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Social Networking In Your Face

Ari Herzog

Jena Kingsley is the latest in a series of comedians to poke fun at social networking systems by forcefully interacting with people in public places and proving that our online lives are silly when taken literally. Media culture identity networking Youtube' Facebook has a little-used function called a poke.

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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.

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Can Oracle Be More Boring?

Ari Herzog

Oracle Corporation is launching a new social network — called the Oracle Public Cloud — geared to business departments to share and collaborate. created a more attractive video about their Google+ social network that launched earlier this year. Related articles you may enjoy: 10 of My YouTube Favorites.

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Feature Friday: Musing about Mobile Networking

Ari Herzog

Here’s my problem: No one touched on the fact that most users access these social networks with their mobile devices! I thought YouTube with their almost 26 million ‘Likes’ would be on top of this. What about your personal profile pages on other social networking sites? Almost 80% said their phone! I thought wrong.

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Bring Balance to Your Online Life

Ari Herzog

As for other social sites, I use Reddit to respond to randomness. I use YouTube to find videos and add them to my playlists for future playback. Related Stories Clean Your Social Connections The 4 Social Networks I Use Most. I’m on Facebook, too, which I mainly use for group discussions these days.

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Case Study of 7 Hotels Online

Ari Herzog

With user-friendly icons on the bottom of the corporate website, their catchy-phrased blog , Facebook page , Twitter page @TheBestWestern , and YouTube channel are interactive and engaging. Their social media page also references a YouTube channel , iPhone applications, and a custom short URL. You may click the image to zoom.

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Remember When Twitter was Born?

Ari Herzog

It was a pivotal moment in the social networking service. The next day, Oprah sent her first tweet. HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY. — Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) April 17, 2009. Fast forward and Katy Perry has 82.8 million followers today. She’s the most-followed on the site.

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