When we write things like – “Favorites are another way you can recognize and give credit to people (remember, social networking is not about you)” – it’s because Sarah taught us that networking of any kind (online or off) is not about you.

Considering the constant barrage of self-congratulatory puffery on social media sites like Twitter, it’s hard to remember that – but spend some time around Sarah Michel and the message will sink in.

Wish I could write and speak like Scott (http://collapseofdistinction.com/). Wish I had the social networking knowledge of Mike – who’s now taken up with a new company – Fast Horse in Minneapolis (http://www.fasthorseinc.com/blog/). And, I wish I had one-tenth of Gary’s knowledge of video production – and his commitment to service with what they do for the Parkinson’s Disease Foudation (www.pdf.org). You guys are just great and we’ll follow your favorites, anytime!

I did have 3 favoites, somehow, only 1 of them I really knew. So Graeme thanks for telling us how click the Star and remove Favorites

http://gawker.com/5153540/tina-fey-denies-mcflurry-payola-disowns-twitter-account

So, for those I comments I missed individually – Elli finally helped kick out the ideas that were rolling around in my head; Rob told us about Username.com (what else do you need?!); Ed keeps our feet to the business fire; Ellen should have been included with the three who are teaching us Twitter; John Marx is a good, good friend and Tim Walker is just smart, smart, smart.

Thanks to all.

My guess would be the I initially discovered most of the good stuff on Twitter because of either Claire Wadlington (@Wadlington), Mike Keliher (@mjkeliher) or Jim Storer (@jimstorer). I’ve got an article that I’m working on essentially telling new Twitter users to find people like this if they really want to learn what’s up on Twitter, or any new tech program that they are trying.

Claire, though, is constantly coming up with things I bookmark, tag in Zotero, make an Outlook task or throw into my Twitter Favorites. If it weren’t for her, I’d get a lot more work done!

And Claire, thanks for @billycole – I’m following him!

You are too funny – and too refreshingly modest. I’d venture to guess that it would be a small fraction of technology experts like yourself who would ever admit that they didn’t know something! Hmmm… come to think about it, these days, it would be a small fraction of any group of experts, technology or otherwise, who would ever admit…

And, yes – I didn’t do a great job of making this clear – but go look at any saved favorite – the name and picture of the person who sent that Tweet comes first. To me, that’s a way of recognizing them – as much as remembering the information. Information is overrated on Twitter (after all, there’s far too much of it). ReTweeting and Favorites are ways of bringing the people to the front – as much as the information.

I love to go back through my Favorites from time to time — I don’t use it that much, but it provides me an interesting mix of topics (business, friends’ news, just plain funny stuff) to reflect upon.