We have researched and compiled our first annual list of some of the most useful Social Marketing Blogs…other than the Social Marketing Journal!
Please feel free to visit these blogs as they provide excellent information! Please let us know if we missed any blogs off of this list.
1. SMO Blog
Blog URL: http://www.smoblog.com
A blog about social media optimization and marketing that provides you with info that can help you best optimize your social media efforts.
2. The Social Media Experience
Blog URL: http://socialmedia.ws
Dan Gluckman focuses on social networks and the ups and downs of them as marketing tools as well as other social marketing news.
3. Sociable Blog
Blog URL: http://www.sociableblog.com
This is one blog you can’t miss out on. It provides the latest news on social marketing as well as reviews and info on cool new websites that you can utilize or take notes from.
4. Buzz Networker
Blog URL: http://www.buzznetworker.com
Each post on Buzz Networker is extremely thorough and well written. These posts are not for the people looking for a light read. It’s for people really looking to read in depth about social marketing.
5. Online Business Networking
Blog URL: http://www.aside.in/blog/networking/
This blog is more focused on business social networks such as LinkedIn.
6. Social Media Blog
Blog URL: http://www.socialmedia.biz
Covering everything from web, social networks, Web 2.0 and mobile networking, the social media blog really informs the reader of all the going ons of social media currently.
7. Home with Heather
Blog URL: http://homewithheather.com
A blog about networking and sharing the latest tips and tricks on Web 2.0, Internet Marketing and much more. The author says that she is helping newbies with straight talk.
8. Ypulse: Media for the Next Generation
Blog URL: http://ypulse.com
A festive blog that is aesthetically pleasing with equally entertaining content. It beats reading the average mundane marketing blog.
9. Community Guy
Blog URL: http://www.communityguy.com/
Insight from someone who works at a social media consulting firm. The blog has valuable links and resources as well as information that is worth reading.
10. Social Media Optimization
Blog URL: http://www.smomashup.com
SMO Mashup is run by Greg H. who works for one of the top SEO firms in the country. His blog is interactive as it has great visuals and videos to view.
Have we missed any? Please leave a comment of other Social Marketing Blogs related blogs that might be worth reading.
How about Mashable? I always get good information from Mashable.
Sorry to see that not one legitimate social marketing blog made your list. The social media and social network marketers that use a short-hand term like social marketing and refer to lists like these should first do their homework.
What you and your like-minded colleagues describe is not social marketing. Social marketing is a concept first explicated by Philip Kotler & Gerald Zaltman in 1971, to describe the application of commercial marketing principles to health, social and quality of life issues. (Cf. Kotler, P. and Zaltman, G. (1971) “Social marketing: An approach to planned social change. J of Marketing. Vol. 35, pp. 3-12.)
Social marketing has been used around the globe by government and non-profit organizations for over 30 years to impact issues of societal well-being as diverse as HIV prevention, family planning, heart disease and cancer prevention, recycling and encouraging savings accounts. Not a flash in the pan phenomenon, there are numerous college curricula; six-plus textbooks; an international listserve with over 1,000 members; a dedicated journal; three major US or international conferences; centers in Scotland, Canada, Poland and Australia; governmental centers in the UK and the US; a national excellence collaborative in the US, all dealing with social marketing.
For more information you can visit the following web sites, among others: http://www.social-marketing.com, socialmarketing.wetpaint.com, http://www.nsmcentre.org.uk, and socialmarketing.blogs.com.
And we also talk about using social media, social networks and consumer generated context. We just do it for good.
I’d like to thank the academy, and my agent, and my mother, and my production company, and…
Oh wait, sorry, wrong award show.
Thanks for the addition to the list! Quite an honor!
Ah well, maybe next time
Nice list