In these very social times we live on from our Facebook pages to our Twitter to good ole fashioned email, most of us are living in the digital age. If you aren’t, you certainly see it all around you.

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My friend Cathy Brooks has a Blog Talk Radio show called The Conversation.

The Conversation focuses on the way technology is changing our lives and the stories of the people making it happen. Cathy Brooks has a rotating cast of characters every Tuesday at 10am PST for lively discussion and debate that tackles the way in which technology is impacting, infiltrating and otherwise engaging business and society. Sign in and chat with her. When I’m online at the same time, I do. She’s awesome and there is always valuable information and new ways to get involved or to unplug too.

After healing from a broken leg, dealing with a very messy butt surgery on my sweet dog Norma and finally welcoming Spring, I am up writing, walking and beginning new adventures. One of those adventures is finally integrating my various sites and going mobile. Let’s see how it works out as I take my IPhone to the garden.

There is a bunch of hooting and hollering about Apple allowing Exodus International’s app promoting “conversion therapy” (which they idiotically say cures gayness) to be added to the iTunes library.  I’m not even going to link to them since I think they are crazy, go google them yourself.

1. People are Dumb (bless their hearts and livers)

No, really it’s true, people are dumb, but that’s not Apple’s fault!  Ranting at Apple about this ridiculous app is a fundamental misunderstanding of business.  In a vast store, you will find books, CDs and DVDs you don’t like.  That’s not the store’s fault. That’s like a born-again Christian getting mad at the store for having books on astrology. Go shop somewhere else!  Don’t attack the messengers.  Go to the sources.

Why attack Apple?  That’s like burning every Bible because some idiots interpret it to fit their own dumb ideas.  Those are the same people who would kill their beloved messiah because they wouldn’t recognize him.  People are dumb, don’t burn books or shoot the messengers, educate the people!  Really dumb people are like zombies. Lock your doors and don’t let crazy zombies in!  Zombies are not smart, and usually you cannot talk rationally to them because they are extremely irrational.

Why not go after the actual looney toons who created the app instead of taking up space on the web hating Apple? Why blog about Apple being horrible?  It’s an app!  There are apps for just about everything. I bet there’s ones out there about how to kill someone.  If there’s an app out for where to find the best meat in town, do you think Vegans should attack Apple for it?  No!Go teach people about your beliefs.

Just because there are crazy Bible thumping freaks who would just as soon kill Jesus then actually listen to his teachings. doesn’t mean the platforms or the books are bad.  Just like I wrote in the piece about Amazon, don’t blame the messenger – listen to the message.

Here’s a question:  How and Why in the World do these groups continue to exist?  Why are there still ”God Hates Fags” people out there?  Because people are dumb.  Really.  They are.  And dumb people love to have something to raise their fists at that is different than they are and that - they can’t explain.

God bless their hearts and livers.  And PS: Usually those who are soooo anti gay ah, hello, are gay and can’t face it.  I say embrace it!   Be gay!  You’d be a hell of a lot nicer.  And cleaner too.  Plus, you’d make much smarter apps.

2. Laugh at People, Instead of Freaking Out

Why not send the makers of the app boxes of Gay Away if you’re so upset about their app.   Blaming Apple is like blaming amazon for that freako perp and his book being self-published – read my rant about that here: http://angelashelton.com/amazon

Get Gay Away!

3. Make Your Own Apps and Fight the Right Battles

Seriously. There are enough smart people out there that can build smart things instead of wasting time and energy making something filled with hate, violence and abuse.  The smart people may not out number the dumb ones but they are certainly smarter than huge groups of zombies.   Save us!!!    Make smart apps.  Educate Educate Educate!!

Now, are you sending out petitions to angrily raise your fist to Apple?  Are you Facebooking about how horrible corporations are for permitting these things to come into existence.  Are you killing the messengers?  How can you go to the source of what upsets you so much?

I think this Exodus group is hiding deep rooted abuse and violence against something they don’t understand (or secretly are) behind an app People are scared of what they don’t understand and many times attack instead of learning or having any bit of an open mind and heart.

