Reading Room
I was reading an article this morning from The Daily Dog about breaking into blogs. They asked Burt Helm of BusinessWeek's Brand New Day blog for tips on how public relations professionals can "break into" the blog world. As is so often the case with me, the thing I took away from the story didn't have anything to do with the topic.
In the article, Helm recommends using Technorati to find blogs pertinent to your industry or business focus, but he adds, "I find better blogs and ones that I really like through word-of-mouth and talking to sources. I always ask important executives what they read online."
I have never asked an important executive what blogs they read. Maybe because I'm in Mississippi and worry that I would get a blank look and have to explain what the big deal about blogs is for 15 minutes. But I'm asking you today. (And if you are an important executive, please let me know so I can say in the future that I have in fact asked important executives what blogs they read.) You obviously read this blog periodically if you are reading this, but what other blogs do you read regularly - and why?
Here are a few I enjoy that are not specifically association-related:
- TP! Wire Service - It's just a collection of interesting stories, but what a collection!
- Fast Company Now - Brief entries with just enough meat to make you feel like you're learning something new but not so much that you think there's no way you can chew it all.
- Creating Passionate Users - Always makes me think
- mental floss blog - I love the blog as much as I do the magazine.
- 800.CEO.READ blog - I don't seem to have as much time as I like to read business books lately, so at times I live vicariously and just read about business books. ;)
- rexblog - A blog by Rex Hammock, the owner of Hammock Publishing. He has become a blog friend along the way, but many years ago, he was just writing an industry blog I read about magazine publishing (and other interesting stuff, too, which is honestly probably why I kept reading).
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I am not an association executive (sorry) and most of the blogs I read on a regular basis are more hobby-related or are people's personal blogs. I do visit blogs for a short period of time, especially when they pop up in a Google search on a particular topic. If they are particularly good, I book mark them and come back from time to time. But I am not what I would consider a regular at those blogs.
But I want to add to the list. A blog I only recently started reading because it came highly recommended is Bill Marriott's (the hotel giant) blog. It can be found at http://www.blogs.marriott.com/.
Posted by: Caron | February 24, 2007 6:46 AM
A lot of the blogs I visit regularly have inspired posts of mine to Acronym, so I'm trying to list blogs I haven't linked to before:
- www.tompeters.com -Although Tom Peters does post here, many of the posts are by others, and I find nearly all of them to be interesting. I particularly like the interviews with "Cool Friends"; definitely check out some of the blogs in their Blogroll, as well.
- www.freakonomics.com/blog/ - By the authors of Freakonomics (a great book, if you haven't read it yet). You can learn a lot about research methodology from their critiques of studies and articles that they come across.
- www.gapingvoid.com - Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards. Hugh McLeod and his drawings can give you that sudden shock of recognition that a really good editorial cartoon will give you--and he links to other interesting people as well.
Posted by: Lisa Junker | February 26, 2007 9:40 AM