The latest and greatest from BranchOut. Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2012. We received over 570 nominations for our third-annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest (the blogosphere’s biggest contest for social media blogs). The list of 20 finalists is pretty impressive! Take a look for yourself below. The Judges : Our judges include Andy Sernovitz (author, Word of Mouth Marketing & CEO, SocialMedia.org), Rick Calvert (CEO, BlogWorld) and Michael Stelzner (CEO, Social Media Examiner & author, Launch) . FEED.