Love someone:

Soothe Your Pain

The last one is not purely him, but still very nice.
Flow

Now can I please just have a way to buy the album w/o a real CD? I would only rip it anyhow to my computer and throw the CD away. :)

Step 1: Plan your page

Since today Facebook Fan pages can have vanity urls too. Meaning instead of the ugly

http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-long-name-you-chose/the-id-facebook-gave-you

you could have:

http://www.facebook.com/yourchoiceofname

In order to set the Facebook vanity url for your fan page, there are several things which need to be in place first.

• You need to be admin of the page in question
• It seems you also may need a verified account
• You need to know which name you want for that page. Because once you have set it, you can never change it.

Facebook lists the following restrictions:

• Create a username that is as close as possible to your public figure or business name (e.g. AshtonKutcher, PizzaHut).
• If you own the rights to a given name, make it your username so that others cannot obtain it.
• Usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9) or a period (".").
• Choose a username you will be happy with for the long term. Usernames are not transferable.
• Your username must adhere to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

Step 2: Choose your vanity url

For choosing your pages url, visit http://www.facebook.com/username/. You will see something similar to this:

This means, that I have set my personal username and in the bottom you do find the "Set username for your pages". Click on this and you will see a new selection: 

Now, if my page for the Global Business Women had enough fans, I could now choose to enter a name for them and show you the rest. ;)

Step 3: Setting the URL

I will follow with more information once I have a page over 100 fans to check how this goes ;)

Further information from the help entry from Facebook:

• Infringement:
  If you wish to report that someone’s username infringes your rights, please fill out our username infringement form. The form is located here.
• I am an authorized representative for a public figure, brand or business and/or hold the rights to a trademark name. My username was claimed by another user. What can I do?
  If you wish to report that someone’s username infringes your rights, please fill out our username IP infringement form.
• What is the process to request removal of an unauthorized Page of a public figure, brand or business?
  If you wish to report that someone’s username infringes your rights, all you need to do is fill out our username IP infringement form here.
• Will usernames such as "flowers" or "pizza" ever be available for Facebook Pages? Can I sign up on a waiting list?
  At this time, generic words are not available as usernames. Facebook encourages all users and Page administrators to create a username that closely matches the true identity of their name or business.

Starting today, you can have a vanity Facebook URL for your Facebook Fan page. At least that was the idea when I went to bed yesterday – only to find out this morning, that you actually need 100 fans to do that.

Many pages have enough fans, but others don’t. Instead of trying to ’suggest’ them to your friends I thought it might be easier to start a small “help a friend” project. Goal: Get over 100 fans to be able to claim your username.

How to add your own pages

Adding yourself is simple. Use this form and enter your information. After some minutes, this list will automatically display your entry. Be fair and not only add yourself but follow others as well. ;)

As noted on the form, the listing here will be at my discretion, anything looking suspicious or too spammy will be removed by me.

How to help others

Go take a look at the facebook fan pages listed at the bottom of this entry and choose the ones you find good and add yourself as a fan. Once the goal of 100 is reached, the owner should be able to claim the username and you can remove yourself again.

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Artist Bang-yao Liu writes about his effort:

This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.

And if you can’t get enough, here is the making of :

"3 months planning, 4 days shooting, 6K+ postit notes"

(via @Gavin)

As part of the interview series for the DMMK, today I do interview Martin Thomas, the author of "Crowd Surfing: Surviving and Thriving in the Age of Consumer Empowerment".  You can find out more about him on him blog or read more about the book.

I found myself nodding all through the interview at basically everything he said, which might be summed up as: As much fun as crowd sourcing and co is, just listening to the mob will not help you with your business, but you need to take on a new form of leadership and work with those inputs.

He describes himself the following:

Martin has run just about every type of marketing communications agency during the past 25 years. He began his career in public relations, before moving into advertising, via sponsorship, entertainment marketing and new media. At the end of 2006 he decided to go out on his own and now spends his time consulting, training and writing for a number of major brand owners and agencies. He studied Modern History at Oxford University, is married with two children and believes he would have won a Welsh rugby cap, had it not been for a dodgy knee and a complete lack of ability.

Find more tweets about DMMK in Twitter-Search or in German at the DMMK blog.

