Smartest People in Social Media – Part 4
| Person | Smarts | |
|---|---|---|
 | Peter Shankman | An entrepreneur, author, speaker, and worldwide connector. Peter is recognized worldwide for his new radical ways of thinking about Social Media, PR, marketing, advertising, creativity, and customer service. He is best known for founding "Help a Reporter Out" (HARO) which is currently the largest free source repository in the world. |
 | Phil Gomes | Phil is SVP with Edelman Digital and senior advisor to the Society for New Communications Research. His official blog site not only discusses PR and media matters but also his everyday observations about a variety of topics. |
 | Rebecca Lieb | Rebecca held executive marketing and communications positions at strategic e-services companies including Siegel & Gale. Right now, she oversees the US operations of Econsultancy, an independent source of advice and insight on digital marketing and e-commerce. |
 | Richard Binhammer | Richard is the Senior Manager at Dell. He specializes in campaign management, strategic communications, public affairs, government relations, media relations, management issues, crisis communications, and executive leadership positioning and programs. |
 | Robert Scoble | An American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He currently works for Rackspace and is building a community for people fanatical about the Internet called Building 43. He previously worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. |
 | Rohit Bhargava | A founding member of the 360 Digital Influence Group at Ogilvy and author of the best selling new book "Personality Not Included". He writes the Influential Marketing blog, ranked by AdAge among the top 50 marketing blogs in the world, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, PBS, SkyNews, MarketingChina and Fast Company. |
 | Sally Falkow | Sally has been in public relations for 30 years now and, in 1990 came to the US to learn how to use the Internet for PR. She started blogging in 2003 and was one of the first PR blogs online. Sally teaches social media bootcamp and has trained over 300 PR professionals from Fortune 100 companies, small businesses, individual entrepreneurs, boutique shops and large international PR agencies. |
 | Sam Jones | Web programming scientist and social media agent. Sam Jones constantly pushes the boundaries of web technology and communication through application programming. He is one of the super agents at Optimal Webworks, a company that specializes in online marketing identification and positioning, social media strategy, blogging, website design and web application development. |
 | Sarah Lane | Sarah used to be a Segment Producer for a TV show called New Media News. Then became the Senior Segment Producer for a computer show called "The Screen Savers" at TechTV. In 2007, she became Director of Production at Revision3, and in early 2009 joined a cross-platform media company as an Online Producer. |
 | Scott Beale | The primay tentancle of "Laughing Squid", and online resource of art, culture and technology and independent web hosting company that was founded in 1995 and based in San Francisco. Beale is also a publisher and an editor. |
 | Scott Monty | A strategic advisor on all social media across Ford Motor Company. Scott is marketing and communications professional and the head of social media. From blogger relations to marketing support, customer service to internal communications and more, He is also an active podcaster. He writes about the intersection of advertising, marketing and PR at "The Social Media Marketing Blog". |
 | Seth Godin | He is the author of ten best selling books about marketing, a public speaker and a successful entrepreneur. Ranked by Technocrati as the #1 blog written by one person and was named "the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age" by Business Week. He founded Squidoo.com, a website where users can share links and information about an idea or topic important to them. |
 | Shel Israel | A writer and speaker on social media issues. Shel co-authored the book "Naked Conversations, How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers". His second book, "Twitterville", was published September of this year. He is also the host of an online video blog series covering enterprise and trends in social media. |
 | Stephen Davies | Davies was an online Social Media Manager at RealWire Online Communications at Edelman and Account Executive at Bradley O'Mahoney Public Relations. He is now a blogger at PR Week UK and a consultant at 3W PR. His blog has been recognised by industry professionals around the world and was named ‘Europe’s number one PR blog’. |
 | Stephen Fry | A British actor, writer, comedian, author, television presenter and film director. He is frequently asked to promote various charities and causes in tweeter, often causing the host website to crash due to his large number of followers. He commemorated the million followers milestone with a humorous video blog in which a 'Step Hen Fry' clone speaks from the year 2034 where MySpace, Facebook and Twitter have combined to form 'Twit on MyFace'. |
