SacTweetUp Twitter FollowFriday Recommendations

I’d like to start off this blog post by just stating that I Love Twitter. Being self-employed and working from home has the potential to create some fairly solitary days, especially for many of us work at home entrepreneurs who used to work in Corporate America and big offices with co-workers and water cooler chatter.

You know the kind of day I am talking about. The kind of day where you sit down in the morning to start your work day and then you look up to finally take a breath and it is 5:00. The kind of day where you realize you forgot to take a lunch break and you’re starving. The kind of day, that at the end, you realize you haven’t spoken to another adult all day.

On one hand, these days make me feel awesome. I know I was totally focused, in a groove, in flow, and making a lot of progress and headway on my open projects.

But on the other hand, these days also remind me of how much I sometimes miss the corporate water cooler and the interruptions of co-workers stopping my my cube or office (depending on the job) to say hello, talk shop, or chat about the weekend!

I was talking to my husband the other day, explaining to him why I ALWAYS have TweetDeck open and he said something that I think represents much of what Twitter is.

Twitter is the Internet Water Cooler.

Twitter is that quick burst of instant connection and conversation that fills a break when you’ve got a creative block, a few minutes between meetings, a lunch break, or even a lazy unmotivated afternoon.

Whether you’re interested in dishing about the latest episodes of Heroes or So You Think You Can Dance, hashing out the latest Obama political news story, or sharing some business tips, resources, or links, Twitter provides the ability to have a quick Internet Water Cooler conversation with people all over the world instantly and in real time.

And, not only can you connect and chat with people all over the world on Twitter, You can build even stronger relationships by attending LIVE Tweetups – Twitter’s version of the Meetup group – to meet your Tweeps in person. Last week I went to the monthly SacTweetUp to hang with others from my Twitterverse at MIX in Downtown Sacramento.

In honor of my promise to not clog my followers streams with meaningless Tweets packed full of Twitter Handles, My #FollowFriday recommendations this week go out to those Sacramento Area Tweeps from this month’s #SacTweetUp.

Here goes my #FollowFriday recommendations for this week:

• @successfool – Organizer of #SacTweetUp, inspiring speaker and entrepreneur, and truly cares about helping people succeed
• @sierrafriend – Organizer of #SacTweetUp, WordPress & StudioPress Diva, and great connector of people
• @jerrykennedy – Sales trainer and motivational sales expert, speaker, and totally authentic friend
• @meghanwood – Because she is a rockstar, just got married, and knows that Twitter is where it’s at
• @SacComedy – Because I am having a blast following you and the first time I met you, you invited to to join your party.
• @bradasbury – Because knows his biz, networks in my circle and is just a nice guy
• @Nachhi – We finally got to meet in person for the first time and I so enojyed meeting you face to face!
• @rosevillerocklin – A fun and funky lady who doubles as a designer and a one-woman realtor support team!
• @ashleegadd and @Lesley3fold – Awesome ladies I would love to get to know more about!
• @JeffMarmins – for teaching people how to be effective with social networking and social media
• @JimPelley – Because we share the same birthday and he is an amazing wealth of great information
• @joshunfried – Because he is totally committed to helping mompreneurs have a voice, make a difference and grow their businesses
• @LuxxLimo – for donating the limos for the #ScavengerTweetup for #SacTweetUp
• @Johnnie_O – for being another cool designer who gets the importance of networking and relationship building
• @KatrinaSawa – Because she helps entrepreneurs think big and play even bigger!
• I also had a blast meeting @cakegrrl @julieMarg @drjared @juniperjames and @SuzHOPkins @rbiv @John_M_Ross @JenKleinSac

And, if you’d like you can follow me too at @jenniferbourn