Because Twitter's not just for twits ;)
Everyone knows my thoughts on Follow Friday by now – simple lists of names don't do it for me and I never follow anyone from those lists. Give me a REASON to follow someone and I'll consider it! Which is why I tend to put my FFs in a blog post such as this one!
This week's FFs are all NikkiPilkington.com clients – some are new, some long term, but they're all people we love working with.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been really remiss over the past few Fridays. See, I started out last year LOVING Follow Friday, the one day a weekw here you suggested people that your followers should follow. I diligently posted details of people I thought were great, and hoped that others followed them. I got really excited everytime someone suggested me for #FF too, and thanked them loudly.
And then I got fed up with the ‘lists’ – no reasons why I should follow someone, just lists of Twitter handles I couldn’t be bothered checking out. So I made a few posts along the lines of ‘tell us WHY we should follow someone’ and set off on a mission to practice what I preached.
I’ve been asked this quite a lot recently, and as I have nothing to hide, I thought I’d blog about it 
Recently we’ve added a lot of posts asking for lists of people – copywriters, PR companies, recruiters, Marketing people – and we plan to add a lot more.
And lots of you have emailed me saying “Why are you doing this?” – some of you even think I have some evil master plan
OK, it’s probably not that exciting anymore, unless you’re new to Twitter, but I still find FollowFriday a great way to find new people to follow and find out more about.
Someone asked me the other day; “Has #followfriday run its course? Is it old now? Is it over?” I don’t know the answer to that, but I really hope not, because to me, FF epitomises one of the great things about networking – referrals.
When done properly, and thought through, #FollowFriday is a great way to shout out about and recommend the people you follow who really make a difference, and who you feel shold be brought to the attention of others.
Seems like only a week ago we had the last one…
In the spirit of my last post about Follow Friday – Stop Spamming Me With FollowFriday! – I won’t be posting any Follow Friday tweets, just pointing people to this post.
So, who do I recommend you follow, and why?
I'm happy to use Increase Sociability.