Over 300 blogs were included in this quarter’s review, and the top 42 are:

1. Online Marketing Blog
2. Web Ink Now
3. EyeCube
4. Convince and Convert
5. Copyblogger
6. PR 2.0
7. TippingPoint Labs
8. Marketing Interactions
9. ContentMarketingToday
10. Conversation Agent
11. Rexblog
12. Writing on the Web
13. Post Advertising
14. Internet Marketing Blog
15. Inbound Internet Marketing Blog
16. Chris Brogan’s Blog
17. Web Strategy by Jeremiah
18. Modern B2B Marketing
19. Marketing with Meaning
20. IdeaLaunch
21. The Viral Garden
22. Winning the Web
23. The Toadstool
24. Direct Marketing Observations
25. Seth’s Blog
26. PR 20/20
27. Keysplash Creative
28. Social Media Explorer
29. Capture the Conversation
30. Brain Traffic
31. Drew’s Marketing Minute
32. Buzz Marketing for Technology
33. 9 Inch Marketing
34. Litman Live
35. Paul Gillin
36. ViralBlog
37. The Content Wrangler
38. Marcom Writer Blog
39. Ducttape Marketing
40. Buzz News
41. Writing White Papers
42. Feed Growth!

These are the blogs to read if you want to learn about content marketing!

Building Brand Value the Playboy Way

You can read an excerpt of Building Brand Value the Playboy Way from the book’s Introduction on Entrepreneur.com.

When I started writing this book, I already viewed Hugh Hefner as the ultimate brand champion and brand guardian, and when I finished, that opinion had only grown stronger. Building Brand Value the Playboy Way was written for an academic and professional audience, and describes how one man’s idea to create a lifestyle magazine for men in the 1950s turned into one of the most recognized brands in the world. It’s a fascinating story that all branding and marketing students and professionals can learn from.

Building Brand Value the Playboy Way is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and other book stores (both online and offline).

In the article, I discuss the seven steps that businesses need to understand and follow in order to develop a long term, successful brand building strategy supported by effective marketing communications.  Follow the link above to read the complete article.

Read more marketing and branding articles by Susan Gunelius.

The panel is called ‘How to Effectively Market Your Small Business in a downturn Economy’ and Susan will be joined by Jay Ehret of The Marketing Spot and Jay Berkowitz of Ten Golden Rules.

You can get more details and register for the webinar here.

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Susan Gunelius Joins Network Solutions Social Web Advisory Board

This quarter’s update to the list included a record 276 blogs, up from 224 last quarter.  According to the Junta 42 website, “the Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs list highlights the best bloggers on the web discussing content marketing. Each blog on the list has been rated by our expert staff in terms of content strength, depth, regularity and, to a very small extent, popularity.”

Here is the list of the Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs according to the Junta 42:

1 TippingPoint Labs
2 Copyblogger
3 Marketing Interactions
4 Online Marketing Blog
5 PR 2.0
6 Marketing with Meaning
7 Post Advertising
8 Conversation Agent
9 Brain Traffic
10 Web Ink Now
11 Buzz Marketing for Technology
12 EyeCube
13 ContentMarketingToday
14 Convince and Convert
15 Influential Marketing Blog
16 Internet Marketing Blog
17 Dan Blank
18 The Harte of Marketing
19 Writing on the Web
20 The Toadstool
21 PR 20/20
22 Keysplash Creative
23 Chris Brogan’s Blog
24 Social Media Explorer
25 Content Rich
26 Drew’s Marketing Minute
27 Seth’s Blog
28 9 Inch Marketing
29 The Content Wrangler
30 Greg Verdino’s Marketing Blog
31 IdeaLaunch
32 Hard Knox Life
33 Direct Marketing Observations
34 Nigel Hollis
35 Rexblog
36 Daily Fix
37 Sales Lead Insights
38 Techno//Marketer
39 Eat Media Blog
40 Savvy B2B Marketing
41 Social Signal
42 Web Strategy by Jeremiah

You can follow the link to read more about the Junta 42.

