Social media & marketing blogs worth following

Inc covers start ups, small businesses and marketing, giving you tons of informative posts and articles that will help you run your business better.

Mari Smith is a renowned speaker and trainer on marketing and her blog has some very useful information.

Ducttapemarketing.com is run by John Jantsch, who is a marketing consultant, speaker and best selling author. His blog was chosen as a Forbes favorite for marketing and small businesses.

This is an excellent blog, especially for small business owners.

Followed by thousands of marketing professionals around the world, marketingprofs.com is a must follow blog with excellent free and paid resources.

for a particular niche within social media, Jon Loomer brings it all to the table!

Under the social media section of Mashable there isn't one specific writer, reporter or editor pushing out news over articles daily but there is a good pool of social media savy people. I think you should be able to get some really good stuff from there on what's happening and how tos related to social media.