Ari Herzog

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8 Social Media Tips to Memorize Now

Ari Herzog

Forget what people tell you about MySpace being dead. If a person is introduced to you as a social media expert, don’t worry about whether the person is really an expert or not. If unhappy, Iggy Pintado compiled a list of 10 ways you can apply social media right now. It’s very much alive.

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How Social Media Should Connect Us

Ari Herzog

While he focused on the interconnectedness of links between blogs, his description goes to the heart of what social media means. I recently started throwing out my social media rules and embracing the ripples that were always there but I chose not to see. Social media is about being social.

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How to Create the Optimal Press Release in Social Media

Ari Herzog

If you have ever attempted to distribute a standard press release to users of social media web sites, you are likely very familiar with the problems that it suffered. This is because, no matter how hard you try, the typical social media generation will find your release spammy, boring and perhaps illegitimate.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

From Singapore I’ve watched the social media world develop its identity and characteristics. Often, friends from the “real” world gave me passage to the social media world. I may have opened a MySpace account when it was still the talk of the digital town. Social media became specialized.

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Feature Friday: Is Social Networking Making Us Less Social?

Ari Herzog

Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, LinkedIn, MySpace, Foursquare… These are examples of social networking sites, but you knew that. Is social media that good? You can use social media to communicate with others, but does it really have the same value as a proper conversation? Are you better off because of them?

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Hi Hi Facebook, Hi Hi Twitter

Ari Herzog

Phil Baumann says it best: Facebook, Twitter, and every other social media site out there are addictive. LinkedIn MySpace Facebook Twitter Time. That’s why I decided to take a break from the big two, announcing my sabbatical last month without defining any duration. Bye Bye Facebook, Bye Bye Twitter.

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Why I Changed My LinkedIn Summary

Ari Herzog

Here is the old: Public policy and communications professional with experience in public administration, constituent relations, writing, speaking presentations, policy analysis, and social media marketing. I actively promote my personal brand as a blogger and public speaker of new and emerging media.

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