Voting Closed – Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012
VOTING IS NOW CLOSED
Innovation Excellence loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be.
As a result we are eternally grateful to all of you out there who take the time to create and share great innovation articles, presentations, white papers, and videos and to make a list of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers available each year.
NEWSFLASH – We’ve just added two copies (2) of Sarah Miller Caldicott’s great new book Midnight Lunch to the list of prizes ($21.95 value each), along with a $3,000 ticket to the Front End of Innovation EMEA event March 4-6, 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark to the contest portion of this initiative for one lucky voter to win.
Our lists from the two previous years have been tremendously popular:
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010 (download the PDF)
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2011 (download the PDF)
Innovation Excellence is now looking for the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012.
Do you, or does someone you know, write articles about innovation?
Or do you just have someone that you like to read that writes about innovation, or some of the important adjacencies – trends, consumer psychology, change, leadership, strategy, marketing, management, collaboration, or social media (as they relate to innovation)?
Well, Innovation Excellence is looking to recognize the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers and you helped us find them with your nominations. Now it is time to vote, and help us narrow things down to a list of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012.
People who vote for someone will be entered into the prize drawings for a range of great prizes (we’ll add more prizes here as event organizers and others offer them up), including:
- FREE Conference Ticket to the Front End of Innovation EMEA (March 4-6, 2013)
- 2 copies of the five-star book – Midnight Lunch by Sarah Miller Caldicott – $21.95 value (x2)
- 2 signed copies of the five-star book – Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire by Braden Kelley – priceless
- More prizes TBD – contact us to add your event or book to this contest
The deadline for submitting votes is December 31, 2012 at midnight GMT.
The ranking will be done by me with influence from votes and nominations. The quality and quantity of contributions to Innovation Excellence by an author will be a BIG contributing factor (through the end of the voting period), so there is still time for authors and bloggers to make their first (or your best) contribution to Innovation Excellence yet. To contribute to Innovation Excellence, simply:
- Join the community
- Click on the ‘Add Content’ option in the site’s main menu and log in with the same username and password you used to create your account
You can vote in any of these four ways (and each earns points for them, so please feel free to vote all four ways):
- Sending us the name of the blogger by @reply on twitter to @ixchat
- Adding the name of the blogger to the comments below
- Adding the name of the blogger as a comment to this article’s posting on Facebook
- Adding the name of the blogger as a comment to this article’s posting in our Linkedin Group (14,800+ members)
The official Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012 and the contest winners will then be announced on Innovation Excellence on January 1, 2013.
We’re curious to see who you think is worth reading.
Here is who received nominations (in alphabetical order):
- Adam Hartung – @Adam_Hartung
- Alex Osterwalder – @AlexOsterwalder
- Andrea Meyer – @AndreaMeyer
- Arie Goldshlager – @ArieGoldshlager
- Bill Fischer
- Bill Taylor – @practicallyrad
- Braden Kelley – @innovate
- Chuck Frey – @chuckfrey
- David Burkus
- Deborah Mills-Scofield – @dscofield
- Deepak Chopra – @deepakchopra
- Don Peppers
- Donna Sturgess – @DonnaSturgess
- Drew Boyd – @DrewBoyd
- Drew Marshall – @drewcm
- Faisal Hoque – @faisal_hoque
- Geovanny Romero Rivera
- Gijs van Wulfen
- Gregg Fraley – @greggfraley
- Greg Satell – @Digitaltonto
- Hu Yoshida – @HuYoshida
- Hutch Carpenter – @bhc3
- Irving Wladawsky-Berger
- James Gardner – @bankervision
- Jeffrey Phillips – @ovoinnovation
- Jerry McColgin – @jmccolgin
- John Di Frances
- John Kapeleris
- Jorge Barba – @JorgeBarba
- Jose Baldaia – @Jabaldaia
- Jose Briones – @Brioneja
- Julie Anixter
- Jürgen Stäudtner
- Kaihan – @Kaihan
- Kevin McFarthing – @InnovationFixer
- Kevin Riley
- LeAnna Carey – @thehealthmaven
- Mark Sebel
- Mark Truelson – @MarkTruelson
- Michael Fruhling
- Mike Brown – @Brainzooming
- Mike Maddock
- Mitch Ditkoff – @MitchDitkoff
- Nicolas Bry – @NicoBry
- Nilofer Merchant – @nilofer
- Patrick Meyer
- Paul Hobcraft – @Paul4innovating
- Paul Shread
- Paul Sloane – @paulsloane
- Peter Cook – @AcademyOfRock
- Polly Labarre
- Pramath Malik
- Ralph Christian Ohr – @ralph_ohr
- Ray Wong
- Ron Shulkin – @shulkin
- Rowan Gibson – @RowanGibson
- Sarah Miller Caldicott – @SarahMillerCaldicott
- Saul Kaplan – @skap5
- Scott Anthony – @ScottDAnthony
- Stefan Lindegaard – @lindegaard
- Steve Blank
- Steve Todd – @SteveTodd
- Stuart Sinclair
- Tim Brown – @tceb62
- Tim Kastelle – @timkastelle
- Wim Rampen – @wimrampen
Conference Discounts from IIR:
- For those of you who would like to attend the Front End of Innovation EMEA or the Front End of Innovation USA, you can save up to 20% using our discount code: fei13excel.
