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Why Foursquare and I Split Up

Ari Herzog

After 2,240 check-ins, 669 photos, 106 tips, 46 badges, and 21 mayorships, I deleted my Foursquare account. Please sign up to receive blog posts by email. Related Stories 3 Reasons Why I Tweet The Bios of 13 Women Who Tweet It’s OK to Name Your Blog Your Own. I don’t want two apps. I want one app.”

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Returning to the Gravity Summit

Ari Herzog

Visit the blog archive to read more articles on new and emerging media. Here is a Gravity Summit overview. The agenda indicates a who’s who of represented brands and speakers, including social media directors and business executives from Morgan Stanley, Audi, Gannett, PR Newswire, and HootSuite. Recent comments Recent comments.

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Musing About QR Codes

Ari Herzog

I bought several eye-catching customized conference badges for $2.50 Visit the blog archive to read more articles on new and emerging media. I’m especially excited how Manor, Texas is using QR codes to promote government communication. Want a QR code of your own? Thanks for the inspiration, Arik. Thank you for reading!

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Guess Who is Back on Foursquare

Ari Herzog

People like merit badges such as that of Mayor if checking into a location more than anyone else. I wrote a similar blog post on why I. Foursquare may not be mainstream but its users are having a fun time with it. People like checking into locations so many times to receive points and special deals. Why I Deleted My Foursquare Account.

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How Video Can Replace Student Textbooks

Ari Herzog

Salman Khan is currently using game mechanics to increase student engagement and motivation by awarding badges for specific accomplishments. Learn how you can contribute a guest blog article. Salman Khan’s story provides a good example of how the Internet can help scale the work of one person to achieve huge results.

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Twitter Verifies Vice President Paul Ryan

Ari Herzog

The verified badge helps users discover high-quality sources of information and trust that a legitimate source is authoring the account’s tweets.” ” You can see this in action by searching for singer Nicki Manaj and noticing that only one name has the blue badge. NickiManaj is verified and the others are not her.

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