With the success of our first inaugural ranking of “The Most Influential Men and Women in Social Media“, a new round of nominations are now being requested with an urge to stay current with the ongoing changes within the industry.
You can nominate both men and women by including their name(s) and a blog URL in a reply below. Nominations end June 8th, 2009 at 11:59pm and voting will begin shortly after.
A fourth judging criteria has been added to the three used for the last ranking, again contributing to the continuous development within social media.
- Involvement Ranking (A score of 0-4 will be assigned): Public Speaking/Events – Points will be awarded to individuals who helped educate the market place through hosting events connected to the area of social media.
- Community Votes (A score of 0-2 will be assigned): After all the nominations have been recorded, you will be given a chance to vote.
- Engagement Measurement (A score of 0-2 will be assigned): With the use of PostRank‘s engagement analysis tool, the frequency of interaction between online content and audience will be measured.
- Twitter Influence (A score of 0-2 will be assigned): With the use of the Twitalyzer tool, each nominees Twitter influence will be evaluated.
In order to qualify for the final voting, all nominees must either have a blog or actively contribute to one which is RSS accessible. A blog URL must also be included as it is essential in engagement measurement category of the judging criteria.
A George Brown College Business Administration Marketing/Art & Design Foundations graduate living in Toronto with 6+ years experience in customer service, and an immense interest in social media and networking. 
I enthusiastically nominate David Alston, VP Marketing of Radian6…and Tireless Evangelist for the leveraging of social media by corporations:
http://www.radian6.com/
http://www.radian6.com/blog/
http://www.tweetpr.com/ (*David’s personal blog*)
To get things started, here are a few names from the first report:
10 Most Influential Men in Social Media
Most Influential Women in Social Media
I enthusiastically nominate David Alston, VP Marketing of Radian6…and Tireless Evangelist in promoting the use of social media channels by corporations:
http://www.radian6.com/
http://www.radian6.com/blog/
http://www.tweetpr.com/ (*David’s personal blog*)
Good luck, David!
Erica Ehm http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/ http://twitter.com/YummyMummyClub
Folks – feel free to nominate more than 1 person at a time.
I would like to nominate the following.
Rayanne Langdon
@rlangdon
David Crow
http://www.davidcrow.ca
Mitch Joel
http://www.twistimage.com/blog
and me
Saul Colt
http://www.saulcolt.com
@saulcolt
Some awesome Ottawa women, who should have been there last year too:
Susan Murphy @SuzeMuse http://suzemuse.netfirms.com
and
Shannon McKarney @zchamu http://www.ecochick.ca
Hello there
I would like to nominate the following people cause there really great 2 Woman 2 Men
Erin Bury – Co Founder of RedWire
http://twitter.com/Erin_Bury
Justin Kozuch
http://twitter.com/jkozuch/
Erin Blaskie
http://www.erinblaskie.com/
Saulcolt
http://twitter.com/saulcolt
Thank you
Jon
Hi Dave,
I would like to nominate my business partner, social media advocate extraordinaire Martin Waxman. In addition to being a tireless advocate of social media within the PR community, our clients and our office, Martin is always willing to educate and train others on the value of blogging, Twitter, etc.
Martin was an early adopter of Twitter, blogging and of adding social media components to PR campaigns.
His Social Media 101 presentation is much in demand, he is a regular contributor on the Inside PR podcast and he is teaching a course in social media in McMaster University’s PR certificate program.
Don’t forget to include the blog/site url for your nominations – a url is required for final voting.
Thanks
Feel free to renominate those who were entered in the last ranking – here’s the list of both men and women nominated:
73 Influential Men in Social Media:
Ben Watson http://bitpakkit.blogspot.com / http://blog.overlay.tv/author/ben / http://lifeincarp.blogspot.com/
Bob Goyetche http://www.bobgoyetche.com
Bob LeDrew http://www.flacklife.com/
Boris Mann http://www.bmannconsulting.com
Boyd Neil http://intangibles.typepad.com/
Brendan Hodgson http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/brendanhodgson/
Brett Gaylor http://www.opensourcecinema.com
Bruno Guglielminetti http://www.guglielminetti.com/
Carmen Pirie http://pirie.typepad.com/
Claude Malaison http://emergenceweb.com/blog/
Colin McKay http://canuckflack.com
Colin Carmichael http://colincarmichael.ca/
Colin Douma http://www.radicaltrust.ca/
Cory Doctorow http://www.boingboing.net
CT Moore http://www.gypsybandito.com/
Danny Brown http://dannybrown.me
Darren Barefoot http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/
