The world still seems to have an insatiable hunger for social media, in particular Facebook and now also Google+. Twitter has been storming ahead during the past year. Recent months have seen immense user growth for Twitter, most recently even Pope Benedict XVI (@news_va_en) started tweeting!
Just like our 2009 and 2010 lists, this one includes some familiar faces as well some names new to Twitter and perhaps new to you as well. For each of them we have picked selected a tweet to give you a taste of their style and what awoke our curiosity. Enjoy!
@astridhaug: Astrid Haug is community manager at a Danish national newspaper Berlingske, where she works on improving use of social media and on developing online journalism generally. In the past she worked for the City of Copenhagen, as press and campaign consultant for a Danish political party and as unpaid fundraiser in 2004 for the John Perry for President campaign. Her tweets tend to move somewhere in the space between traditional and new media
what to make of this? RT @journalismnews: Fox News Twitter account hacked, claims Obama is dead http://bit.ly/jYu7uG #journalism
@cflanagan: Claire Flanagan is CSC’s Director of Enterprise Social Business Collaboration and Communities Strategy. She led CSC’s industry award winning social business collaboration implementation currently enjoying a 67,000+ active member rate. She also recently oversaw the implementation of CSC’s public-facing social business platform and is one of the leading Enterprise 2.0 adopters and visionaries in the US. Claire is also speaking on the intranet conference track in Aarhus in November.
Q: has collaborative community replaced Intranet? At CSC: answer is yes. We’ve consolidated. It can be done. Do it when co ready #e2conf
@IntranetFocus: Martin White is a UK-based information scientist with a passion for intranets and a global list of customers and conference appearances. On his account, named after his professional services firm Intranet Focus, he generously shares relevant reading, insights from his current projects and the occasional comment about travelling the world and having a home office. Martin is also speaking on the going mobile conference track in Aarhus in November.
Extensive list of open source search engines, with some useful annotations. Several are new to me. http://digbig.com/5becah
@jewelia: Julia Grace recently joined VigLink, a content monetization company based in San Francisco, California. Previously she was with the IBM Almaden Research USER group, where she built applications and lead teams in both the social computing and the data visualization groups. In her tweets you get a good sense of her passion for better user experiences and why she is such an amazing conference speaker
It saddens me when user interfaces migrate from useful to pretty (these rarely intersect, btw). Example: #googlecalendar
@KentBottles: Dr. Kent Bottles has held a number of leadership positions in academia, biotechnology, and community health systems. Since we started following Kent, we’ve learned a tremendous amount from his tweets. Don’t be overwhelmed by his volume of tweets; you can quickly scan the ones that interest you. Kent is also speaking on the online health conference track in Aarhus in November.
http://ow.ly/5AG2Z The therapist will see you now on the webcam
@M_Heffernan: Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, serial CEO and author. In her time at the BBC, she wrote, directed, produced and commissioned dozens of documentaries and dramas. Later she managed, bought and sold leading Internet businesses and was named one of the Internet’s Top 100 by Silicon Alley Reporter in 1999. Earlier this year she published her third book, Willful Blindness, on why we ignore the obvious at our peril.
Why does anyone still imagine the first mover has the advantage? http://is.gd/sgUNjx
@mpedson: Michael Edson is the Smithsonian Institution’s Director of Web and New Media Strategy. Michael has worked on numerous award-winning projects and has been involved in practically every aspect of technology and New Media for museums. In addition to developing the Smithsonian’s first Web and New Media Strategy (this wiki site was awarded The best museum professional site) and the Smithsonian Commons concept, Michael helped create the Smithsonian’s first blog, Eye Level, and the first Alternative Reality Game to take place in a museum, Ghosts of a Chance. Michael is also a keynote speaker at J. Boye Aarhus 11 in November.
Seriously! – - RT @binarybits: Who owns copyright in a photo taken by a monkey? http://tinyurl.com/6z326rj (via @luthienrising)
@perttutolvanen: Perttu Tolvanen is a CMS expert based in Helsinki, Finland working at Blue Meteorite, a Finnish system integrator and Microsoft partner. He’s written the definitive 2011 article on the Web CMS market in Finland and regularly tweets on CMS trends with a perspective
Observer.com changed from Drupal to WordPress. I bet other pure-play media publications will follow. WordPress has come a long way
@philipp_gamper: Philipp Gamper is a digital marketing wunderkind from Austria, currently busy with social media at Swarovski. Follow his tweets for insights on branding, Apple, location-based marketing and just a few tweets in German. Philipp is also speaking on the digital marketing conference track in Aarhus in November.
5 Innovative Mobile Marketing Campaigns to Learn From http://on.mash.to/jsc1vw
@rjw: Richard Wallis has been with the UK’s innovative Web technology company, Talis, for over twenty years. This coupled with his passion for and engagement with new and emerging technology trends, gives him a unique perspective of the issues challenging Information professionals today.
UK Government to publish even more #opendata – NHS, Education & Skills, Criminal Justice, Transport, procurement. #transparency
If you think we have left out a Twitter user that deserves the attention of web and intranet professionals, please feel free to leave a comment!
