Link/Comment Baiting

Something I don’t do a good job of on this blog is letting the reader into the inner workings of the iStudio office. Partly because I’m a pretty shocking blogger right now and partly because I think that’s more for the iStudio blog. Which I’m equally delinquent on.

So perhaps that should stop and for my first trick, some blatant link/comment baiting which adds no real value apart from to direct you, the reader to some super smart people and to thank them for providing great, thought provoking content.

I was recently asked to provide a list of my favourite PR/marketing blogs for an internal elearning course. As I’ve got everything in an easy-to-cut-and-paste format, here they are, in no particular order.

Thanks guys!

Note - * donates a conflict such as past/present colleague/client

Public Relations

Shel Holtz - http://blog.holtz.com/

Colin McKay - http://canuckflack.com/

Mike Manuel - http://www.mguerilla.com/media_guerrilla/

Origin of Brands (Laura Ries) - http://ries.typepad.com/ries_blog/

Jeremy Pepper - http://pop-pr.blogspot.com/

PR Squared - http://www.pr-squared.com/

*David Jones - http://www.prworks.ca/

Stephen Davies - http://www.prblogger.com/

Strumpette (although this falls in the “guilty pleasures” bucket) - http://strumpette.com/

Peter Himler - http://theflack.blogspot.com/

Brendan Cooper - http://brendancooper.com/

Paull Young - http://youngie.prblogs.org/

Richard Bailey - http://prstudies.typepad.com/weblog/

Dave Fleet - http://davefleet.com/

Leo Bottary (more client service but he’s a PR guy) - http://clientserviceinsights.blogspot.com/

*iStudio - http://blog.istudio.ca/

*High Road Communications - http://www.highroad.com/blog

*Martin Hofmann - http://www.martinhofmann.net/

*David Bradfield - http://navigatecommunications.com/

*Kristen Zemlak - http://zemlak.wordpress.com/

Chris Clarke would also be in there but a) he barely posts any more and b) his site is nearly always down

I also subscribe to the PR Voices feed for the “hottest” topics in the flak-o-sphere: http://prvoices.com/

Marketing

Andy Sernovitz - http://www.damniwish.com/

Sean Moffitt - http://buzzcanuck.typepad.com/agentwildfire/

Jackie Huba/Ben McDonell, Church of the Customer - http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/blog/

Sean Howard - http://www.craphammer.ca/

Forrester Marketing - http://blogs.forrester.com/marketing/

Joseph Jaffe - http://www.jaffejuice.com/

David Armano - http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/

John Dodds - http://makemarketinghistory.blogspot.com/

Kate Trgovac - http://www.mynameiskate.ca/

One Degree - http://www.onedegree.ca/

Seth Godin - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/

Mitch Joel - http://www.twistimage.com/blog/

Douglas Walker - http://www.webwalker.ca/

*Matt Dickman - http://technomarketer.typepad.com