 | Steve Rubel | He studies media and online trends and shapes them into actionable insights and marketing communications strategies. Rubel has been quoted in several prestigious lists like PR Week's 40 Under 40, The Forbes.com Web Celeb 25, PC Magazine's 100 Favorite Blogs, Media Magazine's Media 100, the AlwaysOn/Technorati Open Media 100 and the CNET News.com Blog 100. |
 | Toby Bloomberg | A native of Boston and with 15 years experience in marketing, Toby is the national speaker and facilitator of Social Media Marketing and traditional marketing topics for organizations like the American Marketing Association, Olympic Organizing Committee, PRSA, BlogHer, BlogWorld, #M, M/A/R/C, Purina, The Women's Congress, BusinessWire & SCORE. |
 | Trevor Cook | A blogger since 2003, Trevor is a doctoral student in politics at the University of Sidney who also tutors in the area of Australian foreign and defense policy. Over the past decade, he has written many articles on politics, public relations and social media newspapers, magazines and websites for ABC Unleashed, Crikey, Online Opinion and New Matilda. |
 | Tyler Cruz | Tyler Cruz is basically an all-around guy. He is a blogger, web entrepreneur, and CEO of Merendi Networks. His personal blog site, TylerCruz.com, is categorized as a “make money online” blog (earning more than $8000 a month) but humble Tyler never sees himself as a guru or an expert in this field. According to him, he just wanted to share what he knows to the World Wide Web. |
 | Valeria Maltoni | Valeria Maltoni is a professional marketer with 20 years of real-world corporate experience, 10 of which online, across a broad array of mid-to-large sized companies. She is a contributor to Marketing Profs Daily Fix, Marketing 2.0, Social Media Today, and The Blog Herald. She is on the Advisory Board of SmartBrief on Social Media. |
 | Veronica Belmont | Veronica is a technology and gaming-centric video host based out of San Francisco. Currently her projects include Qore (a monthly interactive magazine about the PS3 for Sony) and Tekzilla (a weekly tech help and how-to show on Revision3.com). She also writes a bi-weekly column for MaximumPC called Trending Topics. |
 | Wayne Sutton | Wayne Sutton is an entrepreneur, strategist, and producer with a passion for video blogging and social media. With nearly 15 years experience in the technology and social media sector. He’s provided counsel to business leaders ranging from founders of small start-ups and representatives of non-profit organizations to CEOs of large and small corporations. |
 | Wendy Piersall | Wendy Piersall is the Founder & CEO of Sparkplugging, the largest blog network dedicated to work at home resources for solo business owners. She also serves as a consulting adviser to Escalate Media, a large network of online communities for women. Wendy has over 12 years of business and marketing experience and is a well known blogging and new media expert. |
 | Yvonne Divita | Yvonne is a sought-after speaker on women's issues, publishing, and social media. She is a professional blogger and a social media consultant. She started writing when she was in second grade but her second grade teacher did not appreciate her creative abilities. She founded Windsor Media Enterprises to help other aspiring authors get published. |
I love Laughing Squid, it’s great that Scott Beale is included in your list.
Kudos for including Tyler Cruz in the list. I so love him! FYI, he’s Filipino-American.
Now your list is complete. Where’s Pete Cashmore and Tom Anderson? Why are they not included?
FYI, amongst all gurus here, Cashmore was recently interviewed by CNN to talk about Web Trends for 2010. I can’t believe Tyler Cruz is on the list and Peter Cashmore isn’t? This sucks!
@Tabitha Chisolm – I totally agree with you that Cashmore should be on this list.
But over-all, I like this list. You may have missed some smart guys out there but hey, this is just your opinion.
Pete Cashmore doesn’t need to be in any list, everyone already knows he’s smart.
Shel Holz is a *serious* omission from this list, especially as you’ve included his For Immediate Release colleague Neville Hobson.
I’m awed by my inclusion in a list of such illustrious social media professionals.. Like Brendan Cooper, I see my friend (and client) Shel Holtz as a serious omission, along with Lena West … no doubt, given time, I could also think of man others.
Any attempt at a list like this will inevitably overlook many deserving folks. I hope fans will come and add their favorites to the comments, add themselves (it’s okay to brag – I know many of you desever to do so), or invite other comments on the topic. Much thanks, btw, for the mention – I see a few names I need to become more familiar with. Off to twitter to tweet…
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Thanks for the acknowledgement. As Yvonne pointed out there many, many other people who have contributed to the work in the social web. Seems like it would make a great crowd sourced project.