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Just thought I should post about some great people to follow on Twitter. These are the people that teach me new things everyday, share news, strategy, and fun & interesting things as well as generate great conversations. Here is who you should follow & why:
- Jay Baer @jaybaer – Brilliant social strategist and co-author of The Now Revolution
- Radian6 @radian6 – Social monitoring and engagement platform. They also have an excellent blog that is worth a read.
- Amber Naslund @AmberCadabra - another brilliant social strategist, thinker, and has great tweets. Co-author of The Now Revolution, & Brass Tack Thinking
- Ben Parr @benparr - Editor-at-large at Mashable, always on top of everything.
- Brenna Ehrlich @Brenna_E - Associate Editor, Media & Entertainment @ Mashable. Co-founder of Stuff Hipsters Hate (hilarious)
- Dave Hale @DaveCHale, @SoshalGroup - Dave is the CEO at Soshal Group, a social strategy/media/intelligence agency here in Ottawa.
- Phil Sonea @psonea - Soshal Group VP of Client Services, not to mention a great guy.
- Peter Shankman @petershankman - Though he hates social media “gurus” – he is very intelligent, but will never hire you.
- Jonathan Cowperthwait @cowperthwait - Hilarious startup guy from SF. Wears offensive t-shirts on occasion
- Bill Stoller @publicityGuru - An excellent resource for PR people, and people trying to understand PR people
- Scott Stratten @unmarketing - Brilliant mind behind the book unmarketing, you’ll always learn something from following him.
- MG Siegler @parislemon – Blogger at TechCrunch, always on top of everything – and always has strong opinons.
- allfacebook @allfacebook - THE Facebook resource. There’s nothing about Facebook that they don’t know. One of my favorite SM blogs.
- open{subnet} @opensubnet - Posts a variety of useful content across different social/tech/mobile spans.
- Lindsay Bell @belllindsay - Amazing content creator and writer from the Radian6 family.
- Sheldon Levine @40deuce - Host of my favorite #smmeasurement Twitter chat. Community manager at Sysomos, & awesome guy.
- Social News First @1socialnews - Want your social media news first? Follow them, they’re faster then the speed of light.
- Brian Clark @copyblogger - Brilliant mind & online marketing advice. Great content, greater tweets.
- Dave O @daveohoots - hilarious owl from Hootsuite. Community wrangler & Marketing Director. Takes the bus.
- Eric Swayne @eswayne - social analytics & insights – you WILL be smarter after you follow him.
And, of course, my team – Team Awesome.
Stephane Gayraud @StephaneG - Our awesome leader
Lucas Powell @lucas_powell - Data genius, loves apple products & cookies. Also likes GoPro’s & posts arm-breaking videos (literally).
Jennifer Topping @jen_topping - Research goddess, occasionally Canada Post holds her books hostage.
James Phillips @jamesamphillips - Our Social Media Manager from across the pond.
Brandon Waselnuk @brandonwaselnuk - AKA #bbop. Our thug-life applications dude.
In summation, all these people produce fantastic content and great conversation through Twitter. They are interesting, intelligent, and each & every one of them can teach you something. Now, get to following!
