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AriWriter
http://ariwriter.com
Ari Herzog is an online media strategist for business and government. This is his personal blog, providing strategies and tips on social media and online marketing.
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Defining Social Media
Before you drink the Kool-Aid and recognize you can’t afford wasting time with social media, take a step back and understand what social media is — and what it is not. If Wikipedia is the king of definitions then social media is “us...
Install Website Ads and Risk Losing Customers
In the job market for management consulting, marketing/advertising, or government relations positions, I visit LinkedIn and Craigslist on a daily basis. After meeting Monster.com’s social media manager, Katrina Kibben, last week at a networking...
Dumbfounded by Customer Service
I wear eyeglasses and sporadically enter random optician offices to request adjustments. The cosmetic changes last no longer than five minutes, and I’m never charged. When I bring my car into Jiffy Lube for an oil and filter change, air pressur...
Followers, Shmollowers
JetBlue Airways has 1.4 million followers on Twitter. … and Southwest Airlines has 877,000 followers. The state of Utah has 3,400 followers. …and the state of Massachusetts has 1,300 followers. The Los Angeles Fire Department has 6,600 fo...
Mashing Your Friends and Family
The above video is a parody, but what would happen if you mash your friend and your family member as a single person? Meaning, when daughters and mothers befriend each other on Facebook, and cousins connect to each other on LinkedIn, and spouses twe...
10 Twitter Users Share Why They Use Twitter
As a follow-up to my December 2008 blog post describing Twitter in 14 ways, and countless articles since, I feel there is no better time than the present to revisit the question why people use the social media tool. Why do you have a Twitter account?...


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