Editor’s Note: Conference tickets are for conference admission only and are ultimately at the discretion of the conference organizers to grant. Travel and any other expenses for attending the conference are the responsibility of the winner. All deadlines are midnight GMT on the day mentioned.
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Braden Kelley is a popular innovation speaker, embeds innovation across the organization with innovation training, and builds B2B pull marketing strategies that drive increased revenue, visibility and inbound sales leads. He is currently advising an early-stage fashion startup making jewelry for your hair and is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons. He tweets from @innovate.
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Highly recommend Steve Todd for this list.
Voting for Mike Brown – Brainzooming blog as top innovation blog
Steve Todd
Steve Todd
Steve Todd
A good list, to be sure. I already follow a handful of these folks, and look forward to learning about the rest.
The one that I follow slavishly is Steve Todd. Yes, he’s a fellow employees, but I think his study of successful innovation patterns and behaviors (increasingly using analytics) is itself an innovative approach to the topic of innovation — meta-innovation?
— Chuck
Mitch Ditkoff!!!
Steve Todd
He inspirates me to see things differently, to think differently
Brilliant. Funny. Real. Can’t be beat
Mitch Ditkoff
Steve Todd
Steve Todd gets my vote
I vote for Steve Todd!!!
steve todd
Mitch Ditkoff is innovation. His direct experience is shared almost daily blogging about innovation of ones life. Change the way you experience the world, you become innovator. He freely shares his wisdom with all of us. Thank You Mitch.
MITCH DITKOFF
I nominate Steve Todd – some great articles, not only this year but also previous.
Paul Hobcraft: Always a thoughtful contributor to thinking on innovation.
Mitch Ditkoff.
Steve Todd
Don’t forget that you can also register votes by:
1. adding comments on the https://facebook.com/innovationexcellence.com post
2. adding comments to the post on the Innovation Excellence group on Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1953902&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
3. by sending an @reply to @ixchat
Happy voting!
Braden
@innovate
I am one of the many who will vote for Steve Todd and his phenomenal contribution to the passion necessary to spark Innovation.
Steve Todd
Steve Todd has my vote!
Steve Todd
Mitch Ditkoff
Please include my vote for Steve Todd on this list!
Mike Brown – @brainzooming
Yes Mike Brown is my choice
Steve Todd
Steve Todd
Gregg Fraley gets my vote. His thoughts carry the weight of experience and fresh perspectives! Best of Both worlds!
Gregg Fraley
Gregg Fraley is brilliant and highly recommended. His pores seep innovation!
Gregg Fraley’s work is brilliant!
Mitch Ditkoff gets my vote for Blogger of the Year and Blogger of the Millennium.
Gregg Fraley deserves it…..he’s the hardest working practitioner in the business…..and he has the credentials and experience to back it up….
Mitch Ditkoff
Mr. Fraley has made some of the most consistent and insightful (not to mention frequent) contributions to the world of innovation and creativity in 2012. He’s also pretty a pretty funny guy & talented illustrator. Consider my vote cast for Gregg Fraley.
