Top 50 Most Influential Bloggers and Online Moms
In response to the incomplete work that Nielson did last week, leaving out some of the best of the best (hello, any list that leaves out 5M4M and My Charming Kids did little, if no, research) we are putting out our response and creating the Top 50 most Influential Bloggers and Women Online we feel should have made the list.
Well, 58.
So far.
Why can we do that? Because its our responsibility to correct the injustice of the bloggers left off.
And Cause I said So.
We are not basing this off of stats, technorati, alexa, twitter followers or any other statistics that can be easily manipulated to achieve results but rather basing it straight off of “are you influential in some subset of community online.” Stats equal influence as much as comment entries on giveaways equal how popular your blog is…kwim? (anyone who missed that analogy it means “not at all“)
Some of the blogs we have listed have influence outside just their blog and happen to be editors of great sites. Some of them are on multi-author blogs and some of them own 5 blogs independently. Some of them are not really know for being blog owners, but are just as influential in the blog community as women leaders.
We realize that this list is terribly incomplete. The reason is that an influential mom online will always be according to the community of which they are a part of. Online is BIGGER than just twitter and facebook. There are subsets of places all over the web with phenomenal stand out leaders and some never even know the others exist.
If I left out a leader in YOUR community, let me know!
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
- 1) 5 Minutes for Mom
- 2) Jessica Knows
- 3) Katja Presnal
- 4) My Charming Kids
- 5) Dooce
- 6) Pioneer Woman
- 7) Barefoot Foodie
- 8 ) Blissfully Domestic
- 9) Mom Generations
- 10) Cool Mom Picks
- 11) I should be folding Laundry
- 12) To think is to Create
- 13) Accidental Mommies
- 14) Mommy Goggles
- 15) Bring the Rain
- 16) Type A Mom & Kelby Carr
- 17) Maria Bailey (Mom Select)
- 18) Stephanie from Newbaby.com
- 19) Stacey from Mom Central
- 20) Stephanie from Team Mom
- 21) Lori from A Cowboys Wife
- 22) Velveteen Mind
- 23) Jen from Cheaper Than Therapy
- 24) SITS Girls
- 25) Adventures in Babywearing (stephanie)
- 26) Classy Mommy (colleen)
- 27) An Island Life (kailani)
- 28) Crazy Adventures in Parenting (lisa)
- 29) The Mom Buzz
- 30) Sarah from Ohana Mama
- 31) The Mommy Blog
- 32) Finslippy
- 33) 3 Kids N Us (Cat)
- 34) Jennifer James (mom bloggers club)
- 35) Tip Junkie (Laurie)
- 36) Feels Like Home
- 37) Cool Baby Kid
- 38) The Bloggess (Jenny)
- 39) Moosh In Indy
- 40) MomoCrats
- 41) Kirtsy
- 42) Meghan Calhoun (twittermoms)
- 43) Queen of Spain
- 44) Sugar Jones
- 45) From Dates to Diapers (Christine)
- 46) Bossy
- 47) Kadi from Womb at the Innsane
- 48) See Jane Run (nie nie)
- 49) Keep it Classy, Jen
- 50) Geek Mommy
- 51) BlogHer
- 52) Queen of Shake Shake
- 53) RoleMommy (beth)
- 54) Danielle (Haute Cowgirl)
- 55) MomDot
- 56) Gwen Bell
- 57) Cutie Bootie Cakes (renee)
- 58) Tara from DealSeekingMom
- 59) Louise from MomStart and BloggersGive
- 60) The Smart Mama
- 61) Start up Princess
If I had more time (getting ready for cruise over here, so busy today), I have atleast 50 more that deserve a shout out. This list really deserves to be the Top 100 Most Influential Bloggers and Online Moms.
That seems like a more realistic number.
Who did I miss? Suggest YOUR influential women in the comments!
~Trisha
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60 Comments
Thanks for compiling this great list. I’ll have to check all y’all out.
Love the list – check out http://www.SweetPeasandStilettos.com too!
I know I didn’t deserve to be on the Nielsen list but can I just say it has opened up so many doors for me that now I am able to become a great influence and really try and support other bloggers. I would probably never have found MomDot if it weren’t for some of the opportunities that have been offered to me.
I’m certainly not saying any of these women shouldn’t have made the list, I”m sure most of them should have. But from the other side of the coin I’d just like to say I’m grateful for what I was given because it has helped me grow so much.
