My initial thanks go to @ShebaJo for bringing this idea to my attention. If you want someone to pick you up with a laugh or a great song, she is a go-to woman. In fact, if she hadn't cajoled me into blipping, I wouldn't have done that either, would have just happily listened to others music. She also knows more about photography that I want to imagine it is possible to know.Next, I think I should honor the people who got me started. First, Jessica Lortli, who appears not be on twitter any longer. In any event, she ran the brown-bag event that introduced the idea of having twittering and blogging for Intel as something one didn't not need to be a PR or marketing person to do. Having been a Usenet news poster, long before people thought is was Google groups, I happily jumped at the chance.
The next mentor has to be @dmadey, who was the Voce person assigned to teach me the ropes. I cannot give him enough credit for getting me going in the right direction. I still have some lessons from him on blogging that I'm trying to incorporate.I also want to mention my fellow "Embassadors" @geek8ive, @intel_jim, @intel_rhonda, and @intel_stewart who've always been a great source of mutual support. Many of the other people on this list, I met by raiding my fellow embassadors following list.
@geekgirls was my next mentor with her blog entry on tweeps as real friends. I've used this as my guide for how I want to deal with my fellow tweeps. Really inspiring for me was how @dracona1031 stepped up and demonstrated what being a friend on twitter was about in the next week. Nothing like an excellent example to drive a point home.The next four twitter mentors I met at approximately the same time. I'm not really certain who I met first. They were all instrumental in my development.
@mistygirlph was my next mentor and she lead me to the entire @bitrebels team and blog. The personal touch they use is an absolute inspiration. @adamsconsulting could easily have been my intro to this wonderful team, but I met Mindy first.
@terrinakamura became one of my mentors about the same time. She is my gold standard for what it means to be a twitter all-star. The fact that she also introduced me to more than a few of my other favorite twitterers, such as @lindacriddle, @krystynchong, and @nonglin does not hurt either.
@lanny_S is another mentor I met at the same time. She was influential in my learning that one could truly mix different styles of tweets successfully. Her tweets cover a variety of topics, including ones on security that I would otherwise miss. On top of that, she displays true class.
@nurul54 was instantly recognizable to me as someone I wanted as a mentor. She certainly came through. In particular, when I reached a point of frustration about not being able to keep up with all the people I was following, she since gave me the insight that it was okay. I depend on her for deep and abiding insights. She regularly delivers. Everyone should have a mentor that enriches their soul.
@rickasaurus is my mentor on tweeting about programming topics. He is always on top of interesting articles and comments.
@nigelfenwick is great example of someone who does an important job but does not let it go to his head. He has a great sense of humor and doesn't talk down to people.
@fortaliceLLC is representative of the whole online-safety community I associate with. She is a most capable choice to select though, displaying dedication and tenacity. She has certain inspired me to stick-with-it and keep trying to help keep people vigilant about the topic. As I mentioned in the post about the community, they have impacted not only how I tweet, but who I am.As I mentioned at the outset, these are tweeps who have specifically influenced what and how I tweet.
There is a whole list of other people who I respect on twitter and like what they tweet. You can tell that by looking at the lists I keep. Each list represents a column in tweetdeck. And, while I RT mostly the people in my security-all and security-2 lists because that's my area of work, I could easily fill my stream by RTing just things I like from any one of my lists.
You can easily see that by watching the people who I RT regularly with the sad part being that I can't keep up with the number of great things to tweet that come in and so there are more than is visible. As they say, you can see only the tip-of-the-iceberg.
I love the #140char community, exemplified by @teksquisite, @technobozo, @mikerigsby, and @strikerdlh.
I also love the people who work regularly on security either as researchers or vendors, such as @vikphtak and @FSecure.
Also the journalists that translate our complex field into something more accessible, like @HelpNetSecurity, @RWW, and @DarkReading.
The law is another source of tweeps I enjoy like @clarinette02, @rcalo, and @econwriter5.
As a programmer, I also have specific technical people who I find interesting like @redzor and @tehlike.
Finally, there are just people who I admire and respect personally such as @modelsupplies and @mllyssa. I'd love to tweet more of their material, but I just can't keep up. :-(
I just want to go on listing people who I really enjoy following, but at some point one must stop.
