And we just couldn’t be prouder. This is exactly the kind of list that I really want to make. After all, it’s niche, it’s now and it’s, well…Canadian.

Not only that, but being mentioned in the same post with the likes of fellow Vancouverite Darren Barefoot and border-jumpers like Malcolm Gladwell and Tara Hunt is just damned cool in it’s own right.

Let me be the one to say what Sean is too humble to: His is the Number One Word of Mouth Blog here in Canada, such is his commitment to the concept. Glance at the right to my categories and you’ll notice that it’s a topic I revisit regularly, (although the small number of examples since the switch to WordPress aren’t much of a sample size) but not with the same vigor and attention to detail as Sean Moffitt of Buzz Canuck. Keep up the good work Sean, I’m learning a lot from you, from all the way over here on the West Coast, and I’m glad to know that you drop by the blog from time to time for a read.

Cheers!

And now, I republish Sean’s carefully researched list of the Top 20, in his words, to give us all a bit more Google Juice:

The Top 20 List:

David Jones @ PR Works
Kate Trgovac @ My Name is Kate
Colin Mckay @ CanuckFlack
Mitch Joel @ Twist Image
Michael Seaton @ The Client Side
Michael Ferguson @ Home is Where You Hang Your @
Leesa Barnes @ Podonomics
Ken Schafer & Company @ One Degree
Joe Thornley @ ProPR
Tamera Kremer @ 3i
Darren Barefoot
Susan Abbott @ Customer Experience Crossroads
Jordan Behan @ Tell Ten Friends
Susannah Gardner @ Buzz Marketing with Blogs
Stuart Macdonald
Matthew Ingram
Mark Evans

Canucks Emeritus- well-informed Canucks who’ve fled across the border:

Malcolm Gladwell
Grant McCracken @ This Blog Sits At The…
Tara Hunt @ Horse, Pig, Cow

Of and of course myself, foolish oversight, damn that’s 21 now…

Word of Mouth is alive and well in Canada. Big thanks to Sean for leading the pack.

I’m about to be away from my desk for a couple of days, so you’ll be spared my rhetoric for a spell.

In the meantime, I wanted to invite you to sign up to receive my email newsletter, which should be dispatched shortly after I return from my trip. There’s a subscribe form for you fill out, and each issue will come with an unsubscribe link if you’re not seeing the value you were looking for.

Regular readers might see some cross-over material from blog posts, but it will be fun content nevertheless.

I hope to return to lots of wonderful new subscribers, and perhaps even some suggestions for newsletter content. Thanks in advance, and I’ll post again very soon!

Cheers,

Jordan.

Had a busy day today, started at 7 am with a networking breakfast, and that was followed by another quick meeting and then a consulting session with some clients (a team of three).

I’m a bit tuckered out, but today really drove home the point for me that although you can never reach as many people in person as you can with online tools, person-to-person contact (especially in business, obv.) is still number one. After a long day of shaking hands, meeting new people and making presentations, I feel like it was all time well spent. (I hope my colleagues feel the same way about the time they spent with me!)

I’ve met some exciting new clients these past few weeks, and I’ll be rolling out the result of some of our recent work soon, so watch for that.
In the meantime, I’ll leave you with a thought: The reason why I felt today was so productive and fun was that I made so many connections with the people I want to do business with. The same principles apply to online networking and marketing tactics, except that the technology makes it possible to make more of those connections.

And speaking of online networking tools: I’ve just done a re-jig to my MySpace page, (thanks to some code from Rob) and it’s looking more and more like my main site all the time.  Had to change my headline on there too, because as Mack points out, MySpace now has over 100 million users.