Network Solutions has put together a group of thought leaders respected for their opinion and ability to offer insight to form a new Network Solutions Social Web Advisory Board.  KeySplash Creative’s President and CEO, Susan Gunelius, was invited to join the Network Solutions Advisory Board along with several other savvy business people and social media experts.  Read more about the Network Solutions Advisory Board members below (via the Network Solutions blog).

Susan Gunelius
Susan Gunelius is President and CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc., a full service marketing communications provider offering copywriting, business communications, blog, book and article writing, and marketing and branding consulting services. She brings with her over 15 years of experience working in the marketing field for some of the largest corporations in the world (including divisions of AT&T, HSBC, Household International and more).

Susan is a published author with three books available in book stores and online (Harry Potter: The Story of a Global Business Phenomenon through Palgrave Macmillan, Kick-Ass Copywriting in 10 Easy Steps through Entrepreneur Press, and Google Blogger for Dummies through Wiley). Her fourth book, Building Brand Value the Playboy Way, will hit book stores (through Palgrave Macmillan) in Fall 2009.

Susan frequently writes about marketing for various publications. She is a featured columnist on Entrepreneur.com where she writes about marketing communications, and you can find some of her marketing-related articles on websites such as WomenEntrepreneur.com, MSNBC.com, FoxBusiness.com, BusinessWeek.com, WashingtonPost.com, TheStreet.com, SmartMoney.com, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Small Business, and more.

Susan is also an active blogger authoring the KeySplash Creative Conversations blog about branding, marketing and advertising for her company, KeySplash Creative, Inc., as well as one of the leading blogs for women working in the field of business, WomenOnBusiness.com. She is a contributing author at Corporate-Eye.com where she writes about corporate branding, and she writes about small business marketing for Cox Communications’ Kudzu.com Business Success Center where she authors the Everyday Marketing blog. Additionally, she is the Guide to Web Logs for About.com (a New York Times company).
 
Tinu Abayomi Paul
Leveraged Promotion, a website promotion company. Their specialty is bringing companies with an existing offline presence the local, national or international exposure they need to increase profitability, leveraging the cost-effective tools available on the web. You can reach her at http://AskTinu.com.

Her last project was a contribution to Rok Hrastnik’s comprehensive guide to RSS, “Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS”. You can find more of her daily tips on RSS, Blogs, Google tools, and more, at her main blog, Free Traffic Tips.

Jared Goralnick
Jared Goralnick’s passion is to help businesses save time through more efficient usage of technology. In 2002, he founded SET Consulting, a productivity training, development, and design firm, which he continues to manage.  Some of SET’s clients include the FBI, NIST, CRS, NTT Communications, and HP.  In 2008, Jared launched AwayFind, a web service that addresses the problem of email overload.

In addition to a building a passionate online following of users, AwayFind received international attention in NPR, The Guardian, and blogs large and small.  In 2009, he started Bootstrap Maryland, a community organization focused on building lean technology businesses in the greater Washington DC region.  You can find Jared blogging online at Technotheory.com or speaking about workplace productivity and communication around the globe.

 Becky Carroll
Becky is founder of Customers Rock!, a consultancy focused on engaging customers through conversation, social media, and WOW customer experiences. Becky’s clients have included companies such as EA, HP, Fujitsu, and Ford in addition to numerous small businesses and non-profits. She is the author of the business blog Customers Rock!  and teaches the class “Marketing via New Media” at UCSD. Becky is a regular personality on the nationally-syndicated Big Biz Talk Radio show, a contributing author on the recently-released Age of Conversation business books, and a sought-after speaker on social media and customer loyalty.

Previously, Becky served as Director of Social Media for Brickfish and as a Senior Consultant with Peppers and Rogers Group. She also worked at HP for 14 years, including her role as Director of Marketing, UK.

Anita Campbell
Anita Campbell has been an entrepreneur at heart her entire life. A lawyer by training, she has a wide range of interests, as reflected in her varied background in banking, information technology, human resources, marketing and eCommerce.

Today she is the CEO of her own business, Small Business Trends LLC, a media and information company. In that role she closely follows trends in the small business market and trends in technology.

Before starting her entrepreneurial journey she held various executive positions in the corporate world. Most recently she was a senior executive with Bell & Howell Company, including serving as CEO of a technology subsidiary of Bell & Howell.

