Ari Herzog

JUNE 30, 2011

They observe we walk around constantly looking down at our phones and never start any conversations with people around us. Facebook lets me stay in contact with friends from high school and college. And the whole blogosphere enables me to converse with like-minded people. They say we lack social skills. Photo by Funkdooby.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 23, 2011

Klout added Facebook to its algorithm in October 2010 and recently added Linkedin too. Klout lets you add your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts to the Twitter statistics they already collect; make sure that you do. Show Klout you know how to have back-and-forth conversations with a variety of people. How to raise your Klout score.

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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. Got a question?

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

I hate being asked this question because I always feel self-conscious that my answer may not inspire the person asking the question to continue the conversation and may just be asking it like asking How are you? Founder of the 12for12k Challenge, a community-driven social media charity initiative to connect globally and help locally.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 24, 2011

You are opposed to comment registration and you support creating conversations. You were prevented from this sort of social conversational integration with the built-in WordPress commenting system that this blog employed since 2008. When someone replies to you, you will come back and converse. You also want to be loved.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 20, 2011

The main advantage that third-party comments have over native comments is the ability to combine your other social networks into the conversation, as opposed to just the readers of the blog post. It was a whole new way of using a blog comment system, and perhaps offered the future of what real community integration could look like.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 12, 2011

Valeria Maltoni challenges you to comment less and converse more. Conversation with the right intent, or influence, is about turning together, connecting. Conversation is the opportunity. Conversing begins with replying. Once John chooses to reply, the discussion turns full circle into a conversation.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 3, 2011

The blog platform, as an open source community, is collectively shared by anyone and everyone who contribute code and provide feedback about what works and what needs improvement. This single plugin is responsible for a tremendous increase in threaded comments — and insightful conversations. Plug photo by Adam Mulligan on Flickr.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 18, 2011

This sentiment from Yahoo chief scientist Marc Davis to New York Times contributing writer Clive Thompson is as relevant today as in 2008 when Facebook updates were the rage. Just because I am not inspired to add a comment and converse doesn’t mean someone else won’t comment. But placement isn’t everything.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The show started promoting #xfactor in the second episode, and saw an immediate increase in the Twitter conversation. AriHerzog is a digital marketing and government professional seeking a position in community affairs. Related Stories Facebook Changes For Me — and You No FOMO Here Visualizing My GMail Contacts.

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