Youth Specialties Top 20 Youth Ministry Blogs

Using publicly available figures for activity on the various sites, Youth Specialties have just foreshadowed a Top 100 Youth Ministry Blogs by publishing a Top 20 here

You may or may not be aware of many of them and should check them out for relevance to your context but there are a few brilliant contributors who made this list...

I think it's fair to say this is another area of youth ministry which is a very blokey field!! The sooner that changes a bit the better...

2010 Rank	Blogger Name	Blog address	2009 Rank
1	Youth Specialties Blog	http://youthspecialties.com/blog	12
2	Mark Oestreicher	http://whyismarko.com	3
3	Tim Schmoyer	http://studentministry.org	3
4	Josh Griffin	http://www.morethandodgeball.com/	2
5	Adam McLane	http://adammclane.com	7
6	Adam Walker Cleaveland	http://pomomusings.com/	1
7	Orange Leaders	http://www.orangeleaders.com/	–
8	Chris Folmsbee	http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/	21
9	Ian MacDonald	http://www.youthblog.org	9
10	Walt Mueller	http://learningmylines.blogspot.com/	–
11	Jeremy Zach	http://www.reyouthpastor.com	28
12	Jonathan McKee	http://blog.thesource4ym.com/	19
13	Fuller Youth Institute	http://fulleryouthinstitute.org/blog/	5
14	Mark Riddle	http://www.theriddlegroup.com/blog/index.htm	25
15	Mike King	http://king.typepad.com/mike_king/	15
16	Tash McGill	http://tashmcgill.blogspot.com/	41
17	Gavin Richardson	http://www.gavoweb.com/	8
18	Matt Cleaver	http://mattcleaver.com/	29
19	Kurt Johnston	http://www.simplykurt.com/	10
20	Stevan Sheets	http://www.stevansheets.com/	10

Which do you find helpful?

What makes for an effective youth ministry blog?

Are you aware of aussie sites you'd recommend?