Download MP3 (26 min, 18 MB)

As part of an interview series for the 18th German Multimedia Congress (DMMK) I had the pleasure of talking to keynote speaker Clay Shirky. Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University and is a well known thought leader through his work.

Download MP3 (40 min, 29 MB)

Between other things, we talk about

• the research which resulted in his new book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
• his 5 word synopsis: Group action just got easier
• what are relevant participation patterns?
• developped world and the challenges for the newspaper industry and the challenges for society out of this
• why the product department should adopt these new tools, not marketing
• we are in the infancy of use of social tools in companies
• if old organisations will not catch up, startups will do the job for them
• not all of the real world will fall away, but we will focus on which tool is best for the task at hand
• the days of distinguishing online and offline are long gone
• Europe’s potential is the cognitive diversity
• why even looking at the every day phone usage in Europe is so much more advanced than ‘mobile’ in the US
• copy cat mode: how to (not) direct your energy and why digital media reduces the costs of failure and why this may change the attitude towards failure tolerance
• newspaper used to have a monopoly on public expression and this is gone now
• Take a good look at your customers! It will not wait for you to get ready for the changes

At the end of the interview he lists a set of questions which you should be asking yourself – and if you work through these it will help you to figure out what your next steps should be. :)

You can find out more about him on him blog or his twitteraccount (@cshirky).

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Going through my backlinks I found a great posting from blogger newbie Christina Rogge titled “Just do it! The Nike-approach“, describing her first steps. The quote which got my attention was the end of that first posting (emphasis mine)

The major realization which struck me was that it is important to just do it. Start the website although one does not know everything about it yet. Because the Internet is developing so fast, you can try to plan, but will never know if it is outdated by the time you are ready to implement.

And that sentence just nails some thoughts floating around in my head for some time.  You need to experiment, you need to play around just to be able to get to know the things fast enough to start to make an informed decicsion. Not on a personal level, and especially not on a corporate level facing the customer.

There is no time any more to first have R&D to figure some stuff out, or have somebody do some dossiers about if one should dare the experiment,  then get it approved, then move it on etc – everybody has to constantly work on those skills to be ready when you want to do something. And it is not limited any more to “let the other department do it” or “that is not my job”.

Even I – as somebody who lives this stuff – am amazed on the speed of how this is currently developping. I have started to implement in my presentations a list of ‘bad news’, which focus on Twitter but are usable in general. I am using their interest in Twitter to show them the other bases they should have covered a long time ago – works like a charm. ;)

The bad news for you and your company

#1: Now is too late
If you are starting to think about Twitter just now, you are already too late. That should have been on your map at least a year ago.

#2: Buhu, my names are gone!
If your names are gone, stop complaining. You are a professionell entity and as such “securing accounts” should have been on your list at least 18 months ago and reference the one you use for domains with brands, names and products.

#3: There are no bullet proof ways to do it
There is no blueprint how to do it. We are all experimenting and making it up as we go.

#4: Twitter can only be part of you social media strategy.
You do have a social media strategy, right? Because this is what you already should be covering (covering not in the sense of doing it, but making sure you know if and how to use it or not.)

The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas

Bonus fun feature for me to ask during the presentations:
“But you do at least have an online strategy, don’t you?

#5:  Your employees HAVE to be trained by you and have to be guided.

They are not stupid or anything but it is your job to make sure they can keep up to date. And that means much more than just one conference a year for upper management.

#6: That business modell “Internet” or “Twitter” – not.
There is no money to be earned in Twitter. Nor on the Internet.
There is only money to be made with business modells and implimentations of these strategies using tools like Twitter.

So basically nothing new. I leave them with the “good news” that per se this is not really something new, it is just some new technologies behind it. But their core job and skills stays the same.

10 years old and still relevant

Something else I throw in is the Cluetrain Manifesto (web site / book). It has been 10 years now that the cluetrain manifesto is out and still most companies are not even at the part of “we do have an online strategy”.

I myself will get a new copy because I actually never had the english one in print – when it came out I still had my ‘English is devil stuff” time. ;)

Why you should work with people who know this stuff

So, how does one do it? You talk to people who know a bit or two about this, work with their experience and use their judgement to see where something fits for your company, where you may have to look into because customers expect it and which are the areas you can ignore for now.

