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10 Tips to Be Successful on LinkedIn

Ari Herzog

LinkedIn launched on May 5, 2003 (on my mother’s birthday) and currently has 277 million members — with two new people creating accounts every second. Here are updated LinkedIn statistics to impress your boss or your mom. This is most important — as 40% of LinkedIn users visit the site every day.

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…and Blog Comment Spam Continues

Ari Herzog

With names such as SEO Forum, SEO Outsourcing, and Herbalife, it is pathetic that despite clear instructions that real names are required when adding comments, people continue to leave comments with their company names or other search engine optimized keywords. Ari Herzog is currently seeking a full time position in social media.

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Introducing @Flextronics to the Social Web

Ari Herzog

With 200,000 employees in 30 countries on four continents, this Fortune Global 500 firm specializes in design, engineering, and manufacturing across the supply chain and is (in)directly responsible for your enjoyment of electronica every day. Their co-founder discovered me on LinkedIn when I answered this question on a group.

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Unfriend, Defriend, Kill Your Friend

Ari Herzog

Sarah isn’t on Facebook, doesn’t tweet, shares nothing but her name and title on LinkedIn, and search engine results for her name (minus that LinkedIn link) are for someone who shares her name. How many email addresses do you keep of your LinkedIn connections? I usually said yes — especially on LinkedIn.

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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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…and Blog Comment Spam Continues

Ari Herzog

With names such as SEO Forum, SEO Outsourcing, and Herbalife, it is pathetic that despite clear instructions that real names are required when adding comments, people continue to leave comments with their company names or other search engine optimized keywords. Ari Herzog is currently seeking a full time position in social media.

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Who You Should Be Online

Ari Herzog

In an industry that is centered around building relationships, real estate is a prime candidate for social media success. The value in social media comes from connections made. Here are a few tips based on my social media successes and failures: 1. Connect on LinkedIn today.