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Holiday Reading List: Outstanding Blogs
Posted by Becky Carroll on December 18, 2007
About this time last year, Mack Collier, blogger extraordinaire, started a list of blogs that were not yet well-read but deserved more attention (this is per Mack – great speaking with you the other day, BTW!!). I was honored to be one of the original 5 on the Z-list:
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
The Z-list then went all over the world, and it is hard to say where the final list is these days. A good, comprehensive listing of great blogs to read over the holidays can be found in the Z-list wiki, put together by Gavin Heaton. It lists the name of the blog, the author, the location of the author, a category for the blog, and a short description.
Fast forward to this year. Troy Worman has come up with his list of Outstanding Blogs, or O! Blogs for short. This list has some overlap with the Z-list, but there are also many new blogs that I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for the Christmas reading list, Troy!
Here is the O! Blogs list (taken from Drew McLellan’s version), along with some of my favorites at the top:
Becky’s adds:
Troy’s list:
- 100 Bloggers
- 37 Days
- 3i
- 43 Folders
- A Clear Eye
- A Daily Dose of Architecture
- The Agonist
- All Things Workplace
- All This Chittah Chattah
- Angela Maiers
- Antonella Pavese
- Arizona High Tech
- A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye
- Badger Blogger
- Bailey WorkPlay
- Being Peter Kim
- Brett Trout
- Best of Mother Earth
- Beyond Madison Avenue
- Biz and Buzz
- Bizhack
- BizSolutions Plus
- Blog Business World
- Bloggers Showroom
- Blogging for Business
- Blogher
- Blog Till You Drop!
- Bob Sutton
- Brain Based Business
- Brains on Fire
- Brand Autopsy
- The Brand Builder Blog
- Branding and Marketing
- Branding Strategy
- Brand is Language
- BrandSizzle
- Brandsoul
- Bren Blog
- Business Evolutionist
- Business Management Life
- Business Pundit
- Business Services, Etc.
- Busy Mom
- Buzz Canuck
- Buzz Customer
- Buzzoodle
- Career Intensity
- Carpe Factum
- Casual Fridays
- Change Your Thoughts
- Chaos Scenario
- Cheezhead
- Chief Happiness Officer
- Chris Brogan
- Christine Kane
- Church of the Customer
- Circaspecting
- CK’s Blog
- Come Gather Round
- Community Guy
- Confident Writing
- Conversation Agent
- Converstations
- Cooking for Engineers
- Cool Hunting
- Core77
- Corporate Presenter
- Crayon Writer
- Creating a Better Life
- Creating Passionate Users
- Creative Think
- CRM Mastery
- Crossroads Dispatches
- Cube Rules
- Culture Kitchen
- Customers Are Always
- Customer Service Experience
- Customer Service Reader
- Customers Rock!
- Custserv
- Craig Harper
- Daily Fix
- Dawud Miracle
- Dave Olson
- David Airey
- David Maister
- David S Finch
- Design Your Writing Life
- Digital Common Sense
- Director Tom
- Diva Marketing
- Do You Q
- Duct Tape Marketing
- Empowerment 4 Life
- The Engaging Brand
- Essential Keystrokes
- Every Dot Connects
- Experience Architect
- Experience Curve
- Experience Matters
- Extreme Leadership
- Eyes on Living
- Feld Thoughts
- Flooring the Customer
- Fouroboros
- FutureLab
- Genuine Curiosity
- Glass Half Full
- The Good Life
- Great Circle
- Greg Verdino’s Marketing Blog
- Hee-Haw Marketing
- Hello, My Name is BLOG
- Holly’s Corner
- Homeless Family
- The Idea Dude
- I’d Rather be Blogging
- Influential Marketing
- Innovating to Win
- Inspiring & Empowering Lives
- Instigator Blog
- Jaffe Juice
- Jibber Jobber
- Joyful Jubilant Learning
- Joy of Six
- Kent Blumberg
- Kevin Eikenberry
- Learned on Women
- Life Beyond Code
- Lip-sticking
- Listics
- The Lives and Times
- Live Your Best Life
- Live Your Inspiration
- Living Light Bulbs
- Logical Emotions
- Logic + Emotion
- Make It Great!
