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

Ari Herzog

We use social networking sites for different reasons, but it is crucial to grasp the WHY. We owe it to ourselves to continue doing things — raking leaves, running errands, posting status messages on social networking sites — on our own schedules and for our own reasons. She owned her world. Those are powerful words.

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Bring Balance to Your Online Life

Ari Herzog

I refer to web platforms and social media sites with login and password systems for you to create a profile. Or, do you share some content on some sites and other content on other sites? I don’t share the same interests on the same sites. As for other social sites, I use Reddit to respond to randomness.

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Mash the Web with Ucubd

Ari Herzog

What do you think about creating social media & marketing content by creating mashups like YouTube+Twitter or YouTube+Amazon? For the interview with Seth Godin , he suggested a mashup of YouTube and Amazon. And for the preview of the Facebook movie , he shared a mashup of YouTube and Twitter.

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Bring Balance to Your Social Media

Ari Herzog

I share different stuff on each site. I also follow different people on each site. Follow me on YouTube to see my creativity. If you portray the same slice of your self everywhere, you are boring and redundant. Branch out. Balance yourself. There is occasional echo but it’s not the norm and that’s my point.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

My first podcast, audio interviews/explorations of Singapore combined with music, appeared on a music site run by Cosa Nostra. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006.

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Case Study of 7 Hotels Online

Ari Herzog

Some 16 months after comparing seven hotel chains’ websites and observing which had noticeable social media presences that were visibly linked on those sites, Best Western continues to take top honors. Their social media page also references a YouTube channel , iPhone applications, and a custom short URL. Have a look.

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Remember When Twitter was Born?

Ari Herzog

But with Oprah getting on the site, as a direct result of the Ashton-CNN battle, mainstream media noticed and Twitter took off. She’s the most-followed on the site. Fast forward and Katy Perry has 82.8 million followers today.

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