While the voting continues with close to 700 votes in less than a week so far for Canadian women in social media, many of you have asked for a chance to vote on Canadian Men Who Are Influential in Social Media and here is your chance to nominate whom you feel are influential men across Canada. To nominate someone, simply post their name (and blog url if you know it so they can be included as part of the final voting process), you have until December 8th at 11:59 PM, then we’ll open up the voting on December 10th till December 20th, 2008.
To ensure this is not simply a popularity contest the following judging criteria will be used:
- PostRank’s Engagement analysis tool, PostRank will run a report based on each entrant’s engagement. A score of 0 – 3 will be assigned.
- Community Votes – After the nominations, you will have a chance to vote on your choice. A score of 0 – 3 will be assigned.
- Involvement Ranking – Points will be awarded to individuals who helped educate the market place through hosting events on/ around the area of social media and speaking at event on/ around the area of social media. A score of 0 – 4 will be assigned.
Nominees in the final voting list must have a blog or actively contribute to one which is RSS-accessible.
If you haven’t voted yet, be sure to vote for the most influential woman here.
Definitely a rising star:
Danny Brown
http://dannybrown.me
In no particular order and off the top of my head:
Mathew Ingram http://www.mathewingram.com/work/
Jeremy Wright http://www.ensight.org/
Mark Evans http://www.markevanstech.com/
Rob Hyndman http://www.robhyndman.com/
Michael McDerment http://www.michaelmcderment.com/
Leonard Brody http://www.nowpublic.com/leonard_brody
Stewart Butterfield (no active blog, but you want influential? Er, dude – he co-founded Flickr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield)
Tony Hung http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/
Joey deVilla http://www.joeydevilla.com/
Cory Doctorow http://www.boingboing.net
Colin McKay: http://canuckflack.com
Jon Husband: http://blog.wirearchy.com/
David Crow: http://davidcrow.ca/
Mark Kuznicki: http://remarkk.com
…and many others I’m no doubt forgetting (apologies, chaps)
Paul Kedrosky: http://paul.kedrosky.com/
Finally, not out of any sense of loyalty, but simply because I think they happen to rock:
Joe Thornley http://propr.ca
Dave Fleet http://davefleet.com
In no particular order and off the top of my head:
Mathew Ingram http://www.mathewingram.com/work/
Jeremy Wright http://www.ensight.org/
Mark Evans http://www.markevanstech.com/
Rob Hyndman http://www.robhyndman.com/
Michael McDerment http://www.michaelmcderment.com/
Leonard Brody http://www.nowpublic.com/leonard_brody
Stewart Butterfield (no active blog, but you want influential? Er, dude – he co-founded Flickr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield)
Tony Hung http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/
Joey deVilla http://www.joeydevilla.com/
Cory Doctorow http://www.boingboing.net
Colin McKay: http://canuckflack.com
Jon Husband: http://blog.wirearchy.com/
David Crow: http://davidcrow.ca/
Mark Kuznicki: http://remarkk.com
…and many others I’m no doubt forgetting (apologies, chaps)
Paul Kedrosky: http://paul.kedrosky.com/
Finally, not out of any sense of loyalty, but simply because I think they happen to rock:
Joe Thornley http://propr.ca
Dave Fleet http://davefleet.com
Intentionally not looking at Michael’s list, since I’m curious as to how much overlap we’ll have.
Off the top of my head:
Joe Thornley – http://propr.ca/
Michael O’Connor Clarke – http://michaelocc.com/
Dave Fleet – http://davefleet.com/
Mitch Joel – http://www.twistimage.com/blog/
Colin Carmichael – http://colincarmichael.ca/
Colin Douma – http://www.radicaltrust.ca/
David Jones – http://www.prworks.ca/
Darren Barefoot – http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/
CT Moore – http://www.gypsybandito.com/
Joe Boughner – http://www.joeboughner.ca/
Ryan Anderson – http://www.ryananderson.ca/
Mathew Ingram – http://www.mathewingram.com/work/
Mark Evans – http://www.markevanstech.com/
Michael Geist – http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
This guy’s a bit suspect, but I figure we’ll throw him in… Dave Forde – http://www.princanada.com/
Ooh – yes, forgot Mitch and Michael Geist. Thanks! And heartily seconding all the others too.
