{"id":101,"date":"2010-04-09T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2010\/04\/09\/the-ultimate-follow-friday-list-for-accessible-tweeps\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T16:01:26","slug":"the-ultimate-follow-friday-list-for-accessible-tweeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2010\/04\/09\/the-ultimate-follow-friday-list-for-accessible-tweeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Version 2.0: The ultimate &ldquo;follow Friday&rdquo; list for accessible tweeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><font color=\"#008080\" face=\"Century Gothic\">As promised, here is the updated list with a few additions, as per your request.&#160; Please follow them on Twitter, find them on Facebook, link to them on Linked In, and avail yourself of their genius.&#160; Thank you to all of you for your great work and contribution of time and energy in educating others. <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font color=\"#008080\" face=\"Century Gothic\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font color=\"#008080\" face=\"Century Gothic\">Now&#160; that I&#8217;ve spent some time as a tweep, I&#8217;m getting a better handle on how reaching out to a network of like-minded business people can enhance my own little universe, even if it\u2019s only 140 characters at a time.&#160;&#160;&#160; In just a few months on Twitter, I&#8217;ve made some great connections with both business owners and consumers in an effort to market my own offerings.&#160; I&#8217;ve hired consultants I&#8217;ve met through Twitter, I&#8217;ve downloaded some great software and apps I learned about from Twitter, and have received the most wonderfully positive and&#160; encouraging feedback from complete strangers who have learned of my work through Twitter.&#160; Along with my other social networking efforts, I&#8217;ve managed to come up with a really stellar list of great resources from which I&#8217;ve personally benefited.&#160; I thought I&#8217;d share some of them with you, in hope that you find the same superb quality I&#8217;ve discovered.&#160; Remember, behind every seemingly meaningless&#160; 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Find the BC Coalition of People with Disabilities Help Sheets, reports, and magazine online: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccpd.bc.ca\"><font color=\"#008080\" face=\"Century Gothic\">www.bccpd.bc.ca<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\" face=\"Century Gothic\">@tbabinszki &#8211; Tom Babinszki Section 508 accessibility consultant, publisher of Even Grounds newsletter <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evengrounds.com\/\"><font color=\"#008080\" face=\"Century Gothic\">www.evengrounds.com\/<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\" face=\"Century Gothic\">@blindbeautiful &#8212; Blind&#160;&#160; Beautifully Blind Inc. is a Non-Profit organization that bridges the gap between the sighted and visually impaired. <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/1wkLh\"><font color=\"#008080\" face=\"Century Gothic\">ow.ly\/1wkLh<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\" face=\"Century Gothic\">@InclusivePlanet &#8212; Creating an online community where the visually-impaired can easily share accessible content and conversations.&#160; 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