Thanks for your customarily warm comments.

I have no strong views on whether ProBlogger should / shouldn’t be on the Marketing Pioneers list. I can see both sides of that argument. I was simply explaining the difference between the two lists for those who might be interested to know.

It’s recommnend ProBlogger as an excellent resource to anyone who blogs, regardless of whether they work in marketing or not.

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella

Hi Tim, please let me clarify. I did not add myself to the AdAge list – anyone can make a recommendation – and for a few years i’ve been known colloquially as the “social network marketing blog”. However: my tagline is The Business of Being Social, blog author is Laurel Papworth, online avatar name is SilkCharm. Really not that much different from any other immersed blogger in the space – including yourself Mumbles/Mumbrella/Tim Burrowes/Everything Under Australia’s Media and Marketing Umbrella

My title has changed – in the 80′s/90′s I was a Virtual Community Manager (and fibre optics consultant) in the late 90′s 2000′s an Online Communities Expert and late 2006 changed to Social Network Strategist. I’m hoping to move my title to Customer Engagement Facilitator any day now. heh.

Regarding #1 blog
Darren Rowse blog, Problogger, educates millions on how to use blogs and Twitter for marketing, rather reporting on how agencies and corporates use social media for experiments and muckup in online marketing. He is certainly top of my list for referring marketing people who want to learn how to promote using social media rather than gloat over SM disasters that others have endured. We have plenty of the latter style of blogs…

My only complaint with their list at the moment is their Bloglines index. I’ve raised it with them but after seeing my own blog with a ranking of 1 in the bloglines column I did some investigating of the list and found that the number of subscribers a feed has in bloglines doesn’t seem to really be relating to the # they’re giving as a ranking. It’s a bit bizarre and I (or the AdAge guys) can’t quite work it out but it does seem to be messing up the results quite a bit at the moment.

Ultimately though – its got some great blogs on the list!

Servant of Chaos shouldn’t be that low though.

You’re right – I’d say Australia more than holds it own on the list.

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella

Me too on the six month thing (we’re closing in on that date any day now I think).

And Duncan,

One other oddity – which is probably historic – is that Inspiration Room Daily seems to appear twice on the AdAge list under two different named – did you bring two blogs together at some point? if that is the case, it’s amusing that the same methodology applied to the same blog can give it two different positions in the same ranking!

Cheers,

Tim

I also agree with others that over weighting towards those who post a paragraph every day and get a moderate audience vs those who write a longer article length post every 2 weeks and get a much greater audience, is not ideal. Still it is really one of the only games in town at the moment.

cheers
Aden

That’s number 127 (third on the list above), as AdAge describes it.

Laurel’s blog has, I think, evolved through a few identities – Social Network Marketing / Silkcharm / Social Network Strategy / through to Laurel Papworth – the Business of Being Social as it currently is.

But the labelling could be an AdAge quirk – there are one or two oddities in the list

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella