Woke up to a nice surprise this morning. Bob Glaza of One Reader at a Time fame ?? along with David Reich, the perfect partner to talk newspapers with ?? nominated me for an award/meme called a ??Thinking Blogger Award?.
In his words:
??The following five bloggers are ones that deserve the award - if they choose to accept it. They change the focus of my lens. They challenge me with their points of view. In short, they make me think. They make me laugh, cry and alter my thought process - all good and worthy. To them, I offer the Thinking Blogger Award.?
His list:
Robyn McMaster - Brain Based Biz
Mark Goren - Transmission Marketing
Toby Bloomberg - Diva Marketing
Ryan Karpeles - Living Light Bulbs
Christina Kerley - CK’s Blog
Moving back a couple of steps, you land on C.B.??s Flooring the Consumer blog. She did a little digging back to the origin of the award. In her words:
“Getting back to this wonderful award - I was curious as to the origin of the award. After a little research, I came across Ilker Yoldas’ blog titled The Thinking Blog and the post announcing the Thinking Blogger Awards. It’s an antidote to memes that don’t necessarily relate to a blog’s mission… How fascinating!”
So now it??s my turn. Here??s my list of the five blogs that not only get me thinking the most, but also of ones where it??s evident that the blogger is doing a lot of great thinking as well. Also, I??ll try not to nominate the people I??ve seen nominated already.
So here goes:
Techno//Marketer: Regular readers here know I have nothing but respect for Matt Dickman. His posts are insightful, well planned and thought out. We can all learn something from Matt.
Conversation Agent: The perfect alias for Valeria Maltoni is the name of her blog. She??s without a doubt one of the most capable conversation starters online and off.
Pow! Right Between the Eyes: If you read Andy Nulman??s blog, there??s little doubt of the effort he puts into his posts. But not just that, he stays perfectly true to his blog??s purpose every time out. His is a brilliant example of staying consistently on topic ?? but always with a surprise.
Bad Idea, Indeed: First of two blogs from Belgium on this list. Philippe Deltenre is great at bringing people together, asking interesting questions and generating new ideas, like his idea for an awards show based on listening, rather than the ones that award talkers. Brilliant stuff over here.
??Cross the Breeze: Kris Hoet is the Marketing Manager of Microsoft’s EMEA group. Kris is great at keeping us all abreast of tech happenings and marketing events from all around. I generally find that if it??s of interest to Kris, it??s of interest to me too. I’ll have the great pleasure of meeting my new friend in New York next month.
There??s my fab five. I put them under no obligation to do the same. Just thought that it would be interesting to tell you all why I hold such admiration for these writers. Check them out, you won’t be disappointed.
If you are inclined to continue this on, I??ve got the specs to follow here:
Here are the participation rules for the Thinking Blogger Award:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post (or this one or this one) so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).
Bob, again, thank you for the nomination. I’m honoured to be included on your list.
June 19th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Mark - congrats! Transmission content + creative is a great “thinking blog.” I learn much from your posts. Including that you tapped several of the bloggers on my list! Good that the blogosphere has many more wonderful people (smile).
June 19th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Mark,
First off, thank you. One month away and you are already giving me the perfect birthday gift. And was a choice line up.
I’ve been recommending Matt’s Techno//Marketer to anyone who will listen. I’m a huge fan of Andy Nulman’s dry wit and brilliant finds. And what can I say, we find Belgium fertile territory for uncommon ideas. I just subscribed to Kris Hoet’s RSS feed and will need to figure out Philippe’s — it seems to be broken.
On a dial up I do not dare messing with figuring out hyperlinks from the sidebar of Typepad. I’m just as happy as a kid that the comments work again — what would I be without the conversation?
June 19th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Toby: Thanks so much for your kind words. But it was hard to choose others to nominate ?? there is so much smart writing out there.
Valeria: Having your comments go down must’ve been like Superman staving off Kryptonite. I’m glad you made it through! I’ll let Philippe know about the RSS problem ?? he’s certainly worth subscribing to.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:27 am
An award well deserved, Mark - and a fine, fine list of fab 5 you tag. More to read…more to learn.
June 20th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Thanks, Bob. The Fab 5 is definitely worth checking out, subscribing to and following. Enjoy!
June 20th, 2007 at 7:03 am
Thanks Mark - I understand the challenge to pick 5 (I’m into that now) so very much appreciate you putting me on that list. We’ll have to drink on that in NY next month :)
June 20th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Congratulations to you Mark and thank you for nominating me. I’m working on my post now for later today. Thank you again man!
June 20th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Kris: Well deserved, my friend. Can’t wait until July, really looking forward to hanging with you and CK.
Matt: No-brainer selection, man. Looking forward to seeing your selections (Kris’ too!).
June 20th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
[…] No, I didn’t received a gold lion at the Cannes advertising Festival but I was surprized and honored by Mark Goren’s post, who mentionned me in his thinking blogger award shortlist along with excellent bloggers like Matt Dickman, Valeria Maltoni, Andy Nulman and Kris Hoet. I think that most of my favorite blogs were already awarded. I’ll try to bring new blogs to the awarded list. […]
June 20th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Congtrats, Mark. Well-deserved and excellent selections! Thanks, too, for the mention.
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:52 am
[…] Thinking blogger 22 06 2007 Being rewarded for just writing your opinion on a blog is always a pleasant thing, and it was a nice surprise when Mark Goren listed me in his ‘thinking blogger’ award list. The idea of the ‘thinking blogger awards’ came from ilker yoldas and his his answer to the Z list thinking that is a bit too random as a list. So he started this meme to share a shortlist of ‘5 blogs that make me think’ and after a few months of traveling it’s great to see Mark tagged me on his version of this list. […]
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Ahh, Descartes updated for the 21st Century–”I Blog, therefore I am.”
Thanks for this, Mark. Actually, the last person who accused me of thinking was a molten-hot shampoo girl about 20 years ago.
In fact, when I get off my ass and write my Thinking Blogger five, I will tell that story in all its sordid and hilarious detail.
Until then, thanks once again for your kind words and your further swelling of my thought-stuffed head.
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Well deserved, Andy. But, I’ll admit, now I have an ulterior motive for my kindness ?? I’d like to score the number of your molten-hot shampoo girl. Yes, even 20 years later.
Cheers!
June 25th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Take a cold shower and break out the Saltpeter, Mark. She lives in Italy. But the Kama Sutra club is on the ground floor of my office building, so why don’t you “come by for a visit”…
June 25th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Andy: LOL. Last time I was there, I had a bowling ball chained to my ankle. But that’s a story for another time.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:38 am
I Tink, Derefore I is
Catching up, catching up… About a month (!) ago, Mark Goren of Transmission Marketing bestowed some kind words upon yours truly by naming Pow! as one of his five Thinking Blogs (for more info on what that means, click here).