Over 50 Great Blogs

This past Tuesday, I was part of a panel discussion for the Puget Sound ASTD chapter. The topic was using blogs to enhance training and development (or your training business). With me on the panel were four of my favorite Seattle business bloggers:

Curt Rosengren - The Occupational Adventure (for the category of career development)
Lori Richardson - Sales Coach  and Score More Sales (for the category of sales/revenue generation)
Lynn Gaertner-Johnston - Business Writing (for the category of writing and communication)
Fran Fisher - Powerful Conversations (for the category of coaching)

I handled the category of leadership and management. We each shared 9 blogs, podcasts or sites other than our own that we thought trainers ought to know about - together that's 50 great sites, the vast majority being blogs.

I have posted the list below for your reference. Because we each could only share a few, there are many of my favorite blogs NOT on this list. I currently read about 200 great blogs.

These are the 50 that we collectively think are highly relevant to trainers.

Cool news: Since the presentation on Tuesday, I have already gotten two emails from people who started new blogs as a result of the session. Both new blogs are from fun and smart professionals, so please check out their new blogs and add them to your reading list. Let's give them a little newby blogger love!

Doug Nathan - Conflict Matters
Tracie Hiemstra - Self Coaching

Welcome to the blogoshpere Doug and Tracie!!!

Here's the list by category:

Management and Leadership

Leadership Now - Don Blohowiak    
Management Skills Blog - Tom Foster
Genuine Curiosity - Dwayne Melancon   
Agile Management Blog - David Anderson   
Manager Tools Podcast - Mark Horstman & Mike Auzenne
Slacker Manager - Brendon Connelly
Slow Leadership - Adrian Savage
Cranky Middle Manager - Wayne Turmel
Tom Peters - Tom Peters

Career Satisfaction & Development

Bob Baker's Artist Empowerment Blog - Bob Baker   
Brazen Careerist - Penelope Trunk
Come Gather Round! - Dick Richards
HELLO, my name is BLOG - Scott Ginsberg   
Innovation Weblog - Chuck Frey   
Monster Blog - Various
Orbit Now! - Troy Worman
Make It Great!     - Phil Gerbyshak
Worthwhile Magazine Blog — Various

Business Writing and Communication

Grammar Hell    - Jack Smith
Daily Walks - Diane Varner
Bad Language    - Matthew Stibbe
Creating Passionate Users - Kathy Sierra   
Talking Communications - Farrell Kramer
Presentation Zen - Garr Reynolds
Manage Your Writing     - Kenneth W. Davis
Voice Coaching for Podcasters - Scott Paton & Jan Janzen
Legalwriting.net - Wayne Schiess   
The (New) Legal Writer - Raymond Ward   
More Clients Blog - Robert Middleton
Diary of a Shameless Self-Promoter - Heidi Miller

Coaching

Shaboom, Inc - Molly Gordon
Knee Deep - Michele Corey
Heart of Business - Mark Silver
The Blog Coach - Paul Chaney
Slide show: Why and How of Blogging - Nick Finck   
Choice Magazine - Maureen Ford, Editor in Chief
International Coach Federation
Puget Sound Coaches 
Peer Resources - Rey Carr

Sales & Revenue Generation

Reviews on Top Sales Books - Brandon Hull   
White Paper Source - Michael Stelzner
Selling to Big Companies - Jill Konrath   
Start With a Lead - Brian Carroll
Rain Today - Mike Schultz
Account Hunter - Shane Murphy
TonyRamos.com - Tony Ramos   
Profit Builders     - Keith Rosen