This is a curated list of essential resources for planners in advertising and communications by sam izdat ... misentropy.com (Contagious ideas by PSST : spreading 2.0 social innovation. Edited by jérémy dumont, strategic planner in FRANCE)

"I am a creative planner/ brand and social media consultant based in Bangalore, India. This blog is a scribbling pad for my thots and ideas - on brands, social media and planning. I am also a contributor to the Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog.

I am a winner of the WPP Atticus Award for my paper on the long tail of brand building. My whitepapers, articles and thot pieces on advertising, new media and the probable future are available here.

You can get in touch with me via Twitter, Facebook or email. Thanks for dropping by." ~~ IQ // blaiq

Plannersphere Top 20 - June 2009

The top 20 blogs in the plannersphere as of 6th June 2009:

01. russell davies
02. Advertising Lab
03. Noah Brier dot Com
04. Servant of Chaos
05. Nick Burcher
06. Mike Arauz
07. Talent imitates, genius steals
08. Only Dead Fish
09. paul isakson
10. Influxinsights
11. From The Head Of Zeus Jones
12. adliterate
13. Adspace Pioneers
14. Interactive Marketing Trends
15. Herd - the hidden truth about who we are
16. brand new
17. The Hidden Persuader
18. Trendsspotting
19. Get Shouty
20. CrapHammer

Planners' Almanac

Planning 101
JWT Planning Guide
The anatomy of Account Planning by Henrik Habberstad
What is a brand? by Stephen King
Why is a good insight like a refrigerator by Jeremy Bullmore

Planner Advice
'Better avice for young planners' by Richard Huntington
'How to be interesting' by Russell Davies

Planner Fun
AdVerbatims
Indexed
Junk Charts
Name Voyager
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes
The Dialectizer
The Generator
Word Count

Planner Resources
BBC and PRI's The Changing World
Case Study Addict
The Economist Surveys (Please note all The Economist content can only be accessed by sucbcribers)
Google Press Centre : Zeitgeist
Google Trends
List of Advertising Slogans (from Wikipedia)
MisEntropy Plannersphere Search Engine (Customised search that restricts searches t0 planners' blogs)
Plannersphere (Comprehensive list of planning blogs from around the world)
Plannersphere Wiki
Swivel

Twitter Search - Search everyone's tweets for any term, set up RSS feeds of the query, etc.

unplannd - a pandora's box of social media resources
World Advertising Research Centre

Presentation Planner

Cassette Generator
Catalog Card Generator
Copy Paste Character - Accented letters and random symbols that you can copy and paste - just like that.
Lynetter's Intersting Snippets
Periodic Table of Visualisation techniques
Presentation Zen
Slide Share
Spell with Flickr

Planner Statistics

GeoHive : Global Statistics
IndiaStat : India statistics

Planner Utilities
MediaFire (File transfer utility)
Perpetual Calendar
Senduit
World Clock

LISTS:

20 Internet Memes and Phenomena

Planner Surveys, past and present

Just a quick reminder to all the account planners and strategists among you that the deadline for Heather LeFevre's annual Planner Survey is coming up.

Click here to take the survey. Also click here to add your email to receive the results.

And here are the results decks from the past Planner Surveys:

Plannersphere

This is a list of all planning blogs derived from the Plannersphere Wiki list, but additionally expanded and curated by me.

This is the list of blogs that MisEntropy Plannersphere Search Engine is configured to search - and additionally the Plannersphere Top 20 chart is served up from within this list.

If you know of a planning blog (your own or someone else's) that doesn't feature in this list, do ping me and I shall be glad to include it.

[Last updated on 29th April 2009]