Don't know if this helps - and I'll make no claims toward expert status or ninja-dom – but my background is in performing arts (major in Acting/Directing for stage) as well as some experience in playwriting. Now working in digital. And looking into opportunities for teaching, etc...
TRMite
· 9 months ago
@lbraun2000 is a library science professor who tweets about where teens and technology meet in our current world. always interesting stuff.
Raycent
· 9 months ago
Lon, Thank you for sharing your list of Twitter Professors and am in total agreement about gleaning this real time Master's level of education (and I am just loving it & soaking up the knowledge being shared as much as I can). Some we have in common, others are now added to my list inlcuding yourself. And here a few Twitter Professors that I'd like to recommend: -@dannybrown (Danny Brown) -@larrybrauner (Larry Brauner) -@bwm748 (Bill Mitchell) -@toryjohnson (Tory Johnson) -@@stevefarber (Steve Farber) -@guykawasaki (Guy Kawasaki) -@BlackEnterprise (Black Enterprise Magazine)
Cheers and Positive Vibes, Ray @jasunshine1011
Jennifer Leggio
· 9 months ago
Wow, thanks again Lon. I am excited (and surprised!) to be on this list. :)
What does it mean when you have a "#" in front of a word? I've seen it in a few places?
Christopher S. Penn
· 9 months ago
Thanks for the writeup, Lon! I'd also recommend uber-economist @mesimos of e-Forecasting. She's wicked smart at the econ stuff as well!
Barbara Uechi
· 9 months ago
Lon Cohen would be number 19 on my list. Thanks for such a cogent list.
Chris Loft
· 9 months ago
Thanks, an excellent list of smart people to follow and learn from.
Paul Ingersole
· 9 months ago
Thanks this is a fantasic resource with some quality content from the above mentioned. Great work it's appreciated. Paul
Rob
· 9 months ago
Center for History & New Media at George Mason University @chnm and its director, Tom Scheinfeldt @foundhistory
Danny Arrington
· 9 months ago
Great post Lon! I have tweeted this out. I would add myself as well as @alexkaris who found the Hurricane of Gratitude on Facebook as well as some of my very good co social media coaches @billcrosby @gabestrom and @prosperitygal.
I have a list much like yours. Maybe I will take the time to list as nicely as you have done here. I find these type of recommendations to be VERY useful. So thanks once again!
Danny Arrington @dannyarrington
Peter Shankman
· 9 months ago
was surprised to not see Cheeky Geeky here. (Or me, for that matter, but no worries) But Cheeky I would have expected.
Bruce > The Hockey Writers
· 9 months ago
Thanks for sharing that, I just added about half of them. There's so much fluff on the Net it's great to find a little nugget like this. As for myself, just getting going with Twitter. I've spent the last month launching The Hockey Writers. It's been a blast. I can be found on Twitter under TheHockeyWriter.
Jeffrey Levy
· 9 months ago
Wow. You just added 70% to my follower list in 4 hours. I'm honored and not a little astounded to be included on your list. Thanks! I hope I can continue to help you learn about what the gov't is doing in social media!
GluLife
· 9 months ago
@davidbullock (very knowledgeable about social media, seo and business development) and @techxav - 15 year old blogger that stays up on technology.
Hadass
· 9 months ago
You might want to look into Dean Shareski (@shareski) or Alec Courosa (@courosa)to see some of the wonderful stuff happening in education today. Also Howard Rheingold (@hrheingold) or Will Richardson (@willrich45) are always worth following.
Thanks so much Lon - very nice to get some recognition now and again. Funny, when I saw my twitter follower stats going up so fast today, I checked TwitterCounter and realized it was over 400 new followers, I guess largely from this post. Which considering the fact that I was #15, I can only imagine how many some of the other folks gained - might be an interesting little post-post research. Of course, this is not important in the least, but it is the only measuring stick most people know how to use...
When at twittercounter, I noted that I was ranked something like #564 or 645 or something like that - how many people are out there like me that are at 2,800 or even 280,000 who aren't only sharing personal insights that are valuable but they are helping people learn, participating and sharing
What is important here is for all of us to attribute and retweet more - each microblog and each interaction is another chance for someone to disover their next professor, their next friend, their next girlfriend or their next business partner.
