@acarvin @blogdiva @stevegarfield @jillmz @tishgrier @waynesutton @ chuckumentary @mlsif

Each Friday I try to highlight some of the interesting people that I follow on Twitter. Since Twitterfeed puts the beginning of my blog post on Twitter, I can just post my #FollowFriday post here, along with my thoughts about it and it will show up on Twitter.

This week, I highlighting some of the people I really like in the social political media complex. Some of the names are very well known, others less so. I’ve also not included some of the obvious big names because they don’t need highlighting, and also, in part, because I don’t feel like I’m in a conversation with them, the way I feel that I have been in conversations with some of the folks above. With that, let me talk about the people in this weeks #FollowFriday

Andy Carvin @acarvin is the social media swami at National Public Radio. He has highly informative tweets, nicely mixed with the personal experience. He’s gotten people like Scott Simon and Dan Schorr onto Twitter.

I don’t recall exactly when I first met Liza Sabater, @blogdiva. It was probably around 2003 or 2004 and had probably had to do with the nexus of politics and technology. Like Andy, Liza’s posts are informative and nicely mixed with personal experience.

Steve Garfield, @stevegarfield can be described as the father of videoblogging. I think I first met Steve at MediaGiraffe a couple years ago. You should follow not only Steve’s tweets, but especially his video work.

Tish Grier @tishgrier is perhaps not as well known in the Twittosphere as Andy, Liza or Steve. Yet she has been making her voice heard for many years and it is great to hear her voice on Twitter. I’ve met her at several news media related events.

Like Tish, Jill Miller-Zimon @jillmz is also not as well known as Andy, Liza or Steve. I’ve only met Jill once face to face, at election night coverage at NPR Studios last November. However, we’ve known each other online for a while and I now live in the town she grew up in. As with others, I first ran into Jill online some place other than Twitter. Again, I don’t recall the details, but it was probably when one of us commented on the others blog.

Wayne Sutton @waynesutton. Like Jill, I’ve only met Wayne once face to face, which was at a conference about news media in Lowell, MA. Like myself, Wayne seems to experiment with just about every online site that comes along, and I’ve enjoyed interacting with Wayne on many of these sites.

Chuck Olsen @chuckumentary I believe I only met Chuck once, which was at a media event when John Edwards was first entering the 2008 Presidential Primary. While his own blog and twitter stream are well worth the read, the real reason I mention Chuck is his work with @theuptake which provides an important and fascinating glimpse into Minnesota.

Let me end off this week with Micah Sifry @mlsif. I believe that the first time I met Micah was at the inaugural Personal Democracy Forum back in 2004. PDF has grown over the years and continues to be a focal point of the social political media complex.

So, that’s this week’s #FollowFriday. See you on Twitter.