After this morning’s cof­fee over a bulging inbox  and ensu­ing down­load of Fire­fox at the seri­ous nag­ging of  Shanx, “Why in heaven’s name would some­one as smart as you choose to inflict IE7 upon her­self?” .. I finally had a chance to check Twitter.

What I found was a slew of @ replies filled with Fol­low Fri­day luv. Since I can’t turn back the hands of time to yes­ter­day I thought I would express my appre­ci­a­tion via this post and info about what it is that makes these tweeps worth my Sat­ur­day afternoon.

Let’s roll!

@punkrockHR Lau­rie is funny and gen­er­ous in the way she doesn’t mince words, extro­verted and sweet with a healthy dash of cyn­i­cism, an expert at self-branding, an HR pro and she loves cats. Her blog Punk Rock HR is a Top 5 career site with a huge  and engaged fol­low­ing and I rec­om­mend you check it out.

@MrScrubby is Laurie’s cat and he pees in inter­est­ing new places.

@SMRecruiting is the Twit­ter twin of the LinkedIn Social Media Recruit­ing Group which should be pretty self explana­tory but if it isn’t just go there. It’s safe and edu­ca­tional and good and you will make tons of con­tacts with other recruiters who are inter­ested in using social media as a recruit­ing tool. Dis­claimer: OK, I’m a co-moderator.

@CIMAPR Are you job hunt­ing in Puerto Rico? Then check out CIMA Ser­vices. Tweets good job search tips too. It’s in Span­ish but I guess if you are in PR or think­ing of work­ing there you won’t have any prob­lems with that. Behind the tweets are @lucymfel,  a tweeter with a real heart who shares job advice in Span­ish and Eng­lish, and @ConsultantRC who owns a Benz and is veg­e­tar­ian. His tweets are mostly in Span­ish but his new Benz blog is in English.

@SignWerks Todd is the owner of Sign­Werks, located in Kingston, PA. That’s just over the bridge from my locale. He pro­vides a great exam­ple of some­one who lever­ages social media. There are no sales tweets just engag­ing con­ver­sa­tion and help if you need it. He is also civic minded and always will­ing to lend a help­ing hand. At local tweet-ups Todd brings name badges he makes and even cool bumper stick­ers. He won a local con­test I ran on Twit­ter to teach new users Twit­ter basics for busi­ness at THE Con­fer­ence in Wilkes-Barre on Octo­ber 6th.

@Fathercabbage Chet is a retired fire­fighter who hasn’t really retired. He loves his com­mu­nity and his pro­fes­sion and does plenty of vol­un­teer work to sup­port them. Let’s roll em’ down the hill in Honeypot!

@PeterParker_PA Chris is the Online Edi­tor at Times Leader, on of the two local news­pa­pers in Wilkes-Barre, PA.  He is often equipped with either a video cam­era and micro­phone or a lap­top and air card to shoot video or post live updates of news events as they hap­pen through­out the Wyoming Val­ley. He’s often funny and help­ful too.

@mlb217 Mandy is an Adver­tis­ing & PR stu­dent at Mary­wood Uni­ver­sity, SEO Spe­cial­ist at Solid Cac­tus, Free­lance Writer and lover of food. You can check out her writ­ing sam­ples on her blog, Miss Mandy’s stream of… well, some­thing and if you need some copy writ­ing done, well, you know… give her a shout out!

@JustinWaldrop Justin is a Writer/Blogger/Social media fanatic look­ing for oppor­tu­ni­ties in PR/Advertising/Marketing in the Chicago area. Check out @MotivelessCrime, his alter-ego and site. He’s a rel­a­tively new fol­lower. I tweeted about how I liked his use of Google Sites for his job search and the rest is history.

@atenta Jan tweets for Atenta about recruit­ing, sourc­ing, cus­tomized search and data min­ing from Ham­burg, Ger­many, mostly in Ger­man but there are plenty of Eng­lish tweets too. The web­site can be viewed in sev­eral lan­guages and the sec­tion about how to obtain employ­ment in Ger­many is really inter­est­ing. The blog is cool, I stum­ble through it with my own early 80’s rusty Ger­man lan­guage skills.

@havrilla Chris tweets jobs from Hitachi Con­sult­ing and about recruit­ing and sourc­ing and the use of social media  in the pro­fes­sion. She’s really friendly and really knowl­edge­able. Recently, Chris wrote a rockin’ post, Why I Recruit — And You Should Career Search — Using Social Media you’ll prob­a­bly want to read. She’s also co-moderator of Social Media Recruit­ing on LinkedIn.

@ki2mylife is Com­mu­nity and Mar­ket­ing Man­ager at Glassdoor.com. The career blog at that site has good con­tent for job seek­ers and the tweets are might inter­est­ing and help­ful too.

@MikeStivala Mike is the Cre­ator, writer, direc­tor of HILLERS, an upcom­ing series star­ring Joel Bryant, Tessa Munro, Tom Arnold & Henry Win­kler. I have to give the Greater Scran­ton Film Office tons of credit for fig­ur­ing out how to get TV and Film pro­duc­tions to come to NEPA.

@FSEnterprises Michael is a local NEPA social media geek who loves music and blog­ging. He’s funny, artic­u­late and help­ful. He has a new blog where he has a lot of inter­est­ing info on  insects. He also blogs about pol­i­tics and other mis­cel­la­neous stuff.

@waltonsearch Shan­non shares all kinds of great info on recruitng and sourc­ing via her tweets in addi­tion to jobs. She is a super resource for social media recruit­ing tips and co-moderator of  Social Media Recruit­ing on LinkedIn.

@SakibKhan Sakib is a grad stu­dent in Peo­ple and Employ­ment in Auck­land, NZ. His tweets are infor­ma­tional and he has a great pos­i­tive atti­tude. His blog HR with Sakib Khan is just a few months old but very well done with great content.

@healthydocs Tamyra makes me feel good just fol­low­ing her. You never know, I could be out some­where and need to tweet with a physi­cian. She has the inside track on how to find them and all kinds of other health care pro­fes­sion­als too. Plus, she tweets all kinds of cool med­ical stuff.

@jobtweet_de In addi­tion to being a cool real-time syman­tic Twit­ter job search engine, you get bonus tweets chalk full of job seek­ing and recruit­ing with social media tips and news from Ham­burg, Ger­many, in Eng­lish and German.

@audreychernoff Audrey is Sr. Tech­ni­cal Recruiter / Abstract Artist and Co-Founder of Hirefinders.com, an inno­v­a­tive recruit­ing plat­form enabling Employ­ers and Job Seek­ers to find one another quickly, enjoy­ably and effi­ciently.  She’s are look­ing for beta testers so get on over there now!

So wow, you can see what I missed work­ing on Fri­day! I hope you’ll find some of these tweeps as inter­est­ing and wor­thy of fol­low­ing as I do…

Before I take off I have one more tid­bit of inter­est. If you enjoy hav­ing really inter­est­ing reads put before you about a wide vari­ety of top­ics, then fol­low @snipurl.

Ciao!