So as we keep saying with http://socialmediaclub.org/ if you get it, share it... we should probably add 'if you got it from someone here, let everyone know who taught you...'
some of the top creative and inspirational people from around the world.
domain
· 9 months ago
"What does it mean when you have a “#†in front of a word? I’ve seen it in a few places?" Jonathan, the hash sign is an abrevation for number in most cases.
clickblog.org
· 9 months ago
Your post worked for me. I read it the whole through! thanks.!!
Kahlil Lechelt
· 9 months ago
Great post! Thanks! I started following all of those right away. Always looking for interesting and smart people to follow. One of my profs too is http://twitter.com/timoreilly he is always posting great links and thoughts on twitter.
Later, @kahlilsan
Darryl Parker
· 9 months ago
One of my professors of late has been @arjunbasu. I have been following him since last Fall. I enjoy the brief interludes so much, I regularly visit his page to see the latest versus waiting or searching on my timeline.
He has shown me the path of the 140 character short story and done so with brilliant examples of his own. He's stubbornly fostering a new genre and inspiring many writers and readers to imagine, laugh, or pause.
He inspired me to create @Twirled - http://twitter.com/Twirled - and I am enjoying the challenge and the exercise. And that pleasure, I believe, is what every good teacher longs to create.
Darryl
CWHITE
· 9 months ago
You left out the one real life professor http://twitter.com/lonniehodge who who tweets news, views, humor and charitable concerns from China. Check American Professor in Google and see who shows up. Then read his blog and see quality writing without an agenda.
Beth Kanter
· 9 months ago
Thank you for including me on the list! Never thought yesterday's rants about powerpoint templates would make it onto mashable!
Anyway, one professor you should add to your list is Laura Fitton @pistachio. I've learned so much from reading her stream. She deserves a whole feature post!
Darren
· 9 months ago
“What does it mean when you have a “#†in front of a word? I’ve seen it in a few places?â€
Jonathan, "Hashtagging" is just a way of tagging ideas/topics etc. Makes them more easily searchable. http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Hashtags
Best, Darren @dmcconachie
Vitaliy Syromyatnikov
· 9 months ago
I read this very interesting blog post and agree with Lon's Twitter strategy. I didn't think that Twitter is such a interesting place wher You can find not only interesting people but share their thoughts, opininons, explore things and trends they are tweeting about, building strong postive relationships with them. Thanx for the list of interesting people either!
Robert Quaranta
· 9 months ago
Carrie Wilkerson (@barefoot_exec) is also a must! :)
~ @radq
Mary
· 9 months ago
Lon - many thanks for the well-developed list. As I'm new to the Twitter community, I was pretty pleased at the number of folks whom I was already following, and I have added several others you suggested.
This is the type of info new folks can really use. Enjoyed your "reasons" for following each. @CoachMary
Vitaliy Syromyatnikov
· 9 months ago
What if you could press just one button and automatically start getting 1000's Of Legitimate New twitter followers on autopilot... Even if nobody knows who you are now?
Already following some but some new ones too. I really loved Jeffrey Levy's post about good judgment!
Alex
· 9 months ago
Thanks for the post!
I would add @johnmaeda to the list. He's the new President of the Rhode Island School of Design. He used to be at MIT so it's like design, art thinking, computer science, and technology all rolled up into one.
Sid Watal
· 9 months ago
Just an awesome awesome post. This is why I come here daily.
Nancy Presely
· 9 months ago
I enjoyed your post and have bookmarked your site. ~ Nancy
christian gehrke
· 9 months ago
I'll admit it. I don't use Twitter much at all. I played around a bit a a couple years ago but it never really stuck with me.
However, your article has inspired me to give it another go and see what I'm missing. It sure does look like Twitter is more useful than I thought it was.
Thank you.
dp
· 9 months ago
Lon, great great post. I'm a big follow of @ltouby for media news and some of the others for web strategy.
