Ari Herzog

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Emulate the @UN and Reply to Tweets

Ari Herzog

From Mashable’s January 2012 interview with the UN social media lead Nancy Groves, the following passage is notable: “Info can be a little slow to get out because of the translation and political review process,” says Groves. “For that reason, we’re often using pre-approved content.

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Introducing @Flextronics to the Social Web

Ari Herzog

Flextronics sent its first tweet on October 1, 2012. JB’s services are broad from corporate identity to web strategy to brand advertising to content management. The company went social this fall, as CMO Catherine Hernandez-Blades elaborated in the company’s first blog post. My Connection to Flextronics.

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Share Strategies and Tips on Social Media Marketing on LinkedIn and Facebook

Ari Herzog

They began posting valuable content. Fast forward to August 2012 and I realized there was no Facebook Group to share strategies and tips on social media marketing. Over time, people none of us knew searched LinkedIn for keywords about social media marketing and also joined the group. There are over 4,500 LinkedIn members today.

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From Internet Fake to Real Fame

Ari Herzog

An entrepreneurial soul creates one, tweets content in contradiction to whatever is being parodied, and gains followers. — Kim Sherrell (@kim) February 6, 2012. Fake currency by jdurham. Fake Twitter accounts are nothing new. Or @Jesus_M_Christ for a different perspective. ariherzog @ KrisColvin and who wouldn’t be?

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Visualizing My GMail Contacts

Ari Herzog

Engineers at the MIT Media Lab created a tool called Immersion enabling anyone with a GMail or Microsoft Exchange account to scan timestamps of messages, though not actual content, and display the interconnections and frequencies of people who are in the “to,” “cc”, or “from” fields.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. 2012: Today. My first podcast, audio interviews/explorations of Singapore combined with music, appeared on a music site run by Cosa Nostra. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006. Foursquare?

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Introducing Stephen Tiano: Monday Muse #2

Ari Herzog

How do you decide blog content to write? What is the biggest challenge the publishing industry will face in 2012? Hard to say yet whether 2012 will be the year that ebooks rise to a realistic alternative to print. My influences vary. The latter happens because I find making books extremely energizing.

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