I say this because I’ve worked with them all…

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David Ince
Author, Film-maker, Intellectual, Designer & Do’er

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Daniel Cudby
Strategic Thinker, Designer… eats Photoshop Retouching & Illustrator for breakfast

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Jonathan Markwell
iPhone App, Ruby on Rails & Twitter Developer – co-worker & all round good egg!

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Scott Evans
Designer & CMS Developer (XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL & WordPress)

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Gemma Garner
Designer & Maker of Crafty Stuff (iPhone sleeves etc…), Ethical thinker

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Christian Payne
Social Media Journalist, Video Blogger & Legendary Content Creator

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Jack Butler
Generation Y Specialist, Inspiring Young People & Public Speaker

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Benjamin Breckler
Designer for Mobile & Web – now working at Ribot!

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Alan Offord
Graphic Designer (up-coming-talent) and Tea Drinker Extraordinaire

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Gareth Rogers
Developer (Facebook Integration + PHP, Rails, Javascript, Drupal, Magento…)

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Remy Sharp
jQuery, JavaScript & HTML 5

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Steve Lawson
Social Media, Musician & Thinker

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Ellen deVries
Brand Language Consultant & Copywriter

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Josie Fraser
Social & Education Technologist, Digital Literacy, Identity & Citizenship

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Paul Anderson
Sustainability Consultant

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Caroline Esterson
Creative Training Consultant

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Aaron Tomassi
Photographer

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Tom Nixon
Social Media Consultancy (trust me, I don’t use that title lightly)

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Jon Kossmann (Kosso)
Createch – Social-Web Developer Extraordinaire & Founder of Phreadz.com

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Brian Noonan
LIVE-streaming & video-on-demand (Web & Mobile)

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People I trust enough to work with at the next opportunity:

* those I’ve not met in person at least twice

Little Laura – Designer & Web Developer (with solid code and ethics)
Anthony Ribot – User Interface, Experience & Apps (anything Mobile)
Phil Campbell – Content Creator, Video Blogger, Social-Web planner
Ben Sauer – User Experience (UX) Consultant
Mike Little – WordPress Developer *
Ben Walker – Musical Legend & Early Adopter
Stef Lewandowski – Developer: #DEbill http://debillitated.heroku.com & http://stef.io *
Paul Bradshaw – Blogger, Senior Lecturer in Online Journalism
Benjamin Ellis – Social Technologist, Content Creator & Blogger
Ahmed Numan – Designer & Developer (impressive back-catalogue)
Steve Purkiss – Drupal & Open Source Evangelist
Benjamin Read – Writer, Publisher & Indy Film Producer
Hannah Nicklin – Playwright, Blogger (Eco-socialist-feminist) *
Jof Arnold – Developer (currently iPhone App focused)
Peter O’Neill – Web Analytics
Gavin Wray – Content Manager, Information Architecture *
James Yorke – Online Marketing & Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Penny Jackson – Journalist & Audio PodCaster
Dave Goodchild – PHP (Zend, Codeigniter), Rals/Sinatra, SQL/MySQL, Y.Pipes
James Whatley – Social Media, content Creator, Blogger (anything Mobile)
Jim Callender – Web design, development, UX, CSS, (X)HTML
Josh Russell – Product and idea development
Michael L Radcliffe – Artist & Plumber
Erica Grigg – Sustainability in Social Media Consultant *
Chris Dalby – Developer, HomeCamp Organiser
Leif Kendall – Technology Copywriter
Derek Mantle – Graphic Designer
Russ McVeigh – Web Developer, Flash Actionscript, XML, SOAP, JSON
Stephen Bartholomew – Ruby on Rails
Brian Condon – Content Producer, Blogger and Digital Economy Thinker/Planner
Xander Cansell – Connector and Planner (of anything) *
Dan Donald – Web Dev/Design, Social-Media, PHP/MySQL, CSS, jQuery
Jenny Brown – Internal Communications and Consumer Engagement
Debbie Davies – Co-Discovery Films
Danny Hope – Interaction & User Experience (UX) Design
Premasagar Rose – Social innovation + front-end engineering
Robert McIntosh – Marketing & Wine
Peter-Paul Koch (PPK) – Front-End Development (#1 Mobile Consultant) *

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My recommended ones to watch (some are students):

* those I’ve not met in person at least twice

Merle Cordier – Podcast & Radio producer/editor – will call it as it is!
Toby Watson – Mashupr & Maker of different things and crazy tech stuff!
Richard Mackney – Early Adopter, Blogger, Content Creator – interestingly visual! *
Dave Stone – Nomadic Business Designer
Thomas Forsyth – Artist & Maker *
Paul Davis – Designer, Developer – impressively self taught! *
Mark Phipps – Microsoft & Apple Certified Support
Katie Fotis – Branding and Marketing Student – full of enthusiasm!
Gaurav Patel – Blogger, a Voice with Good Tone – seeks an opportunity! *
Jon-Paul Davies – ASP.NET, AmpliFeeder *
Will Waterman – Thinker not Do’er – in the right team this man could be gold!
Jen Corbett – Ideas Junky & Advertising Graduate – a feisty Kiwi with a great blog! *
Samuel Flaherty / Sefika Sakalli – Product Designers
Lee Gavin – Psychogeographer
Nathan Parris – Graphic Designer
William Morland – a young man going somewhere! *

As a gregarious Fellow who gets about quite a lot, I am fortunate to know a large number of diversely talented individuals and companies. So much so that I have never had to contact a recruitment agency to find someone with a particular skill set.

Although I often feel such a network has formed itself quite naturally, when I launched the Fellow brand I did consciously set out to meet gifted individuals that I might collaborate with and even be able call upon when and if I needed to. The name Fellow was born from the concept of exacting standards, academic connection, and a professional commitment to question everything and develop over time – but also the idea that I am a fellow creative, part of a larger community of talented individuals driving the future of technology, communications and creative disciplines forward into an uncertain future.

Many of the people I have met over the last few years have helped to shape what Fellow has ultimately become. I once read that Einstein wasn’t born a genius, he forged himself into one by surrounding himself with exceptionally smart people. I might be about as far removed from Einstein as a scruffy creative type can get, but we do share one thing in common: I am also surrounded by exceptional people.

Over the last few months, people from places like Tuttle, Tweetups, BarCamp and my broader social web have been getting in contact asking if I know anyone who can develop, say, widgets for this or a design for that. In each case I’ve been able to make those connections.

With this in mind, I am proud to launch Fellow Trustees.

The concept is very simple. The people and companies on this list I whole-heartedly recommend. They are exceptional at what they do and conduct themselves with absolute professionalism. I trust them enough to align my Fellow brand with them. They are Fellow Trustees.

If you are thinking about talking to a creative recruitment agency to help fulfill a project, I would say check out the individuals and companies on the following lists first (in time I may even develop some relevant twitter lists too but some of my recommended connections can’t be found on twitter).

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