Ari Herzog

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How Obama Sets Online Marketing High

Ari Herzog

In 2008, Obama made big headlines when he became the first presidential candidate in the modern era to decline public financing for his presidential campaign. Obama’s 2008 campaign raised a similarly unprecedented amount of money, nearly $750 million (you can see why they declined the meager $84 million!).

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3 Email Marketing Examples Not to Copy

Ari Herzog

Dear Ari, We are regular readers of your blog and love your thoughts on marketing and branding. IFA and ShowStoppers today announced the three-year renewal of a dynamic partnership that began with ShowStoppers @ IFA 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Related posts: Why Email Marketing Still Sucks. Emailing Me Internet Marketing Spam.

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Visualizing My GMail Contacts

Ari Herzog

Together, these dots comprise 1,041 people in 40,363 email messages I’ve sent or received since August 1, 2008. This visualization is for August 1, 2008 – August 17, 2013. AriHerzog is a digital marketing and government professional seeking a position in community affairs. The colors go on. Comments Sweet tool!

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How Flickr and Google Help Us Remember

Ari Herzog

The Library of Congress did not know the names of French brothers Michel, age 4, and Edmond, age 2, when the institution uploaded this photograph to Flickr in the summer of 2008. When he's not blogging, Ari helps brands improve their digital media marketing. They knew the duo were Titanic orphans. They didn’t know anything else.

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The Power of We

Ari Herzog

I first heard about BAD in 2008 — and participated by writing about poverty. When he's not blogging, Ari helps brands improve their digital media marketing. Blog Action Day started in 2007 with a simple mission: ask global bloggers to write about the same topic on the same day. The movement was born. Got a question?

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The Thesis Theme is Gone

Ari Herzog

I installed the Thesis theme on November 6, 2008. When he's not blogging, Ari works with people and brands to improve their digital marketing. WordPress was new to me that year, having migrated from Google’s Blogspot system a month earlier; and I wanted to display certain features on my blog. For now, I am savoring the change.

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The Purpose of Twitter

Ari Herzog

Jeffrey Levy commented on this blog in 2008 that his description of Twitter was a source of filtered, purified water out of a raging river. I instantly smiled at the metaphor and began attributing him in my digital marketing courses. When he's not blogging, Ari helps brands improve their digital media marketing. Got a question?

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