Canada's 1% Blogging Army

In grazing and spending way too much time on the 'net over the recent holidays, I began my slavish devotion to visiting and then categorizing every marketing communications blog in Canada (yes, insane and yet quite rewarding).

As a follow up to my Power 150 post on the Top 150 American MARCOM bloggers, below is an alphabetized list of the Power 150-ish Canadian MARCOM Bloggers  - I'm calling them Canada's 1% Blogging Army.

Why 1%?

Posted here previously, outlined by both Jackie Huba in her new book Citizen Marketers and validated by companies like Yahoo, Harley Davidson and Wikipedia (and certainly embraced by my company Agent Wildfire), in every audience of 100 people, you find 80 people who pretty much stay to themselves, 20 percent who browse, consume and talk about things when asked, 10% who actively go out of their way to talk with others, investigate and have an intellectual curiousity (these people comment frequently on blogs) and then, a special 1% who create content, who lead opinion and who influence through their insight and collaboration with others.

Canada's 1% Blogging Army:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

15 Posts	Toronto	Social Media	Five Minutes for Edgy Blogging
3i   with Tamera Kremer	Toronto	Marketing	Intelligent Insight from an   Innovator
A Class   Act with Gary Schlee	Toronto	PR	The Molder of Future PR Minds
A Frog in the Valley with Sylvain   Carle	Montreal	Online
Ad Hack with James Sherrett	Vancouver	Advertising	The DIY Advertiser
AIMS   Canada	Toronto	Online	Who's Who and What's What in   Canuck E- Nation
All this Chittah Chiitah with Steve   Portigal	California	Culture	Braille-ing The Cultural   landscape
Amber Mac with Amber   MacArthur	Toronto	Culture	Canada's Version of Amanda   Congdon
Angie Mckaig	Toronto	Culture	Online Design …and a Nice Pair   of Legs
Antonia Zerbisias (Azerbic)	Toronto	Media	The Media Blogging Ringleader
Anyting Goes Marketing   with Chad Horenfeldt	Vancouver	Online	Covering the B to B Online Gamut
Bamcat with Brian McKechnie	Toronto	Culture	Very Funny Web Surfer
Being Direct with June Macdonald	Kitchener	Online	Pearls of Marketing One-to-One   Wisdom
Billions   With Zero Knowledge with Austin Hill	Montreal	Online	Promoting a Better Planet   through the Web
Biotope   with Geoffroi Garon	Montreal	Social media
Blogging me Blogging You   with Ed Lee	Toronto	Marketing	At Tossed Mix of PR This and   marketing That
Blogue   Vectis with François Laroche	Montreal	Marketing
Boyd Neil   (H&K)	Toronto	PR	The Socially Responsible Flack
Brem   Experience with Martin Breton	Quebec City	Culture
Brendan   Hodgson (H&K)	Ottawa	PR	The Capital City Crisis   Communicator
Buzz Canuck with Sean   Moffitt	Toronto	Marketing	The Word of Word of Mouth
Buzz Marketing with Blogs with   Susannah Gardner	Vancouver	Online	Insight Beyond the Yellow Book
Canadian Entrepreneur with Rick   Spence	Toronto	Business	The Best Friend to Entrepreneurs
Canadian Marketing Association   Blog	Toronto	Marketing	A Collective of the Best in the   Canuck Marketing World
Canuckflack w/ Colin Mckay	Ottawa	PR	The Pioneer of Blogging   Thoughts..Since 2003
CanuckTek by Brad Grier	Alberta	Online	The 411 on Tech
Capital PR	Ottawa	PR	The Politics of Blogging, The   Politics of Reading Good
Capulet   with Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot	Vancouver	Marketing	The Captain & Tenille of   Software Marketing
CEO   Blog-Time leadership with Jim Estill	Guelph	Business	The Role Model Corporate   Bloggist
Chroma with Constantino   Demopoulos	Toronto	Media	The Multi-Talented Media   Trendoid
Clickinsight with   June Li	Toronto	Online	The Genie of Web Analytics