I used to hear loads of people say how horrible it was for gay couples to adopt kids.  Oh my!  Oh my God, they’ll become gay!  They’ll cook them and eat them!  Oh no…   Good lord in heaven help us.   I hadn’t been around too many gay couples with kids until I went on the R Family Vacations Cruise that Rosie and her wife Kelli started.  It is a vacation cruise for gay couples and their kids. I was invited by Rosie to go and I went three times and had the time of my life.  One, because people thought I was gay and that just made me giggle.  I wish I was gay sometimes!  Second, because I have never in my life seen such happy well-behaved children!  There were no tantrums, no freaked out stressed parents, there were no spankings, no kids on time-outs or running rambunctious by the pool.  I asked quite a few of the parents, “Wow, what is up with these kids? How are they so happy and well-behaved?”  The answer I received was:  ”They’re loved and they were wanted.”   Ah, ha!  When I asked the kids what they thought about others hating their lifestyle, they said:  ”People just don’t understand, so they hate.”   Ah ha again!   Smart kids! (please go up and make smart things, like smart apps!)

May there be many more Zachs in the world:

How can you be smart about what you may not understand?

Do you meditate?

My mom taught me how to meditate when I was very young. She called it contemplating. I have had some pretty profound experiences meditating that still blow my mind – literally. (see the picture below) I’ve practiced my whole life, although I do get totally lazy and either forget or do it or do my version of quick fix meditating with my eyes open when I’m in the car or standing in line somewhere.  I’ll share more about that if you’d like – let’s get wackadoodle – one of my favorite made-up words to cover all that is well, wackadoodle.

While I was brainstorming a theater piece where I wanted to use my brain waves as an element in it, I discovered Brain Paint!

I had a meditation experience in the desert of New Mexico on the last day of shooting Searching for Angela Shelton that so blew my mind, literally, that I wanted to see what it would look like if my brain had had a paint brush.

So I had my brain hooked up and recorded by Brain Paint to see what kind of art my brain could create.   This technique is usually used as a healing tool for people to think about their issues and then literally see how their brain draws it.  It helps people heal.  But I wanted to use it from the artistic stand point.  I wanted to see what the best meditation experience I’d ever had looked like as an art piece.   So I got hooked up and I tried my best to get back to that place where I had felt a sense of total connection, peace, love and enlightenment.  I wasn’t able to completely get to where I had gotten in the desert of New Mexico, but I got pretty close.

This is my brain on meditation:

I love my beautiful mind!  This is just one still frame of a moving image too.  It looks exactly like how it felt – a dance party with Spirit.  Seeing that picture makes me want to meditate more.   Using my brain waves in an art project just proved to me that I’m damn clever (pat myself on my back) because the person there to meet with Brain Paint after me about an art project was only the head of Cirque de Soleil!  That made my day knowing I was on the same wave length with Cirque de Soleil!   Of course they have a hell of a lot more funding than I do, gosh darn it.  But alas, it showed me that I was ahead of my time, and ahead in line too!

I’m still working on how I can get what’s in my brain onto the stage, and it may take me ten more years but it’s a pretty cool I idea if I do say so myself.   I’m still brainstorming – literally.  In the meantime, I’m finishing the first draft of a science fiction book and my brain is buzzing about it.  The entire story came to me during a meditation.

Do you meditate?  If so, how?  What’s your favorite mediation?  What’s your most wackadoodle experience?

Seems like we all love Facebook (well, most of us) and even our parents have profiles!  But there are many ways to use FB that you may not know unless you read the many how-tos or follow the Facebook news like any good tech nerd does.  I happen to be a nerd, but even better than that I know many other nerds so I get to learn little tricks usually right when they happen.  One that has been available for awhile is linking to another Facebook profile or a page in your status.  It’s a great way to do a shout-out for someone or something you love.  When you do that, it shows up on both your wall and the wall you love.   It’s very simple and you only use @ in front of the name.

I noticed a few of my friends were asking about how to do that so voila, here’s a video for you.

http://www.youtube.com/angelashelton

Feel free to message me about other things that may trip you up like How in the world do you use Twitter?

I certainly don’t know everything, but I’ll share what I do.

Is it Blogger Evolution or Blog Revolution? I say it’s -

Bloggerevolution

Where are you on the map?

You may be a reader and not a blogger and if you are – share!

Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application

I saw this post on Techi.com and had to repost this great graphic.   Look how far we’ve come since the grand ole’ 90′s!   There are some blogs that I truly love for their information and creativity and some that seem full of spite and rage – just like people. Even on the great graphic above there is everyone from emo to angry.  Our thoughts, ideas and private journals were once only shared up in tree houses with the selected few who had the password and now you can be cyberly stalked and read by people you’ve never met from those who love you and hate you.

BTW:   People will love you, people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you. Abraham-Hicks

But since we’re all out there in the open, exposed to all eyes, what’s the end goal?   I still say the Internet is like a Bizarre Bazaar and we all have a booth.  The question is what are you doing at your booth?  Hopefully you are contributing to the greater good.

Definition of REVOLUTION

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a : a sudden, radical, or complete change You mom starts blogging and tweeting!

b : a fundamental change in political organization; especially : the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed A surge of blogs affect the election or resignation of someone in office

c : activity or movement designed to effect fundamental changes in the socioeconomic situation Bloggers make or break a new business, movie, CD or other idea.

d : a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something : a change of paradigm Bloggers open people’s minds to a new way of thinking since you can read them for free at the library and not get caught by the person feeding your old lies and dogma.

e : a changeover in use or preference especially in technology Suddenly everyone is telling their story on the internet.  Everyone really does have a booth.

If everyone has a booth then collectively we can all destroy the whole Bizarre Bazaar or help it function as a living organism benefiting all.  Is that too altruistic?  I’ve been accused of being a pie-in-the-sky daydreamer before, trying to be a do-gooder so I’ll leave it in your court.  Do you blog hate, love or indifference?

Some of my personal favorite booths:

It’s Jerry Time -  http://itsjerrytime.com/

Scientific American – http://www.scientificamerican.com/

Welcome to Legs – http://www.welcometolegs.com/

Hubble Site – http://hubblesite.org/

Glendon Mellow – http://glendonmellow.blogspot.com/

Please share yours!

Geeks, Nerds and Techies are highly valuable in our world. You need to love and care for them well.  Many of them are by nature cranky and though some claim the title of social media experts, they are far from social.  Here are some ways to care and feed your geek so that your life can be a tad easier.

1. Feed Your Geek Well -

   The best way to keep geeks working is to feed them.  Don’t load them up on too much sugar and carbs since that will make them sleepy.  Feed them protein.  They like shakes. Bring them food instead of asking them to come join you for a meal. They can eat and work at the same time.

2. Smoke Your Geek Out -

   Many geeks are addicts, it’s just a cold hard fact.  They are pot heads. If you’re in California, you are safer since it is legal.  Be sure to recommend your geek get his card and don’t judge him for his issues.  I recommend not working with those who are wake and bakers but good luck finding one.  If you find a geek who is not a pot head please ping me.

3. Don’t Fall in Love with Your Geek -

   Although they are very cute, it’s best to not get romantically involved with your geek.  You will get your work done for free for a brief moment but when you break up they will stop working on your project and you run the risk of them vindictively taking your sites down since they know all of your passwords.  Flirting is better than falling.

4. Pay Your Geek -

   Money is better than love to many a geek.  Many geeks disappear once they are paid though, so it’s best to give a little bit up front and then the full amount once you have your full site or project done.

5. Don’t Bug Your Geek -

   Too many questions, comments and concerns freak geeks out.  Don’t send them too many emails or texts with various questions.  Send one email with simple bullet points as if you’re talking to a computer.

6. Don’t Get Emo with Your Geek -

   The last thing you want to do is get emotional with your geek, especially through email.  The long drawn out paragraphs of what you need, expect, are missing and disappointed with will only make your geek crawl into their cave with your passwords.

7. Don’t Call Your Geek a Geek -

   Geeks, nerds, techies and the like are very special people.  Although I personally love the term geek and I have an attraction to nerds myself, the geek is royalty.  Treat him or her as such.

8. Become a Geek Yourself -

   Save a lot of pain and heartache by taking classes and learning to do your own site and internet work.  You won’t be perpetually waiting on your geek or have a site that is perpetually “coming soon.”

What commitment are you going to make to your own genius?  Are you a genius?  What are you doing to be a creative vehicle?

PS I love Ted.

