@conncan @Alex_Johnston @ctgifted @viennateng @mikegermano @onakiser @contactjr @cksample

It has been a few weeks since I’ve written a Follow Friday blog post, and so I’ll explain again my general approach. I write it as a blog post, which through Twitterfeed ends up on Twitter and from there on to Facebook. I try to follow some sort of theme for the week, but this week am combining a few different themes.

First, there is what is going on in Connecticut Education. I’m on the mailing list of @conncan. Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN) “is an advocacy organization building a new movement of concerned Connecticut citizens working to create fundamental change in our education system.” @Alex_Johnston is their executive director. If your interested in education in Connecticut and especially issues around the achievement gap, I strongly encourage you to check out @conncan.

In following @conncan, I found @ctgifted, the Connecticut Association of the Gifted. I haven’t interacted with their organization yet, but I have long been interested in issues of gifted education.

Changing gears, I want to focus on @viennatang. Ms. Tang is a folk musician that I heard a few years ago at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. I signed up for her mailing list, and last week got a fascinating message. It let her listeners know that she is on Twitter and asked her listeners to joiner her in “a big messy free-for-all multi-way conversation, in a good way.” Last Saturday from 6 to 9 PM Pacific time she was responding to questions. I missed it, but heard it was great fun and hope that she will be doing it again sometime soon. It seems like a great way for musicians to connect with their fans, and I’d love to see other performers do something similar. Oh, and by the way, I like Ms Tang not only because she is making good use of social media, but also because her music is really great.

For my final theme, I want to shout out to some of the people that I met at Digiday:APPS a week and a half ago. Yes, I know, I still need to write up my thoughts on that event. It is coming. Leading the list is @mikegermano of Carrot Creative. He did a great presentation on their group’s work on a Facebook application for Major League Baseball. Other folks joining in a conversation about Digiday:APPS included @onakiser @contactjr @cksample.

So, that’s it for this week’s Follow Friday. Tune in next week (if I manage to fit it in), or other Fridays to see who some of the people I find interesting on Twitter are. Also, let me know who you find interesting out there.