Future Thoughts

Bill Gates

Sharing things I'm learning through my foundation work and other interests...
6,695,355 followers |

TEDTalks Updates

The official feed for daily TEDTalks. Only new TEDTalks are posted on this feed. For all TED news, follow @TEDNews too!
1,013,466 followers |

GOOD

GOOD is the global association of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits powering what works.
757,410 followers |

The Next Web

Our feed of international news on technology, business and culture. Follow @TNW for top stories OR follow specific channels in our twitter lists.
717,957 followers |

Anonymous

We are Anonymous, We are legion, We never forgive, We never forget, Expect us.
590,753 followers |

Forbes.com Tech News

Tech news and insights from the Forbes.com global news team.
517,944 followers |

creativecommons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of ©.
463,354 followers |

Beth Kanter

Let's talk about networked approaches & social media for training and capacity building for the nonprofit sector that leverage learning and impact.
403,416 followers |

Ashoka

Ashoka is an international citizen-sector organization that is leading the way to an Everyone a Changemaker World.
361,676 followers |

Slate

Politics, culture, technology, business, news, and commentary. Procrastinate better.
358,685 followers |

Ryan Sarver

Director, Platform at Twitter. Detroit and Boston export. Foodie and over-the-hill hockey player. @devon's lesser half
275,622 followers |

Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. If you want a reply, use email. Blog suggestions here: http://boingboing.net/submit/
236,989 followers |

TED TALKS

Ideas Worth Spreading
195,156 followers |

Seth Godin

Founder of Squidoo.com, author, blogger. This is a retweet of my blog.
179,494 followers |

Richard Florida

Urbanist, Author, Professor, Researcher, Talker, Bike Rider, Guitar Player
144,733 followers |

99%

As Thomas Edison said, Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. 99% highlights insights, interviews, & tips on making ideas happen.
127,949 followers |

Barry Libert

Technology investor, corporate director, author/speaker and strategic advisor to leaders and their boards on the value of becoming a social enterprise
119,353 followers |

Mashable SocialMedia

The latest happenings in social media, plus tips on using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Foursquare and more from @Mashable. Tweets by @BAHjournalist.
118,820 followers |

Social Media Club

World’s largest organization of Social Media Professionals reaching 300k+. Chapters in over 300 cities. Tweets from @kristiewells @jessicarmurray & @chrisheuer.
112,294 followers |

trendwatching.com

trendwatching.com is an independent consumer trends firm, relying on hundreds of spotters worldwide. (+ follow Tim Pitts, COO, @trendwatchertim)
70,787 followers |

Energy Department

Building the new clean energy economy. Reducing nuclear dangers & environmental risks. Expanding the frontiers of knowledge via innovative scientific research.
56,348 followers |

Cloud Expo®

Join 30,000+ Delegates in 2012 at World's Largest #Cloud Events! New York [June 11-14] Silicon Valley [Nov 5-8] Register & Save! ▸ http://bit.ly/tucY2B
52,916 followers |

O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators and expert early adopters to everyday users through books, conferences, news reportage, videos, and classes.
45,036 followers |

FUTURE Patrick Dixon

FUTURIST, 13.5 MILLION VISITORS WEB, 4m video views, author 14 books. RANKED ONE OF 20 MOST INFLUENTIAL BUSINESS THINKERS IN WORLD (2005). Keynote Speaker
42,434 followers |

Open Society

The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.
37,321 followers |

Open Government TV

Open Government/Gov 2.0 News, Information & Resources for businesses, government agencies and constituents. Bloomberg of Open Government.
37,060 followers |

Don Tapscott

Author (most recent book Macrowikinomics), consulting company CEO, Hammond B3 player, striving to live a principled life of consequence.
36,085 followers |

dustin curtis

Villain.
35,398 followers |

Jacob Appelbaum

Ethics enthusiast && الحب و الحياة في وقت قصير && cast iron club
31,947 followers |

Howard Rheingold

Independent thinker, online instigator, novice educator, expert learner, offline gardener.
29,254 followers |

Nicholas Longo

Ideologist. Director of Geekdom. Director of Strategic Initiatives at Rackspace. Founder of CoffeeCup Software & Biggest Deal - Husband & Dad.
28,483 followers |

SAI Chart Of The Day

One chart about tech and media from @BusinessInsider, every day.
25,141 followers |

DevOps Borat

Cultural Learnings of DevOps for Make Benefit Glorious Teams of Devs and Ops.
25,030 followers |

