Twitter Follow Friday Recommends
I keep seeing more people do their #followfriday recommendations off Twitter and I totally understand the logic behind that. Follow Friday has morphed into almost a Twitter game. A couple of weeks ago, a couple of tweeps whom I didn’t recognize recommended me and, when I visited their profile page, they had page after page of posts with nothing but #followfriday @thisperson @thatperson and @someone_else. In other words just listing every person they could find in the hope that some would automatically follow them back after they so kindly recommended them. No thanks!
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.
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