Dave Fleet http://davefleet.com
Dave Forde http://www.princanada.com / http://www.profectio.com
Dave Pollard http://www.blogs.salon.com
David Crow http://davidcrow.ca/
David Jones http://www.prworks.ca/
David Alston http://www.tweetpr.com/
Ferg Devins http://blog.molson.com/community
Geoffroi Garon http://blogue.biotope.ca/
Ilya Grigorik http://www.igvita.com/
Jack Horwitz http://www.homelessnation.org
Jacob George http://www.jg69.blogspot.com
James Sherrett http://adhack.com/portfolio/users/james-sherrett
Jeremy Wright http://www.ensight.org/
Joe Thornley http://propr.ca
Joe Boughner http://www.joeboughner.ca/
Joe Solomon http://www.Engagejoe.com
Joey deVilla http://www.joeydevilla.com/
Jon Husband http://blog.wirearchy.com/
Jon Hamilton http://www.pumptalk.ca
Jordan Behan http://www.jordanbehan.com
Julien Smith http://www.inoveryourhead.net/
Kris Krug http://www.kriskrug.com
Laurent Maisonnave http://www.zelaurent.com/
Laurent Lasalle http://mesparolessenvolent.com/
Leonard Brody http://www.nowpublic.com/leonard_brody
Marcel LeBrun http://www.mediaphilosopher.com/
Mark Evans http://www.markevanstech.com/
Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com
Mark Dykeman http://broadcasting-brain.com/
Mark Blevis http://www.markblevis.com
Martin Lessard http://www.martinlessard.com/
Mathew Ingram http://www.mathewingram.com/work/
Michael McDerment http://www.michaelmcderment.com/
Michael O’Connor Clarke http://michaelocc.com/
Michael Geist http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
Michael Seaton http://www.theclientsideblog.com
Mitch Joel http://www.twistimage.com/blog/
Paul Kedrosky http://paul.kedrosky.com/
Phil Barrett http://www.burningthebacon.com/
Philippe Martin http://www.nayezpaspeur.ca/blog/
Pierre Bouchard http://www.pierre-bouchard.com
Rob Hyndman http://www.robhyndman.com/
Rob Cottingham http://www.robcottingham.ca
Rob Jones http://clippernolan.wordpress.com / http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/
Robin Browne http://www.consciousimages.org/
Ross Buchanan http://blog.molson.com/community
Ryan Anderson http://www.ryananderson.ca/
Sean Moffit http://buzzcanuck.typepad.com/
Sébastien Provencher http://blogs.praized.com/seb
Stewart Butterfield Co-founded Flickr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield)
Sylvain Grand’Maison http://quebecbalado.com / http://fono.ca/
Sylvain Carle http://www.afroginthevalley.com/
Terry Fallis http://www.insidepr.ca
Tod Maffin http://www.todmaffin.com/blog
Tony Hung http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/
Wayne MacPhail http://w8nc.com
31 Influential Women in Social Media
Adele McAlear http://www.adelemcalear.com
Ali de Bold http://www.chickadvisor.com/
Amber Mac ambermac.com/
Angela Byron http://webchick.net/
April Dunford http://www.rocketwatcher.com/blog
Carolyn Beatty http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/community
Connie Crosby conniecrosby.blogspot.com/
Eden Spodek http://bargainista.blogspot.com/
Jacqui Murphy http://blog.techcapital.com/
Janice Diner http://www.ripplesmi.com/
Jen Evans http://www.sequentia.net
Jen Nolan http://theorangechair.com/
Jenny Bullough http://jennybullough.blogspot.com/
Kate Trgovac http://www.mynameiskate.ca
Kelly Rusk http://web2dotwhat.com/
Leesa Barnes http://marketingfit.com/
Leona Hobbs http://www.flackadelic.com/
Maggie Fox http://www.socialmediagroup.ca
MC Turgeon mcturgeon.com/blog/
Melanie Baker melle.ca/
Michelle Blanc http://www.michelleblanc.com
Michelle Sullivan michellesullivan.ca/ eminencegrisemontreal.blogspot.com
Miss604 http://miss604.com
Monica Hamburg http://monicahamburg.wordpress.com/
Rae Hoffman http://www.sugarrae.com/
Rebecca Atkinson http://thedirectapproach.blogspot.com/
Sacha Chua http://sachachua.com/
Sandy Kemsley http://www.column2.com/
Shannae Ingleton http://ilovewhatwomenwant.blogspot.com/
Tamera Kremer http://3i.wildfirestrategy.com/
Borrowed from above:
Mitch Joel http://www.twistimage.com/blog/
Cory Doctorow http://www.boingboing.net
Michael Geist http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
Darren Barefoot http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/
Paul Kedrosky http://paul.kedrosky.com/
and
Marshall McLuhan (dec.)
Mark federman
Derrick de Kerckhove
Joe Thornley
Dave Pollard
Harold Jarche
Mathew Ingram
Darrin Barney
Don Tapscott
(will grab URL’s later)
I would like to nominate Mark Relph from Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/
Thanks
I nominate Megan Cole
http://www.megancole.org
In the male section I’d like to nominate:
Danny Brown for using social media to bring together the world in support of his 12for12k charity project. Also, his blog is consistently in the AdAge Power 150 list and he is what social media community is all about.
Danny Brown:
http://dannybrown.me
http://12for12k.org
http://twitter.com/dannybrown