Dawn Westerberg

The kids getting ready to "leap" off a terrain park jump in Park City

In 2010, I posted the Olympic Dream Team for Internet Marketing – a list of people from all aspects of the Marketing world who were providing thought leadership at that time. In honor of Leap Day (February 29th), I’m revisiting that list and giving you 29 Online Marketing thought leaders. Some of these people have remained on the list because they are consistently providing compelling and insightful information. People have dropped off the list, not through their own actions, but because my focus may have changed and others became more important to my current Marketing information needs, or it could be that we have simply lost touch. There are a few new names on the list that either I should have included back in 2010 or that we’ve only become acquainted since the original online Marketing Dream Team list was created. There is no particular order to the list, I’m excited to see posts from any of them in my Twitter stream, Facebook timeline, Google+ circle, or email inbox.

1. Chris Penn
2. Geno Prussakov
3. DJ Waldow
4. Wil Reynolds
5. Chris Jones
6. Dawn Westerberg
7. Stephanie Miller
8. Jen Goode
9. Avinash Kaushik
10. Andy Wetzler, Danielle Leitch and the MoreVisibility team
11. Ann Handley
12. Mike Volpe and the Hubspot team
13. Shawn Collins, Missy Ward and the Affiliate Summit team
14. Shelley Ryan
15. Beth Harte
16. Jeremiah Owyang
17. Joseph Ruiz
18. Elizabeth McCaffrey
19. Jim Kukral
20. Kristina Allen
21. Cathryn Hrudicka
22. John Foley Jr
23. Megan Leap, Kathy Bushman, Penny Fiederlein and the MarketingProfs team
24. Scott Brinker, Anna Talerico and the ion interactive team
25. Scott Hardigree
26. Amber Cleveland
27. Lewis Poretz
28. Alasdair Munn
29. Michele Price

Bonus: Rachel, April, Andrea and Sara Beth – the ZipSetGo team (I added the ZipSetGo team and their #TNI Twitter chat as a bonus because their focus is travel rather than marketing, but I think it’s a great example of using social media marketing for the travel industry!)

OK, I cheated a little by combining people and companies on a few of the entries, but sometimes there were just too many smart people in one company to list them all! I consistently get valuable information and insights from these people and I respect their opinions. Even though we may not always agree, they always give me something to think about. Whose Marketing insights do you look forward to reading each day? Please add them in the list below…