Common Sense PR with Eric Eggertson	Regina	PR	The Tip Book for Aspiring PR   Titans
Corvus Consulting with   Todd Sieling	Vancouver	Online	Inisght in the Spirit of   Collaboration
CrapHammer with Sean Howard	Toronto	Social Media	Social Media and Viral in a   Fancy Green Envelope
Creativity, Change, Culture and   Communications with Kris Krug	Vancouver	Social media	The Digital Renaissance Man
Customer Experience   Crossroads with Susan Abbott	Toronto	Research	The Intersection of Research   & Customer Experience
Darren Barefoot.com with Darren   Barefoot	Vancouver	Online	A Daily Dose of Van City
David Crow	Toronto	Online	The Troublemaker with a Soft   Spot for Entrepreneurs, Software and Community
Deep Jive Interests with Tony   Hung	Toronto	Online	A Geeky Techie Newshound
Derek Leverington	Toronto	Marketing	A Collage of Random Thoughts
DOA with Dominic   Arpin	Montreal	Culture
Eli Singer	Toronto	Marketing	Daily Candy of Headlines
Elliott   Silverstein	Toronto	PR	New Media Enthusiast
Ensight with Jeremy Wright	Toronto	Online	The Blogging Matchmaker
Espresso   with Yannick Manuri	Montreal	Online
Experience The Message   w/ Max Lenderman	Chicago	Marketing	The Expert on Experience
Flack Life with Bob LeDrew	Ottawa	PR	Chewing Gum for the Curious Mind
Flackadelic with Leona   Hobbs	Toronto	Pop Culture	The Weather Vane of Cool
Fuel Games	Ottawa	Social Media	Where Play Meets Brand
Green Hat with Julie Giles	Toronto	Marketing	The Source for   Media/Entertainment Buzz & Hype
Guillaume   Brunet	Montreal	Social media
H&K   with Lisa Walker	Toronto	PR	Insight from the H&K   Rainmaker
Home is Where You Hang Your @ with Michael   Fergusson	Vancouver	Social Media	A Grab Bag of Social Media
Horse, Pig, Cow with Tara Hunt	San Francisco	Community	A Mash Up of Cluetrain, Pinko   and Naomi Klein
I never   knew with Patrick Tanguay	Montreal	Online
Ian Ketcheson	Ottawa	Social Media	The Blogging Bureaucrat
Idea Hatching	Niagra Falls	Online	A Couple of Chicks on Clicks
Imagination+Innovation with   Duane Brown	Toronto	PR	The Man with Many Entertainment   Hats
In   Over Your Head with Julien Smith	Montreal	Culture
Inside Popnology with   Amber MacArthur	Toronto	Pop Culture	CITY-TV…now Really Everywhere
Inside PR with Terry Fallis and David Jones	Toronto	PR	The Lewis & Clark of the   PR/Social Media Double Scoop
Inside the CBC with Tod Maffin	Vancouver	Media	Under the Hood at the CBC
Ipub.CA.CX   with Jean-Julien Guyot	Montreal	Social media
Jill Pyle	Halifax	Social Media	Really Insightful PR Student
John   Wiseman	Ottawa	Online	The Good Looking Tech Blog from   the Nation's Capital
Join the   Conversation! With Alexandre Hénault	Montreal	Social Media	The Conversation Starter
Jonathan Dunn (Mar-Comedy)	Toronto	Marketing	Refreshing Mag Columnist Take on   New Media
Keitai with Stephanie   Rieger	Vancouver	Culture	Mobility, Culture and User   Experience
Le   techno blog a Steph with Steph Guerin	Montreal	Online
Legal Marketing Canada with Doug   Jasinski	Toronto	Marketing	The Law of the Land in Marketing
Leigh's   Blithering with Leigh Himel	Toronto	Online	Cool Stuff Entertainingly   Exposed
Leo Burnett: Fruits   of Imagination	Toronto	Advertising	The Change Agent in the Apple   Agency
Lisa Mighton (Believing Impossible   Things)	Vancouver	Social Media	The Non-Profit Social Media   Activist
Logic   + Emotion with David Armano	Vancouver	Advertising	Deep Thoughts with…Creativity
Malcolm Gladwell	New York	Pop Culture	The Smartest Export from Canada
Maple   Leaf 2.0 with Mark Evans	Toronto	Online	News from the Canadian Web 2.0   battlefield
Mapping The Web with Aidan Henry	Victoria	Online	What Web Hot and What's Web Not
Marc Snyder	Montreal	PR	Le Vrai Bon Homme du Blog
Mark Evans Tech	Toronto	Online/Tech	The Master of T&T - Tech   & Telco.
