To figure out who to follow, I recommend searching relevant industry topics on Twitter and the Huffington Post, so you can get a sense of who is active in your specific professional community.
As you start networking more, it’s important to do your homework by staying on top of what’s going on in your industry. Read the news, subscribe to relevant daily newsletters (for example, I like Mattermark for investing and EdSurge for education technology), and keep up with your industry’s movers and shakers. To figure out who to follow, I recommend searching relevant industry topics on Twitter and the Huffington Post, so you can get a sense of who is active in your specific professional community. You can even get involved in the conversation by interacting with those people on social media ( more on that here).