Sharing Updated Link Love with the Canadian Blogosphere

"Happiness is the china shop, love is the bull" H. L. Mencken

Apologies, I've shown a blatant lack of love for Canucks that I think have smart things to say about the marketing, social media and word of mouth in the blogosphere by not linking to them. I feel obligated to finally share the link love - you will see as of today updated Canuck links on Buzz Canuck.

Although being a somewhat needy blogger - I only check my traffic results 3 times a week honest -  there is no prerequisite here to link back, although of course it would be appreciated. Think of myself as a taller, blonder, male version of Sally Field after receiving her second Oscar for Places in the Heart - "I haven’t had an orthodox career, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”.

My post from a few weeks back about the Top 11, I Mean 20, Canadian Word of Mouth Blogs inspired a number of submissions and interest. Now my menagerie is up to 50 Canadian Influential marketing/media bloggers. Here's my criteria for why you're on the list:

- you're Canadian (even though some of you may have been attracted to the our colonizer to the south -perhaps you'll come back when our dollar reaches parity)
- I've read your stuff and at least one post over the last month has made me go - that's brilliantly insightful or clever or helpful
- I purposefully ignored how many comments you have -- I think your content rules whether other people have found it yet or not
- you post frequently enough that I feel somebody is awake at the switch
- with the exception of 1 or 2 of the blogs, it feels like you blog out of passion then as a simple way to acquire business, position  or ego - as we all know the passion egg comes before the revenue chicken when it comes to blogging (regrettably I have to include the other 2 because you are insightful even in your self-promotion, there may be others that have fooled me)
- you write broadly enough about marketing, social media and communication issues but not so broadly that I could place you in any blog category and not so narrowly that your blog confuses me in its likely brilliant yet very specialized expertise

My cavaets - I'm missing some of the best - some I haven't seen yet and some I have and in my callousness I've lost your address. You know who are, please respond back (particularly French-Canadian bloggers given my broken Grade 13 french - je ne le comprende pas, malheureusement je ne t'ai pas lu mais je pense que vous ete brilliante - how' I'd do).

I haven't put myself on the list - if 5 of you feel it's justified, I will shamelessly also self promote Buzz Canuck

Here is the the DRAFT list of:

The Crazy & Enlightened Marketing/Media Canuck Bloggers

• Amber Mac with Amber MacArthur
• Inside PR with Terry Fallis and David Jones
• Student PR with Chris Clarke
• Webwalker with Douglas Walker
• PR Girlz from the femme fatales at Thornley Fallis
• Participation Highway with Dave Carter
• Inside the CBC with Tod Maffin
• Niblettes
• H&K with Lisa Walker
• Networks (H&K) with Ted Graham
• Social Signal with Alexandra Samuel
• The New Pr with Ryan Anderson
• Flack Life with Bob LeDrew
• Green Hat with Julie Giles
• Trafcom news with Donna Papacosta
• Marc Snyder (en Francais)
• PR Measure with Howard Oliver
• Martin Hofmann
• Flackadelic with Leona Hobbs
• Brendan Hodgson (H&K)
• Boyd Neil (H&K)
• Ad Hack with James Sherrett
• Chroma with Constantino Demopoulos
• Mutually Inclusive PR with Eric Eggertson
• Profectio with Dave Forde
• Canadian Marketing Association Blog ( A Collective)
• Sweet Mantra with Bill Sweetman
• Steve Hardy at Creative Generalist
• Michel Leblanc (en Francais)
• Experience The Message w/ Max Lenderman
• Blogging me Blogging You with Ed lee
• Horse, Pig, Cow with Tara Hunt
• This Blog Sits at the...with Grant McCracken
• Malcolm Galdwell
• Mark Evans
• Matthew Ingram
• Stuart Macdonald
• Buzz Marketing with Blogs with Susannah Gardner
• Tell Ten Friends with Jordan Behan
• Customer Experience Crossroads with Susan Abbott
• Darren Barefoot.com with Darren Barefoot
• 3i with Tamera Kremer
• ProPR with Joe Thornley
• One Degree with Ken Schafer and Company
• Podonomics with Leesa Barnes
• Home is Where You Hang Your @ with Michael Fergusson
• The Client Side with Michael Seaton
• Twist Image with Mitch Joel
• Canuckflack w/ Colin Mckay
• My Name is Kate with Kate Trgovac
• PR Works with David Jones
  

So when you're writing that blog post at 2:30am at night because: a) your hotel room stinks and you can't get to sleep, b) the kids can't sleep and you might as well post, c) you've finally finished your work day 16 hours later or d) inspiration hits you at the strangest times, and you're wondering if anybody reads or better yet takes away anything from your posts, an opinion of one but the answer  is "yes". Cheers and spread the word, Sean