I hope you will allow two contributions.

My first one is mnmlist by Leo Babauta at http://mnmlist.com/ — how to unclutter your life and work. Besides the idea, I love the unpretentious design.

Closer to my everyday work is John Sonnhalter’s blog Tradesmen Insights at http://tradesmeninsights.com/ — John writes about issues that industrial buyers face every day.

Great idea, Mark. My add? If you’re a Mac user/fan, try Minimal Mac (www.minimalmac.com). I’ve found it to be pretty helpful and interesting.

One blog that I consistently read that has a little to do with sales, a little to do with marketing, and a lot to do with just being who you really are in every way possible is http://TheSalesLion.com. Must read if you ask me.

Killer Slinky ! http://www.jchernov.com/

My friend Joe Chemov’s personal blog is AWESOME and gets me thinking almost as much as GROW

There are many worthy blogs out there and, like you, I find that my trips to my Reader are feeling ho-hum lately, so thanks for doing this Mark.

My contribution is a local (Knoxville) journalist by the name of Jack Lail. Jack is responsible for the digital side of the Knoxville News Sentinel’s presence and blogs about how the internet is affecting journalism from a variety of aspects.

Of particular interest is his semi-regular series on how newspaper websites are (or are not) addressing the issue of anonymous comments on their sites. He’s also led community roundtables on this topic.

You can find him on his personal blog, Random Mumblings, at http://www.jacklail.com/

Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I am not a marketer. I am a K-12 English teacher and most of what I read is related to education.

That said I’m going to suggest 2 blogs. The Answer Sheet (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/) because it does a much better job of sharing what’s really happening in education, specifically education reform than what you see and read in the news. And we need more people who really get it. The other Spencer’s Scratch Pad(http://www.johntspencer.com/) is just an excellent blog by a regular teacher or maybe a regular blog by an excellent teacher. Either way, it’s the only blog in my reader that I refuse to “mark as read” until I have actually read it. It makes me think; it makes me feel; it makes me want to be better than I am.

@KristenDaukas I will check that out! On the subject of fun, I love Adam Koford’s Hobotopia. Funny, gentle, smart cartoons. http://apelad.blogspot.com/

One of my favorties is http://angeladaniels.squarespace.com/. Angela is a hoot and a lead Fiskateer that I had the pleasure of meeting at an event she hosted in Austin. She has a facinating and fun attitude toward life and is currently blogging about cooking and entertaining.

I’ve got two that I’d like to add to the pot-luck. The first one is one I was introduced to recently called Working For Wonka (www.workingforwonka.com) and it’s horror stories and lessons from people working for entrepreneurs. It’s pretty ingenious the way it’s written and it’s usually pretty hilarious.

Also, when I need to chill out and just read some good, funny comics, I always turn to The Oatmeal (www.theoatmeal.com).

Those are my contributions to the blog pot-luck. Enjoy!

Here’s one for the pot luck: pastry chef, David Lebovitz’s blog on “living the good life in Paris.” David’s writing is highly engaging, the photos are beautiful and the recipies are delicious! http://www.davidlebovitz.com/

Great idea for a blog post!

Full disclaimer, I contribute some posts from time to time but the American Marketing Association in Chicago launched a blog this fall at http://www.chicagoama.wordpress.com. The posts are usually very practical and include many links to other useful information.

@joey_strawn Joey, thanks for Working for Wonka. LOVE this.

I love The Consumerist (http://consumerist.com/). It’s a very informative and sometimes completely hilarious take on modern consumerism (and also one of my daily reads).

@jennwhinnem @joey_strawn You’re very welcome. I was turned onto it about 2 weeks ago and love it as well.

@joey_strawn @mitchjoel You know I don’t think I have ever even seen his blog. I will check it out. Tons of good suggestions here!

There are a couple I really like that aren’t mentioned here –
Spin Sucks (www.spinsucks.com) by Gini Dietrich and http://www.mackcollier.com. At the risk of being somewhat self-serving, I have created what I call my Blogroll on Steroids, which is a list of about 100 really great blogs I’ve come across and like (Mark’s on it!). I’ve got to take some time to add more in the next week — including some of these — but I hope you’ll go take a look when you have a chance: http://consultantlaunchpad.com/free-stuff/useful-sites-and-blogs-for-consultants/ . Even though the URL says for consultants, I think you’ll find there are a lot there that will appeal to everyone.

Peter

@consultantlaunc Awesome Peter and thanks for including me on your list!

@CharleneRamsey Love to see one of my star students coming on board the blog community! Welcome Charlene!

@michaelbertoldi Thanks for inspiring me to write the post, Michael!

@markwschaefer @michaelbertoldi And thanks hugely for featuring my blog Mark, in a generous-as-usual move, promoting your network everyday. You truly rock.
Sidneyeve

@DrRae If you sign up in something like Google Reader (that’s how I follow it), you’ll get just the content!

@WillReichard Thanks Will for sharing this with me

@DrRae You can start the process from Google Reader itself (http://www.google.com/reader). Once signed in, just click “Add a Subscription” in the upper left corner and put in http://apelad.blogspot.com/ . Then whenever it updates, you’ll get the new content!

Great post — very much enjoy finding worthy reads that are relatively under the radar. Will add a few from this list to my own reader – and here’s a few others:
http://www.adamsherk.com
http://itwofs.com/beastoftraal/
http://webbiquity.com/

Late to the party again, but just had to jump in here because a) I think this is a wonderful idea and b) I really wanted to share this non-marketing blog.
So the blog I read most religiously after {grow} (yes, I checked my reader stats and {grow} is at the top of every list … does that make me a {grow} groupie?) is a writing blog called Tribal Writer: http://www.tribalwriter.com/ by Justine Musk. I’m pretty sure I have a secret girl crush (ok … maybe not a “girl” crush so much as a “writer” crush … and I suppose not so much “secret” anymore, either) on tha author. I have starred almost as many of her posts as I have Mark’s … and that’s saying something!

So – for any wannabe (or ontheirway) writers out there (and I find many of us marketing types DO have that fiction writing bug as well) … check out Justine. She will inspire.