Ari Herzog
OCTOBER 19, 2011
I am seeking re-election to the Newburyport city council and actively sending Facebook messages to people who live in my town to 1) introduce myself and 2) inquire if they would like to be my friend. Yesterday I sent nearly 80 friend requests over the course of the day and over two thirds responded positively to being friends. Today is a different story.
Ari Herzog
OCTOBER 25, 2011
How much time do you spend seeking answers to unimportant questions? It doesn’t matter how many fans you have on your Facebook page as long as you provide relevant information and respond to their questions. It doesn’t matter how frequently you send messages on Twitter or Google+ because your friends will respond to those messages that are relevant or insightful to them and gloss over the rest.
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Ari Herzog
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Thank clarita for the camel. Amy Mengel haunted me in February 2010 when she announced she stopped reading social media blogs. Despite an intent to focus her blog reading, she wrote on her own blog less and less — and quit this summer. Am I following in her footsteps? Kasey Skala ‘s, too? I used to write on this blog every day. Not lately, though.
Ari Herzog
OCTOBER 28, 2011
Image by matei. John emailed me with a link to click to verify a link partnership with a random dot com website. I’ve found your website with the “reverse google pagerank algorithm” which indicates that we both would get better google rankings, when we exchange links. There is no denial that contextual words inside of a sentence optimize search engines to recognize reciprocal websites (this one doing the linking earlier in this sentence and Jay’s receiving the link) but w
Ari Herzog
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Nearly three months after installing the Livefyre plugin it is gone. There are many reasons for the change back to the default, most notably that many long-time commentators had complained about various functions (or lack of functions and didn’t want to wait until future plugin versions included their wish lists). I also grew frustrated with repetitive actions that were necessary on both the plugin’s dashboard and on the WordPress dashboard.
Ari Herzog
OCTOBER 4, 2011
The best place to build meaningful professional relationships, according to company founder Derek Andersen, is Commonred. Whether that statement is true is to be determined. “I’ve found that people are more likely to help you when you’re genuinely interested in helping them,” writes Derek in a welcome email message that all new users receive.
Ari Herzog
OCTOBER 4, 2011
More than two months since Livefyre launched on this blog and replaced the vanilla WordPress commenting system with a more social interface, metrics indicate the number of visitors has essentially remained the same — but the average time you spent on this blog has drastically decreased. In the below graph, the blue lines indicate visits and the orange indicates time spent.
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