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		<title>10 Blogs We Couldn&#8217;t Do Without</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging may supposedly be on the decline, but there&#8217;s a lot of quality out there &#8211; and none more so than in the field of internet marketing. Joe Pulizzi, author of the recommended Get Content. Get Customers. has put together a handy list of 42 blogs that are regularly churning out some inspirational writing. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Blogging may supposedly be on the decline, but there&#8217;s a lot of quality out there &#8211; and none more so than in the field of internet marketing.</p>
<p>Joe Pulizzi, author of the recommended <a title="Get Content. Get Customers." href="http://www.amazon.com/Customers-marketing-compelling-information-prospects/dp/098018780X" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Get Content. Get Customers.</a> has put together a handy <a title="42 Blogs" href="http://www.junta42.com/community/top-42-content-marketing-blogs.aspx" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>list of 42 blogs</a> that are regularly churning out some inspirational writing. I&#8217;m completely unfamiliar with some of them, but they&#8217;ll be bookmarked on both laptop and iPhone before long.</p>
<p>And while we&#8217;re at it, I thought I&#8217;d present a list of 10 blogs which we here at Social Magnet couldn&#8217;t do without. They are:</p>
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<li><img class="size-medium wp-image-488  alignleft" title="Web Ink Now" src="http://www.socialmagnet.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Web-Ink-Now-300x188.jpg" alt="Web Ink Now" width="180" height="113" /><a title="Web Ink Now" href="http://www.webinknow.com/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Web Ink Now</a>: If you had to come up with a single thought-leader in this niche, it would be David Meerman Scott. His <a title="New Rules of Marketing and PR" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Rules-Marketing-PR-Podcasting/dp/0470113456" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>New Rules of Marketing and PR</a> is a convincing encapsulation of the paradigm shift in marketing that Web 2.0 has enabled. His latest, <a title="World Wide Rave" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Wide-Rave-Creating-Triggers/dp/0470395001" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>World Wide Rave</a>, is packed with great case studies to prove the theory and his blog is consistently thought-provoking.</li>
<li><a title="PR 2.0" href="http://www.briansolis.com/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>PR 2.0</a>: Brian Solis is an adopter on the prehistoric side of early. Generally seems to know about stuff years ahead of others. Also recommended is his recent <a title="Putting the Public Back in Public Relations" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Putting-Public-Back-Relations-Reinventing/dp/0137150695" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Putting the Public Back in Public Relations</a> book.</li>
<li><a title="Andrew McAfee" href="http://andrewmcafee.org/blog/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Andrew McAfee</a>: A former Harvard Business School lecturer, now at MIT, McAfee brings an academic&#8217;s rigour to his musings on &#8216;Enterprise 2.0&#8242;, the term he coined to describe the changing face of business in a web 2.0 world.</li>
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<li><a title="Avinash Kaushik" href="http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Avinash Kaushik</a>: Author of <a title="Web Analytics: An Hour a Day" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Analytics-Hour-Jim-Sterne/dp/0470130652" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Web Analytics: An Hour a Day</a> and an authority on the whole area of web analytics. Contagiously passionate about his subject.</li>
<li><img class="size-medium wp-image-489  alignright" title="LIfehacker" src="http://www.socialmagnet.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/LIfehacker-300x188.jpg" alt="Lifehacker" width="210" height="132" /><a title="Lifehacker" href="http://lifehacker.com/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Lifehacker</a>: &#8220;Tips and downloads for getting things done&#8221; reads the strapline, but Lifehacker is much more than that. Covers just about every area of life you can think of &#8211; a quick look today reveals everything from a Firefox 3.6 preview to an article entitled &#8220;Make Your Own Toxin-Free Insect Repellent with a Splash of Vodka&#8221;.</li>
<li><a title="Sphinn" href="http://sphinn.com/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Sphinn</a>: Highly useful one-stop for internet marketers.</li>
<li><a title="Steve Rubel" href="http://www.steverubel.com/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Steve Rubel</a>: Consistently interesting read from someone at the sharp end of emerging technologies.</li>
<li><a title="Chris Brogan" href="http://www.chrisbrogan.com/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Chris Brogan</a>: Prolific blogger, tweeter and all-round social media star. Can be simply <em>too </em>prolific &#8211; a bit skimmable sometimes &#8211; but he still manages to produce an incredible level of original and thought-provoking content.</li>
<li><a title="Google Webmaster Blog" href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Google Webmaster Blog</a>: An essential read to ensure we stay with the programme.</li>
<li><a title="Social Media Marketing Examples" href="http://wiki.beingpeterkim.com/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Peter Kim</a>: Not actually Peter&#8217;s blog &#8211; it&#8217;s his social media marketing examples wiki that we find ourselves going back to time and time again whenever the well of inspiration dries up.</li>
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