Ari Herzog

JULY 6, 2012

Among the more popular: How Social Networking Makes Us Less Social by Christopher Roberts. Musing About Mobile Networking by Rob the Web Guy. What Nike Teaches Us About Social Media by Brandon Yanofsky. Why Social Media Quality Beats Quantity by Marcus Sheridan. How to Increase Web Traffic by Steven Papas.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Studies from the Pew Research Center and the New York Times indicate the typical American has 245 Facebook friends and knows 600 people both on and off the social network. I once met a woman who works in marketing but cannot be found on Google. If you’re googling for her name, you clearly don’t know her at all.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 30, 2012

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. Your experience is changing.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The latest occurred earlier this week when AdAge obtained a Facebook communication that the social networking site prefers paid updates over organic updates. “Your brand can fully benefit from having fans when most of your ads show social context, which increases advertising effectiveness and efficiency,” says Facebook.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 1, 2012

Using GPS chips embedded in your smartphone and latitude/longitude addresses, it is fairly easy for me to log into an app such as Foursquare , Loopt , or Google Latitude and (if your privacy settings allow me to) see who is proximate to my location. Isn’t that how social networking works?

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I recounted Shea’s story last week during a telephone conversation with Boston Globe reporter Beth Teitell, who was researching angles about the rise in location-based social networking sites. Tags: Social Networking Foursquare networking. But I deleted my account this week. I’m hardly alone.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 23, 2015

Run a Google search for the exact phrase, “how to write a blog,” and peruse through 416,000 results. Either Google deleted spammy results from their algorithm or thousands of items over five years were deleted. I’m more inclined to believe Google changed. The above search statistics are from March 2015.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 22, 2013

WordPress was new to me that year, having migrated from Google’s Blogspot system a month earlier; and I wanted to display certain features on my blog. With my social networking priorities changing this year, I secretly wanted to get rid of Thesis but I didn’t know what other theme to replace it with.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 2, 2011

Paul, a user experience researcher at Google, wrote an eyebrow-raising article last year on the importance of designing online interactivity. [R]arely When we study how people are interacting on social networks, we see that most interactions are with a very small subset of the people we’re connected to.

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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.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 2, 2015

He’s blogged about choosing three words for several years and a cursory review of Google hits indicate other bloggers following his lead, such as the following people and their words. Related Stories The 4 Social Networks I Use Most Stuff Why Facebook and I Broke Up. Click their names to read why they chose their words.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 21, 2010

I am skilled in comprehending what makes an organization tick, weaving its mission statement with relationship building to create a cohesive social media or other strategic communications plan, and increasing customer/constituent engagement across social networking channels. at AriWriter. No related posts.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

You are not required to log-in to your social networking site account to comment. You may optionally write your name, fill in your email address, and share a tidbit. You submit your comment and voila! At no point during the commenting process are you asked to register and prove who you are.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 1, 2011

The tool is reminiscent of Google Latitude meeting a text message. Here is a demo screenshot from Glympse.com. While metrics showing website visitors are not spectacular, the tool shines on any mobile device that can transmit GPS information.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 7, 2010

The links down the left sidebar of your site cover a wealth of information — from blogging to social networking to making money online. Google Adsense is a form of affiliate marketing. For example if my website is about social media and I place one of my affiliate links on fashion, this is simply not going to work out.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I could have googled the information or called the company’s hotline but I turned to Twitter and received an answer quickly. Tweeting back and forth with a Verizon Wireless customer support representative last night, I learned data-only monthly plans for the Blackberry are only eligible for hearing-impaired customers.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

When I wrote last month about throwing away my social networking rules , I was unprepared what happened next. I am finding order on Google+ by sharing a lot of original content and related content by other people to continually boost my Google rank when you might search for keywords that I write about. Make sense?

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Here is a screenshot from Google Analytics showing the top 10 pages you visited over the last 30 days: My blog’s homepage has a bounce rate of 7%. Here are sources of incoming traffic over the last 30 days: Google brought me an average of 3,100 visitors — nearly half of the total number of visitors for the month.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The Social Network might have hammered the Facebook brand even further into the public consciousness but, even without this rush of publicity, the bigger social media sites are difficult to avoid. A little research is all that’s required to find the most appropriate and important social networking sites for your target market.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 2, 2012

Inclusive of YouTube, Orkut, Bebo, Yammer, Plurk, Plaxo, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Quora, Google+, MySpace, Pinterest, Foursquare, Instagram, Vimeo, SlideShare, Tumblr, Klout, Spotify, and Mixx, what do you like the most beyond the big three? What is the benefit of these business or social networking sites?

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Ari Herzog

JULY 24, 2011

Most of the people reading this sentence have an account (whether used actively or inactively) on Twitter, Facebook, Google, or another online media platform. Why not take advantage of that social connection and synchronize your comment with the platform you use and the friends and followers you have over there?

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 23, 2011

You are an Ambassador of Social Networking But You Don’t Know It. Wary, Risky Business Tackles Social Media. 6 Social Media Blog Posts I Like. 17 Blog Posts I Like in Google Reader. Facebook Fraud Here and Abroad. 10 Blogs Worth Reading. 7 Culture Blogs Worth Reading. Understanding Web 2.0 in 5 Minutes.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 11, 2014

I also have “digital equivalent” options such as phone calls, Skype conversations or Google+ Hangouts… as in today’s online world our relationships can certainly grow via virtual meetings. On the other sites including Twitter , Pinterest , and Google+ , I will follow you because. Media Productivity identity networking'

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Ari Herzog

JULY 18, 2011

Ever wonder why some people choose to comment when others don’t, why some people opt to share website content with their social networks when others don’t, and why some people don’t care when others do? This makes them skimmable, like newspaper headlines; maybe you’ll read them all, maybe you’ll skip some.

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