Lee
http://www.mysentimentexactlee.com
I have to say this is a great list! I have added a lot of these that I haven’t heard of before to my ‘go to’ list to go visit.
I need to add me to your list. Thanks!
You forgot me too. Weird since I’m on Nielson’s list
I was also really suprised not to see Beth from I Should Be Folding Laundry on the list. Many, many great blogs and bloggers were missing.
What a great list!
Some of my faves are Mama Bird Diaries and The Mogul Mom Blog.
Would be neat to see from a moms perspective…. a list of most influential dad blogs.
Fabulous list and congrats to all who are on it. Well deserved!
Thanks Trisha, for taking the initiative to correct to oversight and make a better list.
Um…I like your list better!
1)I hope you had a great trip. Well deserved.
2) I’m surprised at the number of bloggers not on the Nielsen list – so I’m with you. I wonder what their buzz metrics were and really what they were ranking it on. Was it publicity, number of “press” interviews and links for influence and not just blogeshpere stuff? I don’t know and wonder myself.
3) I also contemplate if companies and the press are watching how the moms online handle this list of only 50 (small number with how many are out there).
4) I read through the comments and your list and I’m surprised you would say you don’t know any green bloggers that are “influential” when I’m a green blogger and we have emailed, tweeted and you’re part of the Green Mom Blog Tour (200 mom bloggers spreading the word on green product and companies would be “influential”). Confused and what you said about knowing ZERO and I’m going to quote….
Jennifer Taggart, TheSmartMama wrote:
I didn’t see on the post (but perhaps in the upcoming revised list) any so called green mom bloggers. I’ll be annoying and nominate myself, but also Sommer at Green & Clean Mom and Lynn at Organic Mania.
Trisha: Honestly, I just know ZERO “green moms” in the blog community, so i am not the right person to add the influential ones to the list. Ill take suggestions!
5) I also noted a response in your comments about a good blogger verses a influential blogger and what I wonder if is if we should be looking at popular verses influential. Maybe all three and some cross categories. I don’t know the answer to this and I’m learning with the rest of the bunch trying to sort this out.
For what it is worth, great job on the community, traffic and loyalty you have built. I love your charity work and working towards helping others when it comes to the blogeshpere. Admirable, as well as pursuing your own interests in video blogging.
I hope that moms among the blogesphere can come to recognize that lists can hurt and help but that they need not divide us as a united front in the work we do and what we strive for – whether it be a cause, to blog about our children, promote non-toxic green living or advocate for a political cause.
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Fabulous list. I haven’t heard of a couple of these blogs so I’ll be sure to check them out.
Great list so far, ladies!
I’m humbled. Thank you for the mention.
I think that Orgjunkie should be on the list. She writes a fantastic blog!
WTG momdot, ladies!
You forgot me, but that’s okay.
Trisha-admin wrote:
It’s ok that you don’t. I think I have too many giveaways now and not enough personal content. But thanks!!
I’m not upset that i’m not on the list.
Louise wrote:
same here
Louise wrote:
no, no mistake, you rock the cashbah! I need to add you!!
I also want to mention one of my favorite money saving mom blogger’s is Money Saving Mom and she is the one who inspired me………oh and Mommy Snacks………… they were the two blogs I read that got me going on my frugal adventure!
Great list!!
I knew it was a mistake that I was on the Nielson’s list
Trisha-admin wrote:
Hey I’m a Money Saving Mom Blogger and I think I rock! hehehe
What a great list! I know some of them and they are so good, I don’t think I can compete with some of them.
I love most of these sites.
Great list!
Thank you for including me on your list. We have been supportive of each other since we both began our blogs (well my first blog and I know this is your which number? I can’t keep up) and I appreciate that. Although I am on the other list, there clearly are a number of influential blogs/bloggers/twitters that were missed. It will be interesting to see the revised list.
Jennifer Taggart, TheSmartMama wrote:
Honestly, I just know ZERO “green moms” in the blog community, so i am not the right person to add the influential ones to the list. Ill take suggestions!
I didn’t see on the post (but perhaps in the upcoming revised list) any so called green mom bloggers. I’ll be annoying and nominate myself, but also Sommer at Green & Clean Mom and Lynn at Organic Mania.
What a great list! Some of my faves are on it and some I didn’t know about and will be checking out later.
You ROCK, Trisha. Truly.