Ooh – yes, forgot Mitch and Michael Geist. Thanks! And heartily seconding all the others too.
Dave Forde is very deserving to be on this list.
The previous posts have pulled together most of the usual suspects though I thought of a few more:
- Sean Moffit – http://buzzcanuck.typepad.com/
- Ferg Devins, VP Government and Public Affairs at Molson – http://blog.molson.com/community
- Robin Browne – http://www.consciousimages.org/
- Carmen Pirie – http://pirie.typepad.com/
- Marcel LeBrun – http://www.mediaphilosopher.com/
Cheers. David
Ben Watson – http://bitpakkit.blogspot.com/, http://blog.overlay.tv/author/ben/, http://lifeincarp.blogspot.com/
Just a quick follow on to my previous message -
The match to Ferg on the digital marketing side would be Ross Buchanan at Molson – http://blog.molson.com/community
Also Jack Horwitz should be considered for his SNCR Award winning, http://www.homelessnation.org
Cheers
David
Jon Hamilton – blogger, social media thought leader and speaker for Petro-Canada – http://www.pumptalk.ca/ – http://www.pumptalk.ca/contributors.html
(Disclosure: Petro-Canada is a client of mine.)
Ahh, right — Kate reminded me I forgot my own disclosure: I work for AideRSS. PostRank, which Dave is using as one of his measurement criteria, is our core technology. (I get one of the devs to run the analysis, though, so I’m not personally involved with this list or the women’s list.)
Oh, also, David Alston (http://www.tweetpr.com/) should be a nominee as well as a nominator.
Brendan Hodgson http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/brendanhodgson/
Boyd Neil http://intangibles.typepad.com/
Heck, they are my colleagues, but they look at social media from such interesting angles (crisis and reputation) that they deserve to be recognized.
Rob Cottingham http://www.robcottingham.ca/ – one of the smartest, savvyest awesomesauce socmed guys I know! Plus he draws cartoons! http://www.socialsignal.com/n2s (Disclosure – OneDegree contributor)
James Sherrett – founder of AdHack – http://adhack.com/portfolio/users/james-sherrett (Disclosure – OneDegree contributor)
Rob Jones – personal blog http://clippernolan.wordpress.com/ and professional blog – http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/ – leads socmed strat for BuildDirect.com (disclosure: client)
Phil Barrett – http://www.burningthebacon.com/ – mobile socmed whiz (Disclosure – OneDegree contributor)
Colin McKay – http://canuckflack.com/ – started the Privacy Commissioners many socmed activities
Jacob George – leads socmed strat for City of Calgary – well versed, particularly in metrics and guerilla socmed. He doesn’t have a blog which I would hope would not disqualify. His profile is here http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/371/902 and his twitter feed is here https://twitter.com/jacobgeorge (Disclosure – I was the VP of his fanclub during September’s Cdn Institute conference in Calgary. The evidence is all on Twitter.)
Jonesy covered Brendan and Boyd above – important voices in corp socmed. Smart fellows.
I would also suggest my collegue Sébastien Provencher of the Praized blog – http://blogs.praized.com/seb
If he’s good for the the Advertising Age top 150…
http://blogs.praized.com/seb/about/the-praized-blog-on-the-advertising-age-power-150-list/
Brett Gaylor http://www.opensourcecinema.com
helping to remix the web.
Thanks Melanie! I know you already know this Dave but just to be extra sure, as for two of my nominations – Marcel works with me and Carmen is a client (as would be posted on our website). Again, out in the open as far as connections go but just to be extra diligent since everyone else is crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s
Darren Barefoot (Capulet.com), Kris Krug (kriskrug.com), Boris Mann (bmannconsulting.com) Jordan Behan (jordanbehan.com/) and James Sherrett (Adhack and BoxCar Marketing (P.S. These are just off the top of my head and just in BC