traditional Media and Social Media. Considered one of the original thought leaders who paved the way for Social Media and PR 2.0, Solis is co-founder of the Social Media Club.
- Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni is a professional marketer with 20 years of real-world corporate experience, 10 of which online, across a broad array of mid-to-large sized companies. Hands-on work at a Fortune 500 technology company, a technology start-up, in health care, chemical manufacturing, risk management consulting, and the non-profit sector have provided her with a wealth of experience and insights.
- Scott Monty – Scott is a marketing and communications professional focused on the digital industry — specifically on social media. His career spans a number of industries such as healthcare, pharma, biotech, travel, automotive, tech, and communications, and includes a wide range of clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
- Chris G – Chrisg.com is where Chris posts daily (or thereabouts) thoughts and advice on the business of new media, blogging and online marketing. The aim is to teach you ways you can create compelling resources, provide your audience more value, build trust and loyalty, and generate more rewards for yourself.
- Altitude Branding – Amber Naslund is a social media and marketing crackerjack and the Director of Community for Radian6, where she’s responsible for client engagement, community building, and helping companies tap the potential of online reputation management, customer engagement, and social media monitoring.
- Successful-Blog – Liz is a social web strategist and community builder. Coming from a background of publishing, business, and instructional design, Liz understands how people perceive a blog, a product, and an experience — how the head and heart engage to make a fiercely loyal customer.
- Techipedia – Tamar Weinberg is a freelance writer and author of The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web (O’Reilly, July 2009) who specializes in social media consulting and strategy, blogger outreach, reputation management, and search engine marketing (SEO, link building, and Pay Per Click Marketing).
- Very Official Blog – Shannon Paul works as the communications manager for PEAK6 Online, parent company of OptionsHouse.com, OptionsNewsNetwork (ONN.tv), and WeSeed.com. Here she oversees the integration of social media communication into PR and marketing strategies for the company’s three brands, including an online retail stock and options broker, a web-based options news and education site, and an online community that allows people to learn about the stock market through investing in virtual stock portfolios.
- Instigator Blog – Benjamin Yoskovitzis the CEO & co-Founder of Standout Jobs, a venture-backed startup founded in 2007. He is also a blog and social media consultant. This blog is where he expresses his thoughts on startups, entrepreneurship and business, as well as diving into social media, blogging and online communities.
- All Facebook – AllFacebook.com is a blog that was started by Nick O’Neill. The purpose of the blog is to cover all issues pertaining to Facebook including new applications, general news, and analysis about the future of Facebook.
- SmartBrief On SocialMedia – SmartBrief is a media company on a mission to save you time and keep you smart. The premise behind SmartBrief is simple: there’s too much information out there and too little time in the day to read it all. Their editors hand-pick the most relevant and important news from all over, summarize it, link to the original sources and deliver it — for FREE — in one-stop-shop e-newsletters.
- Web-Strategist – As a Web Strategist Jerimiah Owyang strives to define and deliver user and community needs, business goals, and web technology to craft and deliver long term successful web programs for companies.
- Collective Thoughts – Each member of Collective Thoughts are a known or rising star in their own field, but they also have a passion and unique understanding on social media. Together, they make up Collective Thoughts.
- Dan Zarrella – Dan Zarrella is an award-winning social, search, and viral marketing scientist and author of the upcoming O’Reilly media book “The Social Media Marketing Book”. He has a background in web development and combines his programming capabilities with a passion for social marketing to create applications.
- Social Times – Social Times is founded by Nick O’ Neill. He is an industry expert on the social networking industry, providing no holds bar commentary and insightful analysis on social networking and social media. He speaks at conferences nationwide and has been written about in multiple national publications.
- Brent Csutoras – Brent Csutoras is an Internet Marketing Consultant who specializes in Social Media, Viral linkbait and Search Engine Marketing.
- Twitip – TwiTip is a blog all about Twitter. It covers Twitter Tips of all varieties including Writing for Twitter, Branding, Growing a Following, Corporate Tweeting and a lot more.
