Ari Herzog

MARCH 19, 2012

Riffing behind a commenting layout convention by Matt Cutts, such as his latest blog post when he wrote about giving up news consumption for a month, I’ve decided to require every blog comment here be associated with a real name. If you don’t comment with a real name, your comment will not be published.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 30, 2010

I’m sure the folks at New York-based JKAhosting.com don’t know what’s going on around the blogopshere, so they and other companies should pay attention to a series of blog comments I’ve received in recent days — that are identical to the following screenshot: If the text is too small, you may click the image to zoom.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 1, 2015

I am disabling blog commenting on this post and into the future. My reason is simple: You’re reading but you’re not commenting. It is a time management task to ensure comments are real and not spam and I’m seeing lots of spam comments try to get published. Commenting is not that place anymore.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Scroll below his post to add a comment — and be forced to comment through Facebook. Whether or not you choose to share that comment on your Facebook wall is up to you, but it’s either comment with Facebook or don’t comment at all. If you do comment, how do you react to a Facebook system?

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 25, 2016

A year after disabling blog comments, I’m bringing them back. At the time, I removed commenting partially because more people were sharing posts on social media than taking the time to write a comment and also because it was unproductive to manage increased spam. New to this blog are two plugins.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 2, 2014

Social media posts expire very quickly. Engagement = likes, comments, shares. One takeaway is you must be memorable and analytical in every social media post. Another takeaway is to stop using social media for sharing big thoughts — and to blog about it instead. Media blogging'

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 13, 2014

And that’s just from my post on my blog. Visit the same post on Social Media Today and you see 18 Facebook shares, 54 Google+ shares, 73 LinkedIn shares, and a whopping 673 retweets. The same process occurred elsewhere on social media. Media Strategy blogging metrics'

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Pam Moore created a Twitter chat last night and asked people to explain the return on investment of social media. Some responses: One thing I'll offer off the bat: ROI is vital, but not every social activity should have ROI. Stop asking about social media ROI and start learning how to measure.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 18, 2010

I’ve since deactivated Mollom and brought back Akismet, after a weekend away saw eight Mollom-approved comments which are really spam. The WordPress plugin shows me two graphs that indicate 1,679 potential blog comments were marked as spam. The positive aspect about Mollom is I will never see spam comments.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

You are reading the 45th blog post of 2013. Most Popular Posts of 2013 (as shared/commented by you). 18 Reasons to Embrace Social Media. Why I Blog. A Day in the Life of a Social Media Specialist by Dane Cobain. Nearly 80,000 people visited my blog all year. Blog News blogging'

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Penelope Trunk once wrote about portraying yourself on social media : Each of us is multi-faceted. With a selection of media to choose from, we can express different parts of ourselves in different ways. It’s clear to me that blogging is best for expressing big ideas. Follow my blog to read my insights on digital media.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

There are many reasons for the change back to the default, most notably that many long-time commentators had complained about various functions (or lack of functions and didn’t want to wait until future plugin versions included their wish lists). Marking comments as spam, for instance, required multiple clicks instead of one.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 13, 2012

Social media can be tough to master. If you have a question you’ve been dying to ask and/or would like to learn my perspective, post a comment below. All comments will receive replies; and some may also turn into longer blog posts. This is where I can help you. Got a question? Contact Ari today!

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

I am testing a WordPress plugin to share blog posts across social media. If you were inspired, please add a comment and sign up to receive blog posts by email. If you were inspired, please add a comment and sign up to receive blog posts by email. Blog News plugins' Thanks for reading.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 24, 2012

May 14 marked the fifth birthday of my blog. If you’ve never visited the archive , you can trace my beginning blog posts about apartment life and the environment and discover my first posts about social media. Despite writing about the death of blogging one month ago, this blog is not dying.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Before reading anything below, add a comment first. All of the comment fields are optional. But, add that comment first. Scroll to the very bottom of this page and add a comment. If the stereotype is true that everyone reads a blog post before adding a comment, you just failed that stereotype.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Thank you for reading my blog. As for the 2,300 visitors arriving from clicking links across social media, the top three referrers were Facebook (36%), Twitter (31%), and LinkedIn (12%). I suppose I should be blogging more frequently and sharing posts to enable more people to click links and visit. Many returned.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

When you need a social media manager, think of me? As I elaborate on LinkedIn : I am looking for a full-time job as a social media manager. As I elaborate on LinkedIn : I am looking for a full-time job as a social media manager. That was the year I blogged for the first time.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

I adore the ease of creating a blog with Google’s Blogger (or Blogspot) platform — which AriWriter once was before migrating to WordPress in the fall of 2008 — but the commenting system is not user friendly. Good luck adding a comment from a mobile device, for instance. Enter Disqus. No related posts.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 24, 2012

It seems that every month there is a newspaper article about the death of blogging. Verne Kopytoff wrote a sensationalist headline in the New York Times in February 2011 entitled, “ Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter.” Why must headlines continue to be printed about the death of blogging?

