SMPG Enterprise Social Operating Manual – Best of the Pundits

In our previous post, SMPG Enterprise Social Operating Manual – Acknowledgements, we mentioned those nice folks who helped us finish and publish our book, Be a Person – The Social Operating Manual for Enterprises – (Paper:bit.ly/BeAPersonEFull – 430 pages) on this blog. In this post, we publish our list of the best social media pundits.



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Resources

“Social media is like teen sex.
Everybody wants to do it. Nobody knows how.
When it’s finally done there is surprise it’s not better.”

Avinash Kaushik, Google

We offer this list of resources for quick reference. Like all things on the Web, their location and relevance my change by the time you read this so please remember, Google is your friend. If you want to locate a reference whose link no longer works, try Googling it. And Google anything else you have questions on. The Web abounds with advice, not all of it good, so be careful out there!

The Best of the Best Pundits

These people inspired much of the thinking in this book. They really know their stuff.

 

Pundit Link Pundit Link
Abbey Klaassen bit.ly/iDi1ym Jeremiah Owyang bit.ly/9aszgM
Adam Christensen bit.ly/cglyfw Jesse James Garrett bit.ly/mp1JQz
Alia McKee bit.ly/kYpBH1 Jim Cashel bit.ly/koQWV7
Amber Naslund bit.ly/aI4Ne6 Joseph Thornley bit.ly/kNL55p
Amy Sample Ward bit.ly/jpjLMz Josh Bernoff bit.ly/a3ndiq
Andrew Eklund bit.ly/ldTjCT Katie Paine bit.ly/982jqM
Ann Michael bit.ly/lA2cPq Katya Andresen bit.ly/kPLKaq
Avinash Kaushik bit.ly/m92tZI Ken Burbary bit.ly/cTb6X9
Barry Judge bit.ly/b6H0hY Kirsten Stanford bit.ly/l004E5
Beth Kanter bit.ly/dmp97X Lawrence Liu bit.ly/magnW8
Bob Pearson bit.ly/lavCIq Lee Odden bit.ly/cQNLKG
Brian Halligan bit.ly/iNm4wd Lisa Barone bit.ly/ivVfWU
Brian Haven bit.ly/jgBNhH Lynn Rogers bit.ly/jVhxQH
Brian Solis bit.ly/d8JMJb Manish Mehta huff.to/iNnIlg
Catie Foertsch bit.ly/iGibLi Marcel LeBrun bit.ly/kuME9S
Charlene Li bit.ly/bV80w5 Mark Rovner bit.ly/kdu6Ha
Chip and Dan Heath bit.ly/msAtpQ Matt McKeon bit.ly/imc4Kl
Chris Brogan bit.ly/cXHzNA Michael Gray bit.ly/lLRdc1
Chris Lake bit.ly/iyJE8P Mike Valentino bit.ly/kS0r5K
Chris Levkulich   Neal Schaffer bit.ly/9GtQT4
Clay Shirky bit.ly/dy9p2j P.J. Fusco bit.ly/llxPXK
Constantin Basturea bit.ly/lWeh7z Paul Dunay bit.ly/m5XG9o
Dan Schwable bit.ly/d3Zuyt Peter Merholz bit.ly/iJiHiV
Darren Rowse bit.ly/dghN9I Qui Diaz bit.ly/iIjyaL
David Bohm bit.ly/b1uCPT Rachel Happe bit.ly/blJkdb
David Meerman Scott bit.ly/lXQGyQ Richard Seel bit.ly/kieLSq
David Mothersbaugh bit.ly/jgSURm Rick Mahn bit.ly/aXmSdw
Deb Schultz bit.ly/ly4iVS Robert Scoble scoble.it/9NMNyh
Debajyoti Banerjee bit.ly/le6OQI Robin Good bit.ly/izAtKE
Debra Murphy bit.ly/lmRO8b Rohit Bhargava bit.ly/mlqv0n
Del Hawkins bit.ly/jMgaHd Ron Shulkin bit.ly/jHXgAh
Dharmesh Shah bit.ly/kSjkwc Ryan Spoon bit.ly/kqIXAY
Dr. Ivan Misner bit.ly/lSSPml Seth Godin bit.ly/bdDjWc
Dr. Ralph F. Wilson bit.ly/ky6awp Shel Israel bit.ly/bgr9cM
Ed Keller amzn.to/kOokqs Skellie of skelliewag bit.ly/lWxM3M
Erik Qualman bit.ly/klLyTu Tamara Adlin bit.ly/lKSq2x
Geoff Livingston bit.ly/lI0bXI The Cluetrain Team bit.ly/9jGP3T
Guy Kawasaki bit.ly/aUJB5m Tia Fisher bit.ly/mkbdjR
Howard Rheingold bit.ly/ktMJRE Tim Jackson bit.ly/jF5XsJ
Jake McKee bit.ly/ioZT9P Tim Nash bit.ly/jJhhip
Janet Fouts bit.ly/mqKfDZ Vinod Kumar bit.ly/jDYba0
Jared Schwartz bit.ly/m3jpSw    
Jason Falls bit.ly/kuWUYT    
Jennifer Johnston Canfield bit.ly/jVRMfk    

Over the past two years, we’ve given you everything you need to build your social presence online — Fast! If you’ve enjoyed reading our book bit by bit on our blog, you may enjoy our lovely parting gifts:

  • A free PDF of the entire Be a Person – The Social Operating Manual for Enterprises book as published
  • A free PDF of our exclusive checklist,  The Social Media Performance Group Community Building Checklist™

When we are finished posting the resource lists and acknowledgements for the book, we’ll post these party favors on our community site (see URL below). Unfortunately, joining the community is not free – it costs a whole US dollar. This is because we had lots of spammers joining and having even a tiny fee keeps out the link harvesters.

So watch this blog for the announcement that the book and checklist are ready on our community. Of course, you may want to join right away anyway, just to be sure . . .

We’d like to hear from you, not only about what you think of our advice, but what you learn as you create your own social media practice. You can contribute by commenting on the Social Media Performance Group’s community Website at:

community.SocialMediaPerformanceGroup.com


SMPG Enterprise Social Operating Manual – Best of the Pundits is the 174th in a series of excerpts from our book, Be a Person: the Social Operating Manual for Enterprises (itself part of a series for different audiences). We’ve been doing this since 2011 and we’re just about done. If you’d like to see our entire exclusive community building checklist, once we’re done, it will be available on our Website at community.socialmediaperformancegroup.com. Luckily, if you’re impatient, the book is available in paper form at bit.ly/OrderBeAPerson and you can save $5 using Coupon Code 6WXG8ABP2Infinite Pipeline book cover

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