FollowFriday
#FollowFriday CT Edition
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 17:15@sheilamc7 @jcnork @guiliag @khynes2000 @fehynes @ct94dem @lonseidman @tessa_da_twit @jrj08 @swilmarth
It has been a busy week. Friday is almost over and I’m just getting to my #FollowFriday post. This week, I figured I list a few people from Connecticut that I enjoy following. There are actually probably three or four different groups of people that I follow from Connecticut. These are people that I’ve met mostly through activism of one sort or another.
@sheilamc7 is the chair of our local board of education. It is great to see a board of ed chair on Twitter. @jcnork is a person that lives the next town over that I met through Twitter. We’ve had coffee together and some good online discussions. He turned me on to a good ice cream shop in a neighboring town.
I actually haven’t met @guiliag yet. I was introduced to her by @jcnork and she has had some great comments. I look forward to checking out a Mexican restaurant that she recommended recently.
@khynes2000 and @fehynes are my wife and youngest daughter. They are both fairly political. My middle daughter is off in college in Virginia, so I left her out of this list. She deserves a special blog post of her own.
I’ve written about @ct94dem before. That’s State Representative Gary Holder-Winfield. He’s doing great stuff with social media and state government and he is well worth the follow.
I think I first met @lonseidman back in 2004. We were both at the Democratic National Convention in Boston that year. He has always done great stuff with social media and is well worth the follow. I don’t remember when I first met @swilmarth, but we’ve often crossed paths and I really like what he does with social media and especially education and politics. @tessa_da_twit and @jrj08 don’t tweet as often. They keep there messages protected. However, if you are friends of them, you should follow them.
So, that’s it for this week’s #FollowFriday. Hopefully I’ll have another good batch next week.
#FollowFriday after #digiday
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 10:00@JasonDPG @ggertz @LorenDavie @JennKim @chaimhaas @RobWilk @ScottyMonty @sweetbitters @jasonbreed @ckieff
As I did last time, I’m writing a blog post talking about whom I’m following for #FollowFriday and why I’m following them. This post will get picked up by TwitterFeed to become a Tweet and will then get passed over to Facebook and beyond.
This week, I attended Engage! Expo on Tuesday and Wednesday, and then DigiDay on Thursday. I followed quite a few new people and picked up quite a few new followers. As of my writing of this, I am now seven people short of following 1600 people on Twitter and six people short of being followed by 2000 people. I don’t pay much attention to these numbers, but 2000 is such a nice round number.
What is more important is the conversations I have with my online contacts. I use Twitter Search and PeopleBrowsr to keep these conversations straight instead of sounding like a cacophony. I weed my lists and find new people to join the conversation with.
DigiDay was particularly good. I followed a bunch of new people and had some great conversations. @JasonDPG did a great job of emceeing the show both at the podium and on Twitter. One of the first people I met online at DigiDay was @ggertz. He was providing some good play-by-play twittering. Yet at one point, his laptop started losing power. He asked if anyone had a Dell power supply that he could use to recharge his laptop with. My laptop is a Dell and so he recharged off of my power supply a couple times during the conference. In addition, he’s doing some interesting work building websites, and was one of the people that talked about working with Social Media and CRM.
@LorenDavie @JennKim and @chaimhaas also did some great play-by-play tweeting of the conference and I’m glad to have connected with them as well. One discussion that was particularly interesting was about how new people can discover interesting people to follow. #FollowFriday is a good starting point. @RobWilk of ChaCha and @ScottMonty of Ford were two of the speakers that did especially well.
Two other people that deal with CRM and Social media are @sweetbitters and @jasonbreed . However, @sweetbitters Twitter comment about deciding about whether to try and get in the Emerging Artists Showcase at Falcon Ridge particular caught my attention. I need to follow up with several of these people.
The last person on my #FollowFriday list, this day after #DigiDay is @ckieff. I’ve met him at other shows. He works for Ripple6 and I think both he at Ripple6 really get Social Media. I’ve talked before about Ripple6 and Gannet. I think it is a great combination and I’m looking for future news about what they are doing together. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get any good information from #ckieff about what might be in the pipeline, so my next post about that will either have to wait or may have more conjecture and suggestions than hard facts.
So, that is it for this weeks edition of #FollowFriday. Let me know whom else you are following that you think I should follow.
#FollowFriday - @JoeCascio @sara6633 @wkossen @SHHHE
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 09:52A popular meme on Twitter is to post a list of interesting people that you are following on Twitter on Fridays. Since my blog posts are fed into Twitter, I thought I’d post it here and get some double coverage as well as use this as an opportunity to talk more about my ideas for a Social Network Contact Management System.
The idea is to have a system where you can keep track of all your friends on various social networks, as well as the contacts you’ve made with them. #FollowFriday is a great example. Currently, I’m following nearly 1500 people on Twitter. As I pick out people for #FollowFriday, it would be nice to pick out people that I’ve been talking a bit with recently, but haven’t posted on #FollowFriday before, or at least for a long time.
I chose these four people because they have helped shape, either directly or indirectly, some of my thoughts about a Social Network Contact Management System. Joe and Willem have both spoken with me about the programming issues. Sara is co-founder of DandyID which is a great source for keeping track of your social networks. Priscilla is a key person behind PeopleBrowsr, which does some interesting cross social network stuff.
The thing that I’ve always liked best about PeopleBrowsr is the ability to group people by tags. With that, I can look at various streams, such as the stream of people in Connecticut, people in a Tweetup group in Connecticut, Newspapers from Connecticut, bloggers that are on EntreCard, bloggers that are on CMF, and so on. I’m not sure how people can follow more than a couple hundred people on Twitter without a tool like PeopleBrowsr. I used FriendFeed in a similar manner before PeopleBrowsr came along, and I’ve heard you can do some really nice similar stuff in TweetDeck, but I haven’t tried it.
Also, I’ve just started playing with another feature on PeopleBrowsr. You can bring up a stream or grid of Facebook, LinkedIn, or Plaxo friends on Twitter. Unfortunately, it seems to try to do a match based on name, instead of their actual userids, so since one of my friends is named Tim O’Brien, it is bringing up lots of different Tim O’Briens on Twitter. Not quite what I want.
Beyond that, I would like to be able to extract the information in PeopleBrowsr concerning the services I’ve subscribed to as well as the services my friends have subscribed to, much like I can with DandyID, MyBlogLog, FriendFeed and others. Even more importantly, I would love to be able to extract the tag information.
Using my first very early pass of SNCM, I’ve found about 140 people that I follow on other social networks that I don’t follow on Twitter. I need to start following some of them. I need to explore the tool in PeopleBrowsr to see whom else I ought to be following, and then, there is always Mr.Tweet as another source of good people to follow.
So, if I’ve recently added you on Twitter, that could be the reason. I may do similar adds for other networks as well, once Twitter is under better control. Hopefully, I’ll even come up with a better way of tracking how I contact people.