External advice and mentoring can only be part of the equation or it will cost you a lot of money. And by talking I do not mean just one session or so, but you need to have your resident expert on this, similar to the person doing your taxes or your layer. Parts of this belongs into your own hand, part of it you can outsource although it should be done on your side, but other parts you need to rely on the skill and training of the expert.

Where do you find such a person? Well, for starters you could talk to me, especially when you are in the European timezone of course (have a look at what I do). There are a lot of people around who can help you with this – and if you would be in the space you would already know who they are. ;)

One way to find them is because they show up all the time with these new technologies. Which for one is the reason I have been in a lot of interviews for print, radio and tv over the years, first for podcasting, then second life, now twitter. It is not because I am good at faking to be a so called expert, it is just that I have played around with this stuff a lot longer than others and when somebody like me has put this into my regular toolkit, others start using it. Meaning I do have a head start plus by experience I do know how to use and implement those tools.

Look for these people and make a mental note if a name does show up regulary so you can test them if they are a fit for you and your organisation. Usually people like myself have preferences of people and kinds of organisations / corporations we like to deal with.

This needs to be happening from top down

Top management needs to give the okay for people to play around while making sure that people don’t create chaos. It is their responsibility to put up the strategies, free the budgets and use their brain to realize what this is about. Though in many companies it is still some employees who make their innocent first steps and need to be careful not to be caught. Similar to computer training (which happened in some parts) training in Social Media and co is now relevant for most of the customer facing side of the companies.

Different to just browsing the internet the evolution speed is now so fast that companies cannot rely on the individual to learn how to twitter, use facebook, blog etc etc.

Twitter is a good starting point

For one Twitter seems to be a great tool for people to get their feet wet for the first time in what we call Web 2.0 or Social Media or whatever. It is simple enough yet covers all the bases (sharing, communicating, collaboration etc), but is easy enough to handle (140 characters top and you even can do it from your mobile).

It also seems to be a great way to instead of starting to think about a big Social Media Strategy to start with a “what would we need to do / talk about / set into motion if we just wanted to start on twitter?” Going on from there, some other things fall into place and become clear.

Start simple, learn, adjust, expand, rinse and repeat. Because the next big thing – Facebook – is already there. You do know how to do those, right? :)

We’re really excited about this integration. We think it’s going to be really good for our business and really good for Facebook’s business. More importantly, it’s going to be great for users.

I also got excited reading the news, because one of the biggest problems is to keep the data synced. Xing (german version of Linkedin) for example is *the* way of having updated contact information for all your contacts. But as not everybody is on Xing – or for a matter of fact on Linkedin.  Plaxo is great for managing the contact data in one place and even sync that to the computer.

Plaxo came in handy here and have some additional nice offerings like deduping of contact data and ecards. I happily paid the 50 bucks for a premium account for a company that helps me manage the addresss data of my contacts. As such a connection of Facebook and Plaxo would be great to gather additionally the information currently just hold in Facebook into Plaxo. You know, like phone numbers, web address, normal adress etc. Like the real data I sign up with Plaxo in the first place?

But reading the announcement I get the impression that the only focus was not put on what I do pay Plaxo for as a premium member, which is being the place for me to have my contact information collected and synced. But on “hey great, another system you can put your status update into”. I am sorry, but Plaxo is not my destination to have status update, it is the place where I also feed the information into.  I don’t diminish the fact that this was a lot of work and surely something great.  But that was just the first step, ground work, I understand.

As a second step it is promised that I can sign into plaxo via Facebook connect. Which I assume is great for a website I do not even get the login box on the front page. Dear Plaxo, can you please tell me when you will be restructuring your premium accounts to reflect the fact that obviously the direction where the money is allocated is not going in the direction you promise to?

I understand that this feature will probably bring in a lot of new users to Plaxo. But they too will not be looking for having yet another place to share status updates. But for a service which helps them to do a task better. You know, like for example contact management.

For 50 bucks I can happily pay a site like Batchbook to sync my data with Gmail contacts for 5 months of the year. I still have to pay for the rest of that, but at least that company is working on being a tool for managing my address data and not on being the next status update tool.

