In social media, if you publish a list of any kind you are pretty much setting yourself up for criticism. “You forgot so-and-so,” “your list isn’t diverse (there aren’t enough women, children, people of color, etc.).”
However, if you publish a list, you also are likely to get a lot of attention, especially from the people on it, especially if it is seen as valuable.
For the second year, SEO blogger Lee Odden, with TopRank Online Marketing Blog, has attempted another 25 Women Who Rock Social Media list. It’s not “the” top 25, or the “best” or any other superlative. It is simply a list of 25 very smart women and where you can find them online.
Last year. he released the first list of 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2010, which he admitted was a very subjective list of women he was impressed with over the years. This year, he reached out to the women on the first list to form the SECOND list of 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2011 (two that I nominated, Kellye Crane and Jill Foster made the list this year).
In order to start to benefit from the collective wisdom of such a distinguished crowd of women, I decided to subscribe to all of their blogs. Also, to make it easier for others to do the same, please find the bundle of the blogs from both lists in A single subscription below. Just click on the box and it will take you to the subscription page.
If you would prefer to visit each blog yourself, here is the list from 2010 and 2011. There were a couple who didn’t have a blog, so they aren’t in this list.
- Stealthmode Blog – Francine Hardaway
- Communications Passionista – Lisa Grimm
- Kommein – Deborah Ng
- MissyWard.com – Missy Ward
- Very Official Blog – Shannon Paul
- Brass Tack Thinking – Amber Naslund
- What's Next Blog – BL Ochman
- Alexandra Samuel
- Beth’s Blog – Beth Kanter
- Diva Marketing (Blog) – Toby Bloomberg
- Debbie Weil's Blog
- Julia Roy, A Digital Girl
- Kikolani – Krsiti Hines
- m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen
- MariSmith.com – Mari Smith
- Laura Fitton oneforty
- Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
- Search Marketing Gurus – Li Evans
- Communication Overtones – Kami Huyse
- Spin Sucks – Gini Dietrich
- Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg
- Uploads by DigitalRoyalty – A. Jo. Martin
- Mashable Startups, Jenn's Super Awesome Posterous and JennLIve – Jennifer Van Grove
- JessicaNow….career. life. tradeoffs – Jessica Smith
- KDPaine's PR Measurement Blog – Katie Paine
- Kiki's Korner – Kristie Wells
- Nothin' but SocNET – Zena West
- PR SarahEvans – Sarah Evans
- Rashmi's blog – Rashmi Sinah
- Social Media Group » Blog – Maggie Fox
- Solo PR Pro | Successful Freelance PR Consulting – Kellye Crane
- Women Grow Business – Jill Foster (founder)
- Altimeter Group – Charlene Li
- A n n a r c h y – Ann Handley
- Blogher posts by Lisa Stone
- Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
- Deirdre Breakenridge – PR 2.0
- ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon – Tara Hunt
- Lip-Sticking – Yvonne DiVita
- Jennifer Cisney – ljcfyi
- Social Media Strategy | Online PR | Proactive Report | Sally Falkow
- Social Media – For Women – By Women – Viveka Von ROsen
- Internet Geek Girl – Stephanie Agresta
- The Harte of Marketing – Beth Harte
- The Web is Social – Alisa Leonard
- Waxing UnLyrical _ Shonali Burke
- danah boyd | apophenia
- Shira Lazar
Not on the feed list, but included in the list are Shauna Causey, who runs Voluntweetup.
Update: You may be wondering why there are only 49 women on the list. It turns out that Liz Strauss is on BOTH lists (2010 and 2011). Liz deserves every honor, but I was driven to distraction figuring it out!
