@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.