This week Follow Friday is coming to you from Fargo, North Dakota in the form of Josh Whitford aka The Real Josh from, editor of the Unconventional Marketing blog! I ran into Josh online about a year ago, maybe a little longer and we’ve just kept bumping into each other ever since. I guess when you’re working in the same field… that kind of thing happens.
“Start now, don’t care about making it perfect. You will have tons of time to perfect things down the road. Eventually, you’ll find your own groove and go with it. Everything is an evolving process and blogging is no different. Make it fun and you’ll be set.”
I asked Josh what’s been the most exciting thing that has happened to him because of blogging. “I got a postcard from Read the rest of this entry
Those are the words of my friend Mitch Canter, the self-described Chief Creative Mercenary of studioNashVegas.com. Mitch is one of, in fact probably the first, professional WordPress Theme developers I ever met in person, all the way back at BarCamp Chattanooga. Just like Dave Barger, last week’s recommendation, I keep running into Mitch at BarCamps and WordCamps all over the place. He is a wealth of knowledge about our blogging platform of choice and can truly make it dance and sing… and that’s why he is my Follow Friday recommendation this week.
You may have seen Mitch’s work without even knowing it. He’s done several projects that would be considered high profile, but the one’s he is most proud of is web-strategist.com, the personal blog of well known social media observer and analyst, Jeremiah Owyang. Read the rest of this entry
A few weeks back when I started my Follow Friday Series, I had no idea how popular they would be. I simply wanted to take a few extra minutes to tell you why I was recommending someone rather than just spill out a list of names and handles. Well, apparent there are some fans of that method out there, thanks so much for stopping by.
Dave Barger - @lalunablanca
This week I’d like to recommend Dave Barger (@lalunablanca). I had the pleasure of meeting Dave at BarCamp Chattanooga and we’ve been running into each other ever since! He is one of the most energetic and tireless advocates for social media that you will ever run into and definitely a great person to follow!
“Facebook is nearly always my first recommended stop [when getting started] followed by Twitter. In either case, [my advice is] to lurk first and get a feel for the rhythm before jumping in.”
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