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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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How to Manage Your Personal and Professional Lives Online: Cross the Streams
There comes a time for everyone online to answer questions such as, “What is the best way to share myself online? How much do I push content out, versus engaging in conversation? Do I merge my personal chatter with friends and family with the b...
Why I Use 22 Wordpress Plugins Today
Every couple of months, I update you with a list of plugins I use on my self-hosted Wordpress blog. (I profiled 15 plugins in December 2008 and 23 plugins in March 2009.) Looking back six months, many plugins remain the same but I deactivated some an...
How Readtwit Improves Twitter Productivity
Because Twitter is analogous to a river’s flow that you are not expected to watch non-stop, it is presumptive you will miss tweets when you’re not looking. But what about links — those external blog posts, videos, and audio recordin...
Sharing Blog Posts With You
Earlier this week, I created a video for you that illustrated why I use Feedly for reading blog posts, and not Google Reader like most of my peers. If you haven’t seen it yet, do take a look. An element of Google Reader that is not of Feedly is...
Why Graham Murkett is the – uhh – Man
I referred to Graham Murkett nearly six months ago in a blog post about the value of being online–when 76% of over 4,300 Americans opted to be online than shopping and playing games. I imagine the economic indicators are similar today. Graham, ...
How Unfollowing May Increase Twitter Productivity
If you’ve used Twitter long enough (and only you can define what “long enough” means), you’ve probably accumulated a hefty number of people and organizations you follow, right? Unless if you have no life, you’re not star...
Why I Unsubscribed From Every Blog
Here are three reasons why 11-year-old Gloson Teh unsubscribes from blogs: 1. The blog updates too fast and he can’t catch up with the posts. 2. The posts drop in quality. 3. The blog changes topics, e.g. from blogging tips to golfing tips. Th...
Is Twitter Stupid?
Steve Huff of the American Society of Shitcanned Media Elites provides evidence that Twitter is stupid relating a trending series of Twitter messages last week about an Idaho girl abducted. As people retweeted each other’s messages about an Amb...
Stop Asking Students to Memorize
Seth Godin rants against textbooks today. He writes about looking at a marketing textbook, which, despite a 2009 publication date, lacks mention of Google and Twitter. He writes about the rising cost of education and the system stealing money from de...
How to Find One New Blog to Read Today
Last weekend, I wrote about 10 bloggers who inspire me. They each write new articles on a near-daily basis; and I respect them for their prolific writing and quality of content. I say this with authority, as I’ve followed each of their blogs fo...
Bringing Balance to Blogging and Tweeting
I miss reading and commenting on blogs. Last summer and into the fall, I used to it every day, an hour here or there. I enjoyed the commenting I did on people’s blogs, and I presume they enjoyed the reciprocal commenting back my way. But you kn...
Guest Interview with Ben Wayne: Why Online Video Marketing is Effective
Benjamin Wayne is the founder, president, and CEO of Fliqz, a B2B provider of plug-and-play video solutions. Fliqz (@Fliqz) targets small and medium-sized businesses, offering them the ability to upload video content, and a host of other turnkey func...
Why My Twitter Train is Stopping
On two particular blog posts in recent weeks, I shared my thoughts about using Twitter. I started with a perspective on why I wasn’t following your stream. I later probed you to help me determine if reciprocal following was best. In the comment...
Why Newburyport Needs a Coworking Location
With a mission to catalyze local talent, local ideas, and local capital to create products, services, and solutions for the global marketplace, NextSpace of Santa Cruz, California is an example of a coworking business which I’d like to find, if...
Guest Post by Mark Havenner: How to Cure Twitter Block
Mark Havenner is an Account Manager at The Pollack PR Marketing Group, a mid-sized, Los Angeles-based, consumer products-oriented integrated PR and marketing agency. Here is the corporate blog. You can tweet Mark at @havenner. Twitter can be forebodi...