Steve Todd gets my vote!
Faisal Hoque
Faisal Hoque – http://www.faisalhoque.com
See his most recent Innovation article @ https://www.fastcompany.com/user/faisal-hoque
I vote Gregg Fraley. He doesn’t just write innovation, he lives it (as can be seen in his writtings and book ‘JACK’S NOTEBOOK’). He is also passionate about teaching others. I am indebted to him.
Gregg is just brilliant!
Faisal Hoque is all about innovation…
I nominate Mitch Ditkoff.
Mitch Ditkoff
I must vote for the one that leads this field in my country.
I believe it’s the unic portuguese nomination.
Jose Baldaia’s work on innovation in Portugal regarding the critical conditions portuguese companies are facing is meaningfull.
U CAN.
Mitchell Ditkoff
Mitch Ditkoff
I endorse Gregg Fraley.
Gregg Fraley
Gregg Fraley gets my vote.
Mitch Ditkoff
I vote for Mitch Ditkoff…he has inspired me over the years in corporate environments to keep things fresh and open. I have Mitch quotes on my desk that I look at every day.
One for Gregg Fraley.
Mitch Ditkoff is really inspiring!!
MITCH DITKOFF
gregg fraley. 1 in a million.
Mitch Ditkoff – @MitchDitkoff
MITCH DITKOFF IS BOMB!
Mitch Ditkoff!!
Mitch Ditkoff – @MitchDitkoff
He makes innovation accessible to the everyman.
Steve Todd – @SteveTodd
Mitch Ditkoff has it goin on
Steve Todd for sure.
Gregg Fraley gets my vote 🙂
Steve Todd
Steve Todd, you are the best
One (1) vote for Gregg Fraley @greggfraley
I’m indebted to Gregg for for sending me “Jack’s Notebook” to read and review a few years ago. Initially I reviewed it on one of my blogs and recently “re-reviewed” it on a Squidoo lens: Jack’s Notebook
Steve Todd is head and shoulders above the rest!
Steve Todd!!!
Mitch Ditkoff is the real deal. This guy is truly possessed – to the point that he is a walking, flying, talking, meditating innovation manufacturing center – always telling it like it is,usually making it funny, and most often, relevant.
Steve Todd
Mitch Ditkoff makes me think and laugh.
Keeps me from taking myself too seriously while creating fresh approaches to a stale situation.
Mitch Ditkoff
Mitch Ditkoff – @MitchDitkoff
While I really eajoy reading and learning from others listed, I found Steve Todd’s thought leadership, vision, way of reflecting his collective wisdom very insipiring, thought provoking and very relevant.
Thanks Steve!
John Kapeleris is my favourite.
I recommend the writings of John Kapeleris, very insightful.
John Kapeleris
John Kapeleris
Gijs van wulfen
My vote goes to Mitch Ditkoff – @MitchDitkoff, though I have not read all the innovators on this list, I’ve found insights from Ditkoff to be helpful, penetrating and thought-provoking–all of which I’m after in subscribing to InnovationExcellence.com.
I highly recommend @geovanny_romero. Great source of inspiration #strategy #innovation
Ron Shulkin
Mitch Ditkoff
Gregg Fraley not only blogs it, he works it.
Steve Todd
Geovanny Romero Rivera
Mitch Ditkoff gets my vote!
Voting for Mike Brown – Brainzooming blog
Voting for Mike Brown – Brainzooming blog
Definitely: Geovanny Romero Rivera !
I recommend Gregg Fraley!!
I always start my day with something interesting from the “Mike Brown – @Brainzooming” blog.
Mitch Ditkoff
I vote for Gregg Fraley who has a holistic message of innovation that addresses the complexity of each opportunity presented.
I start my day with Mitch Ditkoff’s message….and often share his postings with my staff.
I start every day with the Mike Brown – Brainzooming blog … so there’s my vote.
My vote is for Braden Kelley
Mitch Ditkoff
Mike Brown: Brainzooming blog
Mitch Ditkoff
Drew Boyd regularly provides thought provoking case study examples using systematic inventive thinking (SIT) as innovation tools.
