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I’m asked regularly what blogs I read and recommend. People gasp when I tell them that I scan about a hundred blogs a day. I’m addicted to reading, but I think it’s a good addiction to feed, as long as I’m intentional about it. I believe the cliché that “leaders and readers.” I also believe reading educates you and education is yours forever, it cannot be taken away. And, of course, I’m a writer. I agree wholeheartedly with the Stephen King quote:

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.”

But remember the thing I wrote earlier about being intentional about reading? What I mean is being intentional about reading (as in actually doing it) and about what I read. I like reading blogs, so it’s easy to get such a large blog feed that I can’t read through it daily. It builds up and becomes an overwhelming stressor instead of something I love doing. Also, the more blogs I read, the less time I have for reading books, which is what I really find relaxing.

I decided to pare down the list of blogs I read to my manageable favorites and share them with you. I hope you find this categorical list helpful.

Blogging

ProBlogger

Blogging Pro

Brian Gardner

Books

Book Riot

Modern Mrs. Darcy

Omnivoracious

Ryan Holiday

Business & Career

Buffer Open

Jon Acuff

Carrie Wilkerson

Cory Miller

Life After College

Lindsey Pollak

Location 180

Personal Branding Blog

Seth Godin

The Chief Happiness Officer

The Life of a Working Girl

Women on Business

Education

ProfHacker

Student Press Law Center

Freelance

Be a Freelance Blogger

Careful Cents

Horkey Handbook

The Independent Journalist

Journalism

Associated Collegiate Press

Code Words

FOI Oklahoma

MediaShift

Muck Rack

Leadership

Michael Hyatt

Ron Edmondson

Chris LoCurto

Lead Change Group

Lead with Giants

Leadership Freak

Lolly Daskal

Mark Manson

Michele Cushatt

Switch and Shift

Public Relations

Beyond PR

Ragan’s PR Daily

Spin Sucks

Productivity

The ONE Thing

Mel Robbins

The Daily Mind

Laura Vanderkam

Lifehacker

Zen Habits

Psychology

PsyBlog

World of Psychology

Social Media

Convince and Convert

Danny Brown

Ignite Social Media

Jeff Bullas’s Blog

Mack Collier

Social Media Examiner

The Buffer blog

Writing

Goins, Writer

Positive Writer

The Write Life

Write to Done

Just Because

Bloom

Goodlife Zen

Marc and Angel Hack Life

The Pioneer Woman

Rachel Cruze

Comments

  1. profkrg says

    October 26, 2016 at 2:51 pm

    jgombita Just my list of what I like to read. I get asked a lot, since I read so much.

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  2. jgombita says

    October 26, 2016 at 2:52 pm

    profkrg but my point is that those are not “blogs.” They are publications. Esp. Ragan.

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  3. jgombita says

    October 26, 2016 at 2:53 pm

    profkrg P.S. Of course I can’t help but notice that your choices are 100 per American-cent-ric…..

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  4. profkrg says

    October 26, 2016 at 2:56 pm

    jgombita Curious… what would you add to the list? I’m always looking for recommendations.

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  5. jgombita says

    October 26, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    profkrg visit far too many sites re daily curation prconversations couldn’t narrow it down to few. Why not ask PR profs? eg behindthespin

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  6. jgombita says

    October 26, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    profkrg for a reco from across the pond, see InfobyAdrienne’s https://blogbyadrienne.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/my-favourite-pr-blogs/
    https://twitter.com/prconversations/status/786952266142056448

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  7. Sharon Greenthal says

    January 8, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    Thank you for including me, Kenna. So flattering! 🙂

    Reply
    • Kenna Griffin says

      January 8, 2017 at 6:30 pm

      You are so welcome, Sharon. Thank you for writing a blog worth including!

      Reply

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