This guy had made an interesting comment on an article Guy Kawasaki tweeted. The comment was a bit snobby in a designer sort of way so I went looking for his site. Think I found it or at least someone’s site who has the same name and claims to be a designer.

You could kind of piece together that he probably started the site in about 2007 and hasn’t been there since 2009 or so.

It was a nice start, the guy is probably a great designer that’s too busy to bother.

Oops, and that’s where the possible parallels end.

As far as design goes, I know I’m probably always gonna be a wannabee. When I see it, I know what I like, but as far as creating it from the recesses of my brain? Nah, it ain’t in me. The spark just don’t kindle.

I could let that change my course and desires in life but it doesn’t.

It’s no matter. That’s what templates and vector art is for.

I’m good with words, specifically, key words.

We all have our talents you know.

Some of the designers that I know do a great job with their Follow Friday blog posts, fancy pictures and the whole bit. I’m not quite up to speed with that but I am going to make some follow recommendations today because Twitter really can be a useful tool if you use it right and the place to start with is who you follow.

The people I’m recommending today are all online business people and have been for a long time. I’ve known most of them almost since I’ve been on the Internet and know them to be reputable and reliable.

So, in no particular order, my Follow Friday recommendations are:

Will Bontrager publisher of Possibilities Ezine and programmer extraordinaire. I was introduced to Will and his wife, Mari, by a friend in 2002 and they are warm, wonderful people who will bend over backwards if necessary to keep their customers happy. Just great people and their “story” is great too when you dig around and find it :) Will doesn’t tweet a lot but I’m sure if you’ve got a coding problem and you holler “help!” he’d come running.

J L Scott of iCop.org has been my friend just as long as the Bontragers and she’s just as honest though she’s a lot rowdier! iCop is an organization of online professionals who have all been checked out and approved by JL. Anyone could be proud to earn the iCop seal and you can trust a site with an iCop logo displayed. JL’s new to Twitter but she’s an old hand online and she’s a great person to know on Twitter too!

Sharon McPherson is a Twitter expert though she’ll probably tell you differently. She’s also the driving force behind many websites and operates Templates, Themes and Graphics.com. I met Sharon years ago on an email discussion list (yes there was social media before Twitter) and she’s outstandingly knowledgeable and helpful.

Ed Dale is my last recommendation for today and he is also the reason I’m on Twitter. A few years ago, I participated in a 30 Day Challenge and Ed told us Twitter was going to be really big. He was right about Twitter and a lot of other things he taught in that 30 days. There’s a new 30 Day Challenge free every year and, in the meantime, Ed’s teaching new things all the time on Twitter.

That’s it for my first Follow Friday blog post. Hopefully, there will be more as there are a lot of really great people on Twitter to follow.