Like for example: Allow me to structure the contact data into separate kategories, tag them and search them. As I said, full sync with Gmail, sync with a mailing list tool like Mailchimp for mailings to people.  It does not yet sync with Outlook but after Gmail doing syncs with my mobile phone, I do not need that any more.

My status update for today on plaxo? Thanks for sharing the news, but this is the reason to cancel my premium member account. I am going to use the feature till the end of my premium time in two months, and after that I will pay the money to a service which actually develops features in the direction I am paying them for.

Like in the fairy tail, when the clock hits 12 [or your flight leaves] I am now back in Lübeck digesting my second SXSW experience. Which of course was different than the first one, better in some regards, not as exciting in others. But I somehow have the feeling that not by what happened there, but by a general feeling about what is yet to unfold in the next months the word I am looking for is "mindboggeling".

I have been around digital communication for over 20 years now and had my share of excitement of what was new and hip. Being on the forefront of those trends in Germany is also one of the reasons why I get a better sense of what is hype because only the hip thing get the ‘media attention thingy’ where there is a small group of people who are always asked about that. It was so with blogging, podcasting, second life and now twitter. Yet, there is currently something different in the mix.

Something new and exciting and I leave SXSW with the feeling that the next 6-12 months will be amazing. We will be flabberghasted and disappointed, excited and depressed about what is possible and what will not be done. Mix in the fear (and hopes!) about the recession and other not nice things, the current change in society on so many levels and you get a feeling which I only can describe as ‘I need time to get my head around this and think a lot about it. Head spins. Mindboggeling.

ps: And for better or worse, I hope that next year there will be more than 4,5 Germans present from the digital sphere. no I am not kidding. We found @heiko @ulrike_reinhard @grex and myself, the .5 is @mattbalera who is Australian but lived in Germany for 10 years. Given the size of the market, the industry and the population there should be at least 50 from this sphere, from agencies over companies up to individuals. It is a shame that they stay put at home not realizing what is happining in a spot like this but stay separated from the market and the international development. A trip to SXSWi is not about the parties nor the conference program, it is *the* meeting space with over 11K people. Are there more high profile events? Yes and they are also more expensive. SXSW is affordable if you just start planning early enough (and that means now) and given the fact that this is a 20h a day experience well worth the travel time and costs.

Nuff said. Need thinking time now. And see you in SXSW 2010.

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• PamelaFay / Pamela Fay (39 followers)
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  Managing Director of an online website that sells luxury gifts and vouchers on behalf of local Irish businesses and delivers anywhere in Ireland.
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  Certified Management Consultant/Coach: Change Management. HR. OD. Business Network Management
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  Communications Manager, Social Entrepreneur and Journalist
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  Web Dev, Online Marketing, SEO from NY now living in rural Ireland
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  Limerick gal & blogger.
• PixieVonDust / Marie Boran (792 followers)
  I write about technology stuffs on siliconrepublic.com and gadgetrepublic.com

Israel

• ahoova / ahuvah berger (1055 followers)
  former new yawkah living in israel spilling cawfee and <3 technology www.jerusalemwinterball.com
• YaelBeeri / Yael Beeri (705 followers)
  Business: marketing, copywriting, social media, Web 2.0. Pleasure: art, music, books, photography, movies, friends, family, food, alcohol, travel, cats.
• Orli / Orli Yakuel (4524 followers)
  Go2web20 Co-Founder. Visit my blog @ http://blog.go2web20.net

Italy

• AmandaLorenzani / Amanda Lorenzani (1086 followers)
  Amused.
• ExpatCoach / Megan Fitzgerald (898 followers)
  Expat Career & Personal Branding Coach – Helping fellow expats to use their personal brand on and offline for professional & business success
• emmabird / Emma Bird (198 followers)
  Writer and owner of www.howtoitaly.typepad.com

Netherlands

• CleverClogs / Marjolein Hoekstra (1644 followers)
  RSS monger and OPML manipulator. Tags: custom search engines, firefox add-ons / scripts, online reputation management. Twitter radar http://sn.im/twitter_grazr
• jennalee / Jennifer (216 followers)
  New order PR Warrior, business angel, human being