- Danny Brown – Danny Brown has been providing business branding and emerging media consultancy services to the consumer and commercial markets for more than 15 years, from small start-ups to Fortune 500 businesses. Danny is the founder of the 12for12k Challenge.
- The Viral Garden – Mack Collier is a social media consultant, trainer and speaker. He has been actively immersed in social media since 2005, and in that time, has helped advise, teach and consult with businesses of all shapes and sizes on how they can better connect with their customers via these amazing tools and sites
Your Turn to Share
The blogs mentioned above are some that I visit on a regular basis. If there are any that you would like to add to the list, feel free to do so in the comments section. And finally, what do you think of this list of some of the top social media blogs out there?
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About the author: Ritu is a freelance writer who has been involved in social media for several years. At the moment he is working on a variety of projects, but is always open to new ideas. Contact him at email(at)ritubpant(dot)com or follow @ritubpant on twitter.
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107 Comments
Paul O'Mahony (Cork)
November 24th, 2009 at 1:06 pmThanks v much. There’s enough here to keep me going for a while.
Vivek
November 24th, 2009 at 1:41 pmThanks a lot for providing this information to me as i am searching a lot about social media and mashable is my favorite one.
Scott
November 24th, 2009 at 1:46 pmI biasedly recommend SEO.com’s blog. Many of the posts approach social media from an SEO perspective – using “social” to drive “search” — which is what every business should be concerned with.
Ilija Brajkovic
November 24th, 2009 at 3:12 pmThank you very much for this list, I will definitely use it.
Luke Jones
November 24th, 2009 at 5:14 pmOh God no, my RSS reader is splitting at the edges already :-(
Lee
November 24th, 2009 at 6:50 pmThanks! Just input them into my RSS reader and all is well!
Ahmed Gaber
November 24th, 2009 at 8:09 pmVery Good set here. I’ve added all them to my RSS Reader
mack collier
November 24th, 2009 at 8:26 pmRitu thanks for the mention, and hope you and your readers have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Ritu
November 24th, 2009 at 9:08 pmGlad you all found this list useful :)
@Mack : Happy Thanksgiving to you and family as well
Dana
November 24th, 2009 at 11:23 pmGreat post! Thank you!
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November 25th, 2009 at 1:31 amHey thanks a lot that is a great list…
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November 25th, 2009 at 1:32 amWow thanks a lot for those links I really needed some…
Gladys
November 25th, 2009 at 1:35 amWhat a great list. There are several on there I’m not familiar with, so I look forward to taking a look at them. Although as someone mentioned, my RSS reader is already quite full!
Happy Thanksgiving!
WPCONCEPT
November 25th, 2009 at 3:50 amGreat list. I’ve put these blogs in my rss reader :) Thanks
GDevelop
November 25th, 2009 at 6:38 amGreat list, i will definitely add some of these sites to my feedreader.
Thank you.
Blogging in Web 2.0 Beta
November 25th, 2009 at 9:48 amReally Great Work Bravo
Danny Brown
November 25th, 2009 at 11:18 amHey there Ritu,
Cheers for the shout man, really appreciate it. I see there are some names on here I’m unfamiliar with; have to remedy that shortly :)
Great to see the likes of Shannon and Valeria getting a mention too – both different, both excellent resources.
Thanks again bud, and have a great holiday weekend!
Danny.
Rob Birgfeld
November 25th, 2009 at 11:19 amThanks so much for including us on your list. Just a quick FYI that the daily newsletter, SmartBrief on Social Media, also has a blog component at http://www.smartblogs.com/socialmedia
Thanks again!
Kathryn Jennex
November 25th, 2009 at 11:25 amGreat list – thanks. Another one you shouldn’t miss – it’s full of great information is :
http://www.simonmainwaring.com
NewBloggerTemplates
November 25th, 2009 at 11:34 amThis information is very good because social bookmarking is very important to increase traffic visitors.. thank’s
Ritu
November 25th, 2009 at 12:42 pmThanks for all the comments guys and glad that you all found the list helpful.
Hey Danny, you are very welcome! And a very happy thanksgiving to you and the family.
The Blog Builder Guy
November 25th, 2009 at 12:55 pmThanks for posting the blogs. I put a link to the post in my Facebook page and in my Twitter stream.
