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
Trisha Novotny at 247Moms.com has a wonderful site and web show every Tuesday night on momtv.