Warren Johnson, of the Unsolicited Marketing Advice blog, has created a Top 10 Sources list of marketing blogs. There are some good blogs on Warren’s list. You should check it out.

I made my own list at Top 10 Sources, too. And, I did make it onto that list – PR Marcom Higher Ed, but … um, you’ll see the only way I could do it.

1. PR Studies
2. PR BOOKS (Wiki)
3. Mass Communications
4. LeverWealth
5. Teaching PR
6. mediations
7. mediations (Wiki)
8. collegewebeditor.com
9. EducationPR
10. higher ed marketing
11. infOpinions?
12. and one I’ve been trying to add, Dr. Walter Carl’s Word-of-Mouth Communication Study, but the RSS URL won’t get picked up, for some reason. Hmm?

Yep, that’s right. Eleven Twelve sources on the Top 10 Sources list. Hope they don’t boot me because of it. I must admit that I was surprised to be able to add eleven sources. However, after signing up – I did a remarkable thing. I read the instructions. I know, it is kind of amazing.

Actually, I doubt they will boot me (at least for the 11 sites listed) because the 11th blog (mine) will never show up in the list feed. From their “Tutorial” section, here is the tipoff:

We recommend ten feeds for a “complete” page. You may enter as many feeds as you wish. The first ten are displayed on your Top 10. You can reorder feeds within the list.

So, the link to my blog in the lefthand column is apparently just a link to my site and will not show up in the feed. It won’t be aggregated like the first ten sites listed. Update: Well, it seems that indeed all the links you enter in your list are picked up and displayed after all. I had not checked the process until my post today (Oct. 9th). So, I guess you can have 11+ top sources.
The good news is that Top 10 Sources offers yet another way for us to point recent adopters in academia to resources so they may begin utilizing social media in their classes. Further, it is one more way to guide business leaders and PR / Marcom practitioners to all of our sites. We need their input to enhance our classroom efforts, IMO. The down side? There are actually more than 10 PR academic blogs, so please do not be offended if I did not include yours. Perhaps I’ll add all of the blogs to the list and then reorder them from time to time.

Here is the introduction I’ve placed on the list:

Public relations from the academic point of view. These links represent some of the people teaching the future PR practitioners of our world and those practicing PR for their universities. What do they have in common? They are blogging. Their views are important to the wider public relations conversation occurring online. To the PR practitioners of the world, your concerns are important to these bloggers. Without active involvement from practitioners, how else may future PR practitioners be prepared for post-graduate life? To recent adopters, or those just exploring social media for their classes, may this list serve as a jumping off point for your efforts. Please engage these educators in conversations.

I like the Top 10 Sources site. It is clean and simple. They seem to be still working on tricking out the site with additional tools, so this one will be fun to watch. Appreciation and kudos going to the site’s team: Halley Suitt, CEO and Publisher and Indigo Tabor, Technical Editor. Thanks to Warren Allan Johnson for the inspiration, too. Good work and an interesting concept that everyone will likely enjoy. Hey, bloggers love lists.

On a side note, Karine Joly tips us off to the Relaunching bsu.edu redesign blog. Those of you that have read this blog for awhile will remember my infatuation with the Cornell Redesign blog. BSU’s effort, led by Nancy Prater, promises to be equally as enjoyable to watch. Their PDF of the CMS requirements issued in their request for proposals is must reading, alone. So, check out the site and consider all that must go into a site’s redesign. It is no small task. The open involvement of stakeholders, to me, is the best aspect of this and I wonder why more universities don’t do it on many other projects they undertake annually.