More for Google Reader to do!
Brian Wallace
November 25th, 2009 at 1:08 pmMany thanks for the mention Ritu and great list!
Jonathan Kochis
November 25th, 2009 at 3:39 pmThe daily e-newsletter from SmartBrief is perfect for me. Concise and relevant. Thanks for compiling the list!
jim Gilbert
November 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pmThanks for the list. At the risk of sounding not humble, my blog is about direct marketing, social media and how the two need to be intertwined.
Thanks in advance for checking it out.
Jim Gilbert
http://gilbertdirectmarketing.wordpress.com
Leslie Poston
November 25th, 2009 at 4:54 pmYou left off Corvida Raven: SheGeeks.net and all of her blogs @corvida
She’s a font of information about both Gen Y and Social Media
Ray Wenderlich
November 25th, 2009 at 5:22 pmWow thanks for this list, I’ve started subscribing to several of these.
Social Networking Software
November 26th, 2009 at 11:25 amGreat list! I already follow most of the blogs listed but there were a few new ones for me to check out. Navigating the social networking jungle can be tricky so the advice found on these blogs is going to be helpful. Another one you might want to check out is Larry Brauner’s Blog at http://online-social-networking.com/ , great advice and updates on a regular basis. Thanks again for the information.
OweEng2
November 27th, 2009 at 4:20 amGreat post, Thanks for the great list. I for one is a avid mashable reader for years now. I’ll definitely go and check the others sites on the list as well. Keep up the good work!
Mike
November 27th, 2009 at 5:24 amThanks for this very comprehensive list of social media blogs, I will be checking some of these out for sure.
Neal Schaffer
November 28th, 2009 at 2:19 pmThank you very much for this excellent list, which I am certain will provide navigation for many people to find their next favorite blog. I haven’t seen many lists like this one, so your contribution is extremely appreciated!
As for others that could have made the list, I will be very humble in saying that my social media blog on LinkedIn, Twitter, social media marketing, and social media job seeking lacks the volume and breadth that @Mashable has, but hopefully it would make your Top 50 List should you create one! Would love your feedback on it: http://windmillnetworking.com.
I also agree with the above commenter that Larry Brauner’s blog (http://online-social-networking.com/) is another excellent one.
Thanks again and looking forward to your future posts!
Mari Smith
November 28th, 2009 at 5:42 pmExcellent compilation – completely agree with your choices, Ritu!!
I’d add new social media online magazine, http://socialmediaexaminer.com by Michael Stelzner.
I also like http://readwriteweb.com and http://marketingprofs.com – though not exclusively social media, they definitely include cutting-edge SM posts.
And along with Nick O’Neil’s allfacebook.com, Justin Smith’s http://insidefacebook.com is excellent. (I’d include my whyfacebook.com if I blogged more frequently, lol!!)
Cheers,
@marismith
Andy Williams
November 28th, 2009 at 5:59 pmGreat list – now I just need the time … You may like to also include the “Smart Mobs” site (of the book “Smart Mobs” fame) http://www.smartmobs.com/ which looks at how technology of various kinds is not just connecting us but also changing us
Des Walsh
November 28th, 2009 at 9:54 pmThanks for sharing this list, so chock full of great sites. I checked it out because I heard – and was very pleased to hear – that Liz Strauss was on it. Then I found a whole collection of social media experts I like, admire and follow, plus a couple of sites new to me and which I will now add to the RSS feed.
Phil Buckley
November 28th, 2009 at 11:53 pmI’m surprised you didn’t mention my very favorite social media blog at outspokenmedia.com/blog
It’s one of my few non-RSS stops every day.
Free Online Flash Games
November 29th, 2009 at 2:41 amvery good post !
i add it to rss!
Anton Ranestam
November 29th, 2009 at 7:53 amVery good wrap up on all the major and good blogs.
Ryan
November 29th, 2009 at 12:13 pmAn extremely helpful list Ritu. I hadn’t heard of more than a few of the sites.
