By Cindy King
Published January 12, 2013

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.

Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2012

We received over 750 nominations for our fourth-annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest (the blogosphere’s biggest contest for social media blogs).

The list of 24 finalists is pretty impressive! Take a look for yourself below.

The judges: Our judges include Gini Dietrich (co-author, Marketing in the Round, founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich), Marcus Sheridan (co-owner of River Pools, founder of The Sales Lion) and Michael Stelzner (author, Launch, CEO of Social Media Examiner and host of the Social Media Marketing podcast). They are currently finishing up their reviews of these sites.

Here are the finalists (in alphabetical order):

• 60 Second Marketer
• Bloggers Make Money
• Boom Social
• Content Marketing Cardiology
• Danny Brown
• Heidi Cohen
• Jeff Bullas
• Jon Loomer
• Jason Cruz
• Lighthouse Insights
• LKR Social Media
• Pushing Social
• Razor Social
• Social Barrel
• Social Fresh
• Social Media Revolver
• Social Mediopolis
• Social Samosa
• Social Solutions Collective
• Social Strand Media
• Socially Sorted
• Spider Working
• Top Dog Social Media
• Viral Blog

How We’ll Pick the Winners

#1: Initial Qualification: A blog must have a strong social media focus and must have been nominated multiple times by multiple individuals. If someone nominated more than one blog, only the first nomination was counted.

#2: Final Winner Selection

• Quality of posts: Our judges will examine and score the quality of posts on each blog. Educational and discussion-spurring posts

  Article source: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/top-10-social-media-blog-finalists-2013-this-week-in-social-media/

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