Issue 115: #FourToFollow and #FourIKnow #SocialSaturday RoundUp

Bill Kirst , Carolina Bakker - The Rat Race Recovery Coach , Kristine Kolodziejski ??? and Josh Ether are this week's #FourToFollow

Bill - is a Change Management professional at Adobe and is someone you should know. His LinkedIn Top Voice Badge displayed is "Top Thought Leadership Voice" and after talking to my wife about him, Eva Rey realized she wants to meet him too (a lot of what she does as the head of implementation for Gallagher Bassett is change management for customers!)!

Carolina Bakker displays the LinkedIn Top Voice Badge "Top Business Coaching Voice" on her profile. She also runs a #SocialSaturday post which is how I came across her LinkedIn Top Voice award. She spent time with 苏黎世保险 via DXC Technology . Another connection you should make (check out her post yesterday to grow your network!)

Kristine Kolodziejski is a Microsoft MVP and just shared her LinkedIn Top Voice Badge "Top Software Development Voice" with her LinkedIn community. We have not met, but her videos and presentations make Microsoft code easy to understand.

Josh Ether LinkedIn Top Voice Badge "Top Agile Methodologies Voice" - he was the most recent top voice I have come across in my network. A scrum master at 富达 (where my wife and I have the majority of our retirement because both Microsoft and Gallagher use Fidelity!). Also a TEDx speaker, Josh is in my final four for this week.

New This Week: "Four I Know"

I've decided since the #FourToFollow are typically people I haven't met, worked with or spoken with (Bill is the exception this week - we spoke yesterday and will meet in person this week at #MSIgnite), there are plenty of people I run into in person especially on weeks like a Microsoft conference week!

Rebeca Mead and I worked together a lot at Microsoft, have kept in touch since I left (twice) and she is also a Boomerang back to a FTE! We ran into each other at the Chicago MTC when I attended the Chicago BDPA event and met a couple other "Four I Know" people this week.

James Wang is a similar story - met at Microsoft, keep up with other on social (primarily LinkedIn) and he was another person I saw at the Chicago office to watch the Clark twins share the story behind Ticket Falcon .

Ryan Clark, MBA (MVP) and I met at the Chicago BDPA event downtown (hosted by David Giard from Microsoft). We hadn't met in person, but are both Microsoft MVPs in M365 Apps and Services. Ryan goes by "Mr. SharePoint" and is an entrepreneur along with his twin Ashton Clark, MBA . Thanks to Charity April McCoy and the rest of the Chicago BDPA team for great food, presentation and conversations!

Finally Michelle Grikenas got me involved with 摩托罗拉系统 years ago and we worked together for several years at the Information Management Group. She has been with Avanade for a long time (will have to ask if she has Microsoft 365 Copilot since they are one of several early adoption organizations!)

Here you have it! FourToFollow and FourIKnow for the first full week of November!