Gerd Leonhard

Keynote Speaker, Futurist, Strategist, Blogger, Author http://gerd.fm/focbook + CEO of @FuturesAgency Blog: http://www.futureof.biz new: @agreenfuturist
23,071 followers |

MIT OpenCourseWare

Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.
22,527 followers |

Trendland

Tweets from Trendland an Online Magazine for Fashion | Trends | Art | Design | Photography | Illustrations | Music | Video... Hope we can bring you inspiration!
22,400 followers |

Marc Jampole

21,451 followers |

Founder Institute

We are the world's largest idea-stage incubator. Follow us for insights from the people building great #startups. Tweets by @jonnystartup
20,706 followers |

Ethan Zuckerman

Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab, Global Voices Online, Berkman Center. Formerly Geekcorps, Tripod. RT ≠ endorsement, RT = interesting read.
20,530 followers |

SnagFilms

Stream over 3,000 films for FREE on SnagFilms.com. Or watch anytime, anywhere on your iPad, Kindle Fire, Blackberry tablets, and Android smartphones & devices.
18,704 followers |

DCMS

The UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Tweets from the Digital Comms Team - Andrew, Kate and Nick.
18,392 followers |

Berkman Center

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University - exploring cyberspace, sharing in its study, and helping to pioneer its development
18,375 followers |

Conduit

@Conduit empowers web and mobile publishers to engage their users across multiple platforms, and connect with them wherever they are.
14,905 followers |

IxDA

Interaction Design Association Global Twitter Feed
13,610 followers |

Open Rights Group

The Open Rights Group exists to preserve and promote your rights in the digital age. We are funded by individuals who care about their digital rights.
12,838 followers |

Blackbaud

The leading global provider of software and services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations.
12,079 followers |

PR Institute of Aust

PRIA represents and provides professional support and recognition to 3,000 individual practitioners, and more than 175 consultancies throughout Australia.
12,067 followers |

Frankie Flowers

Passionate about Business, Architecture, Design, Web Marketing, Social Media and Innovation. Photographer and Music lover
11,877 followers |

Liberationtech

How ICTs foster/hinder freedom, democracy, human rights, development (ICT4D, M4D & ICT4E), governance (Gov20, OpenGov) & activism. RT/post/FF ≠ endorsement.
11,578 followers |

The Big Society

The Big Society Network exists to generate, develop and showcase new ideas to help people come together to do good @Nexters12 @spring_giving @GetInUK
11,414 followers |

Steve Ressler

Social Network Connecting Gov't Community Passionate about public service innovation
10,657 followers |

Meg Pickard

Head of Digital Engagement at Guardian News & Media + longtime geek. Currently on maternity leave so tweets may be less work-related for a while. YMMV.
10,630 followers |

David Olsen

An undercover economist and a not so undercover geek. Infamous fedora wearer. Views here are my own & not that of my employer.
10,479 followers |

Kate Lundy

Minister for Sport, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation, Labor Senator for the ACT.
10,295 followers |

Bruce Nussbaum

writing on CQ--creative intelligence
10,150 followers |

ndiipp

Dispatches from the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
9,929 followers |

Michael Coldwell

Las Vegas marketing guru by day, wise-cracking porcine by night. Managing Partner at BRAINtrust Marketing.
9,551 followers |

ALA_TechSource

American Library Association imprint for librarian geeks and technology innovators. Regular contributors include Dan Freeman and Patrick Hogan.
9,420 followers |

BBC CoJo

Recommended reading and learning from the BBC College of Journalism.
8,824 followers |

E-Gov Herald

A digital publication about E-Gov, Data-Gov, Gov 2.0, open governance.
8,761 followers |

Courtney Boyd Myers

Features Editor of @TheNextWeb. Member of @Sandbox_Network, ENFJ, traveler, jogger & yogi.
7,872 followers |

Matthew E. May

Indulging my addiction to subtraction. Author, The Laws of Subtraction (McGraw-Hill, Oct' 12). AmEx OPEN Forum blogger. CCO, Edit Innovation.
7,772 followers |

Open Source Views

Your source for the latest news about the open source software movement
7,725 followers |

IBMCloud

Official IBM Cloud Twitter account. Tweet your questions and comments with #ibmcloud. Maintained by @ThingsSheSaid @shubhs77 @tweetsaj
7,588 followers |

jon gatrell

tech marketing dad
7,547 followers |

TEDxMelbourne

TEDx enables local communities to organize & host their own TED-like events to share ideas worth spreading. Next Event: July 19 @ State Library #TEDxMelb
7,545 followers |