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Ari Herzog

JULY 26, 2010

It amazes me how many people add comments on these blog posts but don’t have globally recognized avatars next to their names. Add a comment below and we can see what square image is in the top right corner of your published comment. Related posts: How to Enhance Your Blog Comment: Get a Gravatar.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 25, 2012

The top navigational bar of this blog makes it very clear that guest blog posts are accepted. But reviewing the email submissions from wannabe writers, it is pathetic how frequently people think I will publish anything and it is disappointing they view my blog as a trophy to place on their article marketing case. Unique content?

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

This is a guest blog post by Jeff Esposito. Ari asked me to offer some insight into being the man behind the curtain of a corporate social media team. Those three pieces of the social pie — Tweeting, Facebooking, and reading blogs — are just a small part of the daily minutia of a corporate social media person.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 13, 2010

I was initially going to write about dog weddings, the subject of nearly 60,000 Google results and 215 matches on YouTube , such as last week’s nuptials of schiperkes Cricket and Black Magic and a complementary blog post of the honeymoon at a Salem hotel 20 miles away. Related posts: Cats and Social Media: Purrfect!

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This paragraph comprises the first words published on this blog since I asked for your opinions on blogging frequency seven days ago. Never before in the history of this blog (or, at least over the past 18 months) has a week transpired without new content. Understand Social Media in 3 Words. She owned her world.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 9, 2013

June 2010 seems like an eternity ago when I took initiative and created a LinkedIn Group to share strategies and tips in social media marketing. Over time, people none of us knew searched LinkedIn for keywords about social media marketing and also joined the group. They did that, and they told their friends.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 30, 2012

This is a guest blog post by Matthew Cool. I see merchants show off what social networks they are on and what mobile technologies you can use inside the store. Small businesses have increased their social media and digital presence online and are now taking it to the brick and motar level in some very traditional ways.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 1, 2012

This blog post is written by Michael Dolen. Not surprisingly, many companies in the financial services industry are forking over a chunk of that change to their social media budgets. Not surprisingly, many companies in the financial services industry are forking over a chunk of that change to their social media budgets.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 15, 2011

Every Friday since the beginning of the year you were treated to their byline and something about social media they chose to write and submit. Kristi Hines offers 5 steps to contribute an article for prospective writers, including researching the blog and participating in the comments of prior articles.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Eight years after building my first website, I began blogging 2004 on a now-deleted LiveJournal community. facebooking since 2005, and tweeting since 2008, and, partially because people kept coming up to me and telling me they followed my blog or enjoyed my tweets, I knew I was respected as a thought leader. Fred Wilson.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 3, 2010

You wanted me to share myself with you on a deeper level outside of this blog and you invited me into your inner sanctum — and I said no. I tried to rationalize that unless you commented here, I didn’t know you. Social media is about being social. So, I said no. Two years later… to today.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 24, 2012

It seems that every month there is a newspaper article about the death of blogging. Verne Kopytoff wrote a sensationalist headline in the New York Times in February 2011 entitled, “ Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter.” Why must headlines continue to be printed about the death of blogging?

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 8, 2012

This is the second part of a guest blog post by Michael Dolen. Last week I shared 3 ways the credit card industry succeeds in social media. Please continue reading Credit Cards and Social Media: Failures and leave a comment if inspired. Ari Herzog is currently seeking a full time position in social media.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 16, 2012

Whatever your reason for reading my blog, I thank you. My ideas on new and emerging media come from many places — and people comprise a large part of my inspiration. If you are inspired to add a comment with your thoughts, please visit Introducing The Monday Muse: Your Weekly Dose of Social Media Inspiration in your browser.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 9, 2020

That involves reading something on social media or elsewhere on the internet and neither liking, commenting, nor sharing. Starting in 2009 and many times since, I asked blog readers to delurk. If you can write someone an email, you can add a comment. It’s your comment. Third, write the actual comment.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

More than two months since Livefyre launched on this blog and replaced the vanilla WordPress commenting system with a more social interface, metrics indicate the number of visitors has essentially remained the same — but the average time you spent on this blog has drastically decreased. Add a comment below.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 30, 2011

Technology Does Make Us Less Social. As more and more technology enters our lives, primarily social media, are we actually becoming less and less social? In some ways, social media brings us closer. As I embraced social media, I saw my social circle expand. I became more social.

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