Another to add to the list (and a true to life Professor):
@sreenet = Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Students and Columbia Journalism and New Media guru. He's always out ahead of newsworthy stories.
rock on.
dp
jguy
· 9 months ago
Guy I follow who is about the best I've seen talk about the media is @LifeofMichael. He's apparently a TV news guy except honest. u ask him a straight ?, u get a good answer. @brianbolter is also pretty funny.
Denis
· 9 months ago
Wow, I don't think I could ever make myself listen to profs who are forced to type lik this due 2 space rstrctns.
Ben White
· 9 months ago
If you're into ADVERTISING, CREATIVITY and IDEAS: @TheAdClass
I really have to disagree about Laurel Touby. The signal to noise ratio of her tweets is very, very low.
Sure she tweets from lots and lots of events,but it's endless name-dropping and not much value.
Jackie Guenther
· 9 months ago
Follow BrianTracy_ for professional skills development.
He's not only a best-selling author on sales, management, leadership, goal-setting and more...he's a well-respected professional coach and speaker, and his daily tweets reflect the knowledge he's been using to guide and develop successful people for decades.
a real useful post on twitter finally! this is a great list as i didnt have a few of these people to follow. thanks!
bob
· 9 months ago
Another person I have been folowing is @sgourley, he is a Rhodes Scholar and TED fellow. He's studying the mathematics of war and tweeting about all sorts of interesting topics. Here's the some of the latest:
Awesome post Lon, you just grew my follow list. :)
One more recommendation - you might check out Dr. Kirsten Sanford (DrKiki) for a great example of someone using Twitter to teach Science.
Meryl Steinberg (meryl333)
· 9 months ago
Delighted you find my tweets of value. Appreciate your vote of confidence by including me with such an great group of tweeters. New followers who are dropping in to introduce themselves are a diverse, interesting-- and engaging bunch. Hope I have time to get to know them better. We all have much to learn from each other.
carolz_place
· 9 months ago
Great post on who the greats are. It's nice to know who you can trust as a mentor sometimes. So many out there make claims nowadays. You can learn something from everyone though, so just keep an open and positive mindset. Thanks again for the tips. Carol @carolz_place
NickBurrus
· 9 months ago
A personal favorite of mine to follow is Mr. Ward Cunningham, the inventor of wikis. He does post very interesting things time to time.
kathy shields
· 9 months ago
I know I need to start following your advice... soon. I'm actually writing to congratulate you on making the Top Twitter Professors list on mashables! http://mashable.com/2009/02/16/twitter-professors
kathy shields
· 9 months ago
ooops! That last comment was meant for Chris Brogan! On the other hand I should also start taking your advice. Great list, thanks I have added to my twitter list.
denki
· 9 months ago
Good information, thanks a bunch! :)
My only regret is those example tweets being unclickable. It would have been cool to check some of that content in context.
Keep up the good work! @denki_ca
Thomas
· 9 months ago
I sure wish someone would drop my name from time to time on Twitter.
I think if you browse my entries, you might like what you see in poetry analysis.
But you're gonna have to convince me to get on Twitter. I'm quotable, but not in a 140 characters or less.
Vinny O'Hare
· 9 months ago
Great list I started following three people asap.
Harold Shaw
· 9 months ago
Thank you for the list of interesting people, it gave me even more blogs/sites to look at and expand my information base. I have been doing that a lot this year and have learned great deal.
It is important that we have a variety of authors to follow, if we only follow those who have the same perspective as our own, then we don't grow or learn.
Great list, Lon. There's some really interesting people on that list that I hadn't added already. Following people like that is what gives Twitter it's greatest value. I've never learned as much as since I started using Twitter.
I share my knowledge on social media, internet marketing and recession marketing (#recessiontips) on Twitter but I teach courses on that at Universities and privately.
Craig Roland (craigr) is a real (visual) art education prof. who shares ideas, links etc. with a growing art teacher community on twitter.
Character Education
· 7 months ago
I would like to make some discussion on character education. What is character education. How can you define character education. If you have any idea than share with me.
Character Education
· 7 months ago
Can anyone of you describe that why character education is necessary.
