@devotional @stxr @dedeandro @mariamichelle @photosbykml

It has been a while since I wrote a Follow Friday blog post, so I’ll recap my approach to people who haven’t read these posts recently. Each Friday, I like to post links about people that I’m following on Twitter and why I follow them. I post it as a blog post, which gets copied to Twitter via TwitterFeed.

There is also another online tradition of posting people that drop the most cards on you via EntreCard over the month. Since this Friday is the last day of the month, I thought it would be a good time to combine the two ideas. So, this week, I have listed those people that drop the most EntreCards on me that are also on Twitter. @devotional writes www.mybibledevotional.com and is very often a top dropper.

@stxr writes comatised.com.

@dedeandro has two blogs that are top droppers on Orient Lodge, dedeandro.blogspot.com and addyours.blogspot.com

@mariamichelle writes manddraponisanimalrescue.typepad.com. Her blog is another one that shows up very frequently in the list of top droppers.

@photosbyhml> writes the blog photographybykml.blogspot.com. She often has great pictures and helpful hints for photographers. I thought of some of her hints as I tried to take better pictures this year on vacation.

All of this relates back to a discussion that Ken Brown has started over on the Adgitize forum. There, he has started a topic, Twitter Vs Facebook - Why PR Isn’t Enough to Build Your Business. He refers to an article by Scoble about the same topic.

Following with the example I did on a few other places where I shared comments, here is the comment that I left there:

For the past few years, I've been working on political campaigns. It seems like some of what is being talked about fits very nicely with politics. When running a campaign, you want to contact a voter between 9 and 12 times to get people to remember you.

Twitter and Facebook is a good way of making some of these contacts, as is placing ads on Adgitize and other advertising networks. LinkedIn is yet another tool to make that sort of contact.

Of course, all of this depends on having quality product. Many contacts for an inferior product just isn't going to help.

So, what do I use? I use everything I can. I use Twitterfeed to post a link to my blog posts on Twitter. I use the Twitter application on Facebook to post my Tweets on my Facebook status. I use RSS to import blog entries driectly from my blog to Facebook, and I use as many other social networks as I can to build my personal brand. (As an aside, I also use LinkedIn and Plaxo, but I have not found them to be particularly effective in driving traffic to my site.)

One other site that I'll put a pitch in for: DandyID. DandyID provides a good way of managing a list of all the social networks you are on. Retaggr is similar, but DandyID has been great for me. To see what this looks like, check out Aldon's Social Networks on DandyID

So, who are you following on Twitter? How does it fit into your greater social media strategy?