Mark Hamilton	Vancouver	Media	Media Reviews from The Academic
Martin Hofmann	Toronto	PR	The Canary in the PR Tech Gold   Mine
Matthew Ingram	Toronto	Online/Tech	The Ink Stained Expert of   Canada's Webland
Media   Café with Jeff Mignon	Montreal	Media
Michael Geist	Ottawa	Online	Judge Wapner for Canadian   Internet
Michael Mcderment	Toronto	Online	Web 2.0 Value Adder
Michel Leblanc (en Francais)	Outremont	Online	The Leading Edge of New Social   Media
MLM Marketing with Andrew Murphy		MLM	The Keys to Profitable Ethical   Network Marketing
Moco   Loco Montreal with Harry Wakefield	Montreal	Design
Moi,   j'pense que with Yves Williams	Montreal	Online
Mutually Inclusive   PR with Eric Eggertson	Saskatchewan	PR	Little Gems From the Prairies
My Name is Kate with Kate Trgovac	Vancouver	Marketing	The Evangelist for All Things   Innovative
N'ayez   Pas peur Philippe Martin	Montreal	Social Media
Networks   (H&K) with Ted Graham	Toronto	PR	The Traffic Cop of Social   Networks
Niblettes	Vancouver	Design	Style Tidbits from the Left   Coast
Obviousness with   John Ounpuu	Vancouver	Marketing	Empowering Common Sense
Oglivy Toronto - Meanwhile	Toronto	Advertising	A Portfolio of   "O&M's" Work
One Degree with Ken Schafer and Company	Toronto	Online	The Hub for Internet Insiders
Organic   : ThreeMinds	Toronto	Marketing	The Holy Trinity of Digital   Culture
Otherwise engaged with Alexandar Samuel	Vancouver	Online	The Alderwoman of Civic Blogging
Ouverte   24 Heures with Michel Dumais	Montreal	Online
Participation Highway with Dave Carter	Toronto	Research	Online 411 From the CTO
Pierre Bouchard	Montreal	PR
Podonomics with Leesa Barnes	Toronto	Socila   Media	The Professor of Podcasting
Popped Culture with   Jeremy Barker	Toronto	Culture	Obsessed in a Really Good Way
PR Girlz from the femme fatales at Thornley   Fallis	Toronto	PR	PR with Five Pairs of Stilettos
PR Measure with Howard Oliver	Toronto	PR	Web 2.0 Tech Master
PR   Nation with Paul Zanettos	Toronto	PR	PR in Hospitality, Design &   Travel
PR Works with David Jones	Toronto	PR	The PR Vanguard Driving The   Social Media Bus
Praized   with Sébastien Provencher	Montreal	Social Media
Profectio with Dave Forde	Toronto	Online	The Social Ringleader of New   Media
ProPR with Joe Thornley	Ottawa	PR	The Connector for Passionate PR   Types
Provokat   with Martin Ouellette	Montreal	Social Media
Qumana	Toronto	Social Media	The Blogger's Blog
Radical Trust With Collin Douma	Toronto	Marketing	An Ad & Online Guy Letting   the Consumer Take the Wheel
Rain City Studios: The Standard	Vancouver	Social Media	West Coast's Web 2.0 Wonders
Redcanary.ca	Toronto	Online	Start Up's Best Friend
Remarkk with Mark Kuzyncki	Toronto	Innovation	Innovation & Creative   Community
Rob Cottingham	Vancouver	Social Media	The Wizard of Media Words
Seen From   Here/Vu D'Ici with Marie-Chantale Turgeon	Montreal	Culture
SEO &   Web Marketing News with Eric Baillargeon	Montreal	Online
Shift + Control	Toronto	Online	Gift Sprinklings from 76 Design
Sid Lee Collective	Montreal	Advertising	The Making of Sid Lee nee Diesel   's
Smogger   - Social Media Blog with Linda Bustos	Vanmcouver	Social Media	Social Media for the Masses
Snook with Jonathan Snook	Ottawa	Online	A Repository of Web Problems   Solved
So   Misguided with Monique Trottier	Vancouver	Culture	Plain Words, Uncommon Sense
Social Media Group with   Maggie Fox	Toronto	Social Media	The Siren of All Things Social   Media
Social Signal with   Alexandra Samuel	Vancouver	Online	The Minister of Online   Communities
Steve Hardy at Creative   Generalist	Montreal	Pop Culture	Musings for The Eclectic Mind
Stuart Macdonald	Toronto	Online	The Jetsetting Ebusiness Maven
