Halfway through DM’ing a few people Chris included I looked over to Twitter and saw his tweet about an OPML file and lo and behold there was the post that I was thinking about! lol

Anyway I’m still going to publish it, it’s not exactly the same and here it is ‘If you could only read one blog related to your work who’s would it be?’

I agree lists are dangerous but they are also valuable!

Here’s a preloaded OPML file (exc Firm Voice) (right click save as!) with all the nominees feeds already loaded to just upload and enjoy! I found some new feeds to watch in the New Year!

Or you can find the individual feeds detailed under each nominated site.

Kyle Lacy – Chris Brogan

Chris Brogan is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency, as well as the home of the New Marketing Summit conferences and New Marketing Bootcamp educational events. He helps large and mid-sized businesses understand how to use social media tools like blogging, social networks, community platforms, and more to build business value for marketers, sales organizations, and internal collaboration in general.

RSS feed for chrisbrogan.com

Amber Naslund – Shannon Paul

Shannon Paul has a a background in public relations and currently works in New Media communications with the Detroit Red Wings where she is the contributing editor for the organization’s Hockeytown Blog.

RSS feed for veryofficialblog.com

Danny Brown – Dave Fleet

DaveFleet.com is about communications, public relations, marketing and social media, and the areas where those topics intersect. For reasons of integrity (and job security) I try to avoid topics directly related to my work as much as possible.

RSS feed for davefleet.com

Chris Brogan – Brian Clark

What’s the missing ingredient that prevents most people from succeeding online? Copywriting skills! Content drives the Internet, and using the right words in the right way will determine not only how well your site converts visitors into sales, but also how well you rank in search engines and how many links you get.

RSS feed for copyblogger.com

Dana Willhoit – Firm Voice

Trends, Insights and Analysis for PR Firms

RSS page for FirmVoice

Ari Herzog – Social Media Today

Social Media Today LLC helps global organizations create purpose-built B2B social communities designed to achieve specific, measurable corporate goals by engaging exactly the customers and prospects you most want to reach.

RSS feed for socialmediatoday.com btw SMT you really should move your RSS subscribe so people can find it!

Jesse Newhart – Mashable

Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news. With more than 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web. Mashable will put your brand in front of the most tech-savvy early adopters, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, influencers, Web 2.0 aficionados and technology journalists. Mashable is also popular with bloggers and members of social networking sites – an increasingly influential demographic.

RSS feed for mashable.com

Wayne Smallman – Techcrunch

TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.

RSS feed for techcrunch.com

Which are your own suggestions of don’t miss sites or people in the new year?