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What I like most about what you, Bob and Alice do is that you are true leaders… you extend your hands and offer help to anyone who wants it. With more educators like you three, exemplifying what it means to be connected teachers and learners, we’ll see things changing much faster in the near future!

Bryan,
I guess I owe you great thanks for the nomination as well. I’m not sure this was a year of blogging that puts me in the ‘Best Individual Blog’ category, and so as I mention to you on your post, it means a lot to me that such a nomination would come from ‘home’.

Lesley,
So glad to hear that your presence will still be felt, I’m not sure I could just ‘turn off the tap’ either.

Sue,
The awards are for a whole year… your presence on Twitter deserves more than just an honourable mention!

Jan,
I love that you make blogging such a rich and valuable experience for your students, and they deserve the kudos, as do you.

Alice,
I regret not getting a chance to spend more time talking to you in Boston, we must plan some time together the next time we have a face-to-face opportunity!

Liz,
You rock! What more can I say?

Kim,
Both you and Liz are leaders that I would follow any day. Thanks for all that you do and share!

Shelly,
On the topic of sharing, I don’t think we have been connected on Twitter for too long, and yet I can’t imagine Twitter without your presence.

Claudia,
I have not known Twitter without you as I believe you were the first friend that I added. Thanks again for the ‘push’ and also for being so thoughtful and insightful in your blog posts, your tweets and your comments.

~Dave.

You say at the end of the post,
“I’m connected to every one of these educators on Twitter and I’d be remiss in not mentioning that.”
That’s exactly my state of mind before you got into Twitter. I thought: this Twitter network rocks my mind. But there were a few influential bloggers for me who were still not there at the time. I missed them.

I think I pushed you more than pulled you into a tool -against my own principles. I’m not guilty at all. Frankly I’m glad.

Thank you for the mention to that collection of tweets. Thank you for seeing the value in spite of the design mess in it.

I am grateful to Bud Hunt for replying “say more” after some of those tweets. It made me think I was stretching the Twitter tool too far. It was about time to go back to the good old reflection post. A timely tweet from your closer network circle spells magic. At least it does for me.

Finally, I like that you mention your bias in your nominations. I think it is as important as nominating. Some teachers will probably use the nominations as a newbie guide to the edublogosphere. Your post tells them “this is what we do”, “this is what works for me” without claiming any authority except being transparent.

This is why you are among my kind of people, David.