SocialGov

Tracking trends in the use of Social Media in Government and Politics.
7,423 followers |

Public Knowledge

Fighting for your digital rights in Washington, D.C. RT's do not necessarily indicate endorsement.
7,129 followers |

Philanthropy Journal

Philanthropy Journal your online source for daily nonprofit news, resources, jobs, and events. PJ is a program of the Institute for Nonprofits at NC State Univ.
6,623 followers |

Open Source Time

Your source for the latest news on Open Source Software
6,582 followers |

Eberhard Jung

Executive Coach...
6,393 followers |

US Government News

Consolidated Federal Government News, directly from the Agencies, without slant, spin or hype. Managed by @sheffus Archive at http://usgovnews.blogspot.com
6,363 followers |

GovFresh

Gov 2.0, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people. Open air government. (@lukefretwell)
6,175 followers |

UCSF

Advancing health worldwide
5,875 followers |

Datawunder

We all think visual. But Spreadsheets are data centric ;-) Therefore we provide a unique kind of Visualization-Online-Service for every Spreadsheet-Data`s.
5,849 followers |

HP Software

HP Software Solutions Group http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=65439 **** Community - http://hp.com/go/swcommunity
5,464 followers |

TEDxSydney

TEDxSydney by General Thinking returns to Sydney on 26 May 2012. See www.tedxsydney.com for details.
5,314 followers |

Meanjin Quarterly

Australia's second-oldest literary mag
5,185 followers |

HASTAC

We are a network of networks, a virtual organization committed to rethinking the future of learning. Join us!
5,077 followers |

Pia Waugh

FOSS and open government geek, musician, and kung fu freedom fighter! These thoughts are my own.
4,976 followers |

Steve Jennings

1 wife, 2 kids, 5 bikes, lots of friends, music, books, art, LEGO, the ocean, 'just perfect'.
4,962 followers |

Alex Feldman

4,859 followers |

Fjord

Fjord is a service design consultancy. We create useful, effective, and desirable digital services that people love. 
4,791 followers |

Ponoko

Ponoko - the world's easiest making system. Here to assist are Josh Judkins (^JJ), Catherine Field-Dodgson (^CFD) & Dan Emery (^DE), plus Ponoko Blog updates.
4,769 followers |

Hadley Beeman

I design & deliver #opendata and social networking technologies in the UK public sector. Advisor on technology policy. Open standards. Founder of @LinkedGov.
4,697 followers |

Business NSW

We are the NSW Government’s business development agency: Industry, Innovation & Investment Division - part of NSW Trade & Investment
4,676 followers |

Semantic Tech & Biz

Voice of Semantic Web Technology and Linked Data Business. Producer of Semantic Tech & Business Conference, June 3-7, 2012 in San Francisco. #semtechbiz
4,486 followers |

Socialcast

The private social network by VMware built for the enterprise. Connect people with the knowledge, ideas and resources they need to work better together.
4,340 followers |

FutureLab Blog

We use this account to distribute the articles from our Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog. Also see @Futurelab
4,302 followers |

UK Government News

Consolidated UK Government News, directly from the Agencies, without slant, spin or hype. Managed by @sheffus
4,191 followers |

Kristin Alford

Futurist & Founding Director @_bridge8. Interested in lots of things important and trivial. Licensee of TEDxAdelaide.
4,170 followers |

Slate Culturefest

Slate's weekly podcast on culture high and low. Find us at feed://media.slate.com/media/slate/Podcasts/Culturefest/culturefest1.xml or subscribe free on iTunes.
4,134 followers |

GovinTheLab

A magazine focused on #humanrights, #politics, #gov. Global and language independent.
4,028 followers |

Nick Sherrard

Collaboration As Seen on CCTV. I'll be running Involve and Create - R&D for Creative Industries. Tweets innovation cooperation creativity culture jugaad Irn Bru
4,005 followers |

CC Australia

The organisation that supports Creative Commons in Australia and administers the Australian Creative Commons licences. Follow our projects: @govCCAu; @eduCCAu
3,946 followers |

Vibewire.org

Vibewire exists to make sure that young people are included (and able to participate) in conversations that matter.
3,909 followers |

Marc Smith

Sociologist of computer-mediated collective action @ Connected Action www.connectedaction.net Director: Social Media Research Foundation smrfoundation.org
3,532 followers |

Ben Cerveny

a pattern moving through the biomass, refracting memes
3,527 followers |

Scott Burns

3,448 followers |

openinnovation

3,079 followers |

LIS Research

Facilitating a co-ordinated & strategic approach to Library and Information Science research across the UK. (Updates tweeted by Hazel Hall & Stephanie Kenna.)
2,862 followers |

