Over 50 Great Blogs

This past Tuesday, I was part of a panel discussion for the Puget Sound ASTD chapter. The topic was using blogs to enhance training and development (or your training business). With me on the panel were four of my favorite Seattle business bloggers:

Curt Rosengren - The Occupational Adventure (for the category of career development)
Lori Richardson - Sales Coach  and Score More Sales (for the category of sales/revenue generation)
Lynn Gaertner-Johnston - Business Writing (for the category of writing and communication)
Fran Fisher - Powerful Conversations (for the category of coaching)

I handled the category of leadership and management. We each shared 9 blogs, podcasts or sites other than our own that we thought trainers ought to know about - together that's 50 great sites, the vast majority being blogs.

I have posted the list below for your reference. Because we each could only share a few, there are many of my favorite blogs NOT on this list. I currently read about 200 great blogs.

These are the 50 that we collectively think are highly relevant to trainers.

Cool news: Since the presentation on Tuesday, I have already gotten two emails from people who started new blogs as a result of the session. Both new blogs are from fun and smart professionals, so please check out their new blogs and add them to your reading list. Let's give them a little newby blogger love!

Doug Nathan - Conflict Matters
Tracie Hiemstra - Self Coaching

Welcome to the blogoshpere Doug and Tracie!!!

Here's the list by category:

Management and Leadership

Leadership Now - Don Blohowiak    
Management Skills Blog - Tom Foster
Genuine Curiosity - Dwayne Melancon   
Agile Management Blog - David Anderson   
Manager Tools Podcast - Mark Horstman & Mike Auzenne
Slacker Manager - Brendon Connelly
Slow Leadership - Adrian Savage
Cranky Middle Manager - Wayne Turmel
Tom Peters - Tom Peters

Career Satisfaction & Development

Bob Baker's Artist Empowerment Blog - Bob Baker   
Brazen Careerist - Penelope Trunk
Come Gather Round! - Dick Richards
HELLO, my name is BLOG - Scott Ginsberg   
Innovation Weblog - Chuck Frey   
Monster Blog - Various
Orbit Now! - Troy Worman
Make It Great!     - Phil Gerbyshak
Worthwhile Magazine Blog – Various

Business Writing and Communication

Grammar Hell    - Jack Smith
Daily Walks - Diane Varner
Bad Language    - Matthew Stibbe
Creating Passionate Users - Kathy Sierra   
Talking Communications - Farrell Kramer
Presentation Zen - Garr Reynolds
Manage Your Writing     - Kenneth W. Davis
Voice Coaching for Podcasters - Scott Paton & Jan Janzen
Legalwriting.net - Wayne Schiess   
The (New) Legal Writer - Raymond Ward   
More Clients Blog - Robert Middleton
Diary of a Shameless Self-Promoter - Heidi Miller

Coaching

Shaboom, Inc - Molly Gordon
Knee Deep - Michele Corey
Heart of Business - Mark Silver
The Blog Coach - Paul Chaney
Slide show: Why and How of Blogging - Nick Finck   
Choice Magazine - Maureen Ford, Editor in Chief
International Coach Federation
Puget Sound Coaches 
Peer Resources - Rey Carr

Sales & Revenue Generation

Reviews on Top Sales Books - Brandon Hull   
White Paper Source - Michael Stelzner
Selling to Big Companies - Jill Konrath   
Start With a Lead - Brian Carroll
Rain Today - Mike Schultz
Account Hunter - Shane Murphy
TonyRamos.com - Tony Ramos   
Profit Builders     - Keith Rosen   

Comments

[Skip]

Lisa,

Great list and there are several blogs that I want to look at. Any chance you would provide an OPML file with the entire list that we could use to import into our various newsreaders?

[Michael A. Stelzner]

Hi Lisa;

Thanks so much for listing my WhitePaperSource site. I also have a blog dedicated to writing white papers at http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/

Mike

[Lisa Haneberg]

Skip - whoa nelly, you have spoken beyond my geekabilities - tell me what an OPML is and how to do it and I would be happy to indulge.

Mike - thanks for the link!

[Dwayne Melancon]

Thank you, Lisa - I'm proud to be associated with the awesome folks on this list.

Keep up all the awesome sharing that you do!

[Phil Gerbyshak]

Wow Lisa, this is quite a list that I am VERY honored to be a part of. WOW! Thank you!

RE: OPML
Do do things via OPML would be to set up all the RSS feeds in an aggregator, and then exported them into an OPML file. This would allow people to import the feeds directly into their feedreader, and save them the time of going to enter each site individually. At least that's how I understand it, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Brian Brown]

*sniff*

No Pajama Market?

www.pajamamarket.com

[Kevin Mullins]

Great List of Blogs and Resources. This list is a great starting point for anyone looking to learn more and improve their Managerial Skills.

[Wayne Turmel]

I'm honored to be in such good company, and for the first and only time in my life I'm ahead of Tom Peters! I'm delighted that training folks are catching on and hope more of them not only join our ranks but realize the importance of new media in helping people do their jobs.

Thanks as always.

[Lisa Haneberg]

Brian - I had never heard of Pajama Market, so thanks for the link!

[Penelope Trunk]

Hey, Lisa. Thank you for including Brazen Careerist on the list. I am intrigued by the way you broke down the categories. This is a good way to organize the blogs, and they are categories I wouldn't have necessarily used. But I like them, and in fact, when people ask me what my topic is, I think I will start quoting you when I answer :)

Penelope

[Skip]

Lisa,

Phil is correct. Most newsreaders (I use Bloglines) allow you to export your list of feeds in this OPML format. Same goes with importing. I have used this feature when changing from newsreaders in the past.

[Lisa Haneberg]

Skip and Phil - Thanks for the tutorial on OPML. I don't think I will attempt this, however, because this list of 50 is not neccessarily what's in my aggregator. I have many favorites - like yours Skip, and Rosa's, and David's - that are not on this list. Also, not all of these are in my aggregator, because this is a combined list.

I hope it is not too much of a pain to subscribe to the sites that interest you.

[Molly Gordon, MCC]

Thank you, Lisa. Happy to have found you.

[Michele]

Lisa, I found you through your link to me, and have stopped by to check out your blog a couple of times, and look forward to coming back some more.

I realized that I also hadn't said, thank you the link to Knee Deep under your coaching blogs!

Regards, Michele

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