As I mentioned in my inaugural post, I have started #blogmonday because I want to share some linkey love with some of the “hidden gems” of the blogosphere – as well as introduce some very good blogs that you might not know about. It’s like #followfriday on steroids. Yeah, you gotta write a blog post, but you were going to anyway. But you have to blog about who you like.
Dan York’s Disruptive Conversations. Dan is a frequent contributor to “For Immediate Release” and offers a true technologist’s view to the social media tools that we use as communications professionals.
David Armano’s “Logic+Emotion” blog. This guy is smart. Scary smart. I have used his stuff even in my Georgetown classes. He thinks up answers before most of us have come up with the questions.
Blogs That Need to Make it Onto Your Blogroll
Toby Bloomberg’s “Diva Marketing” blog. Any blog that states “…my imagination soared with thoughts on how this media could create old-fashioned, corner-grocer-store relationships and real-time customer service in a world that had forgotten the importance,” is one you need to read.
Blogs That You Might Not Read – But Should
Jim Long’s “Verge New Media.” Jim was/is in television production (every time I see a tweet, he’s getting ready to meet someone BIG), but he brings and interesting perspective of someone who started in “old media” but gets “new media.”
Random Blogs of the Week:
James Kotecki’s “Emergency Cheese.” With a blog name like that, you just HAVE to click on it, don’t you? DON’T YOU? James offers interesting political commentary, mainly via video.
I get it, I get it. It’s not as easy as #followfriday, but please consider a quick post giving props to those whom you think are deserving of it. Write a post, give some love, get some karma. Ask Shonali Burke.
As I mentioned in my inaugural post, I have started #blogmonday because I want to share some linkey love with some of the “hidden gems” of the blogosphere – as well as introduce some very good blogs that you might not know about.
My sincere hope is that, through writing about other bloggers, we all can increase the reach and scope of our own blogger networks, help promote some really smart people who don’t have the high Technorati rankings (yet) as well as share our own online rolodexes of “must reads.”
Lee Odden’s Online Marketing Blog. Good measurement and statistics for SEO have gained prominence, and with good reason, in no small part to tighter ad budgets. You’ll usually learn something you did not yet know on Lee’s blog.
Blogs That You Might Not Read – But Should
Robert French’s “PR Open Mic.” Robert not only teaches his students well, but has built an amazing platform for public relations professionals to interact, share ideas, blog — and most importantly — for students to show off their own work. I wish that other universities would do this as well as Robert does.
Random Blogs of the Week:
Maren Hogan’s “Marenated.” With a clever name like this and insight about recruiting and human resources, how can you NOT love this blog?
The American Latina (confession: former student). With an intro that states that she offers “…notes from a confused twenty-something capricious, slightly neurotic, intelligent, beautiful latina breaking all the rules and making up new ones along the way as she figures out who she is and what it means to be a Latina in the US,” how can you NOT read this blog?
While it’s not as easy as #followfriday, won’t you please consider a quick post giving props to those whom you think are deserving of it? Write a post, give some love, get some karma.
There has been amazing success and a lot of fun with #followfriday. The last few Fridays, I have forgotten to do my own, and then, all of sudden, I’ll see my Twitter followers tick up by a few and realize that someone out there was nice enough to send people my way.
So here’s my idea: #blogmonday.
I wish I had the time to read all of the insightful, informative and entertaining blogs out there, but I also know, that, as big as my blogroll is, I could be bigger. While we encourage others to follow someone on Twitter on Fridays, these thoughts sometimes link to blogs, and other times link to thoughts.
With so many good, “wicked smaht” people out there, I think that we should, starting on Mondays, compose posts about the other good bloggers out there. Let’s improve each others’ Google rankings, Technorati rankings and other visibility tools and show the world some good blogging.
Not only is this good to publicize each others’ efforts, it’s also a good way to push back on the “bad PR”/bad blogging practices that we have heard so much about lately.
Do what do you say? Let’s give a shot to #blogmonday this coming Monday, April 27th? I’ll start.
