To know who PredictionTech needs to speak to as it builds we needed to do some research on who blogs about analytics. Over the next two weeks, we will be bringing you (in our opinion), the top 50 web analytics bloggers from around the world. You will find out each person’s blog and Twitter account, as well as their Klout score and a notable achievement by each person. So we will now jump straight in and count down from 50 to 40. Enjoy.

50 – Neil Mason
Blog: http://www.foviance.com/category/what-we-think/blog
Twitter: http://twitter.com/nmason
Klout Score: 10 http://klout.com/user/nmason
Notable Achievements: Neil is the director of Analytical Consulting at Foviance.

49 – Kevin Hayes
Blog: http://www.kevinhayes.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/noozguy1
Klout Score: 10 http://klout.com/user/noozguy1
Notable Achievements:  Is the communications specialist at HealthNow New York INC.

48- Dennis Hart
Blog: http://click2dennis.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/click2dennis
Klout Score: 10 http://klout.com/user/click2dennis
Notable Achievements: He is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Search Engine Jones. Also, he is an Examination Committee member at The Web Analytics Association.

47- Oliver Schiffers
Blog: http://wanaltics.de
Twitter: http://twitter.com/osch
Klout Score: 10 http://klout.com/user/osch
Notable Achievements: Head of Analytics at Sapient Nitro. WAA Certifed analys and winner of UBC analytics award.

46- Chris Wiggins
Blog: http://chriswiggins.tumblr.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/cwiggins
Klout Score: 10 http://klout.com/cwiggins/topics
Notable Achievements:  He works at Google Creative Lab

45- Ophir Prusak
Blog: http://analyticsimpact.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/prutwo
Klout Score: 11 http://klout.com/user/prutwo
Notable Achievements: He is the Optimization Manager at Adobe Systems.

44- Jorg Hopmann
Blog: www.hopmann.net
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hopmannj
Klout Score: 11 http://klout.com/user/hopmannj
Notable Achievements: In 2005, he founded Hopmann Marketing Analytics.

43 – Elizabeth Brady
Blog: http://www.ewbanalytics.com/blog
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ewbanalytics
Klout Score: 12 http://klout.com/user/ewbanalytics
Notable Achievements: She is the Founder and Principle Web Analyst at EWB Analytics LLC.

42 – Dustin Wallace
Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/itsnotmetrics/entry/the_life_times_of_dustin
Twitter: http://twitter.com/thrivalytics
Klout Score: 13 http://klout.com/user/Thrivalytics
Notable Achievements: He was the Web Analyst Implementation specialist at Digitaria

41 – Shabbir Safdar
Blog: http://www.truthypr.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/shabbirsafdar
Klout Score: 17 http://klout.com/user/ShabbirSafdar
Notable Achievements:  He was the founder of Virilion Group.

40 – Christina Dulitz
Blog: http://christinadulitz.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ChristinaDulitz
Klout Score: 17 http://klout.com/user/ChristinaDulitz
Notable Achievements: She was the Web Analytics Manager at ebay.

Next time we will be bringing you 39 – 30 in our count down of the top 50 Web Analytics Bloggers 2011 from around the world. You really don’t want to miss that.

If you would like to see the other positions in the countdown, then please click on the parts you would like to see.

Part 1: Positions 50-41

Part 2: Positions 40-31

Part 3: Positions 30-21

Part 4: Positions 20-11

Part 5: Positions 10-1