The time has come! I’m working on new movies after years of traveling with Searching for Angela Shelton.  Plus, many of my supporters, friends and fans are ready for some more humor and have even started a Facebook Page to get me to host Saturday Night Live.  That made my day. I had a dream to host SNL when I was young and thought I was going to be acting in comedy movies by now. I didn’t suspect that I’d be bring humor into the trauma and recovery movement!  After being a speaker for years, I’ve seen a great need for joy and humor.  I think that’s why I’ve spoken at so many places, because I bring levity to a horrible topic.  Though I do not and will not make fun of abuse and violence, I have used humor to make it easier for more people to hear the truth about horrible subjects.  The movies that I’m working on also address social issues because I can’t help myself but they will be funny.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you. Oscar Wilde

Now I’m in my hometown of Asheville, NC seeing about how I could bring movies here and thus bring work home and highlight this amazing town. I had a sit down with Gary from Askasheville.com last night to talk about the power of social media:

Please let me know if you like Online Dating for Food!

I thought it was interesting timing that the video that showed up right after this one on YouTube was this interview I did years ago when my book came out:

After supporters shared the first movie I directed and my first published book via Facebook and Twitter and even Myspace, it showed me the power of social media and having direct contact with your audience and listening to them.  At my speaking events over the past year I’ve mentioned working on a few comedy movies and so many people have come up to me afterward and asked me to please make more movies and make them funny and then can I please write their life story.  I love that.  Everyone has a life story.  I encourage you to write your own stories and I’ll make more movies.

Here is the my speech from the 140 Conference in NYC

Here’s the link to this video if the one above doesn’t work.

Thank you @JeffPulver for having me at the #140conf. It was a pleasure.  I announced the Angels All A-Twitter week for April 25-May 2nd. http://angelasheltonday.eventbrite.com/

I wrote my speech for the 140 Conference in tweet!  I veered from this a bit once on stage but here you go:

The Internet is like a Bizarre Bazaar, like a big flea market and we all have a booth. http://angelashelton.com/bazaar

Your booth is your website, Facebook page, or whatever social network you’re on – it’s your space.

So what’s in your booth? What are you sharing, telling, selling? Can we leave you a message? Are you there?

In the rafters of this Bazaar, above all our booths, are the @twitter birds.

The twitter birds can poop on your booth or they can flock around it and sing about it.

Don’t shoot the birds. Watch the birds. Listen to the birds. Feed the birds.

It is through the birds that we find out about each other booths. We are a community in the state of Now.
There is no community without unity and there is not unity without U. So what are U up to?

What’s happening right Now at your booth? How are you contributing to the whole Bazaar?

U and your booth are important to the whole community. U are that important. So what are U up to?

I first set up my booth in this Bazaar to make a movie. I had written screenplays and produced and was ready to direct.

I set out to survey women in America by interviewing women who had my name.

I’m @AngelaShelton and I went Searching for Angela Shelton. I thought it’d be funny.

My goal was to inspire women to unite & end the whole women against women battle.

I asked Angela Sheltons: who are you, where have you been and where are you going?

I discovered that 70% of Angela Sheltons I interviewed were victims of child sexual abuse, rape and/or domestic violence.

And that doesn’t mean don’t name your kid Angela Shelton. It means sexual abuse & domestic violence is an epidemic.

The discovery all started from having authentic conversations and listening to people’s stories.

It became personal when I met an Angela Shelton who tracked sexual predators & lived in the same town as my child molester dad.

We arrived to that Angela Shelton’s town on Father’s Day. So I confronted my abusive father as he was leaving for church.

You can watch Searching for Angela Shelton on @Snagfilms or @Hulu. Please rate & comment. http://ow.ly/1A1by http://ow.ly/1A1c9

I could have picked any name – even a man’s name. I learned that this is not a woman’s issue. This is a people problem.

@JamieKennedy told @Oprah about it and I was invited on the show in 2003. The rest is history. The movie became a movement.

70% of Angela Sheltons were abused but 100% of those healed, moved forward, got help and now lead joyful lives. http://ow.ly/1AeAr

The movie is used all over the world and has inspired many to break the silence and the cycle of abuse, including me.

After yrs of speaking in the trauma & recovery field I came up with a theory that trauma is like being pierced with a sword.

You can live with that sword in you, that’s denial. And leaving it in causes all sorts of other problems. Or you can face it.

Removing the sword brings up pain that put it in place. Purging Pain doesn’t last forever.
Once you remove the sword, you heal the wound and then you have the sword – to use with love instead of vengeance.

