October, 2012

Ari Herzog

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How You Can Help Me Grow a Mo

Ari Herzog

A man dies from prostate cancer every 18.6 minutes. It is the second-leading cause of cancer death in men. This year, in 2012, more than 242,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 28,000 men will die from it. My great-grandfather had prostate cancer. I lost an uncle to breast cancer. In the next few years, I will undergo a genetic test to detect if I have it.

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How to Blog About Anything You Want

Ari Herzog

Some bloggers are uncomfortable writing outside their comfort zone. These are usually the same bloggers who think the whole world knows them and reads their every word. NEWS FLASH: The whole world is not reading your blog. Don’t write for the world. Write for you. The moment you stop writing for yourself is the moment you start selling yourself to someone else.

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Why You Need to Care About Tomorrow

Ari Herzog

It’s an issue that must be asked in a culture and society where technology is seemingly on the verge of supplanting the human race. Given the major technological milestones of the last decade people are wondering: What’s next? And what are the social implications? Business implications? Is this new technology being made affordable for all? And perhaps most importantly, will it ultimately help or hurt us?

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The Power of We

Ari Herzog

Blog Action Day started in 2007 with a simple mission: ask global bloggers to write about the same topic on the same day. October 15 was selected and thousands of bloggers answered the call. The movement was born. I first heard about BAD in 2008 — and participated by writing about poverty. I had started my blog the prior year and it was both an exhilarating and emotional sensation to be part of something much larger than my own existence on this planet.

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How Municipal Websites Can Engage You

Ari Herzog

If you clicked here to learn how local government websites can engage you, there is something I need to ask you to do first: Please vote for me so I can speak about the subject in April 2013 at the National Conference for Media Reform. Here is a snapshot of my proposed session: President Barack Obama, on his first day in office, signed a memorandum to all federal agencies and ordered them to be transparent, participatory, and collaborative with their constituents.

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3 Benefits for Small Business Cloud Computing

Ari Herzog

This is a guest blog post from Megan Totka of ChamberOfCommerce.com. It is the first in a monthly series whereby she will write for me and I will write for her. I hope you enjoy. As an advocate for small businesses, I am always looking for resources and innovations that can help them to compete and succeed. While cloud computing is not a recent development – in fact, it’s actually been around for quite a while – it is something that offers increasingly viable and affordable opportunities for sma