Voting for Mitch Ditkoff, the king of innovation!
Steve Todd
Steve Todd has my vote!
Make that the one and only Mitch Ditkoff!!!!!
Mike Brown @ brainzooming
Mike Brown Brainzooming
Mike Brown Brainzooming
MIke Brown Brainzooming
Voting for Mike Brown – Brainzooming blog
Mitch Ditkoff and Braden Kelley
Mitch Ditkoff
I cast my vote for Geovanny Romero and Steve Todd
Mitch Ditkoff
I am voting for Mitch Ditkoff because he constantly presents insightful ideas,quotes,quips,anecdotes,little-known facts,biographies,revelations and epiphanies regarding creativity and innovation in his written words on his innovation blog site (he’s also a much sought-after speaker)which sparks, lights on fire, and launches into the stratosphere and beyond anyone who is in the least interested in, connected to, channeling, and aspiring toward innovation and creativity in any field of human endeavour.
Donna Sturgess
Mitch Ditkoff
Faisal Hoque gets my vote – check out his twitter following of +80,000 and recent posts on FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/user/faisal-hoque. He’s been writing about innovation for the last decade, including 6 books.
mitch ditkoff
Hu Yoshida gets my vote!
John Kapeleris has a credable track record that is reflected in his very useful and comtemporary Blog – its the only one I read regularly.
Gregg Fraley, the best teacher when it comes to creativity and innovation
John Kapeleris gets my vote
Braden, this is a good initiative, but you need to rethink the approach as it is flawed. This is less about who contributes with strong content on a regular basis and more about who puts the most effort into activating their social media networks. I have chosen not to do this as I believe the people in my network have more important things to do. Perhaps you can come up with a better approach next year? I am not fully sure what it should be, but I am sure we can ask the community for good input 🙂 Stefan
Stefan, above it states that I do the ranking and that a BIG factor is the quality and quantity of contributions to Innovation Excellence. It is not purely a social media voting exercise, but votes do show a certain element of an author’s popularity.
Braden
@innovate
So it is either your preferences or the social media exercise? 🙂 Well, I am actually only half-joking here. Don’t get me wrong – you know I like what you do. I just think that you have a great initiative that you can use for so many other things (the big vision could be the Oscars of innovation for many different categories) but for this to happen you need to improve the voting concept. Just food for thought…
My vote is for Gregg Fraley – @greggfraley
Jose Baldaia
I vote for Stefan Lindegaard, not least of all for his comment above!
See above reply. 😉
Steve Todd
Mitch Ditkoff
Let’s vote for Bill Fischer – One of the authors of The Idea Hunter!
Let’s vote for Bill Fischer! One of the guy’s behind The Idea Hunter.
Bill Fischer!
Bill Fischer
Voting for Mike Brown – Brainzooming blog
Mike Brown – @Brainzooming
My vote is for Steve Todd
Mike Brown
Jeffrey Phillips
John Kapeleris is no1
John Kapeleris
John Kapeleris
I would like to nominate John Kapeleris and Tim Kastelle – their Blogs are outstandingly Brilliant
Lea Carey – the Health Maven!
My vote goes with Tim Kastele
LeAnna Carey – @thehealthmaven
My vote is for Steve Todd
Steve Todd
Stephen Todd
I vote for John Kapeleris
My vote goes with John Kapeleris
John Kapeleris is the oNlogger to watch…
Steve Todd
Steve Todd
Steve Todd
Bill Fischer
Steve Todd
Steve Todd
I share in Stefan’s comments and Greg’s supporting comment. I’ve seen appeals to individuals communities to vote, why?
I’ve read some amazing innovation thinking during this year, I’ve enjoyed many of the ‘snappy’ solutions as well. There is a healthy community and the winners, in the end are the ones that ‘invest’ in reading and returning.
The nominations offered so far are for me top in what they contributed, be it one or many articles. An outright winner, surely not necessary and it does, to quote from the film, Casablanca: “round up the usual suspects”
Keep the community vibrant Braden and ALL involved are the real winners.