Digital New Zealand

2,821 followers |

A Wiki for CFPs

A Wiki for Calls For Papers (CFP)
2,634 followers |

Governing People

The world's best thinkers on promoting smart, efficient, and transparent #government. Join the conversation!
2,626 followers |

GETideas.org

GETideas.org is where education leaders connect with peers, experts, and resources to drive Global Education Transformation--GET! Tweets by Jessica Kelly.
2,584 followers |

Andrew Gerrard

Social & Digital Business @wearelikeminds #LikeMinds - Listener, Learner, Creator, Curator, Producer, Muso, Hubbie & Dad http://bit.ly/AG_LI Andrew Gerrard
2,462 followers |

Michelle Williams

Creating ecologies and eco-systems for change. Lover of fine music! Founder of @ideactionaus. #socialinnovation #socent #changemaker
2,445 followers |

Aust Policy Online

The latest Australian public interest research, news, opinion and resources
2,423 followers |

Institute of Play

A nonprofit dedicated to activating the next generation of engaged citizens by leveraging the power of games.
2,121 followers |

Tariq Khokhar

Open Data Evangelist at The World Bank. Technology, poverty, development, design and data. Some statistics and swearing.
2,008 followers |

Infographic A Day

Bringing you one great infographic every day! Tweet @infographicaday or direct message us if you would like to be featured.
1,853 followers |

gov2taskforce

This task force will engage, consult and develop policy around how government can use web2.0 to engage, inform and consult the community.
1,780 followers |

StateOfTheInternet

Akamai's Quarterly State of the Internet Report
1,734 followers |

nextbigfuture

coverage of science and technology having the potential for disruption and analysis of plans, policies and technology to enable radical improvement
1,682 followers |

APS Innovation

Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research team working to advance innovation in the public sector.
1,493 followers |

Andy Williamson

figuring out how we learn, connect, engage then flourish through effective leadership, innovative engagement and new social spaces
1,473 followers |

Dustin Amrhein

Husband, technical evangelist for WebSphere, sports nut
1,430 followers |

Creativeinnovation

Creativeinnovation is dedicated to growing and showcasing the potential of Australia’s creative enterprises, big and small.
1,377 followers |

Tapscott & Williams

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking innovation bestseller, Wikinomics by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams. Available in stores and online.
1,331 followers |

Jane Finnis

Chief Executive of Culture24, Chairman of Culturemondo, Trustee at Photoworks, blogger and culturelover
1,330 followers |

GeoIQ

Innovative geo-software company. Creator of GeoCommons and GeoIQ.
1,319 followers |

SPARC

Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
1,223 followers |

Amar Ashar

1,182 followers |

Produced By

Official twitter for the 4th annual Produced By Conference, the premier entertainment industry event! June 8-10, 2012 at Sony Pictures Studios #ProducedBy
1,161 followers |

Larry Sanger

Online knowledge organizer. Helped start Wikipedia, Citizendium, WatchKnowLearn, Reading Bear, and others; Ph.D. Philosophy.
1,102 followers |

LJ's infoDOCKET

Shirl Kennedy and Gary Price are now blogging at: http://fulltextreports.com & http://INFOdocket.com
1,102 followers |

Oxygen Cloud

Oxygen connects you and private storage to make content mobile, sync'd and available anywhere.
1,094 followers |

Claire Warwick

Professor of Digital Humanities at UCL (tho' tweeting in personal capacity) Research: users of digital resources in humanities, cultural heritage; social media
1,077 followers |

Cloud Computing

Technology Insight,News,Articles,Services on Cloud Computing.Google Appengine,Amazon EC2 et al.
1,072 followers |

j trant

thinks + researches culture, web, info tech, policy + networks | @archimuse for museum tech tweets | do gardens, boats + computers go together?
1,019 followers |

O'Reilly Labs

O'Reilly's alpha, beta, and gamma projects.
1,007 followers |

Gov 2.0 Aggregator

A few choice #gov20 retweets and links every day, powered by Hillary Hartley (@hillary). Followed accounts contribute to http://paper.li/gov20
979 followers |

Geoff Barker

Add in equal parts - Museum, Curator, Photography, Music, and History - digitise - then serve chilled
911 followers |

katie salen

Professor of Game Design at DePaul University in Chicago and Executive Director of @InstituteofPlay
885 followers |

