All I can is WOW! My blog, www.MichaelBrandvold.com, has made the list of finalists in the Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2011 by Social Media Examiner. Thank you to everyone who nominated my site. It is a huge honer to be in the same company as blogs such as Brian Solis and SocialMouths, two blogs I read daily.
We received over 330 nominations for our second-annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest (the blogosphere’s biggest contest for social media blogs).
The list of 23 finalists is pretty impressive! Take a look for yourself below.
The Judges: Our judges include David Armano (Edelman), Debbie Weil (author, The Corporate Blogging Book) and Rick Calvert (CEO, BlogWorld). They are currently finishing up their reviews of these sites.
Here are the finalists (in alphabetical order):
- Anti Social Media
- Brand Builder
- BrandSavant
- Brian Solis
- Convince & Convert
- DannyBrown
- Grow: Marketing. Social Media. Humanity
- Kikolani
- Kommein
- Mack Collier
- Mark Oborn’s eMarketing
- Michael Brandvold
- Pushing Social
- Reel SEO
- Ricardo Bueno
- Six Pixels of Separation
- Social Media Explorer
- Social Fresh
- SocialMouths
- Social Penguin
- Spin Sucks
- Storm Driver
- TopRank
How We’ll Pick the Winners
1. Initial qualification: A blog must have a strong social media focus, must have been nominated multiple times by multiple individuals and must be regularly updated. If someone nominated more than one blog, only the first nomination was counted.
2. Final winner selection:
* Quality of posts: Our judges will examine and score the quality of posts on each blog. Educational and discussion-spurring posts are more valuable than self-promoting posts (55% of decision).
* Frequency of posts: Blogs that feature multiple posts per week will score higher. This is a sign of the blogger’s commitment to blogging (15%).
* Reader involvement: Blogs that have regular comments from readers are another sign of a healthy blog. In addition, the numbers of nominations for a specific blog play a part in this (15%).
* Blog ranking: The number of other blogs that link to the nominated blog shows the value of the content (15%). We’ll use accepted third-party blog ranking systems for this portion of the score.
Congratulations to the finalists! We’ll announce the winners here soon!
What do you think about these blogs? Leave your comments below…
via Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2011 | Social Media Examiner.
Hi Michael,
Congratulations! Saw your tweet on Twitter and thought I come over and check out your blog. 🙂
What an awesome accolade. This is the first time I’ve visited your blog…looking forward to diving in. 😉
All the best and much continued success.
Congrats Mike, you earned it!
Good Luck Michael!
Rock Star!
Way to go, Michael!!!
Congratulatinos Michael. Just being a finalist is quite an accomplishment. I know that Kristi Hines’ Kikolani.com blog got a huge increase in readers, subscribers and followers when Social Media Examiner chose her last year.
You finalists will have to stop by and give me some pointers on how I can improve GrowMap.com and the other blogs I manage Social Media content on – and I would love more guest posts too!
Thank you Gail. I have already seen a jump in traffic, Twitter followers and Facebook requests. I have been following you blog for a couple months now, one of my daily RSS reads. I will be sure to stop by and leave some comments.
Email me about the guest posts, would love to talk about that.