Now that the holiday hangover has worn off and the bills are coming due, I want to turn your attention to the individuals that are most influencing the Enterprise 2.0 space. Those of you that are early adopters or just starting to research Enterprise 2.0 can short cut the search for quality information by following and reading from these all-stars.
How and why were these people chosen? By a combination of influence and focus on Enterprise 2.0. Some highly influential bloggers like Chris Brogan, Fred Zimny and Jeremiah Owyang were not chosen because their focus is outside the E2.0 space. Sure they have an opinion on E2.0, but their primary focus is not on E2.0. Fred Zimny,
You’ll notice I’ve included Dennis Howlett. In my opinion, he’s doing us a favor by pointing out the gaps in our claims and the flaws in our products. We made him a E2.0 Referee because he’s never afraid to call foul. In fact, we need more referees like him that keep the industry from going out of bounds.
If you want to follow these individuals on Twitter I recommend the following Twitter lists by WebTechman, Sameer Patel and Hutch Carpenter.
And now the list: <Hint: you’ll need to click to enlarge>
The text version with links is below:
| Dion Hinchcliffe Twitter: 7646 Alexa: 1300* Compete: 772* Washington DC |
Ben Kepes Diversity.net & Cloud Ave Twitter: 1487 Alexa: 1,396,585 Compete: 844,484 New Zealand |
Scott Gavin Twitter: 665 Alexa: 2,720,337 Compete: 895,741 Kent, UK |
| Jerry Bowles Twitter: 475 Alexa: 1,266,949 Compete: 3,542,371 New York |
Sameer Patel Pretzel Logic Twitter 2087 Alexa: 1,440,537 Compete: 334,189 Palo Alto, CA |
Andrew McAfee Twitter: 5677 Alexa: 334,225 Compete: 207,185 Boston, MA |
| Bill Ives Fast Forward Blog Twitter: 2954 Alexa: 230,786* Compete: 103,018* Boston, MA |
Venkatesh Rao Enterprise 2.0 Blog Twitter: 749 Alexa: 482,772 Compete: 132,525 Arlington, VA |
Gil Yehuda |
| Jacob Morgan Twitter: 4164 Alexa: 144,812 Compete: 149,647 San Francisco, CA |
Ross Dawson Trends in the Living Networks Twitter: 7327 Alexa: 158,515 Compete: 207,220 Sydney, Australia |
Oliver Marks Collaboration 2.0 Twitter: 2138 Alexa: 1300* Compete 772* San Francisco, CA |
| Hutch Carpenter I’m actually not a Geek Twitter Followers 3493 Alexa: 348,310 Compete: N/A** San Francisco, CA |
Stewart Mader Future Changes Twitter: 998 Alexa: 2,484,238 Compete: 1,602,104 San Francisco, CA |
Oscar Berg The Content Economy Alexa: 1,498,937 Compete: 872,330 Twitter: 721 Lund, Sweden |
| Dan Keldsen Twitter: 4682 Alexa: 740,974 Compete: 397,047 Boston, MA |
Susan Scrupski The IT Insider Twitter: 5196 Alexa: 1,049,761 Compete 171,568 Austin, TX |
Mike Gotta Collaborative Thinking Twitter: 1,505 Alexa: 535,242 Compete: N/A** Connecticut |
| Larry Hawes Together We Can Twitter: 978 Alexa: 1,975,455 Compete: N/A** Ipswich, MA |
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Anthony Poncier
Blog d’Anthony Poncier Twitter: 1326 |
| Dennis Howlett AccMan & Irregular Enterprise Twitter: 4838 Alexa: 277,393 Compete:157,920 Alcaudete – where the hell is that? Spain? . |
* Combined with other bloggers
** Because the blogger is using a blogger, wordpress or typepad platform, the Compete score only reflects the platform ranking and not the individual site.
Did we miss anyone? Please share in the comments below!
(Cross-posted @ Seek Omega)
Many thanks for including me on this roster, Mark. I’m honored and humbled to be listed with the other folks that made this list, because of the consistently high quality of their thought and work around Enterprise 2.0.
Larry you earned it. So did everyone else. Great work.
Thank you kindly 🙂
Venkat