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Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Flickr YouTube Blogging Blah Blah Blah: Knowing Why You Use Social Media is What Counts

Ari Herzog

Or, at the least, take a break as I did. -- Thank you for reading Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Flickr YouTube Blogging Blah Blah Blah: Knowing Why You Use Social Media is What Counts at AriWriter. Think about that for a moment and translate “this sentence&# to everything else.

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Facebook LinkedIn Twitter in 2013

Ari Herzog

Of the three largest social networking sites in the United States, I plan to use Facebook the most, LinkedIn the second-most, and Twitter the least. Twitter in 2013. Related, I intend to publish an e-book on my Twitter evolution in the coming months… Other Applications in 2013. That is the order of my priorities in 2013.

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The Purpose of Twitter

Ari Herzog

Jeffrey Levy commented on this blog in 2008 that his description of Twitter was a source of filtered, purified water out of a raging river. I tell my students that I compare LinkedIn to the Chamber of Commerce, Facebook to the cocktail party, Pinterest to the digital scrapbook, Tumblr to the photo collage, and Twitter to the river.

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How I Consume the News

Ari Herzog

For several days, without consuming any news and after unfollowing anyone on Facebook or Twitter who shared the news, I introduced new behaviors into my life. I peruse Twitter throughout the day to see what’s trending. Image by GotCredit on Flickr. One morning, I stopped everything. No more NPR. No more news channels.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. Do I want to treat Flickr as a serious base for showcasing my photographic works? 2010: Twitter. Do I want to use Twitter to tell the world what Stephen Black ate for lunch or do I want to connect with an audience interested in art and creative writing? This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black.

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Bring Balance to Your Social Media

Ari Herzog

If you can’t convey new ideas on your blog, then you probably won’t get a lot of traffic… But Twitter is not good for fleshed-out ideas. I see people using Twitter for a lot of stuff, but not for fleshed-out ideas. And Flickr is good for expressing passion. Way better than, say, Twitter. And so forth and so forth.

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Why I Use HZG.BZ as a Short URL

Ari Herzog

If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you will see a box of text that you can opt to edit and/or publish to your Twitter followers. In the world of Twitter where status updates have a limit of 140 characters, shortness is crucial. Tags: Blog News branding Twitter urls. domain is managed by the University of Belize.

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