Welcome to High 5 Friday! A day of the week to introduce you to some NEW, and NOT YET MET friends!! I have never really been a huge fan of “Follow Friday” and how it consumes the stream with the WHO, and not the WHY.  So here is a way to meet new people to follow and find out a little bit about them. This week I wanted to feature a friend of mine who is looking for a job. I read her blog post the other day and I just wanted to do something special for her.  Suzanne Vara recently relocated to Northern New Jersey from Las Vegas, Nevada. I have been friends with her for awhile now and she helped me on several projects and I couldn’t think more highly of person and their work ethics.

She gets the job done creatively, strategically and timely. I have referred her contract work and have been praised for the connection. Suzanne is looking for something that is full time with benefits and would be open to conversation of in-house as much as a virtual commute.

Prior to her move she worked in Las Vegas focused on the gaming and hospitality industry working with brands such as The Silverton, Hard Rock Hotel, Cache Creek Casino and Resort, Cherokee Casino’s and Caesar’s Palace to name just a few. Her experience is vast including Marketing and Advertising, Public Relations, Media Buying, Researching and Developing Target markets for brands who are building a community around themselves, on and offline.

You can contact Suzanne on Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+

I asked some of Suzanne’s friends for 140 Character Recommendations:

Margie Clayman
Client Development – Clayman Advertising 

Chris Brogan
President – Human Business Works

Tom Martin
Founder –  Converse Digital

Dabney Porte
Founder of #SMmanners (Social Media Manners)

Diane Brogan
Owner, MomPopPow.com T-Shrts

Peggy Fitzpatrick
Director of Marketing & Social Media Manager, Kreussler Inc

HAD to add this one from a really great guy who knows what he is talking about when it comes to Social Media!

Jason Falls
Author, Writer, Speaker and Founder of Social Media Expolorer