I see more people healing & becoming warriors for transformation right NOW than I see people perpetuating pain. I see that on TV.

The sword of trauma does not just come from sexual abuse, you can read a fashion magazine and be traumatized.

We’ve all experience pain. If we stay wounded, we affect those around us. When we’re healed and happy – we change the world.

It’s time we transform suffering into healing. I’ve seen it for years on the streets. Now I’m seeing it in social media.

All of us know someone who has suffered. Hi. Breaking the cycle of abuse and healing starts with breaking the silence.

One movie can change a life forever. Seen it. And you can alter the course of someone’s life in 140 characters or less.

This movement moved me to make movies & tell stories to howl out healing, humor and happiness.
@ozsultan suggested I use my writing talents to tell stories via twitter with the hastag #NEVERAGAIN

April 25-May 2nd we are twittering 3 true stories with hashtag #neveragain to break the silence and the cycle of abuse.

The @survivormanual was started in order to inspire and empower all survivors to heal and lead joyful lives http://ow.ly/1A26F
. @thearmyofangels began when people removed the sword, healed and wanted to move forward. http://ow.ly/1A2bi

My advocacy work started with Searching for @AngelaShelton and continues through @theArmyofAngels & @survivormanual.

Now, via social media we have saved lives, inspired healing, shared resources and empowered warriors via @survivormanual.

Now we’re using interactive storytelling on Twitter to inspire healing in 140 characters or less and I’m announcing it at #140conf

The stories April 25-May 2nd will follow 3 people who experienced sexual violence. Follow hashtags #s1, #s2 and #s3

We can use our booths to share resources, inspiration, & our stories. Follow #s1, #s2 and #s3 #neveragain.

In stories #s1, #s2 and #s3 two survive and one doesn’t. But you can help save a life in 140 characters or less. #140conf

We are a community. There is not community without unity and there is no unity without U. #140conf
You can alter the course of of someone’s life with a tweet. #140conf

Everything you do affects everything else so what are U doing April 25-May 2nd? Hopefully it’s not nitty.

Thank you for being nice to each other. We all have a story. It’s a pleasure to tweet with you at #140conf

I’ll see you online and I’ll see a lot of you April 25-May 2nd. http://ow.ly/1BbbT

What’s Your Cause?  How many times have you heard the word NO?

I’m speaking at the Screenwriter’s Expo in Napa March 27th at 9am-10:20am about being a rebel with a cause and moving around the No Factor.  Speaking of hearing no repeatedly in you various fields, here’s a little video for fun:

As a rule-breaking entrepreneur myself, I’ve certainly know about the seemingly insurmountable challenges that come with being a creative person with a cause.

I’m also speaking at the Unleash Your Inner Entrepreneur Conference in San Diego, CA on April 24, 2010

The 140 Characters Conference is in New York City (#140conf) April 20-21, 2010 at the 92nd Street Y.  For those who have been watching my Sunday Show, I did a how-to Twitter hour.  I also wrote a post on how and why to Twitter too.  This event is a worldwide gathering of people involved and interested in the real-time Internet.  The conference will take a look at what the founder, Jeff Pulver, calls The State of NOW. and the affects that social communication platforms have on the world.

Check out the schedule at: http://nyc.140conf.com/schedule.   You should come not only for the amazing twitter action, but the brain food and the list of speakers.  There are some great twitter-birds on there to follow. Check out who is scheduled on the 2nd day. Your truly.

You can get an “early bird” ticket for only $100 at: http://nyc.140conf.com/register

Here is a list of the “Characters” speaking at #140conf NYC:

