AGBeat’s top 50 industry influencers

Evelyn

[dropcap style=”style1″]L[/dropcap]ike Cher, Evelyn goes by one name online, and is just as fabulous. She is one of the most active and popular Pinterest users, offering deep insight into what other Pinterest users are enjoying.

With over 7.6 million followers and approaching 30,000 pins she has posted, Evelyn posts a wide variety of beautiful images from nature scenes to haircuts to vintage images. She has inspired us by showing us naturally, and with no agenda, what Pinterest is all about – high quality photos, proper attribution, a willingness to remove any item a photographer requests, and interacting with commenters. Spend some time on her Pinterest page to gauge what’s hot on the site right now.

Glen Gilmore

[dropcap style=”style1″]G[/dropcap]oogle Glass Explorer, Glen Gilmore is a practicing attorney who teaches digital marketing, crisis communications, and social media law at Rutgers University Center for Management Development. Gilmore trains Fortune 500 companies on social media, and is the author of “Social Media Law for Business: A Practical Guide for Using Facebook, Twitter, Google +, and Blogs Without Stepping on Legal Landmines, out this April. What has captured our attention is not just Gilmore’s ease of explaining the tricky laws of the web land, but for his niche Twitter accounts @SocialMediaLaw1 and @HealthcareSMM which are both highly informative and influential, and the fact that he’s a restaurateur. He’s one busy man!

Jane Wang

[dropcap style=”style1″]W[/dropcap]ith over 8.3 million followers on Pinterest, Jane Wang is one of the most popular individuals on the photo sharing site.

What interests us the most about Wang is that unlike several other top Pinterest users, she has less boards and manages to devote her time to very specific topics ranging from DIY to happy to food art. All of her pins are popular and highly shared – she is representative of what people want to see on Pinterest. What she shares is glossy photos that link to relevant sources, and she keeps it simple. Go take a peek!

Jeff Bullas

[dropcap style=”style1″]A[/dropcap]ustralian digital marketing specialists, Jeff Bullas is the account director for digital agency, Infinity, author of Blogging the Smart Way, a consistent best-seller on Amazon.

Bullas is a freelance social media strategist, and he freely shares his experience and wisdom on his popular blog, JeffBullas.com where he shares tips for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Blogging, and SEO.

He has influenced many people to be found online by avoiding smarmy tactics and sticking to the basics and offering value.

Jeff Jarvis

[dropcap style=”style1″]B[/dropcap]logging at his popular site, BuzzMachine.com, Jeff Jarvis is an Associate Professor and the Director of Interactive Journalism at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism.

For the past eight years, he has been a new media columnist for the Guardian, and oversaw the creation of leading web services associated with metro daily newspapers and national magazines at Advance.net (includes nj.com, cleveland.com, nola.com, epicurious.com, concierge.com). You may know him as the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly, or his book Public Parts, What Would Google Do? Jarvis has influenced the masses with his higher level thinking and refusal to sit still.