Ari Herzog

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2010: Twitter. Do I want to use Twitter to tell the world what Stephen Black ate for lunch or do I want to connect with an audience interested in art and creative writing? One night in 2006, over Tiger beer and carrot cake at a hawker center , my designer friend Little Ong told me about Multiply. The answer is @BookMerah.

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How Social Media Should Connect Us

Ari Herzog

David Armano introduced influence ripples in August 2006. Twitter was next where I began indiscriminately following and connecting with pretty much everyone. I poke my eyes in my Twitter stream a few times a day to retweet and reply to someone here, interject into a new conversation there. And, I’m sorry.

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Why Facebook Breeds Voyeurism

Ari Herzog

Rachel replied that she joined Facebook in 2006 as a convert from MySpace. Contact me today: Twitter | Email | 978.558.0008. She spent several hours a day on the site, reading updates from so-called friends and sharing her own updates. She was wasting time and she knew it. I also write a blog from my city council desk.

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

I have been involved in some form with the Social Media Club Boston Chapter since its founding in 2006, and remain so to this day, currently serving as a member of the board. Why is 2006 important? 2006 was a big year for me in that regard. 2006 was a big year for me in that regard. Here’s mine.

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Cats and Social Media: Purrfect!

Ari Herzog

If 37,447,814 YouTube views of the above cat video since December 2006 are any indication, people like to watch funny cats. It also has outposts on Facebook and Twitter. Like the dog collar toy I wrote about to enable dog movements and barks to be sent to a Twitter page, the same is possible for cats.