@Joakimbaage @joosterizer @MikeCK88 @Bastelyon @gunniho
@gametopius @evcinnyc @moon @MacTavishBest @jst418 @torontocitylife @nathandaschle @TheJusticeDept @tracyrusso @ltoomre

This week’s Follow Friday post is dominated by people from the #nygames conference. Leading the list is @Joakimbaage who was one of the conference organizers. One of the most interesting speakers was @joosterizer who writes the blog Waffler and is working on a PhD at Columbia. His thesis is tentatively titled, “Games as Communication: the Practice of Discursive Game Play“.

@MikeCK88 of NPD was another interesting speaker that was on Twitter. NPD provides great gaming data and Mike does a great job of presenting the data.

There were breakout discussion sessions which I believe is a great thing to have at conferences like this. The session I attended was lead by @Bastelyon of Promethium Marketing. He shares the same last name with me, so perhaps we are distant cousins. In addition, Promethium Marketing has a great URL for those interested in gaming: PMFTW.com.

I also spoke a bit with @gunniho, CEO of Clara. Clara has a tag line, “The web is talking, we are listening.” I was impressed with @gunniho and think that Clara is a company to keep an eye on.

A few other people that I chatted with at the conference and/or on Twitter included @gametopius @evcinnyc and @moon.

@MacTavishBest retweeted one of my posts from the conference. She runs Best PR, a San Francisco based PR firm. She writes some interesting Tweets and I’ll keep an eye on her PR firm.

@jst418 also tweeted a little bit about my coverage of the #nygames conference. He is an old college buddy of mine and it is great to see him on Twitter. @torontocitylife and I also talked a little via Twitter about ideas coming out of the conference. I know @torontocitylife from EntreCard.

Moving beyond the #nygames conference, this week I started following @nathandaschle. Nathan is Executive Director of the Democratic Governors Association. I was on a conference call with him earlier this week. I got a lot of great background information on that call, and I hope to write up some reflections on it soon.

Another interesting new follow for me is @TheJusticeDept. @tracyrusso has been instrumental in the successful launch of their new online presence.

Finally, a special shout out to @ltoomre who is celebrating his birthday today.

That’s it for my Follow Friday post. Who are you following?