Good ones include Best of the Web Blog Directory , Technorati , Alltop , and Blogarama. These are typically bad news unless you’re talking about a blogroll link with a highly relevant blog. As each year passes, blog marketing techniques evolve. What worked in 2011 may or may not be as effective in 2012. MORE

Here are some of my favorite social Archives Categories Blogroll October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 January 2010 December 2009 October 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 Notice : wp_list_cats is deprecated since version 2.1! Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Is Your Executive on Twitter? MORE

Blogroll Andrea DiMaio Andrew Wilson's Posterous BlogWrite for CEOs Business As I See It Buzz Bin Chris Brogan Clay Shirky Common Craft Corporate Hallucinations Digiphile Dion Hinchcliffe DorobekINSIDER Enterprise 2.0 Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof. Development Social Media The “Getting Started with Government 2.0” MORE

Barriers and Gate-Keepers Are Being Removed One of the most exciting accomplishments for me professionally occurred 5 years ago when one of my clients had her blog added to Tom Peter ’s blogroll. MORE

Identify the top blogs in any segment using AllTop , then note who those bloggers include in their blogrolls. Social Media Marketing AllTop American Idol amplification case studies content Content Marketing ebooks elements of b2b social media marketing success Field of Dreams infographics key influencers LinkedIn Groups presentations reports Twitter directories Twitter hashtags video viral video webinars white papers MORE

link] Brizzly – Twitter web app [link] Where is your Username registered [link] KnowEm – Check your username [link] Alltop, all the top stories [link] Topsy [link] Firefox web browser [link] j.mp - URL shortner with stats [link] TinyURL – URL shortner [link] Listorious [link] Twitter Tools Our guide to Brand monitoring on Twitter – 5 top tools [link] Mr. Tweet – Your Personal Networking Assistant! MORE

Here are some of my favorite social Archives Categories Blogroll October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 January 2010 December 2009 October 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 Notice : wp_list_cats is deprecated since version 2.1! Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Is Your Executive on Twitter? MORE

Note: One might say, “Debra, what about Alltop?” Since Alltop is simply a curated blogroll, it does not meet the criteria of a curated article roundup. Guest post by Debra Askanase, reprinted by permission from Community Organizer 2.0. ———— I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to keep up with all the news. MORE