Top 30 that missed Forbes 50 social media influencers plus infograph

November 9, 2013deolaentrepreneur, Hot Gist, Marketing, social media, Twitter, UncategorizedNo comments

The Forbes Magazine are the king of Top lists, they have build an awesome brand and a lot of research goes into its on Top Lists. They are known for the impressive lists which include The World’s Billionaires List , America’s Top Colleges , The Richest People in America and The World’s Most Powerful Celebrities.

Earlier in the year they came up with The Forbes top 50 social media power influences of 2013 was therefore not a surprise but the people and rankings are . While I agree the lists contain a lot of people I respect, it was actually a list of top Twitter influencers as the social media index was built around ”Twitter followers”. I have therefore followed Mark Schaefer’s cue to generate ,my own list (including his) in order to pay tribute to the workd of people I follow online.

Here’s a hot list of social media influencers that missed the Forbes list

Charlene Li — Founder of the influential Altimeter Group and author of the seminal book Groundswell
Avinash Kaushik — Google’s chief digital evangelist and one of the most influential bloggers on analytics.
Brian Solis — Arguably the most prolific and successful social media author in the field. Runs a personal blog
Mike Stelzner — Curator, Social Media Examiner
Lee Odden — Leading thinker and speaker about integration of social and SEO. Author of the wonderful book Optimize.
Amber Naslund — One of social media’s most influential and respected bloggers and thought leader. Co-author of The NOW Revolution
David Armano — An integrated marketing thought leader, contributor to Harvard Business Review, managing director, Edelman Digital.
Clay Shirky — NYU professor and for my money, the most visionary thinker in the business. Author of Here Comes Everybody and one of my favorite big think books, Cognitive Surplus
Tom Webster — His Brand Savant blog packs a wallop every time, Pithy, clever, wise.
Danny Brown – Intellectual provocateur; the blogger’s blogger
Mark Ragan – CEO of Ragan Communications. Publisher of @PRDaily, PR Daily EU, Ragan.com, and about a million other useful publications
Joe Pulizzi – Single-handedly defined the field of content marketing through his Content Marketing Institute and wildly successful conferences and books.
Michael Chui – McKinsey Global Institute principal and expert in using social tools to enhance enterprise communications, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
Gini Dietrich — Fearless Spin Sucks blogger who writes about the intersection of PR, digital, and social
Seth Godin — World-renowned best-selling author. Perhaps you’ve heard of him.
C. C. Chapman — Incredibly insightful thinker, Co-author of the important book Content Rules
Julien Smith — An observer of the social space who is painfully smart and co-author of Trust Agents
John Jantsch — The man who represents the intersection of social, small business and common sense. Best-selling author of The Commitment Engine
Marcus Sheridan — Passionate evangelist of social media and content marketing for business. Just got a new book deal.
Jeff Dachis — A business leader and entrepreneur pushing for data-driven social marketing through the influential Dachis Group
Shelly Kramer — Gutsy entrepreneur-ess and blogger who tells it like it is.
Geoff Livingston — Social media, social good, deep thinker, superb blogger.
Jason Falls — Pioneering social media blogger and straight-talking speaker
Don Tapscott — Wise observer of our world on digital. Futurist and author of Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World
Jay Baer – Perhaps the foremost social media entrepreneur on the scene. His new book is about to be released – Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype
Mitch Joel – An important, prolific blogger/author/podcaster and a digital marketing visionary. His new book Ctrl Alt Delete is stunning.
Erik Qualman – author of Digital Leader and Socialnomics
David Meerman Scott – author of New rules of PR and Marketing; website: http://www.webinknow.com , His blog; Twitter: @dmscott
Shama Kabani – CEO of Marketing Zen and author of the Zen of Social Media Marketing
Dan Kennedy – Blog: http://dankennedy.com/blog Twitter: @theofficialgkic
Brian Clark – Owner of Copyblogger; Twitter: @Copyblogger
Melonie Dodaro – Owner of Topdog Social Media; Twitter: @ MelonieDodaro
Derek Halpern – Owner of Social Triggers; Twitter: @DerekhHalpern
Perry Marshall – the #1 author and world’s most-quoted consultant on Google Advertising. Website: Perry Marshall; Twitter: @PerryMarshall
Rohit Bhargava – Impressive thought leader on marketing. Authored Likenomics and runs Influential Marketing Blog; Twitter: @rohitbhargava

Ok, I over did it but you get the point, there are lots and lots more to look out for depending on the industry, social media platforms and even the analytic tools and the numbers are still counting

Here are the thought leaders that made the list (scroll down for the infograph);

#1: Sean Gardner (USA)

Twitter: @2morrowknight. Website: http://www.2morrowknight.com/

# 2: Ann Tran (USA)

Twitter: @anntran_ Website: http://www.ann-tran.com

# 3: Jessica Northey (USA)

Twitter: @jessicanorthey. Website: http://fingercandymedia.com/

# 4: Mari Smith (USA)

Twitter: @marismith Website: http://www.marismith.com/

#r 5 is Aaron Lee (Asia)

Twitter: @askaaronlee Website: http://askaaronlee.com/

# 6: John Paul Aguiar (USA)