Brian
· 7 months ago
Certainly going to give your group of people to follow a try. I'm new to this game so I'm just trying to suck it all in and make heads or tails of it all.
Annamarie Pluhar
· 4 months ago
Fabulous! I've just gotten a gleaning of why Twitter is compelling to so many.. I'm learning, I'm learning...
Harp Arora
· 4 months ago
Excellent recommendations. For a fiction writer I'd recommend Paulo Coelho http://twitter.com/paulocoelho. He's engaging, interesting and uses Twitter in very innovative ways to connect with his audience.
Harp Arora
· 4 months ago
Excellent recommendations. For a fiction writer I'd recommend Paulo Coelho http://twitter.com/paulocoelho. He's engaging, interesting and uses Twitter in very innovative ways to connect with his audience.
jryanhaber
· 3 months ago
@epassages is an account that I use to disseminate resources for Social Media Marketing that I find during my intensive self study. Check it out, its about 99% linked materials... I hope it helps.
Thanks for this great post.
You are an inspiration, and I have selected some of your teachers to be my own.
Keep going
jryanhaber
· 3 months ago
I like the "share this" buttons that you are using. Aesthetically they are some of the best suited for the site I am building.
Where can I find them?
Jonathan Haber
Honey Singh
· 3 months ago
I read that post and now when i came back again then here is lot more learning from the comments itself. "Sharing is a real caring"
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– but my background is in performing arts (major in Acting/Directing for stage)
as well as some experience in playwriting. Now working in digital. And looking
into opportunities for teaching, etc...
Thank you for sharing your list of Twitter Professors and am in total agreement about gleaning this real time Master's level of education (and I am just loving it & soaking up the knowledge being shared as much as I can). Some we have in common, others are now added to my list inlcuding yourself. And here a few Twitter Professors that I'd like to recommend:
-@dannybrown (Danny Brown)
-@larrybrauner (Larry Brauner)
-@bwm748 (Bill Mitchell)
-@toryjohnson (Tory Johnson)
-@@stevefarber (Steve Farber)
-@guykawasaki (Guy Kawasaki)
-@BlackEnterprise (Black Enterprise Magazine)
Cheers and Positive Vibes,
Ray
@jasunshine1011
This is the Media Dpt @ TCC, Twitter Community College. Would you be aware of the tech department?
Great work it's appreciated.
Paul
@alexkaris who found the Hurricane of Gratitude on Facebook as well as some of
my very good co social media coaches @billcrosby @gabestrom and @prosperitygal.
I have a list much like yours. Maybe I will take the time to list as nicely as
you have done here. I find these type of recommendations to be VERY useful.
So thanks once again!
Danny Arrington
@dannyarrington
on the Net it's great to find a little nugget like this.
As for myself, just getting going with Twitter. I've spent the last month
launching The Hockey Writers. It's been a blast. I can be found on Twitter
under TheHockeyWriter.
and @techxav - 15 year old blogger that stays up on technology.
(@courosa)to see some of the wonderful stuff happening in education today.
Also Howard Rheingold (@hrheingold) or Will Richardson (@willrich45) are
always worth following.
http://twitter.com/shoutmeloud
When at twittercounter, I noted that I was ranked something like #564 or 645 or something like that - how many people are out there like me that are at 2,800 or even 280,000 who aren't only sharing personal insights that are valuable but they are helping people learn, participating and sharing
What is important here is for all of us to attribute and retweet more - each microblog and each interaction is another chance for someone to disover their next professor, their next friend, their next girlfriend or their next business partner.
So as we keep saying with http://socialmediaclub.org/ if you get it, share it... we should probably add 'if you got it from someone here, let everyone know who taught you...'
#TED fellows on twitter @sgourley, @whiteafrican @kyraocity @DariusGoesWest @rom @wanyama @PhilNiles @saramayhew @jlamontagne, @j_mf
some of the top creative and inspirational people from around the world.
few places?" Jonathan, the hash sign is an abrevation for number in most cases.
I started following all of those right away. Always looking for interesting
and smart people to follow.
One of my profs too is http://twitter.com/timoreilly he is always posting great
links and thoughts on twitter.
