Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs - Looking for Nominations

The team here at Junta42 is compiling a list of the top 42 blogs that focus on some aspect of content marketing - that is helping marketers/businesses create and deliver valuable, relevant and consistent content. This could be theory and education content marketing blogs, or specific channel content blogs, such as podcasts, white papers, webcasts, video, blogging, print magazines, etc. (if you are looking for a formal definition of what content marketing is, click here.)

But, we need your help!

Please submit your nomination using the comments for this blog post (submit a comment). We will be keeping nominations open until November 30, 2007. 

Many of the winners will be highlighted in our upcoming book, Get Content. Get Customers.  The free eBook preview of the book is available here.

ATTENTION bloggers: Please pass this note on to as many people as possible.  Although we know about a lot of the content marketing blogs out there, some are harder to find.

Good Luck!

Comments

[Ardath Albee]

Hi Joe,

There's some great information in your eBook. Thanks for posting it. And, I'd love to have my blog, Marketing Interactions, included in your list of content marketers.

Thanks,
Ardath

[Joe Pulizzi, Junta42]

Thanks Ardath...love your blog. Consider your blog added to our initial list!

[Sage Lewis]

Hey Joe,

I "think" WebMarketingWatch might fit the Content Marketing angle. I'd love it to be considered.
Thanks!
Sage

[Joe Pulizzi, Junta42]

Thanks Sage. You got it!

[Patsi Krakoff, The Blog Squad]

I'm a big fan of Lani and Allen Voivod, The Content Lovers and their blog: http://www.epiphaniesinc.com/blog/, and I'd like to nominate them. Love what you're doing, Joe, you've got a new fan!

[Patsi Krakoff, The Blog Squad]

Hey, Joe, I'm posting your announcement on my blog CoachEzines.com and wanted to explain to my readers why 42 top content blogs? I'm curious, why 'Junta42?' You look too young to have been born in '42... so why the name?

[Joe Pulizzi, Junta42]

Good question Patsi...I get it all the time. I put a blurb on my Web site here regarding the name:

http://www.junta42.com/about.asp#Name

Here's what it reads:

Okay, What’s With the Name?
Our most popular question by far. Junta (pronounced juhn-tah or hoon-tah if you from the southwest United States or Mexico) is defined by dictionary.com as “a small group ruling a country immediately after a coup d’état and before a legally constituted government has been instituted.” That’s where we are in today’s marketing environment. It’s the Wild, Wild West, baby. A marketing revolution is taking place. Junta42 is just here to bring a little organization to town.

The “42” you ask? Many of you already know this. Forty-two is the answer to “The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything” in the book (not the movie) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. For more about the number 42, go to http://www.squidoo.com/42.

Also - my two sons were ages four and two when we launched the business...so 42 just felt right!

[Paul Conley]

Hi Joe,
Allow me to make two nominations.
First and foremost -- Rex Hammock of Rexblog.com. Rex runs a custom-publishing business and he's certainly the most interesting blogger in the magazine/custompub world.
Second, I'd like to nominate Rob O'Regan's Magnosticism (http://magnostic.wordpress.com/) Rob was founding editor in chief of CMO magazine -- perhaps the best B2B magazine every produced.
Thanks.
Paul

[Joe Pulizzi, Junta42]

Thanks Paul...both are excellent blogs (as well as your own). Good choices!

[Tucker Perfect]

I've found ContentMarketingToday.com to be very helpful, particularly their examples of best practices and case studies.

[Allen Voivod]

Hi Joe,

Our #1 and #2 marketing tactics within our Content Strategy are blogs and ezines, and one blog that just happens to addresses both very well is Patsi Krakoff's www.CoachEzines.com. Great stuff for keeping us on our game.

Also, we work very closely with "Chief Nut" Kevin Skarritt of Acorn Creative, and his Nuts and Bolts of Brand blog explores a terrific range of marketing topics. That's at www.acorncreative.com/blog.

I hope you like them both, and find them worthy of consideration!

Best,
Allen Voivod
EpiphaniesInc.com
"A-Ha Yourself!"

[Joe Pulizzi, Junta42]

Thanks Allen...both are excellent resources. I'm more familiar with Patsi, but will check Acorn out more as well.

Best
Joe