- AJ Leon, co-creator #twitterkids (@ajleon)
- Alexis Maybank, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Gilt Groupe (@giltfounder)
- Alf LaMont, The Comedy Store (@TheKotel)
- Amanda Wernick, REALTOR Associate, Licensed: CA (@funomenalrealtr)
- Andrea Syrtash, Oprah.com contributor and author (@AndreaSyrtash)
- Angela Gruszka, Public Relations Director at ABC Carpet and Home (@ABC_Carpet)
* Angela Shelton (@angelashelton) *
- Ann Curry, NBC News (@AnnCurry)
- Aparna Vashisht, Founder, Parentella (@Parentella)
- Avner Ronen, CEO/founder, boxee (@avneron)
- Bijan Sabet, partner, Spark Capital (@bijan)
- Blair Kelley, Professor at North Carolina State University (@profblmkelley)
- Bob Watson (@TopBrokerOC)
- Brad Hunstable, co-founder, Ustream.tv, (@bhunstabe)
- Bronwyn Barnes, Associate Entertainment Editor for InStyle.com (@InStyle)
- Bruce Upbin, Managing Editor, Forbes (@bupbin)
- C.C. Chapman (@cc_chapman)
- Caissie St.Onge, (@Caissie)
- Cathy Brooks (@CathyBrooks)
- Chris Bartlett (@harveymilk)
- Chris Lehmann, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy, (@chrislehmann)
- Chris Weingarten, Music Critic, (@1000TimesYes)
- Dan Harple, Executive Chairman, GyPSii (@dharple)
- Daren Forsyth, Founder, 140Characters.co.uk, (@DarenBBC)
- Dave Winer, Software developer, Entrepreneur, Writer and NYU scholar (@davewiner)
- David All, Health Care/Capitol Hill Tweets Founder (@DavidAll)
- David DeVore, Dad, David After Dentist (@daviddentist)
- Debra Bowen, Secretary of State, California (@DBowen)
- Deirdre Sullivan, Principal / Social Media (@GrittyPrettyPR)
- Dennis Crowley, co-founder, Four Square (@dens)
- Diane Guercio, REALTOR, Boston, MA (@HeyAmaretto)
- Donny Deutsch, Television Host & Chairman, Deutsch Inc. (@Donny_Deutsch)
- Elon James White, Comedian and Social Critic (@elonjames)
- Eric Sheninger, Principal of New Milford HS (NJ), (@NMHS_Principal)
- Eric Stegemann, Broker, Licensed: MO (@EricStegemann)
- FakeJerry Paffendorf, Artist, futurist, entrepreneur. (@WELLO)
- Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine guy, host of Wine Library TV, (@garyvee)
- Gavin Purcell, Producer, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (@gavinpurcell)
- Grace Bonney, Design Blogstress (@designsponge)
- Hank Wasiak, Executive Producer and Co-Founder, The Concept Farm, (@hankwasiak)
- Ian Poulter, Pro Golfer (@Ianjamespoulter)
- Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump)
- Jacob Soboroff, @AMCnews Correspondent and Executive Director of @WhyTuesday (@jacobsoboroff)
- Jay Rosen, Journalism professor, NYU (@jayrosen_nyu)
- Jeff Jarvis, blogger, author, professor (@JeffJarvis)
- Jeff Keni Pulver, Creator, #140conf (@jeffpulver)
- Jeffrey Hayzlett, CMO, Kodak (@jeffreyHayzlett)
- Jeffrey Merrihue, Chairman, MoFilm (@JeffreyMerrihue)
- Jeff Newelt, Editor, The Pekar Project (@jahfurry)
- Jeffrey Sass, founder, Invitations (@sass)
- Jessica Gottlieb (@JessicaGottlieb)
- Jim Jones, Music Artist (@jimjonescapo)
- Joan Walsh, Editor of Salon, (@joanwalsh)
- Joe Randazzo (@Randazzoj)
- Joe Trippi, @WhyTuesday advisory board member (@JoeTrippi)
- John Bell, Managing Director, Ogilvy’s 360 Digital Influence practice (@jbell99)
- John Bernier, Social Media Manager at Best Buy. (@twelpforce)
- John Borthwick, CEO, Betaworks (@JohnBorthwick)
- John Strauss, Owner, John Strauss furniture design, ltd. (@johnstrauss)
- Jonathan Maberry, author, writing teacher and lecturer. (@JonathanMaberry)
- Jonathan Markwell (@jot)
- Josh Williams, Founder, CEO, Gowalla (@jw)
- Joshua Fouts, Cultural relations futurist (@josholalia)
- Julie Spira, Author, dating coach (@JulieSpira)
- Kathleen Hessert, President, Sports Media Challenge (@kathleenhessert)
- Kelly Sutton (@KellySutton)
