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List of Marketing, Public Relations & Social Media Blogs in India

Quick Summary: A number of good quality marketing, public relations & social media blogs in India form a mature niche now.

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I recently compiled my list of social media agencies in India to highlight the high level of activity I’m suddenly seeing in that niche.

Another related area where I’m suddenly seeing very high level of good quality activity is in the marketing, public relations & social media blogs niche in India.

Not very long back, I had mentioned that Gauravonomics Blog was one of the five Indian blogs on the AdAge Power150 list. Today, as many as fifteen Indian blogs can be on that list.

The blogs included in this list are not only written by marketing, public relations, or social media practitioners, they are also focused on these topics. Blogs on unrelated topics written by marketing, public relations, or social media practitioners are not included in the list.

The main objective of the list is to develop a sense of community in the niche. This is the reason why I have added blogger profiles on Facebook/ LinkedIn/ Twitter wherever possible. This is also the reason why I have structured this list alphabetically (by author name) and not as a ranking. Agency blogs and multi-author blogs are listed separately.

Blogging Heroes Give Away Their Interviews for Free

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Michael Banks is a brilliant man! He interviews thirty top bloggers, packages the interviews into a book called Blogging Heroes with a few paragraphs of his own, then offers the bloggers the opportunity to give away the chapter they’re in as a free pdfs on their site! So far, Chris Anderson at The Long Tail, Mark Frauenfelder at BoingBoing, David Rothman at TeleBlog and Steve Garfield have bitten the bait, but I’m sure more bloggers will follow suit.

By the way, I had the same idea as Michael when I started my Desi Blogging Cafe series (and yes, the series will be back soon with the dozens of interviews I haven’t published yet).

A-Listers vs. Blue-Collar Bloggers

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Tony Hung has the last word on the “A-listers vs. blue-collar bloggers” debate he started by saying that being an A-lister isn’t about blogging ability, or traffic, or Adsense earnings, or being highly regarded; it is about leveraging your real-life persona to act as an influencer online.

Here’s my take - if you didn’t start blogging in 2002 (or before that), and if you are not a celebrity in your own right, forget about being on the A-list and find other definitions of blogging nirvana.