Over the past six weeks, we’ve spoken to some of the top social media users from around the world to find out what lessons they’ve learnt online.
Each week we asked our guests to suggest three names that we could add to our Social Situation ‘must follow’ list.
So, with season one all wrapped up we’ve culminated our guests’ suggestions to create one super-list:
SOCIAL SITUATION MUST FOLLOW LIST 2011
Social Situation 1 – Mia Freedman
- Brendan Maclean – Comedian and actor
- MamaMia News – moderated by Rick Morton
- Lisa Wilkinson – Journalist and Today morning show host
Social Situation 2 – Anthony De Rosa
- Andy Carvin – senior strategist at NPR.
- Matthew Keys – online news producer, owner ofProducerMatthew and journalist.
- Storyful – a site that “uses the power of social networks to create authentic, cooperative and socially useful journalism.”
- David Clinch – Editorial Director for Storyful.
- Joe Webster – Digital Strategist for Storyful, formerly at AP.
Social Situation 3 – Matthew Keys
- Ernie Smith – the creator of website @ShortFormBlog.
- Neal Mann – freelancer for Sky News UK and social media wiz.
- Ethan Klapper – the online editor of National Journal.
Social Situation 4 – Amber Mac
- Shira Lazar – creator and host of ‘WhatsTrending’ an American social media show on CBS.
- Scott Stratten – expert in social media and ‘authentic marketing’, author of ‘UnMarketing’.
- Matthew Ingram – a senior writer at GigaOM, co-founder of the ‘mesh’ conference in Toronto, former journalist with Globe and Mail.
Social Situation 5 – Jess Hill
- Evegeny Morosov – Author of ‘The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
- StoryfulPro – This is a private account run by the great team at Storyful. You need to send a request and meet their criteria to become a follower, but until then check out their website and public Twitter account
- Mark Colvin – Presenter of PM on ABC Radio and Twitter evangelist.
Social Situation 6 – Greg Jericho
- Roger Ebert – A US film critic who tweets about a range of topics, including American politics. Often sends out great links.
- Possum Comitatus – Someone who is great to follow for snarky discussion on media, economics and politics.
- Stephen Koukoulas – Economist, political watcher and former advisor to Prime Minister Gillard. Provides really good commentary on economic issues.
upstart would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our Social Situation guests for their time. And we’d also like to thank you – our listeners. Our first season has already received over two-thousands hits.
And, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be back with season two in March of next year.
Until then, keep tweeting!
Sean Power is a first-year Bachelor of Media Studies student at La Trobe University, and the founder of the Social Situation. You can follow him on Twitter: @powersoz