OAIC

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner - Protecting information rights - Advancing information policy. Twitter’s privacy policy applies here.
772 followers |

Chris Beer

Oz. e-Gov, Accessibility, Gov 2.0, W3C, SemWeb, Web 2.0, Opendata, Linked Data, GIS, seeing how things work by breaking them. Views my own.
755 followers |

CeBITGov 2.0

Presented by CeBIT Australia...Gov 2.0 & eGovernment Australia gather a high profile group of experts in the use of Web 2.0 tools in the public sector.
727 followers |

SPARC in Europe

SPARC in Europe promotes & supports #OpenAccess. We advocate change in scholarly communications for the benefit of researchers & society.
726 followers |

SPARC_BC

"SPARC BC works with communities to build a just and healthy society for all."
711 followers |

Crispin Butteriss

Co-founder of Bang the Table, specialising in online community engagement tools and techniques. Adapting social media & web 2.0 stuff for community engagement.
670 followers |

ARC CCI

CCI has developed an international reputation as a research hub humming with bright ideas about Australia’s digital future
623 followers |

Jason C McIntyre

Cloud Solutions Advisor - Office 365 at Microsoft Canada. Social collaboration, Intranets, Portals, SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0 strategy, search
618 followers |

Weiner Edrich Brown

Weiner,Edrich,Brown,Inc.is a foresight consulting firm. WEB tracks social, economic, political and technological trends. Tweets by @ErOrange, VP at WEB.
607 followers |

AlvaroRamírez-Alujas

Founder & Researcher at @GIGAPP / Public Management Professor & Advisor / Musician & Writer ☞ #GobiernoAbierto #OpenGov #oGov #eGov #Gov20 #OpenData #Innovación
607 followers |

SmartFutures

An ICT careers campaign aimed at second level students in Ireland, coordinated by DSE, ICT Ireland, Engineers Ireland & sponsored by Industry.
551 followers |

miakgarlick

Constantly evolving...
535 followers |

Sentil Chinnachamy

Geo-Sapien: GIS (Esri) Architect, GIS Marketing Specialist, CrisisMapper, Certified Scrum Master, Social Media Manger, Serial volunteer
518 followers |

OOM Creative

Data Visualization Designer - Founder of OOM Creative - Senior Lecturer RMIT University.
513 followers |

Centre for eResearch

Working at the intersection between research and practice in information creation and management, knowledge production and ICT methods, tools and technologies.
505 followers |

CBC ReCivilization

The official twitter feed for CBC Radio's ReCivilization, hosted by @dtapscott and @adw_tweets and produced by @adamkillick. Go to our site to get the podcasts!
442 followers |

Damien Donnelly

Changing the world one idea at a time
412 followers |

CollaborationProject

The National Academy of Public Administration’s independent forum of leaders committed to using collaborative technology to solve government’s complex problems
396 followers |

The WELL

Online community since 1985.
351 followers |

NZ Government News

A feed from NZ government news at http://newzealand.govt.nz/
320 followers |

metaLayer Inc.

Drag and Drop Data Science. metaLayer Inc. is making the world's information easier to understand, visualize and share.
311 followers |

OPF

Developing tools and building a user-led community to address digital preservation challenges.
252 followers |

IPAA Victoria

IPAA's mission is to enhance the capacity, integrity and reputation of the public sector in Victoria.
251 followers |

Helen Palmer

206 followers |

Future Makers

A project which brings together people and knowledge to cast new light on the big opportunities and challenges facing New Zealand over the next 20 years.
189 followers |

EON Government News

Government & Public Policy News Releases from EON: Enhanced Online News, a service of Business Wire.
181 followers |

TwitsNation

169 followers |

Escherich IOTFeed

I'm a robot. Collecting interesting insight on Internet of Things and related areas.
168 followers |

21C Learning

Art, Science and the Brain: New Models of Learning for the 21st Century is an innovative knowledge eXchange hosted by @artssmarts & @sigeneration.
139 followers |

Berkeley DH

Digital Humanities working group at UC Berkeley, supported by the Townsend Center. This spring we're organizing discussions and speakers related to DH
98 followers |

SpinnyBarHS

We'll see you around.
93 followers |

TEDxYouth@Sydney

TEDxYouth@Sydney is an ideas forum for 12-16 year olds, to be held at The Powerhouse Museum on November 20 2010.
78 followers |

Tom Nolle

CIMI Corporation is a strategic consulting firm in the telecom, media, and technology space and Tom is president and founder.
55 followers |

Ghost Bernard Keane

2 followers |

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