A respected speaker and emerging trends resource, Ms. Campbell’s expertise has been noted or her opinion quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, CIO Magazine, Entrepreneur Radio, BusinessTVChannel.com, Cleveland Plain Dealer, San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Akron Beacon Journal, Boston Globe, CRM Buyer, and countless trade publications, websites, podcasts and more.

Christopher Carfi
Christopher Carfi is an entrepreneur and CEO of Cerado, Inc. Cerado was founded in 2002 to provide software and services that enable businesses, organizations and associations to better connect and understand their customer and member communities. His blog, The Social Customer Manifesto, is a “Top 25? marketing blog, and has won numerous other awards including “Top CRM Blog” in 2005 and 2007. He is also an active contributor to the ProjectVRM, based at the Berkman Center at Harvard University, which focuses on improving customer-vendor relationships and is creating tools to equip individuals with tools of both independence and engagement.

Prior to co-founding Cerado, Chris was a product marketing executive at Extricity, a provider of B2B integration services. He also spent nearly a decade at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) as a manager at Andersen’s Center for Strategic Technology in Palo Alto, California.   He serves on the Network Solutions’ Social Web Advisory Board.

Chris grew up in Chicago, holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Northwestern University, and currently lives in the Bay Area with his family.

You can follow the link to read the full review on Blogger Buster.

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• Has business writing itself become more informal or is it that business people have brought their personal style to the commercial world?
• How words are now important but it is harder for those words to stand out from the crowd.
• Tips on how to develop your writing skills
• How creating the message is like building a house!
• Is it about the words you use or how you construct the message?
• The importance of writing as though to your best friend.
• Which marketing trigger words work?
• How do you develop your writing style?
• Where does creativity come from – is it from the tools, the person or the message? 

This quarter’s update included a record 224 blogs, up from 187 last quarter. In addition, the Junta42 Top 42 are now featured as part of the content marketing category at Alltop.com (which will be updated soon with the new 42).

According to the Junta42 selection criteria, “Other than the Top 42 being an amazing collection of the best marketing and publishing minds in the world, we like the creation of this list because it’s not all based on data coming from the likes of Alexa, Technorati, Bloglines and other top blog lists that purely “count” stuff.  …  The Top 42 Content Marketing blogs include those thought leaders who are carrying the flag of the content revolution, teaching both buyers and sellers how to better communicate with each other.”

Here is the complete Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs: 

1 Marketing with Meaning
2 PR 2.0
3 Chris Brogan’s Blog
4 EyeCube
5 Conversation Marketing
6 Web Ink Now
7 Conversation Agent
8 Online Marketing Blog
9 ContentMarketingToday
10 Copyblogger
11 Marketing Interactions
12 Writing on the Web
13 The Toadstool
14 Keysplash Creative
15 The Social Media Engager
16 Influential Marketing Blog
17 Be the Voice
18 Buzz Marketing for Technology
19 AriWriter
20 Winning the Web
21 Web Strategy by Jeremiah
22 Hard Knox Life
23 Litman Live
24 Buzz News
25 Drew’s Marketing Minute
26 Left the Box
27 Dan Blank
28 Nick Burcher
29 Craphammer.ca
30 Conversational Media Marketing
31 Nigel Hollis
32 Social Media Explorer
33 Chaos Scenario
34 The Content Wrangler
35 Eat Media Blog
36 Insights & Ingenuity
37 Ducttape Marketing
38 Servant of Chaos
39 Emerson Direct Marketing Observations
40 Seth’s Blog
41 ViralBlog
42 Social Media (Re)Loaded

Follow the link to read more about the Junta42 selection criteria.

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This year’s keynote speaker lineup is still being confirmed, however, past keynote speakers for conferences have included, Maya Angelou, Cherie Blair, Anna Quindlen, Maria Hinojosa, Elizabeth Edwards, Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, and Meg Whitman.  In addition to the dynamic program, hundreds of exhibitors showcase a wide variety of products and services, providing a unique opportunity to connect like-minded individuals and organizations.

You can register, get conference  information and speaker updates on the Florida Conference for Women’s website at www.FLConferenceForWomen.org.