- Making Life Work for You
- Management Craft
- Managing with Aloha
- The M.A.P. Maker
- The Marketing Excellence Blog
- Marketing Headhunter
- Marketing Hipster
- The Marketing Minute
- Marketing Nirvana
- Marketing Roadmaps
- Marketing Through the Clutter
- Mary Schmidt
- Masey
- The Media Age
- Micropersuasion
- Middle Zone Musings
- Miss604
- Moment on Money
- Monk at Work
- Monkey Bites
- Movie Marketing Madness
- Motivation on the Run
- My 2 Cents
- My Beautiful Chaos
- Naked Conversations
- Neat & Simple Living
- New Age 2020
- New Charm School
- Next Up
- No Man’s Blog
- The [Non] Billable Hour
- Note to CMO
- Office Politics
- Optimist Lab
- The Origin of Brands
- Own Your Brand
- Pardon My French
- Passion Meets Purpose
- Pause
- Peerless Professionals
- Perfectly Petersen
- Personal Branding
- The Podcast Network
- The Power of Choice
- Practical Leadership
- Presentation Zen
- Priscilla Palmer
- Productivity Goal
- Pro Hip-Hop
- Prosperity for You
- Purple Wren
- QAQnA
- Qlog
- Reveries
- Rex Blog
- Ririan Project
- Rohdesign
- Rothacker Reviews
- Scott H Young
- Search Engine Guide
- Servant of Chaos
- Service Untitled
- Seth’s Blog
- Shards of Consciousness
- Shotgun Marketing
- Simplenomics
- Simplicity
- Slacker Manager
- Slow Leadership
- Socially Adept
- Social Media Marketing Blog
- Spare Change
- Spirit in Gear
- Spooky Action
- Steve’s 2 Cents
- Strategic Design
- Strength-based Leadership
- StickyFigure
- Studentlinc
- Success Begins Today
- Success Creeations
- Success From the Nest
- Successful Blog
- Success Jolt
- Talk to Strangers
- Tammy Lenski
- Tell Ten Friends
- That Girl from Marketing
- Think Positive!
- This Girl’s Weblog
- Thoughts & Philosophies
- Tom Peters
- Trust Matters
- Verve Coaching
- Viral Garden
- Waiter Bell
- Wealth Building Guy
- What’s Next
- Writers Notes
- You Already Know this Stuff
- Zen Chill
(Photo credit: elnur)
C. B. Whittemore said
Becky, I love how you have framed this post! What a marvelous time of year, and what a fantastic reading list… and what an amazing world the blogosphere filled with the likes of Mack and Troy!
David Reich - my 2 cents said
Happy to be on any list.
Michael Wagner said
Honored to be part of this tribe.
Rising up and calling you blessed for making it available here at Customers Rock!
Keep creating…a daring adventure,
Mike
Anna Farmery said
I remember when The Engaging Brand appeared on this list what a wonderful feeling that was! Just shows that no matter what recognition from people that you respect is so valuable – people are so powerful, they have the power to create value in other peoples lives. Thank you for a great post and with holiday season upon us, a great reminder that by giving we can create such value in the world.
Paul Schwartz said
Thanks for including me (Customer U) in the list Becky! What an amazing list it is – speaks to how wonderful the blogosphere is for allowing us all to be heard by others. And the web in general for also allowing customers to be heard
Lewis Green said
Becky,
Best to you and yours during this festive time of year. Blessings of Peace to you and all your readers.
Lewis
Kami Huyse said
Thanks so much for adding me to this list, what an honor that you would think of Communication Overtones. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Jeanne Dininni said
Thanks so much for posting this list–especially the link to Writer’s Notes! Appreciate it!
Sincerely,
Jeanne Dininni
Daksh said
Thank you so much for the great list Becky ! Privileged to be a part of the list.
I can see many of my personal favorites featured here and then there are other blogs too, which would soon transition into personal favorites
Regards,
Daksh
Service Untitled - Douglas said
Terrific list! Thanks for keeping it up Becky.
Brandon said
Thank you, Becky, thank you.
- Brandon (they talk back)
Shaping Youth said
Honored to be here, Becky, thank you…and Troy’s link love for all of the AOC author gang is unreal, too, what an excellent, admirable tribe!
I had no idea there was a whole ‘tradition’ to this with Mack et al prior, so am particularly thrilled that Shaping Youth ‘made the cut’ for newbies! We’re clearly here to stay, so I’m glad to be of service any way we can.
You rock. Customers Rock. AOC Rocks. Thanks for sharing the joy of the season! All good cheer, –Amy
Stephanie Weaver said
Becky,
Happy holidays and thanks so much for highlighting me (experienceology). It was great to meet you this year. Keep up the good work!
Stephanie
Becky Carroll said
Thank you to all of you for being a part of my blog this past year. I look forward to more interactions in 2008 and beyond!