Bring out the big guns: Chris to the power of 2

August 18, 2010 in Problogger, Social Media, WOM, blogging, johnnylaird, sm with 6 Comments


When I first started playing with the notion of a “Blogging Dojo“ (and watch this space for more news on that soon), one of the things I did was to put out a blog post asking “Problogger…then who?”

If I’m being honest, I figured this would provoke a reasonable response. The question was genuine. I was interested to know what people thought. It wasn’t a post simply to hook folks in. Yet, apart from one or two Tweets in response the Comments fields stayed resolutely empty, and have remained so ever since.

So – some months later – I’m revisiting it again, and to a degree answering my own question…it’s time for me to bring out the big guns.

Two voices that are becoming increasingly part of my regular blog reading routine are Chris Brogan and Chris Garrett.  Each of their blogs are rammed with great content, with advice that reaches well beyond the  realm of blogging; good stuff for general business, good stuff for relational intelligence.

I’m glad too that Chris Brogan has such close links with the fabulous guys at Like Minds.

Chris to the power of 2 will not be new names to many folks who read johnnylaird.net , but if they are I strongly recommend you check them out.

I don’t think you will be disappointed.

HT to Like Minds for the Brogan pic, and Chrisg for the Garrett pic

6 Responses to “Bring out the big guns: Chris to the power of 2”

  1. Chris Brogan... August 18, 2010 at 9:53 PM #

    Garrett’s the better Chris. But don’t dump me yet. : )

  2. Johnny Laird August 18, 2010 at 11:08 PM #

    There’ll always be room for more than one Chris!

    J

  3. Kapil Apshankar August 22, 2010 at 4:31 PM #

    Can’t agree more, Johnny.

    Chris Brogan and Chris Garrett are definitely the big hitters I keep looking up to – for great content, terrific advice and awesome engagement.

    Here are some others who inspire me:
    1. Scott Stratten
    2. Mike Cliffe-Jones (Oh boy, forgot for a moment that we both know him)
    3. Leo Babauta

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