Steve Todd
Mike Brown @Brainzooming
Mike Brown – @Brainzooming – is so dedicated with his great blog that regularly inspires and offers great insight.
@HuYoshida all the way – great leader and excellent blogger
Voting for Mike Brown – Brainzooming blog
I vote for Mike Brown – @Brainzooming
I vote for John Kapeleris.
I vote for Maria Paula Oliveira!
I vote for Maria Paula Oliveira.
Gijs van Wulfen and Gregg Fraley
I cast my vote for LeAnna Carey – @thehealthmaven
David McKnight @djmcknight
Mitch Ditkoff – the BEST! 🙂
Mitch Ditkoff
Mitch Ditkoff.
Mitch’s blog is funny & insightful. He always manages to inspire, surprise & keep me returning for more.
Mitch Ditkoff is getting my vote. He’s insightful funny, inspiring and has a fresh perspective.
Mitch Ditkoff
Steve Todd from EMC writes a great innovation blog (Innovation Playground).
Steve Todd
Steve Todd
Hu Yoshida
Why, Mitch Ditkoff of course!
I vote for Geovanny Romero Rivera
@ixchat I vote for Mike Brown @Brainzooming for Top #Innovation Blogger Tweet
My vote: Maria Paula Oliveira
Mitch Ditkoff
Mitch Ditkoff
Mitch Ditkoff
Mitch Ditkoff!!
My vote is for Mitch Ditkoff.
Mitch Ditkoff
Steve Todd!
Mitch Ditkoff
Mitch Ditkoff really gets me going!
Mitch Ditkoff!
Have collaborated with Mitch on many projects undertaken with mutual / shared clients. He’s at his absolute best when confronted with room full of stony-faced, “I’m here because my boss sent me” types — breaks down the barriers to resistance, gets all the reluctants focussed on how they can make their organizations and themselves innovate and change for the better.
Mitch Ditkoff is #1, have known Mitch for years, has never waived for his one-pointed approach in life to INNOVATION and inspiration
MItch Ditkoff rocks innovation!
I vote for Mitch Ditkoff!
Julie Anixter is wonderful! Love reading her contributions!
Mitch Ditkoff is fantastic.
LeAnna Carey is terrific!
Mitch Ditkoff
•Geovanny Romero Rivera
Mitch Ditkoff is one amazing guy. Creative, joyful, deep-hearted and definitely innovative– an idea champion.
Mitch never ceases to amaze me with his fabulous advice always presented consistently in the most interesting and compelling way.
Mitch Ditkoff delivers consistently fresh and compelling content in a humourous, interesting and compelling way.
I would like to nominate Mitch Ditcoff. Incredibly creative!!!
Creative, smart and a breezy, humorous approach
Mitch is creative, smart, and has a breezy, humorous approach
Mitch Ditkoff is cretive, smart and has a breezy, humorous approach
steve todd
Steve Todd is awesome and gets my vote every day of the year!!!
Steve Todd
Steve Todd!
Mitch Ditkoff
Steve Todd!
Julie Anixter!
Steve Todd – incredibly intelligent and communicates so well that even us non-techs get it.
Mitch Ditkoff gets my vote.
Thank You
Mitch Ditkoff gets my vote
Julie Anixter
Jose Baldaia – @Jabaldaia
STEVE TODD!
Mitch Ditkoff
Recommend Hu Yoshida for his neutral analysis and recommendations
Hu Yoshida
Its going to be Hu Yoshida only…
Saul Kaplan
Mike Brown (@brainzooming)
@goyucel for his endless efforts to promote innovation in digital diplomacy and education in Turkey
The best blog out there for inventor education is the United Inventors Association Daily inventor blog
Jeffrey Phillips
Braden…Very tough to pick a single individual! I think Paul Hobcraft consistently writes top-quality innovation posts.
Hu Yoshida
Adding myself. I think I received a couple of nominations via @ixchat
Hu Yoshida
Hu Yoshida
Steve Todd
Deborah Mills Scofield
Voting for Mike Brown – Brainzooming
Steve Todd
LeAnna Carey @healthmaven is great!
Excellent project. Should be more people doing this kind of thing. Thank you!