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My #FF for this week are @PRSarahEvans, @TeamWahooly / #Wahooligan & @Melifotog

@PRSarahEvans aka Sarah Evans
 PR. Social Media Correspondent. Animal lover. Birthed Twitter industry chats. #journchat #commentz prsarahevans@gmail.com In the Twitter stream. · http://sevansstrategy.com

Sarah is one of those people that always keeps you on your toes. She’s constantly working on new exciting projects and sharing them with the social media community. I heart her new website, Sarah’s Faves, where she profiles different fun, and functional ideas, links, products around the interwebs.

@TeamWahooly aka Wahooly
#Wahooligans
Rewarding social influence

Wahooly is a brand spanking new website, which is set to launch very soon. How it works:

Welcome to Wahooly.com, a group of socially-connected individuals that together, help launch startups. As a member of Wahooly, you’ll be presented with up to 200 startups over the next 12 months. If you like what they do and if you think that they have the potential to be the next big thing, you become a user.Your compensation: A piece of the action.

By signing up as a user to one of the startups that Wahooly presents to you, you become an instant shareholder in that startup. If you signup for all 200 startups that Wahooly presents over the next 12 months, you’ll be a shareholder in 200 startups.

Pretty exciting, eh? I am one of the first people to have access to the website once it launches and I can’t wait. The #Wahooligans are those of us who were chosen to be part of the “beta” launch. It’s a group of people from around the world, varying in ages, backgrounds, etc. There is an extremely active Facebook group right now where everyone is starting to connect with one another, and the excitement is building! You can sign up on the website and be in the know once everything opens up.

@Melifotog aka Melissa Calvert

Queer girl temporarily in southern Illinois then off to Chile (nuevamente)! Happily married grad student at SIU. Nerdy about lots of things. I’m also very silly

If you haven’t guessed it yet (the picture makes it obvious, right? ), yes, Melissa is my wife. I’ll be saying hasta la pasta to her today at 1pm as she starts her journey for the next four months in Chile where she will be working on research for her Thesis.

I have very mixed emotions right now. I am so happy that she is going on this adventure and pursuing this amazing opportunity, but I’m also sad because I am going to truly miss her. This is the first time in almost 4 years that we have been apart for each other for longer than a week. While I know that technology is going to help us stay close, it’s still going to be hard not having her around me 24-7.  However, this gives us both a really great opportunity to dive into our research/documentary work for a few months without “distraction”. It’s good distraction, but nonetheless, I know this will be a great experience for both of us.

Also, don’t think that she gets to have “all the fun”. . . I’ll be joining her in May for 3-4 weeks before my summer semester starts. After our wedding(s) in 2010, we were too busy getting ready to move to Carbondale that we did not take a honeymoon. We’ll finally get that chance to take that trip this year.

Anyway, Melissa will be blogging about her adventures on her website, MelissaKCalvert.com. I’m sure with her fancy dancy new “spy” lens, she’ll have some amazing photos to share!