Melanie Kissell
November 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pmI’m a big fan of Chris Brogan’s blog, TwiTip, and Mashable, but I don’t think this list would be complete without including:
http://Problogger.net by Darren Rowse
Blog on!
China Law
November 29th, 2009 at 5:15 pmLexblog.com is a great blog, whose focus is mostly on social media for lawyers. It was through that blog’s lead blogger that I learned of this list/link.
Orlando SEO Marketing
November 29th, 2009 at 5:50 pmThat’s a great list to work with. I think it’s going to take me a while to digest it all, espically since my leftover turkey is first in line. Thanks for your hard work on the list, I’m excited to go through it!
freeblogger
November 29th, 2009 at 7:37 pmThis list is okay. Mashable leads the pack and others follows. You have done a good job.
In addition to the blogs you have listed, there are others you can check out here: http://adesojiadegbulu.com/social-networks
It contains a list of useful Social media blogs & topics. Your own topic is on the list too.
Anwer
November 29th, 2009 at 7:43 pmGreat post!
Jerry Chapman
November 30th, 2009 at 12:36 amWow! Thanks for the useful information. My challenge is how to keep up with it all! But, it is a good challenge to have. Thanks for the initial list, and the growing list of sites in the comments section.
Terrance Charles
November 30th, 2009 at 7:47 amThanks for sharing, mashable is one of my favorite ones :)
Puja Madan
November 30th, 2009 at 7:52 amGreat list Ritu! Some usual suspects :) but I was also happy to find a few unfamiliar names/blogs to explore and read. Another site I follow and find useful is http://www.insidefacebook.com for FB related news and updates.
Joe Spake
November 30th, 2009 at 10:12 amI enjoy http://horsepigcow.com – Tara Hunt’s Blog
Jill Anderson
November 30th, 2009 at 10:30 amFabulous list but you left off one of my very favorite bloggers – Tac Anderson at NewCommBiz – http://www.newcommbiz.com/. He is a genius IMHO.
Casie G
November 30th, 2009 at 3:44 pmGood list…would definitely add Outspoken Media’s blog as well. Always good info and fun to read. http://outspokenmedia.com/blog/
Anthony Crecco
December 1st, 2009 at 3:16 pmThis is really great info. thank you for putting this together. It is Very helpful
Ben Yoskovitz
December 1st, 2009 at 10:24 pmThank you for including me on the list. That’s a great group of people. What’s amazing about social media related content is just how fresh and new it remains. That’s really where a lot of the folks you’ve mentioned stand out – they take things up a notch (or two) and stay unique, even when we’ve been hammering “social media” for awhile now.
Karen Clark
December 1st, 2009 at 10:35 pmGreat list! Some new names I’ll be checking out. Here are some of my favorites you and the others don’t have yet:
(Anti) Social Development
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/
How to Make My Blog
http://www.howtomakemyblog.com/
Keep em coming!
Karen
Bazil
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:49 amGreat list! Thanks for the hard work putting this together.
Jack Smith
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 amGreat list, thanks for your list and everyone sharing their additional resources. I also enjoy reading Convince And Convert by Jay Baer.
http://www.convinceandconvert.com/
Karl Foxley
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:32 pmI must be very cool, almost all of these are already in my RSS reader. :)
Nice round up,
Karl
Tim Norgay
December 5th, 2009 at 8:38 pmFantastic article, I have found http://www.askthiscfo.com as a very helpful small business and social media site.
Thanks
JD Lasica
December 10th, 2009 at 3:12 amSome good ones here, nice list! One site that should be on here:
#26: http://www.socialmedia.biz/
Lots of interviews with thought leaders and industry movers & shakers. Like today.
cheers,
jd (blogging since 2001)
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Azterik Media
February 19th, 2010 at 10:09 amGreat list, bookmarking this page for future reference. The two blogs that I would add to this list are Scott Monty and Chris Brogan, both must reads in the social media circles.
Dating Reviews
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:49 amnice work compiling the list.
Corporate Social Networking Software
February 26th, 2010 at 12:43 pmGreat list, I would also like to agree with two of the previous posters. Larry Brauner and the Social Media Examiner are two that I have bookmarked and read weekly. Always full of great information.
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