The Ryder Cup of Word of Mouth

Sean Moffitt at Agent Wildfire, author of blog Buzz Canuck, just published a list of top 23 U.S. Word of Mouth bloggers. As described by Sean...

"...these broad-minded bloggers and company heads have distinguished themselves by trying to understand how ideas spread, online and offline, through a range of different strategies and tactics. In my opinion, they are much closer to the purpose and benefits of web 2.0, co-creation, social networks and other web, cultural and social phenomenon."

I tip my hat to him for adding me to the list. I'm honored to be among this group. And I need to work on fulfilling this honor by keeping up on this blog, though these days I do a lot of blogging on Social Commerce and WOM on Bazaarblog.

Here's his list of the USA Team:

1. Jackie Huba/Ben McConnell - Church of the Customer (Austin, Texas)

2. Andy Sernovitz - Damn! I Wish I Thought of That! (Chicago, Illinois)

3. Pete Blackshaw - CGM (

4. Jim Nail - Cymfony

5. Ed Keller - Keller Fay

6. Jeremiah Owyang - Web Strategist

7. Rohit Bhargarva - Influential Marketing

8. Owen Mack - CoBrandIt

9. Walter Karl - WOM Study

10. Fred Reichheld - Net Promoter - Boston

11. Max Kalehoff - Attention Max

12. Oliver Blanchard - Brand Builder

13. Charlene Li - Groundswell

14. Sam Decker

15. Joseph Jaffe

16. John Moore - Brand Autopsy (Austin, Texas)

17. Peter Kim, Being Peter Kim (Austin, Texas)

18. Mack Collier - The Viral Garden

19. Spike Jones - Brains on Fire

20. Ron McDaniel - Buzzoodle

21.John Jantsch - Duct Tape Marketing

22. Kim Proctor - How to Create Powerful Customer Experiences

23. Rob Walker - Murketing

I assume these aren't in any particular order, as Peter Kim, John Moore, and John Jantsch have gained far greater reach over the years!