Norway

• camillasandman / Camilla Sandman (32 followers)
  Norwegian at large
• troubalex / Alexandra Leisse (165 followers)
  Web Community Manager at Qt Software – among other things
• yojibee / Anne K Petterøe (851 followers)
  Having fun being a busy bee. ESME team member, SAP-Adobe Consultant, SAP Mentor, Sometimes Developer, Mac fangirl, Music & Fashion

Romania

• alina_popescu / alina_popescu (391 followers)
  Crazy about blogging, PR, marketing and photography

Spain

• mariasipka / mariasipka (601 followers)
  Aussie entrepreneur living in Barcelona obsessed with monetizing online communities and groups
• danielaarens / danielaarens (224 followers)
  German living in Barcelona – Marketing & Community Manager at Linqia, see also @modcom

Sweden

• luisac / Luisa Carbonelli (27 followers)

Switzerland

• DaniaGerhardt / DaniaGerhardt (90 followers)
• shyne / Carole Hofmann (273 followers)
  Entrepreneur, psychologist and social network strategy consultant.
• wisequeen / Donna Jackson /wiseq (1859 followers)
  Intercultural Trainer, Soc communications evangelist/ specialist, blogger, writer, independent lifesyle coach, http://www.wineloversworld.blogspot.com
• dannie / Dannie (213 followers)
  intense, ambiguous, degenerate and knotted. dual citizen of bosonia and fermionia.
• claudiafalt / ClaudiaFaltysBenassi (189 followers)
  e-/marketing, B2B, new communication technologies, teaching e-marketing to swiss tourism pros, French, Italian, English. Mobile business sol. www.sosoftware.com
• stephtara / Stephanie Booth (2232 followers)
  Anglo-Swiss, blogging consulant, loves her Indian cat. I don’t get Twitter on my mobile. Text +41786254474 instead.