Later,
@kahlilsan
since last Fall. I enjoy the brief interludes so much, I regularly visit his
page to see the latest versus waiting or searching on my timeline.
http://twitter.com/arjunbasu
He has shown me the path of the 140 character short story and done so with
brilliant examples of his own. He's stubbornly fostering a new genre and
inspiring many writers and readers to imagine, laugh, or pause.
He inspired me to create @Twirled - http://twitter.com/Twirled - and I am
enjoying the challenge and the exercise. And that pleasure, I believe, is
what every good teacher longs to create.
Darryl
who tweets news, views, humor and charitable concerns from China. Check
American Professor in Google and see who shows up. Then read his blog and
see quality writing without an agenda.
rants about powerpoint templates would make it onto mashable!
Anyway, one professor you should add to your list is Laura Fitton
@pistachio. I've learned so much from reading her stream. She deserves
a whole feature post!
few places?â€
Jonathan, "Hashtagging" is just a way of tagging ideas/topics etc. Makes them more easily searchable.
http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Hashtags
Best,
Darren
@dmcconachie
I didn't think that Twitter is such a interesting place wher You can find not
only interesting people but share their thoughts, opininons, explore things
and trends they are tweeting about, building strong postive relationships
with them.
Thanx for the list of interesting people either!
~ @radq
community, I was pretty pleased at the number of folks whom I was already
following, and I have added several others you suggested.
This is the type of info new folks can really use. Enjoyed your "reasons" for
following each. @CoachMary
Let's keep in touch on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/unifinbroker
I really loved Jeffrey Levy's post about good judgment!
I would add @johnmaeda to the list. He's the new President of the
Rhode Island School of Design. He used to be at MIT so it's like design,
art thinking, computer science, and technology all rolled up into one.
a couple years ago but it never really stuck with me.
However, your article has inspired me to give it another go and see what
I'm missing. It sure does look like Twitter is more useful than I thought it
was.
Thank you.
Another to add to the list (and a true to life Professor):
@sreenet = Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Students and Columbia Journalism and New Media guru.
He's always out ahead of newsworthy stories.
rock on.
dp
http://twitter.com/TheAdClass
Sure she tweets from lots and lots of events,but it's endless name-dropping and not much value.
He's not only a best-selling author on sales, management, leadership, goal-setting and more...he's a well-respected professional coach and speaker, and his daily tweets reflect the knowledge he's been using to guide and develop successful people for decades.
Feel free to contact me if you have any Q's.
Thanks,
Jackie Guenther
jackie@briantracy.com
twitter.com/jax6
http://twitter.com/johnmaeda
Why dubai as a business model is possibly one of the worst ever http://tinyurl.com/apwq5a
the song scientifically engineered to be the worst song in the world http://tinyurl.com/apcslc
How the financial crash of 2008 will reshape America (essay - Atlantic) http://tinyurl.com/d475fx
One more recommendation - you might check out Dr. Kirsten Sanford (DrKiki) for
a great example of someone using Twitter to teach Science.
who you can trust as a mentor sometimes. So many out
there make claims nowadays. You can learn something
from everyone though, so just keep an open and positive
mindset. Thanks again for the tips.
Carol
@carolz_place
My only regret is those example tweets being unclickable. It would have been cool to check some of that content in context.
Keep up the good work!
@denki_ca
http://www.twitter.com/twps/
Thomas :)
But you're gonna have to convince me to get on Twitter. I'm quotable, but not in a 140 characters or less.
my information base. I have been doing that a lot this year and have learned
great deal.
It is important that we have a variety of authors to follow, if we only follow
those who have the same perspective as our own, then we don't grow or learn.
thank you again for this list.
Harold
www.rooo7i.net
I share my knowledge on social media, internet marketing and recession marketing (#recessiontips) on Twitter but I teach courses on that at Universities and privately.
Thanks again for a great list
Hjörtur
http://twitter.com/hjortur
Thanks for this great post.
You are an inspiration, and I have selected some of your teachers to be my own.
Keep going
Where can I find them?
Jonathan Haber
"Sharing is a real caring"
http://www.twitter.com/honeytech