Before you blog, before you create a social media strategy of any sort, you need to listen. By listen I mean tune into the truckloads of relevant industry content that’s being put out there, filtered and aggregated for your review. If you’re going to do that you want to start by following some of the top blogs that pertain to your industry.

Alltop is a site that aggregates only the top (I know, that’s a bit subjective) blog posts from around the Internet and puts them in one place for you. They started out with some of the most natural categories such as marketing and small business but recently grew to add just about any category you might want to research – adoption to yoga.

This is a great pit stop on your way to tuning in, networking, getting smarter and discovering your own social media play.