UK

• vikkispence / vikkispence (67 followers)
  About me for Twitter? I’m Ewan Spence’s long-suffering wife :P
• katyhowell / Katy Howell (578 followers)
  Obsessive online PR with intermittent attention to kids
• mseckington / Melinda Seckington (540 followers)
  The self-proclaimed Miss Geeky. Computer Scientist. Blogger. Geek Dinner and Girl Geek Coffee Organizer.
• girlygeekdom / GirlyGeekdom (1469 followers)
  aka Sarah Blow of the GirlyGeekdom blog and founder of Girl Geek Dinners… Techie, innovator, marketeer and geek!
• Natbat / Natalie (1421 followers)
  Clientside developer, Clearleft
• JennyFlintoft / Jenny Flintoft (543 followers)
  Helping others feel FIRED UP! about their work and life – whether you’re employed, self-employed, or just need a boost of inspiration – I can help!
• sportycarrie / Carrie Davis (20506 followers)
  The Sport Girl on the Chris Moyles Show!
• wealthcoach / Nicola Cairncross (1251 followers)
  Making Millionaires Since 1999
• amypalko / amypalko (1108 followers)
  Fascinated in everything with a limitless curiosity – I live in a state of constant intrigue
• JudithLewis / Judith Lewis (405 followers)
  Search Director; i-level.com; Journalist, Technology Weekly; Blogger, SEO-Chicks.com; conference speaker; all around sexy gal Email: judith.lewis@i-level.com
• ukdivorce / Jackie Walker (465 followers)
  Helping less than perfect relationships mend or end
• adriana872 / Adriana Lukas (457 followers)
  disruption on legs, networks, social web
• megpickard / Meg Pickard (133 followers)
  Public/professional updates for social/media botherer and all-round tea-drinking champion. Available for workshops, conferences, barmitzvahs…
• shanitomorrow / shani lee (345 followers)
  learning, communities, smes, arty stuff, chatting :)
• Sofia / Sofia (1911 followers)
• amanda / amanda rose (2915 followers)
  canadian living in london . co-founder of space-2 locations . events-minded entrepreneur . communicator who likes oxymorons . thinking global for @twestival
• LJRICH / lj rich (944 followers)
  Blogger, Technologist, Musician, Composer & Geek on BBC Click, Virgin & more. Concert Pianist, loves scifi, gadgets, chocolate, sushi & trivia.
• denisecox / denise cox (334 followers)
  Email Newsletter Specialist with European ESP Newsweaver. I am as passionate about email as the first day I sent and received one: 24 June, 1996
• workingnature / Allyson Proudfoot (1527 followers)
  I make ethical handmade soap and skincare under the brand name “Working with Nature” I also sell on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6654622
• emmapotter / Emma Potter (249 followers)
  PR consultant in B2B, tech and social media. Talk to me about Elsevier, Wadja and Flip Video.
• Christiane / Christiane Link (499 followers)
  German journalist living in London
• thenextwomen / Simone Brummelhuis (1077 followers)
  The Next Women, Business Magazine for Female Internet Heroes. News Interviews Startups Funding Profiles.Founder, entrepreneur, CEO, TV, Simone Brummelhuis.
• salena_newport / Salena Newport (1637 followers)
  Can’t help it, but I’m constantly striving for the ‘Ok, I’m where I need to be’ point.
• rachelclarke / Rachel Clarke (1419 followers)
  engagement, transmedia, digital, games, fun, marketing. Unlikely to follow back unless I know you
• shelleypearson / Shelley Pearson (44 followers)
  Franchise Expert. Entrepreneur junkie; Nuts & Bolts Business Lady; Wishes she could fly; Loves Jam Donuts
• JudithMorgan / JudithMorgan (343 followers)
  Business Mentor, Wealth Coach, Debt Counsellor, Property Investor, Serial Entrepreneur
• joannayoung / joannayoung (1161 followers)
  Writing coach, blogger, writer, lifelong learner, lifewide explorer
• IttyBiz / Naomi Dunford (2018 followers)
  Author of IttyBiz. Into helping solo-preneurs earn more and suck less.
• girlonetrack / Zoe Margolis (3113 followers)
  Sexblogger, author, geek.
• MelKirk / Mel Kirk (4645 followers)
  I’m a super social media butterfly that loves all things web apps, shiny and new :)
• Suw / Suw (1914 followers)
  Playing with computers.
• vero / Vero Pepperrell (1489 followers)
  Social Media Consultant, Blogger & Geekette
• AlisonW / Alison Wheeler (290 followers)
  Open source / knowledge GeekGirl who loves creating solutions to thought-impossible problems! Runs on UT+3 so hates UK mornings. 3xCTO, with MBA, now available
• marionryan / marionryan (245 followers)
  Website and blog designer,writer, philosopher and philanthropist and funny bird
• emmapersky / Emma Persky (518 followers)
  fuck. that. shit.
• PeoplemapsJulie / Julie Gibbons (1021 followers)
  Personality profiling, home educating, house exchanging, organic traveller – global business on the internet, preferably in flip-flops.
• _vio_ / _Vio_ (1046 followers)
  French 20-something geekette, living in London and working in Social Media. Oh and my name is not Valarie ;)
• hermioneway / hermioneway (1752 followers)
  gave birth to newspepper.com and www.techfluff.tv
• Barb_G / Barbara Gibson (9619 followers)
  Chair of International Assoc of Business Communicators (IABC), PR & communication strategy consultant, ABC, social media dilettante.
• Lesley_Johnston / Lesley Johnston (2052 followers)
  I’m an internet entrepreneur who teaches businesses to grow their business online through internet marketing.
• RachaelPhillips / Rachael (411 followers)
  By day I’m a publicist by night I’m a wanna be writer/blogger, photography & travel lover. Also in to the usual suspects – film, fashion & scandal!
• ananyah / Michelle (359 followers)
  I’m a 26 yr old female who grew up in Singapore & Kuwait but is technically Scottish even if the accent isn’t there!
• CathElliott / CathElliott (236 followers)
  Freelance writer and blogger,
• photogirluk / Jamie Klingler (653 followers)
  philly girl, relocated 6 years ago, poker, scrabble, softball and photography director of ShortList Magazine, and mom of puppy mcnulty
• LouiseBJ / Louise Barnes-Johnst (462 followers)
  Business Coach working with Small Business Owners who want more money from their business and more fun from their life!
• Julie_Moore / Julie Moore (189 followers)
  Nationally Acclaimed Tarot Reader & Clairvoyant. “The Celebrities Psychic”.
• Nadia_ / nadia_choudhary (129 followers)
  I dedicate my twittering life to Mark Shaw, he made me twitter! :) I’d also like to pay tribute to Ecademy, the blog page launched my cyber career.