"It's still you you know" is Handshake 2.0's motto, and we've made business leadership lists on Twitter to foster the development of "who you know."  As we mentioned in this post, We're a Company on a Mission and We're Doing What It Takes - Twitter Lists Included.

Billy Newcomb, a hydrogeologist with Draper Aden Associates, is on Handshake 2.0's Twitter List of Business, Company, and Corporate Executives.

We asked Newcomb, "Why are you on Twitter?" He kindly replied:

I am a business-oriented social media user. I integrated my Twitter account with my LinkedIn account for business contacts, outreach and research.  As a consulting hydrogeologist, I am interested in many topics relating to natural resources and sustainable energy. These are fast-moving and highly technical fields with legal, regulatory, community and scientific facets that weigh on each other.

I am also interested in our local community, and the state of business in the Roanoke and New River Valleys of Virgina. Social media provides an unparalleled and very efficient means for keeping up-to-date on these topics, and to foster collaboration between other professionals when discussion threads form that bear relevance to my work.  My goal is to post at least 30 tweets per month, hoping to provide people participating in the web-sphere with relevant content on issues for which we share an interest.

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Handshake 2.0 has started lists of the like-minded - corporate leadership - in our region in Twitter Lists, beginning in Blacksburg, Virginia and the surrounding New River Valley of Virginia. 

Handshake 2.0's Twitter List of Company Founders

Handshake 2.0's Twitter List of Business, Company, and Corporate Executives

Are you on our lists?  If you're not, please let us know to add you!  Please DM us at Handshake 2.0 on Twitter.