7/2 The best and most interesting comes from Servant of Chaos Gavin Heaton on Man Week. I read Feministing, and feel this conversation is a timely and important one. Gavin makes two poignant posts on traditional gender associations in “A Little Fluffy” and “Courage and Responsibility.”

6/29 Smashing Magazine’s Cameron Chapman gives “45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires,” which is great for web content.

6/30 Diane Thieke gives practical advice on pitching PR to corporate suits in “Talk to Me: 10 Tips for Translating PR Results into the Language of Business.”

6/29 Oh, Oh, Oh! I love blog posts that look ahead. Brian Solis tells us who the cool kids will be in “Unveiling the New Influencers.”

6/28 Bernie Borges created a practical guide on evaluating web marketing strategies in “How Broad is Your Footprint on the Web.”

6/26 Okay, you know I never toot our own horn. But reading John Cass’s Content Marketing Case Study on our social media efforts is worth the effort.

6/25 LinkedIn is like the red-headed stepchild, but sometimes it makes the blogosphere, like in Feedgrowth’s “Paper Trail.”

6/23 CrapHammer Sean Howard provides insight on Iran and Twitter in “What I’m Learning from Iran.” Did the Iran election do for Twitter what 9/11 did for internet news sources?

6/23 And you can now no longer blog for free-the government wants a piece of it. Copyblogger Brian Clark reports in “How to Turn Affiliate Marketing Disclosure
Into a Selling Point.”

6/24 Mike O’Toole of MarketingProfs makes a hockey reference in “Marketers: More Hockey, Less Figure Skating,” which is enough to include it in my round-up.

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6/8/09 John Cass shares his perspective on the emotional ties America has with the auto industry and their marketing department. Why this is a good read: he references a comment by Wendy Kennedy on David Meerman Scott’s post on GM. It is almost painful to read-which goes to show how closely tied GM and other American automakers are tied to our view of our nation. It is poignant, heart-felt, and meaningful.

6/10 I loved this video posted and commented on by Seth Godin. I don’t quite understand why Guy #2 isn’t just as important, if not more important than guy #3. Can someone explain?

6/10/09 Click Documents Blog has a list of the Best Content Marketing blog posts of May ’09. I send both Byron White and John Cass (my bosses) a daily blog feed of my favorite marketing posts before 10:00. I also, as you know, do a weekly round-up post (you are reading it now, the link will show you what you missed last week.) Now, Click Documents wrote a monthly content marketing blog round up. It is like a blog beauty pageant, where the competition keeps getting stiffer.

6/10 Everyone and their mother tweeted Online Marketing’s post “Content Marketing Strategy with a Side of Social.”

6/12 Most good ideas (Yahoo, Google, Facebook, radiator S’mores) come out of higher education institutions. Rohit Bhargava is teaching a Global Communications class where students are expressing their impressions via a blog and on twitter at @globalss. I totally want to audit this class.

5/25 Ambal Balakrishnan has a wonderful list of posts on “How to write compelling content and connect with your readers.” I know this means this is a list within a list, but I think it is important.

5/26 Nicholine Hayward explores brand storytelling in a beautifully put-together white paper “Motive, Means and Opportunity.”

5/26 Ian Lurie is in my review every week. That’s because he has good stuff like “32 tips to make online customers love you.”

5/28 Hubspot’s Prashant Kaw brings new meaning to the term “multi-media blogging” by both writing about “5 Reasons to publish your content in multiple formats,” and including graphs, videos, and pictures in the entry. Nice work.

5/29 David Finch gives “10 sure-fire ways to maximize your online distribution channel.” You are guaranteed to have already heard half of them, but review is always good.