Student PR with Chris Clarke	Toronto	PR	The   Precocious PR Maven
Sweetmantra with Bill Sweetman	Toronto	Online	The Practical Guide to the   E-Galaxy
Talking About   Communities	Toronto	Social Media	Sequentia's Community Insights
Talking Web 2.0	Toronto	Online	A Webroll of Eight 2.0 All Stars
TBWA\Toronto   Blog	Toronto	Advertising	The Official Site of Jay Bertram   and Co.
Tell Ten Friends with   Jordan Behan	Vancouver	Online	The Conversation Starter
The Client Side with Michael Seaton	Toronto	Marketing	The Pied Piper of Marketeers
The Hard Sell with   Keith MacArthur	Toronto	Advertising	The Megaphone ot the Masses on   Our Stuff
The Instigator Blog with Ben   Yoskovitz	Montreal	Social Media	The Entrepreneur-Helping   Entrepreneur
The   Mose with Peter Moseley	Toronto	Online	Musings and More Musings
The New Pr with Ryan Anderson	Ottawa	PR	Renaissance Guy in a PR Body
The   Other Bloke's Blog with Barry Welford	Montreal	Online	Thoughts from A Broad Minded   Internet Marketeer
The Post Money Value   with Rick Segal	Toronto	Business	The New Media Bankman
The Sophisticated   Bohemian with Julia Stein	Toronto	PR	Sophisticated in the City
The   Talking Shop with John Sobel	Toronto	PR
The   Trojan Mouse	Ottawa	Social Media	Web 2.0 Market Transformer
The Tucows Blog	Toronto	Online	7 Staffers Inside the Udder
There is No   Box with Jason Theodor	Toronto	Advertising	The Frenzied Sherpa of Online   Branding/Media
This Blog Sits at the...with Grant McCracken	New York	Research	The Thought Provoking Culture   Shifter
Thomas Purves	Toronto	Online	Imagining a New Web 2.0
Trafcom News with Donna Papacosta	Oakville	Media	The Queen of the Pod
Twist Image with Mitch Joel	Montreal	Online	The Canuck Godfather of Social   Media
Uninstalled with Michael O'Connor Clarke	Toronto	PR	The Yoda of Canadian Marketing   Blogs -Rants and Raves since 2001
Vincent Abry	Montreal	Social Media
Vincent   Gautrais	Montreal	Online
Viral:   Meme.ca with David Peralty & James Cogan	Toronto	Word of Mouth	Ground Zero for Everything Viral
Voices from a PR Maven with Julie   Rusciolelli	Toronto	PR	PR Maverick with an Opinion
Vox in a Blog with   François Goube	Montreal	Online
Webwalker with Douglas Walker	Toronto	Advertising	Ads from a Cultural Lense and   Moonlighter of RPS
We're   Not Wired Right	Vancouver	Design	Sexy Looks, Sexy Thoughts
Zero Seconde   with Martin Lessard	Montreal	Social Media

15 Seconds with Ali Karbassi        Toronto          Culture     Culture Surfer with a Design Eye

Caveats:

- if any information is incorrect, I apologize, send me a comment and I'll fix
- if you don't like your handle, it was not meant to offend but to compliment, send me an equally pithy and entertaining replacement and I'll change it
- given my poor Grade 13 command of French, I did not feel comfortable labelling the blogs from my French speaking cousins (what a great insightful set of Quebecois blogs by the way - this was the biggest eyeopener from my experience) - I will gladly take volunteers for the task however
- if you hadn't posted anything in 3 months, I had presumed you were dormant on the way to blog death, if not -wake up, post at least once a month and let us know you're breathing

Hopefully, this is just the start of a budding community. It's strange that even though the web and by consequence blogs, have made the world flat - events and organizations like AIMs, MESH, Third Tuesday/Monday, the CMA, Geek Dinner,  Profectio, Bar Camp, Pod Camp, Case Camp, Throng and a soon-to-be-announced other one, keep making us want to connect with each other live with those around us...particularly the blogging influential 1%.

Keep the conversation going/maintenir la conversation....and more on this post here later...