- Kevin Jarrett, K-4 Technology Teacher (@kjarrett)
- Kevin Slavin, Managing Director and co-Founder of area/code (@slavin)
- Kimberly Miller, VP of Consumer Marketing, People StyleWatch (@StyleWatchMag)
- Kyle Pace, Instructional/Consumer Technology Specialist, (@kylepace)
- Lacy Kemp (@RealTweeter)
- Lauren Litwinka (@beebow)
- Leslie Fram – co-host Morning Show, WRXP-FM 101.9, New York City
- Leslie Hall, President, ICED Media (@dollyhall)
- Leslie Sanchez, Author and a former Bush presidential advisor (@LeslieSanchez)
- Lisa Cohen (@cohills)
- Lisa Nielsen, Educational Technologist – NYC Dept of Ed (@InnovativeEdu)
- Liz Strauss, Founder of SOBCon, brand strategist, (lizstrauss)
- Liza Sabater, Publisher of Culturekitchen & DailyGotham (@blogdiva)
- Luke Renner (@firesideint)
- Maegan Carberry (@maegancarberry)
- Mary Beth Hertz, K-6 Computer Teacher and Technology Teacher Leader in Philadelphia (@mbteach)
- Matt Pinfield, Morning Show on 101.9 RXP, (@mattpinfield)
- Matthew Bishop, The Economist, (@mattbish)
- Maya Bisineer (@thinkmaya)
- Maya Paveza, Realtor, DE/PA (@mayaREguru)
- Maz Nadjm, Social networking at Sky Television, (@Mazi)
- MC Hammer, Rapper, Entertainer and Dancer (@MCHammer)
- Melinda Emerson, entrepreneur, (@smallbizlady)
- Melissa Leon, Creator of #twitterkids (@melissaleon)
- Meredith Fisher, Editorial Brand Director, Diane von Furstenberg Studio L.P. (@InsideDVF)
- Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack)
- Michael Kupperman (@MKupperman)
- Mo Krochmal, Professor, Hofstra Univesity (@Krochmal)
- Nancy Scola associate editor at @techPresident (@nancyscola)
- Natalie Gulbis, Pro Golfer (@natalie_gulbis)
- Nate Erickson, Intern for Wyclef Jean and Haiti Volunteer (@NateErikson)
- Nathan Levinson The Viper Room (@N8theSk8)
- Oz Sultan (@ozsultan)
- Pat Kiernan, News Anchor, NY1 (@patkiernan)
- Paul Rieckhoff, Founder of Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) (@PaulRieckhoff)
- Peter Corbett, CEO of iStrategyLabs (@corbett3000)
- Peter Gregson, Cellist (@petergregson)
- Rick Borutta, Producer, CBS Backstage LIVE (@CBSborutta)
- Rita J. King, Innovator-in-Residence, IBM Analytics Virtual Center, #SmarterWork project. (@RitaJKing)
- Ryan Leslie, Music Artist (@ryanleslie>@ryanleslie)
- Ryan Penagos, Writer / Editor at Marvel.com (@Agent_M)
- Sarah Cooley (@sarahcooley)
- Scot McKay, Dating Coach (@ScotMcKay)
- Sean Suchter, General Manager, Search Technology Center Silicon Valley, Microsoft (@ssuchter)
- Shelly Palmer, Host of MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer, president of the Emmy Awards in NY (@shelly_palmer)
- Shira Abel (@shiraabel)
- Stacey Monk, Founder of Epic Change & TweetsGiving, (@StaceyMonk)
- Stefanie Michaels (@adventuregirl)
- Steve Garfield – Author, Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business (@stevegarfield)
- Steve Greenberg, founder/CEO, S-Curve Records (@steviegpro)
- Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics at YouTube (@grove)
- Steven W. Anderson, Technology Educator, Blogger, Co-Creator of #edchat (@web20classroom)
- Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd)
- Tal Givoly, Chief Scientist, Amdocs (@givoly)
- Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Stragegic (@spinaltap)
- Thomas Miller, General Manager, Your Tango (@TomfooleryTM)
- Tish Shute, enthusiast for our networked potential to make a better world (@TishShute)
- Tom Brevoort, VP Marvel, (@TomBrevoortsays)
- Tom Whitby, Professor of Education in Secondary English (@tomwhitby)
- U.S. Air Force (@usairforce)
- Whit Jones, Energy Action Coalition – Climate (@whitjones)
- Xavier Jernigan, Senior Director, Digital Marketing, Universal Motown (@XavierJernigan)

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