It’s been a week. A very, very long week. Which means that at 4 on a Friday I’m grasping at straws for something interesting to write about. So I do what I do when I’m out of ideas, I look through the email related blogs I’m subscribed to.
A bunch of them are still active, but there’s a good dozen or so that haven’t been updated in months. I realize I’m getting most of my current news from Twitter (or, Facebook) not from my actual RSS feeds.
So what email / marketing / delivery / internet security related blogs are people reading these days? What should I add to my list to keep up to date on the pulse of the email industry?
EDIT: apparently the Akismet filter I use went berserk with the multiple links in comments. I think I’ve pulled everything they caught incorrectly. If you tried to post and it’s not showing, drop me an email at the obvious place.
What blogs are you reading besides mine?
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Laura, I read:
http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/iland/
http://wearesocial.net/
http://www.smartinsights.com/email-marketing/email-creative-copywriting/asos-email-
creative/
http://www.returnpath.net/blog/intheknow/2012/01/dmarc-org-a-giant-step-forward-in-the-fight-against-phishing
http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/8835-three-steps-to-keeping-email-marketing-simple-but-effective
http://www.whatcounts.com/2012/02/5-things-all-email-marketers-need-to-know/
http://dmaemailblog.com/2012/02/02/the-changing-face-of-emails-literally/
http://blog.deliverability.com/2012/02/dmarc-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work-first-impressions-via-ntoper.html
And the two which I contribute to (occasionally):
http://www.communicatorcorp.com/BlogResources/tabid/83/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/387/DOs-and-DONTs-of-your-email-marketing-welcome-campaign.aspx
http://easyinbox.tumblr.com/post/14266092498/2012-eu-data-protection-directive-draft-proposal
Hopefully there are a couple of new ones in there for you.
Steve
I assume you mean blogs about email. 🙂 Most of my blog fodder for the MainSleaze blog isn’t something I find in other blogs, but I read these semi-regularly:
Al Iverson: Spam Resource
John Levine: Internet Email Policy & Practice
Ken Magill: The Magill Report
Matt Vernout: Email Karma
Mickey Chandler: Spamtacular
Spamhaus: News Blog
SURBL: News Page
Like you, I’d like to see a few of them updated more frequently. I’d also like to have 48 hour days, never get tired, and know that I’ll live another two hundred years. <wry grin>
Haha, blatant shout-out to my gang at Campaign Monitor – we’re still trying our darndest to stay on the pulse when it comes to email design and development 😀 – http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog
But in all seriousness, Litmus’ blog (http://litmus.com/blog), StyleCampaign (http://stylecampaign.com/blog), Email on Acid (http://www.emailonacid.com/blog) and Email Marketing Reports (http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/iland/) are my top picks. And Word to the Wise. Of course 😀
Here goes my shot:
Al Iverson’s Spam Resource
AOL Postmaster Blog
BeRelevant!
Bronto Blog
Brontoversity
Deliverability.com
Direct Marketing Blog
DMA Email Marketing Council Blog
Email Experience Council
Email Responsibly
EmailExpert.org Updates
ESP Email Vendor Selection
Get In The Inbox
Getting Email Delivered
Gmail Blog
Inside Windows Live
IT Email Infrastructure
MailerMailer Blog | In The Box
MainSleaze
MediaPost | Email Insider
Mickey Chandler’s Spamtacular
No man is an iland
Return Path Email Marketing Water Cooler
SocketLabs Email Delivery Blog
The Email Delivery Guru
The ExactTarget Blog
The Received Blog
Yahoo! Mail Blog
Sorry about the spam :))