My buddy Josh Dilworth, who works for Porter-Novelli on all things social media, added me to a list of new bloggers worth reading. I really appreciate the consideration, and I figured I’d spread the love by adding a couple of bloggers I’m paying attention to these days that you might be interested in following as well (in addition to Josh, who always shares links to stories days before others are talking about them).
Since my interest lies at the intersection between communications and social media, I thought I’d focus on blogs in that space as well:
- Adam Metz over at MetzMash is a young PR specialist who produces exciting content about social media and public relations topics, as this recent post illustrates. What I like about his writing is that it’s direct, it’s challenging and it’s passionate. This is a new blog that I only stumbled upon recently, but I’ve enjoyed it, including Adam’s willingness to take a contrarian view on popular topics and help us to think about them differently.
- My former colleague and dear friend, Georg Kolb, recently launched a blog titled Corporate Communications Compass. However, this is a blog in appearance only. Georg is one of the smartest PR practitioners that I’ve ever encountered and his posts address overarching changes and challenges facing our industry. The content is extremely rich and well researched, making this essential reading for anyone interested in the future of communications. Georg recently relocated to Europe, so it will be interesting to see if and how this affects his writing.
- Ed Lee’s blog is called Blogging Me Blogging You. I’ve always been impressed with the caliber of his writing as well as his ability to summarize and produce content at an analytical level beyond his years in the industry. Although we started in PR around the same time, Ed’s blog is a source of inspiration as to the type of thinking we need to support from young PR people to prepare our companies for the next phase of social media communications.
So what about you? Are there any up and coming young bloggers (young in terms of time blogging, not age) that you recommend reading?
If so, please share them in the comments or on your own blog and link back to this post.
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Ed Lee 07.28.08 at 4:38 pm
thanks for the kind words - always nice to know someone is reading and enjoying the blog!
Metz 07.28.08 at 7:47 pm
Hey Aaron, thanks for digging in to the MetzMash. I hope I’m helping people understand my relevant points about how to create business-objective-focused social media strategies. Keep it real.
Georg 07.28.08 at 9:40 pm
Thanks for spreading the love, Aaron!
This might look like scratching your back, but it isn’t: the one up and coming PR blogger I paid attention to over the last couple of weeks are you! Both here and over at Mashable http://mashable.com/2008/07/28/turn-your-business-trip-into-a-social-media-experience/
Good stuff!
Shannon Nelson 07.29.08 at 1:14 am
Hey Aaron, just stumbling across your blog now. It’s great and I’ll add it to our blogroll in the a.m. I also just started following you on Twitter too. I read that post on Mashable about 35 Examples of Corporate SM and had forwarded it onto my boss–great post!
Josh Dilworth 07.30.08 at 4:35 am
Love it. All three rock.