Ari Herzog

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Saying Goodbye to Digital Marketing: Meet the New Me

Ari Herzog

I spent four wonderful years self-employed as a digital marketing trainer, consultant, and community manager. I led national conference panels on social media marketing. I am saying goodbye to the digital life and hello to community affairs. Pick a verb — tired, bored, jaded, burned out. I spoke at colleges.

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Introducing @Flextronics to the Social Web

Ari Herzog

Its Twitter biography is explicit that I am the community manager. Telling me about the agency’s newest client, Flextronics, and how there was a need to hire someone who understood how to build online communities and generate memorable eye-catching content, I immediately understood what was necessary to do and how to do it.

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Why a Municipal Website Moved to Facebook

Ari Herzog

. “When people give their opinions or ask questions, they should take responsibility for this as adults, and this should be done using their real names,&# said the mayor at a press conference announcing his city’s migration from their traditional website to Facebook. Insights of Facebook Fans Liking My Pages.

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How Municipal Websites Can Engage You

Ari Herzog

If you clicked here to learn how local government websites can engage you, there is something I need to ask you to do first: Please vote for me so I can speak about the subject in April 2013 at the National Conference for Media Reform. I will share best practices for other local governments to learn from and emulate themselves.

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Why There is No Social Media Scorecard

Ari Herzog

It is common, especially when attending your first social media workshop or listening to your first conference panel or webinar on the topic, to be confused. We believe we should join and participate in Facebook groups and Ning communities merely because someone we trust and respect invited us to join and participate.

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Introducing Social Media Informers

Ari Herzog

That is, my and their blog content are now syndicated and aggregated on a new online community that informs you about social media. Stop Linking Conference Presenter Bios to Obsolete Blogs. In this sense, the site aggregates content but doesn’t own it; each blogger owns it. Introducing an Online Budgeting Tool.

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Why Facebook and Twitter are Old News

Ari Herzog

When none of the sessions at a recent nonprofit conference dealt with the two social networking sites, how crucial is their involvement in social marketing today? Ari Herzog provides communications services to the nonprofit and public sectors, and encourages you to join his Facebook community. Not last week. This was refreshing.

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